Freddie Fox Museum

About the museum

The Freddie Fox Museum is in the basement of the J.J. Fox shop at 19 St James's Street, a tobacconist that traces its business back to 1787. The museum is named after Freddie Fox (1913-1990), who ran the family firm after the deaths of his brothers and developed several of its cigar brands.

It shows items from the history of the shop and its customers. The oldest exhibit is the Bristol Pipe, made around 1787, and the display also includes the oldest known box of Havana cigars to reach Britain, which arrived in 1851.

Other objects include cigars, cases and a chair that belonged to Winston Churchill, vintage cigarettes and tobaccos, pipes made by Robert Lewis, Oscar Wilde's High Court letter and ledger, and a list of Royal Family customers. The museum can be visited during the shop's opening hours.

Highlights

• The Bristol Pipe, made around 1787
• Oldest known box of Havana cigars in Britain (1851)
• Winston Churchill's cigars, cigar cases and chair
• Oscar Wilde's High Court letter and ledger
• Pipes and tobaccos by Robert Lewis

Permanent exhibition

• Freddie Fox Museum collection – Objects from the history of the shop, including the Bristol Pipe, Churchill items and early cigar boxes.

Founded

1965

Operated by

J.J. Fox

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