Colman's Mustard is on the market ahead of a merger between British owner Unilever and American food giant McCormick, in a deal worth £48bn.

McCormick already owns French's, one of the world's biggest rival mustard brands, and combining the two has risked handing regulators grounds to block the wider deal.

Colman's has been part of Norfolk life since 1814, when Jeremiah Colman began milling flour and crushing mustard seed at a watermill in Stoke Holy Cross, near Norwich.

Making and filling mustard tins in 1940 (Image: Colman's / Unilever)

The brand was started in Norfolk in 1814 (Image: Archant)

His nephew James joined the business in 1823.

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