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M. Rose & Sons
Matthew Rose & Sons began as a draper's shop at 335 Mare Street, Hackney, in London. By 1868 the business had expanded to become a department store selling furniture and household goods, occupying...
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Jas. Pearsall & Co.
James Pearsall & Co. is a long-established silk thread manufacturing company in London. The firm was founded in 1795 as Pearsall & Green, wholesale and retail silk merchants. The company...
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Richard & Tucker Nunn Ltd.
Richard & Tucker Nunn Ltd. were retailers of clocks and watches at 108 Hatton Garden, London. The company acted as a dealer for Smiths English Clocks Ltd., which was one of the most prolific...
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Wilson & Matheson
Wilson & Matheson were clothing manufacturers and wholesalers in Glasgow. The company was at its peak in the 1870s when it specialised in producing clothing and travel accessories for customers...
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Union Assurance Society Ltd.
                                          The company was established in 1714 as the Union Fire Office, with the first meeting being held at the Amsterdam Coffee...
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Peter Yapp
Peter Yapp was a boot and shoe maker and retailer at 200-201 Sloane Street in Knightsbridge, London. The business was active from at least the 1860s to the late 1950s. Despite the company's long...
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Metal Sections
Metal Sections was established by Major Leonard Henderson at Greet in Birmingham in 1931. Henderson designed his own machines to convert steel strip into profiled sections by cold rolling. The first...
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Foster, Porter & Co. Ltd.
Foster, Porter & Co. Ltd. were wholesale drapers, hosiers and glovers at 47 Wood Street, London. The company was established in 1842 and traded until at least the 1950s....
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Bee Bee Biscuits Ltd. / Symbol Biscuits Limited
Bee Bee Biscuits was established in 1922 as the Blackpool Biscuit Company. Selling its Brandy Snap and Shrewsburybiscuits locally in Blackpool, the company quickly expanded and in 1924 moved to larger...
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W. Williams & Son (Bread St.) Ltd.
Bread Street is one of the 25 wards of the City of London. The name derives from its principal street which was anciently the City's bread market. Records from 1302 state “the bakers of London were...
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Smedley's Limited
Following a trip to the United States in 1924, a grocer called Samuel Wallace Smedley was inspired to establish a canned goods company in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Canning machinery was imported to the...
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Sanderson Fabrics
Sanderson Fabrics is a trade name ofArthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd., an internationally renowned company in the field of interior design and decorating. The company produces approximately 250,000...
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I. & R. Morley Ltd.
I. & R. Morley were hosiery manufacturers and wholesalers, established by brothers John and Richard Morley in Nottingham in c.1797. In 1860 John Morley's son Samuel took control of the business....
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Potter & Moore Limited
In 1749, Ephraim Potter and William Moore, two physic gardeners who specialised in the cultivation of lavender, founded the first ever English toiletries company in Mitcham. Mitcham is now a suburb of...
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The City of London Brewery Co. Ltd.
In 1744 Sir William Calvert established the Hour Glass Brewery at 89 Thames Street in the City of London, on the site of a brewery which had burned down in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The hour...
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Woolley, Sanders & Co. Ltd.
Woolley, Sanders & Co. were manufacturers of straw, velvet and felt hats and bonnets. The company also dealt in feathers, artificial flowers and lace. The firm's head office was in London and there...
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M. M. & Co. / S. L. & Co. (Mullens, Marshall & Co. / Steer, Lawford & Co.)
Mullens, Marshall & Co. was a stockbroking company in the City of London. The company traded under a variety of names from 1786 to 1843 when it became Mullens, Marshall & Co. until 1921. For...
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S. B. V. (Swiss Bank Verein)
Swiss Bank Verein (SBV) was a large integrated financial company located in Switzerland. Prior to its merger, the bank was the third largest in Switzerland with over 300 billion CHF of assets and 11.7...
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W. G. Clarke & Sons
W. G. Clarke & Sons was established in Limehouse, London, in 1851 as a purveyor of food for game and poultry and dog food. At this time the packaging and marketing of dog food was a relatively...
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Smith, Payne & Smiths
Smith, Payne & Smiths was established as a private bank in the City of London in 1758, originally with the name of Smith & Payne. The founding partners were Abel Smith II, senior partner of...
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