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John Lee Benham established an ironmongery business at Portman Square, London in 1817. The company's main interests were in gas light fi...

William Tarn & Co. was a large department store in the Elephant and Castle district of Southwark, London. The business seems to have beg...

S. Cavander & Co. was a tobacco company which was established in London in 1775. The company is best known for its cigarette brands “Arm...

Rudge-Whitworth Ltd. was a bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer that resulted from the merger of two bicycle manufacturers in 1894, Whitworth...

James Shoolbred & Co. was established as a draper's shop in the 1820s and evolved to become one of the first great department stores...

Charles Arkcoll was a wholesale grocer in Maidstone, Kent. Pigot's Directory of Kent 1824 lists the company as "John Arkcoll, 121 S...

In 1872, William Young established a business as a building and decorating merchant at 5 Romford Road, Stratford, in East London. He was lat...