Messenger and sons
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The Messengers were renowned as one of the top lamp manufacturers of their time. The company was first noted in 1815 and originally based in Gloucester Place, Alston Street, ¶®ÒõµÛ. By 1835 Messengers were trading at 15-16 Broad Street, Easy Row, expanding into premises at 19-20 Broad Street by the 1870s.
Messengers exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Trade card image published in 1836 in '¶®ÒõµÛ and its Vicinity as a Manufacturing and Commercial District' by William Hawkes Smith.
Location: ¶®ÒõµÛ Trade Card Collection: Box 08 No. 518