Alexander appears to have started as a chemist sometime between 1855 and 1858, but then gone into manufacturing:
1858 Parkes Alexander, practical chemist and refiner, 7 and 8, Bath row and Liverpool st
1862 Parkes Alexander, tube manufacturer, 8 Bath Row.
He seems to have disappeared from the 1867 and 1868 Kellys, and in 1868 no 8 Bath row is Fielding Fletcher, plumbers brass founder. There is an A & F Parkes & Co , maker of spades, and tools, in Dartmouth St, but I don’t think that is the same one.
In the 1890 map below things may have changed a bit since 1860s, but no 9 is in red, and no 8 would have been to the east of it.
Mike
1858 Parkes Alexander, practical chemist and refiner, 7 and 8, Bath row and Liverpool st
1862 Parkes Alexander, tube manufacturer, 8 Bath Row.
He seems to have disappeared from the 1867 and 1868 Kellys, and in 1868 no 8 Bath row is Fielding Fletcher, plumbers brass founder. There is an A & F Parkes & Co , maker of spades, and tools, in Dartmouth St, but I don’t think that is the same one.
In the 1890 map below things may have changed a bit since 1860s, but no 9 is in red, and no 8 would have been to the east of it.
Mike