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stewright, Joe Guttridge again. I can also be contacted by email on joeg@gnarleycottageservices.co.uk Please do get in contact. I have done a lot of research over the course of the pandemic & found out a great deal, which I am happy to share with you. Are you in the UK?

I can't find the envelope to click on at the top of the page. I can find an icon which seems to be "share" & when I click on that I can find an envelope, but that only seems to be a way to email the post. Am I doing something wrong?

Audrey, Although I can't really help with the photo of the Meriden Street premises, I can add something to the detail of the company before Luke Bradleys time at the top & also to his own background. Funnily enough I am also something of a Rolls Royce person and am very interested in the Wraith...

An interesting (if only to me!) snippet. Birmingham rate books show the Birmingham Syphon Co operating in premises at the junction of Allison St. & Bordesley St in 1906 & 1911. The premises were operated by them, but owned by Showells Brewery. Now it is a fact that Walter Showell, the founder of...

I think I am at the point at which I can demonstrate the ownership of this company by the Hartill family & its early history. I have found that the Kellys directories & censuses point to the formation of the company in or around 1880 in 12 Bishop Street, probably by a John Osman, an established...

Birmingham Syphon co & the hartill family. A little more possibly relevant information, probably explaining how John Harry Hartill came to be in the brewery trade. Firstly, it is a fact that mums family have often incorporated cheshire into the names of their children. Secondly it looks as...

Are you still active regarding this topic? During the coronavirus lockdown I have been doing a bit more digging around the Hartill family & could let you have some of the detail, if it is of interest?

I think I got the connection between luke bradley & one of the hartills from one of the census returns of around the end of the 19th century. Possibly he was living with them, I dont recall. ButI think a John Henry Hartill was a "flour agent",born in 1837 in the Oldbury area wasone of "ours".His...

I am pretty sure my mothers family, surname Hartill, owned this firm in the late 19th/early 20th century. Mum always talked of "uncle Cliff" as the actual proprietor. My own grandfather delivered products for them & reputedly met his wife to be during an epidemic in the city(around 1900, perhaps...