Isaac Salt, 18 Worcester Street

[Tinpot]

Interesting Trade Card. I have no date. I wonder how big the Kettle really was?
Also raised the question for me about the meaning of the word ’warehouse’. In the illustration it looks like what I would now recognise as a shop?

 

[pjmburns]

Isaac Salt is listed in worcester Street (no number) on the 1832 equivalent of the erolls.

1839 trade directory

 

[mikejee]

I have seen the term used for what was actually shop in several instances in the late 1800s

 

[Tinpot]

I have seen the term used for what was actually shop in several instances in the late 1800s

I have also found the use of ‘Birmingham and Sheffield Warehouse’ which seems to have been across the country. These examples are all ironmongers.The first is in Abingdon.

 

[Janet Hunt]

I wonder if the warehouse description comes from the fact they not only supplied ironmongery goods but also used to supply the iron masters with the metal to produce the goods which they then sold.

Good article here on iron mongers and and iron masters

3.6. The Metal Industries in the West Midlands

The most important industry in England in 1780 to 1840, after cotton and wool, was that of Iron, Steel, and Metal Manufacturing. This had about one third of the output volume of the textile industr…

history.pictures

 

[Tinpot]

I wonder if the warehouse description comes from the fact they not only supplied ironmongery goods but also used to supply the iron masters with the metal to produce the goods which they then sold.

Good article here on iron mongers and and iron masters

3.6. The Metal Industries in the West Midlands

The most important industry in England in 1780 to 1840, after cotton and wool, was that of Iron, Steel, and Metal Manufacturing. This had about one third of the output volume of the textile industr…

history.pictures

Thanks Janet. The article is a very interesting read and insight into the varying manufacturing structures. Tinpot