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J Grinnel, Engraver

edcartermo

edcartermo

master brummie
Does anyone please have any information on a small company in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter

by the name of J Grinnell, Engravers?

I have a small photo which appears to have been taken in the early 1930s showing a group of

women posing next to this sign. A search on Ancestry Directories has no satisfactory results.
 
in the 1933 kellys directory theres a mrs jane grinnell, hard solderer, 119 branston street.
 
the same details are given in the kellys 1932. looking at the 1911 census living 66 george st. handsworth
thomas grinnell 35 engineers fitter labourer b. bradley, staffs
jane grinnell 32 hard solderer brooches jewellery b. bham
hilda grinnell 10 b. smethwick
flora grinnell 6 b. handsworth
maud grinnell 4 b. handsworth.
 
There is no chance that the sign could read J. Grinsell is there?. There is a John Grinsell & sons, 58 Tower St, silversmiths from before 1921 till at least 1940.
 
Thank you for your help, Shera and mikejee. The idea that it might read Grinsell is brilliant intuition, mikejee,

and such a firm as the one you describe is more likely to employ a group of eight women.
 
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