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Watson & Cope

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Greenways6

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Can anyone tell me anything about the firm Watson & Cope, 44 Vyse Street, Jewellery Quarter. Having looked in directories they appear to have been diamond mounters and transferred from just round the corner in Hylton Street between 1900 and 1909.
 
According to Companies Housee (a search on Google found it) the company was not dissolved until 2014. Not much else came up.
 
Thank you both for your quick replies. I had not checked the London Gazette. I am looking for information for the person who now has a business there and thought I would start with Watson & Cope, as they had the upstairs windows in No. 44 etched with their name. The only other person I could find in directories was Frank C. BOWDEN, a watch repairer in the 1950s.
 
Greenways6,

It doesn't say for what purpose the two ladies (both born in 1980) started the business and I rather think it probably wasn't diamond mounting & that the name just happened to a convenient and historic name to use. It also doesn't look as if it ever traded & hence was why it was struck off by Companies House. Accounts were due in 2013 but they were never filed.

As this thread appears to have no connection with the historic use of the property, I don't propose to take it any further.

Maurice
 
Sorry if I set off on the wrong track. The 1883 Kelly's lists Watson and Cope as being gem setters at 31A Regent Place (I don't know where that is exactly). 44 Vyse Street is listed as Thomas Kirby, jeweller. By 1890 Watson James and Cope are listed as diamond mounters at 53 Hylton Street. They are Watson and Cope in 1895 and still at Hylton Street. 1890 and 1895 have 44 Vyse Street listed as Reynolds and Westwood, black ornament makers. In 1900 Reynolds and Westwood are still at 44 (Mike might be able to tell us if there has been any re-numbering). By 1905 Watson and Cope are at 44. As only some directories are on line I am not sure when they moved to 44.
 
No renumbering of Vyse St. Watson & cope moved to 44 between the 1900 & 1903 directories, which means probably actually betweeen 1899 and 1902 (directory date is publication date and is usually taken to refer to year before)
 
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