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| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Chippendale | cabinet maker, designer | Licester Sq. & Totten Court Rd. | published famous pattern books | chinoiserie | Long Acre | |
| France & Banting | supplied furniture to the Prince Regent |
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| Dominique Daguerre | Marchands Merciers | Sloane Street, Chelsea | imported furniture mounted with Sèvres porcelain plaques |
tables and chimney pieces | Chelsea | 1778 |
| Heppelwhite | designer | shield back chairs | ||||
| William Linnell | cabinet maker | 28 Berkeley Square | ||||
| Robert Manwaring | published chair pattern books | twiggery, gothic, ribbon, chinoiserie | ||||
| Seddons | upholsteror | in Aldersgate | ||||
| Thomas Shearer | published Cabinet Maker's London Book of Prices in 1788 | |||||
| Sheraton | use of urns, tapered legs | |||||
| George Smith | Cabinet maker, designer | published design books | Hope's style |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ackerman's | print shop | 101 the Strand | caricature, political satire, The Repository of Arts, The Poetical Magazine (1809-1811) | publisher, print-seller | 1795 | |
| Bovi, Mariano | print shop | Piccadilly | Engravings after various painters | publisher, print-seller | Piccadilly | 1790- 1806 |
| Luke Hansard | print works | |||||
| Hoppner's | studio | |||||
| Sir Thomas Lawrence | studio | 24 Bond St. | improved portraits | over 700 £, always had wait list | Mayfair | ? |
| Steel & Goddard | Chart sellers | 70 Cornhill | appointment, to the admiralty of their Navigation Warehouse &Naval Academy |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Bull | Horn Maker | Coach horns, hunting horns, and hearing horns | 1700 - | |||
| Köhler & Son | Coach Horn Manufacturer | Covent Garden | received royal appointment in 1801 | 1780-1907 | ||
| Obadiah Elliot | invented steel elliptical spring in 1804 | |||||
| Robinson | Coach Maker | made the first Brogham | ||||
| Swaine Adeney Brigg & Sons | Hunting Requisites | 185 Piccadilly | hunting whips | 1750- | ||
| Tillbury | Coach Maker |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs. Bell, later Magazin des Modes | milliner, modiste | 22 Upper King St. | Lady's Chapeau Bras, gipsy hats, bonnets | Bloomsbury Square | 1814 | |
| Mr. S. Clark | ladies' pelisse and habit maker | 37 Golden Square | Equestrian Costume | advertised in La belle Asemblee 1812 | ||
| Madame Devy's | modiste | 16 Grafton St. - Bond St. | ||||
| Mrs. Duval | modiste, furier | Bond St. | tippets | advertised in La belle Asemblee 1812 | Mayfair | |
| Dyde and Scribe's | furier | Pall-Mall | muff and tippet adopted by the princesses | advertised in La belle Asemblee 1807 | Mayfair | |
| East India Warehouse | draper | 16 Cheapside | Cotton Thread Shirting | advertised in La belle Asemblee 1813 | City | |
| Harding, Howell, and Co. | draper | 89 Pall Mall | ||||
| James Smith & Sons | Umbrellas & Parasols | 53 New Oxford St | London's 1st umbrella shop | 1830 -present | ||
| Hinshcliffe & Croft | mercer | at the sign of Hen & Chickens in Hennrietta Street | Covent Garden | 1780 trade card | ||
| House of Millard/ Millard's | warehouse/draper | No.16 Cheapside | Bengal Muslins, flannels | advertised in La belle Asemblee 1812-3 | City | |
| Locks | Milliner | St. James | Fashionable men's hats | St. James | circa. 1700 to present | |
| Magazin des Modes formerly Mrs. Bell's | milliner, modiste | 26 Charlotte St. | Lady's Chapeau Bras, gipsy hats, bonnets | Bedford Square | ||
| Nichole's | stay maker | 349 Oxford Street | 1788 trade card | |||
| Samuel Sandell | Upholsterer | 101 New Bond St. | ||||
| Mrs. Shabner | modiste | Tavistock Street | Evening and Equestrian Costume, Patterns from Batavia | advertised in La belle Asemblee 1812 | ||
| 7 Stars | mercer | King Street | imported French Fashion dolls from Paris | Covent Garden | ||
| Swann & co | Mercers Thomas King &, Joseph & John Harris | King Street, directly opposite the end of Bedford Street | at the sign of the Wheatsheaf & Sun mercer to Prince Fred |
1781 taken over by Thomas, William, & Robert King | Covent Garden | 1760's |
| Thomas Smith | Haberdasher | 25 New Bond St. | mens furnishings | Mayfair | ||
| G. Sutton | silk manufacture, draper | 53 Leicester Square | tissue Mantlets | advertised in La belle Asemblee 1812 | ||
| Sutton and Meeks | Warehouse | 53 Leicester Square | novel articles and silk goods | advertised in La belle Asemblee 1813 | ||
| Mrs. Thomas | modiste | Fleet St. at Chancery Lane | Evening Dress | advertised in La belle Asemblee 1812 | ||
| Miss Walters | modiste | Wigmore St. | invention: "Opera or Gala Dress" | advertised in La belle Asemblee 1812 | Cavendish Square | |
| Mr. John Weston | tailor | 37 Old Bond St. | Men's Clothing Tailor to His Majesty George IV |
Most expensive tailor in London | Mayfair | 1830 |
| John Wood | fabric manufacture | 1 Bow St. | worsted spinning | 1812- | ||
| Notions | ||||||
| Messrs William and Sons | Buttons | St Martin's Ln | buttons made to order | |||
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crosse & Blackwell, Ltd. | Began to package each type of food in a distinctive tin box or porcelain jar | apprentices who bought out West & Wyatt | 1829 | |||
| M. d'Albignac | Salads and French dressing | custom salad, & mahogany cases filled with dressing making kits | chef fled F.revolution & made fortune in Mayfair | 1793-1800 | ||
| Fortnum & Mason | 181 Piccadilly | Jams, canned goods, boned chicken, cereal, etc. | Business boomed during Napoleonic Wars filling care packages for officers | Piccadilly | 1705 | |
| Gunter's Tea Shop | confectioner | 7 & 8 Berkeley Square | ices, wedding cakes | The sign of the Pineapple | Mayfair | 1799-1930's |
| Paxton and Whitfield | cheesemongers | 93 Jermyn St. | 1797 | |||
| West & Wyatt | Condiments | 1706 | ||||
| Purveyors of Tea | ||||||
| Twinings | tea | 216 The Strand | 1706 | |||
| Davison, Newman & Co. | tea | |||||
| Purveyors of Wine | ||||||
| Berry's | Wine merchants | 3 St. James | fine wine | Scales used to weigh famous patrons | St. James | circa. 1750 to present |
| Davis & Cooper | Wine Merchant | Anderton's Hotel in Fleet St. | ||||
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Hastings | Plumbing & Cleaning | Ewer Street near Two Brewer's Gravel Lane | clean drains, remove waste | 18th century roto-rooter |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Gray | Jeweler | Sackville St. | ||||
| Hamlet's | Jeweler | |||||
| Jeffrey's &Jones | Goldsmith | Royal Goldsmith to George IV | ||||
| Phillips | Jeweler | Bond St. | Mayfair | |||
| Rundell and Bridge | Jeweler | 32 Ludgate Hill | principal jeweler and goldsmith of Regency Prinny's favorite |
Rundle, Bridge &Rundle after 1805 | 1786 | |
| Stedman &Vardon | Goldsmiths &Jewellers | 36 New Bond St. | Mayfair |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barraud | watchmaker | |||||
| Bennett's Clock Shop | clock maker | 65 Cheapside | figured of Gog &Magog ring bell on the hour | the city | est. mid 1700's | |
| J. Bubb | metal furniture | doll house accessories | 1809-1837 | |||
| Evan &Cartwright | tinsmiths | Wolverhampton | 1802-1850 | |||
| John Wood | fabric manufacture | 1 Bow St. | worsted spinning | 1812- | ||
| WhiteChapel Bell foundry | Bell manufacture | cast Liberty Bell &BigBen bell | WhiteChapel | 1570 to present |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Bull | Horn Maker | Coach horns, hunting horns, and hearing horns | 1700 - | |||
| Broderip & Longman | music publishing and instrument retailing | 26 Cheapside & 195 Tottenham Court Road | Bankrupt 1778-1798 |
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| James Ball | piano-forte Maker | Duke Street | 1790 -1817 | |||
| Ludwig Lenkfeld | piano-forte Makers | Tottenham Court Road | 1790 -1796 | |||
| Monro & May | piano-forte Makers | 60 Skinner Street | Snow Hill | 1793 -1827 | ||
| Shoene & Co. | piano-forte Makers | 22 Prince's St at Cavendish Square | ||||
| James &John Simpson | music instrument makers | 15 Sweetings Alley | Cornhill | |||
| Mori Leverne | music shop | 28 New Bond |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourgeois Amik and Son | perfumer | ? | London's best perfumer | Haymarket | ? | |
| Floris | perfumer | Potpouri, Perfume | ||||
| Henry and Daniel Rotely Harris | perfumer | 11 St James's Street | Lavender Water, Classic Colognes and English Flower perfumes | expanded to shaving supplies, soaps, creams... | St James | 1790 - present |
| Penhaligon's | perfumer | |||||
| Rouland or Rowland | coiffeur | at Thatched House Tavern | invented macassar oil | specialized in military do's | ||
| Thomas Swain | razor maker | Bedford St. |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burlington Arcade | shopping area | |||||
| Messrs Flint &Palmer | Retailer | London Bridge | fixed prices, no haggling, cash only | England's first department store | 1775 | |
| Wedgwood Showroom | China Sales | St. James Square at York St. | China | Fashionable Meeting place for ladies | Westminster | 1774 |
| Woburn Walk | shopping area | Bloomsburry | 1822- |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Boulton | Silver smith | Heppelwhite &Adam designs | Factory Production | Soho | ||
| Paul Storr | silver smith | worked for Rundle &Bridge | 1817- |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friburg and Treyer | tobacconist | ? | Old Snuff House | Haymarket | ? |
| Name | Trade | Address | Specialty | Description | Locale | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett & Lacy | gunmaker | custom made weapons | gunmaker to Prinny | |||
| John Manton | Gunmaker | 6 Dover St. | pistols | Pistols and practice | Piccadilly | 1810-1874 |
| Joseph Manton | Gunmaker & Shooting Gallery | 25 Davies St. | Shotguns | Pistols and practice | Mayfair | |
| Ryan & Watson | gunmaker | pistols | 1765-1835 |
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