Brown & Son

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  • Luxury / consumer goods production Jewellery, decorative objects, etc, production
  • Non metallic mineral products manufacture Stone cutting, shaping & engraving

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Traced origins to at least 1735 when Richard Brown, d1756, was operating at Derby as a marble manufacturer. Emerged as a leading Derby business making chimney pieces, etc. Succeeded in business by his son, Richard, 1736-1816, and in due course by his grandson, also Richard, 1765-1848. 1802 relocated to St Helen's, Derby, where built a large new plant. 1794 opened a shop in London followed soon after by a warehouse which traded as Brown, Son & Mawe. Joseph Hall took over the business in 1832 when the largest of its kind in Britain. By then making chimney pieces, church memorials, ornamental tables as well as ornamentation and jewellery. Business inherited by his sons and subsequently traded as J & T Hall until 1857and as Joseph Hall until 1870s when it closed

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