"Businesses" includes one-man businesses, partnerships and companies, recorded in trade directories, catalogues and newspapers.
The dates given are those during which the business is known to have been trading.
Thomas ATKINS 1818 - 1821
J BATE 1872
John BAYMAN 1792
James BRADLEY 1818 - 1839
James BRITTLE 1818
Jn CHECKETTS 1892
T & C CLARK & CO 1795 - 1911
Note - the Company was in existence until the mid 1960s.
HENRY CORNS & CO 1845 - 1874
JOHN CORNS 1849
WILLIAM CORNS & CO 1790 - 1911
Note: this Company is still in existence
George DEVEREUX 1839 - 1851
Richard DAVIS 1851
Joseph DUFFIELD 1818 - 1823
John EDWARDS 1855-1874
William EVANS 1802
Note: this may be the Evans of Pearson & Evans
George FIELDHOUSE & Co Founded 1790
Trading as George Fieldhouse 1790-1829
Trading as George Fieldhouse & Co 1833 - 1874
Abel FISHER 1818
Benjamin FULLWOOD 1818
Elizabeth FRYER 1770 (possibly the widow of Richard FRYER)
Richard FRYER 1767
HARRIS NICKLIN & CO 1835 - 1842
Ann HANCOX 1827 - 1829
John HILL 1849 - 1850
Thomas HORTON 1845 - 1850
Thomas HOWELL 1833 - 1842
James JENNINGS 1790 - 1793
James JENNINGS 1802 - 1811
Elizabeth JONES 1790 - 1793
Richard LEER 1792 - 1802
Robert MACKVELEY 1873 - 1901
Eleanor MORRIS 1849
John MORRIS 1818 - 1842
James NEALD 1818 - 1823
Joseph NEAL 1833
Thomas NEILD 1792 - 1802
William NEW 1767
JOHN NICKLIN BANKS & CO 1850 - 1851
William PARKES 1770 - 1793
William PARKES 1876
PEARSON & EVANS 1770
Possibly William Evans and John Pearson
Benjamin PEARSON 1838 - 1896
George PEARSON 1833 - 1868
James PEARSON 1834 - 1849
John PEARSON 1790 - 1829
Joseph PEARSON 1833
H PINSON 1894 - 1897
B M PURSHOUSE 1845 - 1897
John SHELTON 1858
George SMITH 1818
George Fieldhouse SMITH 1851 - 1855
Peter SMITH 1823 - 1861
Samuel STYCH 1855 - 1887
Elizabeth WARREN 1790 - 1811
George WEBB 1770
W WESTON 1863
George WILKINSON 1818 - 1842
James WILKINSON 1818 - 1849