John Round & Son Ltd
John Round (1808-1877) was born in Harborne, Staffordshire, the son of Cornelius and Elizabeth née Astley. In the Census (1841), John was a ‘plater on steel’ living with his family in the courtyard premises of Wm. Hutton, Surrey Street, where Round was caretaker and involved in Hutton’s production of electro-plate. In 1847, after a disagreement with the Huttons, he occupied a house / workshop in Tudor Street with £200 capital. These premises (partly on the former site of....
