Thomas Bradbury & Sons Ltd
This company has traditionally been regarded as the oldest in the Sheffield silver-plate trade. The Bradburys traced their industrial lineage to Joseph Bradbury, who was apprenticed in June 1750 and was admitted as a Freeman in 1760. His son, Thomas Bradbury I (1763-1838), was apprenticed to Matthew Fenton & Co (later Fenton, Creswick, Oakes & Co). In 1773, Matthew Fenton, Richard Creswick, and William Watson, ‘plate workers’, Mulberry Street, registered a silver mark (only t....
