Wilfred Jackson
Wilfred Jackson and Thomas Walton launched this enterprise, which was listed in 1859 as Jackson & Walton, a manufacturer of Britannia metal and electro-plate goods in Scotland Street. It advertised in the local directory (1860). By the mid-1860s, the partnership had been dissolved. By 1868, Jackson – then aged 31 – was trading alone in Hollis Croft. A bland and uninformative account of the factory appeared in The Century’s Progress (1893). The factory employed sixteen....
