Philip Ashberry & Sons Ltd
This company was established in 1829 by Philip Ashberry, a spoon maker, who had been born in Leicester in about 1807. He was based in Copper Street, but eventually crossed over Gibraltar Street into Bowling Green Street, near Kelham Island. In 1849, an advertisement in the local directory illustrated Ashberry’s Britannia Metal Works & Public Rolling Mill as a maker of spoons, tea, and coffee pots, and rolled tin. Despite the grand engraving, the works was apparently a ground floor metal shop with ....
