Fee & Swift
A manufacturer of electro-plated spoons, forks, and fish carvers, Fee & Swift was launched in 1863 at Union Works, New Edward Street. One partner was John Fee, who had been born in about 1828 (apparently in Dublin). In the Census (1841), he was described as a 14 year-old ‘silversmith’, living in Whitecroft. According to an advertisement in 1868, he had worked ‘upwards of twenty years’ for Martin, Hall. The other partner was Joseph Lentall Swift, who had been born in about 1829 in Brampton, Derbysh....
