Oakes, Tompkin & Ward
The partners were Joseph Oakes, Samuel Tompkin, and Thomas Ward – merchants, manufacturers, dealers, and chapmen in cutlery. Oakes, Tompkin & Ward was apparently based in Wellington Street, Wellington Place – later the site of Washington Works of Geo. Wostenholm – and was active in the early 1830s. It was dissolved at the end of 1835. The partners are difficult to trace, but one may have been Joseph Oakes, gentleman, Nelson Place, Glossop Road, who died on 22 January 1857 (aged 60).&nb....
