Padley | Adam Padley |
Padley | Padley & Price Ltd |
Paget | Paget & Senior Ltd |
Parker | Parker & Linley |
Parker | Ebenezer Parker & Sons |
Parker | Parkin, Parker, Clough & Potts |
Parker | Parker & Brown |
Parker | Joseph Parker & Sons |
Parkes | J. Parkes |
Parkin | Parkin & Marshall |
Parkin | William Parkin & Company Ltd |
Parkin | Staniforth, Parkin & Company |
Parkin | A. Parkin & Sons |
Parkin | T. R. Parkin & Son |
Parkin | Arthur Parkin |
Parkin | Parkin, Parker, Clough & Potts |
Parkin | W. H. Parkin & Sons |
Parkinson | James Parkinson |
Parry | Parry & Son |
Parsisson | Parsisson & Storr |
Payne | M. Payne & Sons |
Payne | Payne Ward & Sons |
Peace | J. H. Peace & Company |
Peace | Samuel Peace |
Peace | Ibbotson, Peace & Company |
Peace | W. K. & C. Peace Ltd |
Pearce | Wardrobe & Pearce |
Pearce | John Pearce & Company |
Pearce | H. R. Pearce & Son Ltd |
Pearce | Edward Pearce & Company |
Pearson | Pearson & Winks |
Pearson | S. Pearson & Company Ltd |
Pearson | Pearson & Jesmond |
Pearson | Pearson |
Pease | Stacey, Pease & Company |
Peckett | Hubert C. Peckett |
Peerless | Peerless Plate Manufacture |
Perigo | Perigo Brothers (Sheffield) Ltd |
Perigo | John Perigo |
Perkington | Perkingtons |
Perkins | Ewart Perkins & Co Ltd |
Perkinton | Perkinton Brothers |
Perkinton | George Perkinton |
Perkinton | Joshua and William Perkinton |
Petty | John Petty & Sons Ltd |
Pickslay | Charles Pickslay |
Pickslay | Green, Pickslay and Appleby |
Pickslay | Pickslay, Appleby and Bertram |
Pilch | W. Fuller Pilch & Co |
Pilley | Hepworth, Pilley & Company |
Pinder | Pinder Brothers Ltd |
Pinder | Edward Pinder |
Pitt | Wilson & Pitt |
Pitts | Pitts Brothers |
Pitts | E. Pitts & Co |
Platts | Henry Platts |
Ponsford | W. Ponsford & Sons |
Poston | A. E. Poston & Co Ltd |
Potter | J. H. Potter & Sons Ltd |
Potts | Potts, Baxter & Brown |
Potts | Parkin, Parker, Clough & Potts |
Prescott | Prescott & Milner |
Preston | Geo. P. Preston & Sons |
Price | Arthur Price Ltd |
Price | Arthur Price of England |
Price | Padley & Price Ltd |
Priestley | Priestley & Moore Ltd |
Priestman | Singleton & Priestman Ltd |
Pritchard | Pritchard & Wood |
Proctor | Charles and Luke Proctor |
Providence | Providence Cutlery Co |
Pryor | Tricket, Haslehurst, Whiteley, & Pryor |
Purdy | Joshua Purdy |
The founder was Arthur Edward Poston (1896-1971). He was born at Ilford in Essex, the son of Arthur Poston and his wife, Florence. The latter couple operated the Cross Keys Pub, at Crown Street in Dagenham.
In the Census (1911), Arthur Edward was working as a cutler’s assistant. By the end of the 1920s, he had launched a retailing silversmiths at Lonsdale House, Dowgate Hill, next to Cannon Street Station, in London. Besides silverware, he sold jewellery, rings, watches, sterling silver and electro-plate cutle....