Joseph Wolstenholme, Britannia metal manufacturer, had been born in about 1799.  A brief partnership with William Miller was dissolved in 1821, when Wolstenholme started his own business in Spring Street.  He advertised from Spring Street in 1825.  By 1828, the firm had moved to Broad Street, Park.  Wolstenholme advertised again in 1839 as a Britannia metal and British Plate manufacturer.  By 1852, he had added electro-plate to his products.  In the late 1850s, he retired and was listed in the 1861 Census as a ‘property owner’, living in Norfolk Park.  Joseph handed over the business to his son, William Frederick (1834-1882), whose Broad Street operations in 1861 employed three men and three women.  In 1862, George Cutts occupied the Broad Street premises.  Joseph Wolstenholme, ‘gentleman’, Norfolk Road, died on 10 April 1878, aged 79.  His burial in the General Cemetery was unconsecrated.  He left under £7,000.  His son, William Frederick, died, aged 48, on 26 January 1882, and was interred in that cemetery’s unconsecrated ground.  He had lived in Stafford Street and was described as a ‘commercial traveller’.   His estate was £830.