Listed as a merchant in Rock Street in 1822, James Linley was involved in the mid-1820s in Linley & Watson (possibly with Thomas Watson, a merchant in Pitsmoor).  By 1828, James was in Workhouse Croft as a merchant, factor, and manufacturer of table knives and forks, pattern rings, wholesale ironmonger, steel converter and refiner.  He continued to trade in Workhouse Croft until his death.  He died in London on 10 January 1837, aged 48, from ‘inflammation of the lungs’.  The General Cemetery register noted that his address was Bank House, Brightside, and his parents were James and Jane Linley (the former a cutler).  Until its bankruptcy in 1843, Hazard & Bingham was Linley’s ‘successor’.