In 1852, Edward Henry Stacey and James Townsend Henry (living in Highfield) became platers on steel and German silver in South Street. By 1856, Stacey, Henry & Horton was a producer of goods made by the new process of electro-plating.  When this was dissolved in 1859, James T. Henry launched his own electro-plate business, first in Howard Lane and then after 1865 at Lincoln Works in Arundel Street.  He resided at Belmont, Norfolk Road.  The directory (1868) has an advertisement for the firm and another appeared in 1876.  However, Henry had died in Birmingham on 4 November 1869, aged 42. He was buried in an unconsecrated grave in the General Cemetery, leaving under £4,000. 

His widow, Rachel, was an applicant in 1894 to a hardware trades pension society. She died in 1904 and was buried in Bradwell Wesleyan Cemetery (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1 August 1904).  Isaac Eyre, J. T. Henry’s executor, continued the business, while grooming the latter’s son – William Joseph Henry – as manager.  However, W. J. Henry died on 15 April 1881, aged 26.  In 1885, Eyre offered the enterprise for sale, but Eyre himself became J. T. Henry’s ‘successor’ (Sheffield Independent, 21 November 1885).