Brailsford & Spencer
In 1800, the partners – Alexander Brailsford and John Spencer – registered a silver mark (‘A.B’) as plate workers at Trippet Lane. Spencer is unidentified, but Alexander Brailsford was apparently the son of Thomas and apprenticed to John Elam, a cutler. He became a Freeman in 1791. The partnership was dissolved in 1804, when Thomas Brailsford (an upholsterer in the 1811 directory) agreed to handle the settlement of any debts. Alexander Brailsford, ‘silverplater’, was buried at St Paul’s churchyard on 9 June 1806.