Messenger and sons
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The Messengers were renowned as one of the top lamp manufacturers of their time. The company was first noted in 1815 and originally based in Gloucester Place, Alston Street, Birmingham. By 1835 Messengers were trading at 15-16 Broad Street, Easy Row, expanding into premises at 19-20 Broad Street by the 1870s.
Messengers exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Trade card image published in 1836 in 'Birmingham and its Vicinity as a Manufacturing and Commercial District' by William Hawkes Smith.
Location: Birmingham Trade Card Collection: Box 08 No. 518
