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CONTENTS • AT A GLANCE

W.BROUGHTON & CO LTD • B'HAM
W. E. C. CO LTD • 4 OXFORD ST
W.HURLOCK • WALWORTH RD
WILLIAMS • 107 & 169 BORO
WILLIAMS • 107 & 166 BORO
W.HOWARD • TONBRIDGE
W.J. KING • 17A GREEN ST
W.M MCILROY LTD • READING
WOODFALL 15 MADDOX ST W
WOODHOUSE • 318 EUSTON RD
WRAY & ROBY • 86 QUEEN STREET
W. R. BURN • TAYLOR BOMBAY
W.T. RUSSELL • 94 STRAND
W.WHIFFIN • 120 CHEAPSIDE
W.WHITELEY • BAYSWATER
W. WRIGHT • DEPTFORD

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W.BROUGHTON & CO LTD • B'HAM

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Birmingham Maker - further info needed
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W. E. C. CO LTD • 4 OXFORD ST

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London Maker - further info needed
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W.HURLOCK • WALWORTH RD

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London Maker - further info needed
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WILLIAMS • 107 & 169 BORO

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London Maker - further info needed
Found by Mike 'Cuffs' Walker

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BALL & WITT • 42 CONDUIT STREET

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London Maker - further info needed
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W HOWARD • TONBRIDGE

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Kent Maker - further info needed
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W.J. KING • 17A GREEN ST

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London Maker - further info needed
Found by Mike 'Cuffs' Walker

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W.M MCILROY LTD • READING

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Reading Maker - further info needed
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WOODFALL • 15 MADDOX ST W

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London Maker - further info needed
Found by Mike 'Cuffs' Walker

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WOODHOUSE • 318 EUSTON ROAD

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London Maker - further info needed
Found by Mike 'Cuffs' Walker

WRAY & ROBY • 85 QUEEN STREET

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London Maker - A Tailor based at 78-85 Queen Street
Found by Mike 'Cuffs' Walker

W. R. BURN • TAYLOR BOMBAY

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London Maker - further info needed
Found by Mike 'Cuffs' Walker

W.T. RUSSELL • 94 STRAND

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London Maker - further info needed
Found by Mike 'Cuffs' Walker

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W.WHIFFIN • 120 CHEAPSIDE

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London Maker - further info needed
Found by Mike 'Cuffs' Walker

W.WHITELEY • BAYSWATER

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London Maker. Further info below
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WILLIAM WHITELEY

1831-1907

Born in Yorkshire, he moved to London after visiting The Great Exhibition in 1851. He opened a Fancy Goods shop (drapery) at 31 Westbourne Grove, Bayswater employing two girls to serve and a boy to run errands. Later one of the girls, Harriet Sarah Hall, became his wife.

On 24 January 1907, Whiteley was shot dead at his shop by Horace George Rayner, aged 29, who claimed that he was Whiteley's illegitimate son.[7] In his will Whiteley left £1 million (a fabulous amount at that time, equivalent in 2018 to £103 million).

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W. WRIGHT • DEPTFORD

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William Wright 1831 to 1889
Born St George in the East to parents John and Sarah Wright
In 1851 was working as a tailors assistant
In 1853 took over property in 72 High street Deptford as a shirtmaker
Married Jane Eliza Sullivan in Deptford In 1853 and they went onto have 8 children.
In 1855 he took over large premises at 76 -78 High street and traded as a Master tailor living with his family in the large 2 storey premises above.

One of his sons William Walter Wright (1858-1936) trained as a tailor and took over the business and freehold and lived with his wife Emma Jane Alford Taylor and their 10 children.
His son Cecil Walter 1896-1942  married Winifred Maloney took over the business and lived in Brockley renting out the living premises. They had 6 children. Cecil was killed in World war 2 and the business was sold. An income from leases to a few premises in Deptford High Street was paid to the family until they expired in the 1970s.

Thanks to Alison Wright, a descendant of William Wright for the information. 

Found by Mike 'Cuffs' Walker

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