-
described the
street as "generally
taken up by
eminent Tradesmen, as Mercers,
Lacemen, Drapers, etc". In 1763,
Thomas Mortimer's The
Universal Director recorded...
- 1832 by
Thomas Helps, as The
Linen and
Woollen Drapers, Silk Mercers,
Lacemen,
Haberdashers and Hosiers' Institution.
Initially it was a "confederacy...
- mercers, haberdashers, milliners, dressmakers, tailors, hatters, furriers,
lacemen, clothiers, hosiers,
glovers and
general out****ers, **** warehou****...
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taking over the team's
remaining fixtures. The team were
nicknamed 'The
Lacemen', and also
briefly the 'Wasps'.
Charlie Blacklock George Greenwood Nobby...
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called 'The
Napoleon of
Watling Street.' At twenty-three, a
rival firm of
lacemen,
which began in a
small room over a
trunk shop in Cheapside, and became...
