Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Thomas Prime

From Graces Guide
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of T. Prime and Sons, Patent Magneto Plate Works, Northwood Street, Birmingham, and of Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London

Business of Thomas Prime (1797-1881), possibly son of Thomas Prime, a wheelwright[1]

1825 Thomas Prime was a plater living in Staniforth Street, Birmingham, when his son Thomas was baptised.[2]

1844 Electrical generator made to the design of John Stephen Woolrich. (Exhibit at Birmingham Thinktank museum)

1849 General plating manufactory. Cutlery [3]

1881 Thomas Prime died[4]

Successors T. Prime and Sons and Thomas Prime and Son

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. 1841 census
  2. Parish records
  3. History and Directory of Birmingham, 1849
  4. national probate calendar