Homerton Manufacturing Co
of 122 High Street, Homerton.
1877 Business established by L. P. Merriam, an American immigrant, next door to Daniel Spill and Co, with Spill's collaboration, to make fancy goods from xylonite
Became the Homerton Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
1879 Merged with the British Xylonite Co. '...That the Company be wound up voluntarily, and that Mr. Levi Parsons Merriam and Mr. Ernest Leigh Bennett be and they are hereby appointed Liquidators...'[1]