Haywards (2)

of 11, Old Bond Street, W

Lace men

1846 Partnership change. '... the Copartnership (if any) heretofore existing, or which can in any way be held or construed to have existed, between us the undersigned, William Turner Hayward and Daniel Biddle, in or in reference to the trade or business of Lacemen, at No. 81, Oxford-street. London, and No. 37, King's road, Brighton, in the county of Sussex, under the style or firm of W. T. Hayward and Co. or Hayward and Co., is and was, from the 1st day of July last, dissolved and at an end...'

1850 Haywards' (Biddle and Co), Lace-men, 81, Oxford-street (opposite the Pantheon), London.

1978 Biddle and Co. Ltd. Lace Division. Draycott Mills, Draycott. (near Long Eaton)

Note

• No. 81 (later 168) [Oxford Street] was the home for most of the nineteenth century of Haywards, one of London’s leading lace merchants. John and William Hayward, haberdashers, started out around 1802 at No. 73 in the next block east, but shifted in about 1820 to this address. For many years previously it had been the premises of John Irwin or Irvin, hatter and hosier, and it may be to his enterprise that the date of 1770 sometimes given for the firm’s founding refers. In the next generation William Turner Hayward went into partnership with Daniel Biddle. After 1846 Biddle was in sole charge, terming himself laceman to the Royal Family. He displayed at the 1851 and 1862 exhibitions and in 1864 added a new showroom to the Oxford Street premises; this may have been when No. 80 (later 166) was taken into the shop. After Biddle’s retirement and death in 1883 the firm was usually known as Biddle Brothers, but eventually a reversion to the name of Haywards took place. The business grew wider in scope and a couple of years after some works in 1895 was absorbed by Debenhams.

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