Trade directory

Wolverhampton Directory 1780

  • Location Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
  • Date 1780
  • Entries 629
  • Record type Trade directory

Part of the Merchant's & Tradesman's Useful Companion series, this directory lists 629 merchants, tradesmen and principal inhabitants of Wolverhampton in 1780, with occupation and street address. Wolverhampton at this period was a growing industrial town, its trades dominated by ironworking, lock-making and the metal trades that would drive the Black Country's expansion through the coming century.

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  • ADIE, -, mercer and draper, High Green
  • Ashford, Joseph, shoe maker, Cock Street
  • Alcock, William, shoe maker, St. John Street
  • Allen, Charles, peruke maker, High Green
  • Allen, Thomas, Corkscrew maker, Queen Street

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