Lee and Wilkes Ltd. Coppersmiths, Braziers, Brassfounders, Metal Spinners

Business records and personal papers

1780 Messrs Birch and Villers, Coppersmiths traded from premises in Moor Street

1781 Birch died leaving Villers as sole proprietor

1818 Wilkes, an apprentice of Villers, marries the latters daughter and is taken in to partnership. Firm is now styled Villers and Wilkes

Edward Villers Wilkes, son of the Villers-Wilkes marriage carried on the business as E.V.Wilkes moving the works to Lower Priory

Edward Villers Wilkes died leaving two sons who succeded to the business

1877 Alfred Harrold and William Henry Bradbury and George Bown purchased the business of"E.V. Wilkes" from Alfred Salt Wilkes

1881 Messrs. Harrold, Bradbury and Bown obtain the Brewery St/Blews St premises

Bradbury leaves and Edwin Alldridge joins the partnership

1907 E.V. Wilkes, proprietor Edwin Alldridge, amalgamated with firm of Charles Lee, Freeman St. Firm reconstituted as a limited company under the style of Lee and Wilkes Ltd.

• <corpname>Lee and Wilkes Ltd, Birmingham, coppersmiths, braziers, brassfounders and metal spinners</corpname>
• <famname>Sharpe family of Birmingham</famname>