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Bishop, Joseph; Bishop’s Chairs (1877-1888)

Bishop, Joseph; Bishop’s Chairs

Manchester, Lancashire; wholesale chair & couch manufacturer (fl.1877-88)

Listed in The Furniture Gazette Directory (1877) and TheFurniture Gazette: Classified List of the Furniture, Upholstery, and Allied Trades (1886) at Crown Chair Works, Zinc Street, Rochdale Road, Manchester.  

The Furniture Gazette (9 April 1881) published an advertisement for Bishop’s Chairs, ‘mahogany chairs in every variety, machine-made and elegantly designed...’ and also advertised for ‘a man accustomed to a moulding machine...’.  The firm continued to advertise in this publication from 1881 onwards and in the issue (1 November 1888), announced that the firm had moved to more suitable premises at Brook Mills, Lloyd Street, Oldham, Manchester.