Brooke(s) (or Brooks), William

White Lion Lane, Norwich, Norfolk; upholsterer (fl. 1776)

His trade card, c. 1770, states that he ‘Executes all Kinds of Upholstery Work, In the newest Taste & on ye lowest Terms. NB. Variety of Paper-Hangings, Carpets & Beds ready standing’ [Norwich local history Library].

He supplied beds, curtains and carpets to the Rev. James Woodforde, Rector of Weston Longwith, Norfolk, in June 1776 and sent him ‘a fine Hind Quarter of London Lamb, prodigious fine’ on 25 December 1776 [The Diary of James Woodforde, The First Six Norfolk Years, ed. R. L. Winstanley, 1981].

Source: DEFM