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Gates, Edward (1871-1892)

Gates, Edward

London; looking glass maker, furniture manufacturer (fl.1871-92)

Gates was recorded as a looking glass maker at 15 Praed Street in the 1871 Post Office Directory and as a cabinet maker and looking glass manufacturer at 61 Curtain Road in the  Furniture Gazette: Classified List of the Furniture, Upholstery, and Allied Trades (1886). In 1892 he developed four showroom-warehouses at 86-90 Curtain Road. A plan of this development is illus. Smith & Rogers (2006), p. 27.

Source: Smith & Rogers, Behind the Veneer.The South Shoreditch Furniture Trade and its Buildings (2006).