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Gresham & Craven (1874-1886)

Heron, Gresham & Craven, Gresham & Craven

Craven Ironworks, Ordsall Lane, Salford, Manchester, Lancashire; bedstead manufacturers & retailers (fl.1874-1886)

Heron, Gresham & Craven advertised their ‘patent woven wire mattress’ in The Furniture Gazette, 10 October 1874. By 1876 the name was changed to Gresham & Craven and listed as such in The Furniture Gazette Directory, 1876 & 1877 and The Furniture Gazette: Classified List of the Furniture, Upholstery, and Allied Trades (1886). 

They published an advertisement for their woven wire mattress which could be fitted on one of their ordinary or hospital bedsteads in The Furniture Gazette, 5 July 1884, and another advertisement stated they reduced the prices on their patent double woven wire mattress [The Furniture Gazette, 1 April 1885].