Preston, William, Dog Bank, Newcastle, cm, u and furniture broker (1821). In an advertisement of May 1821 he claimed to have been established ‘many years’. He stated that he stocked ‘a large & elegant assortment of the following articles viz: sofas, couches, secretary desks and bookcases; sets of dining tables; card, pembroke, loo, library & turn-over tables; mahogany chairs, cane & bass bottomed ditto; mahogany & beech bedsteads; wardrobe, mahogoney & other press beds; pier, chimney piece & all sorts of dressing glasses; mirrors; wash stands; mahogony & wainscot case eight day & other clocks; mahogany circular & straightfronted lobby beds; prime goose feathers; feather beds & bedding; carpeting carpets; staircase & second hand ditto; hair & straw mattresses; chintz & all other descriptions of bed furniture made or in the web’. He stocked kitchen furniture and bought and exchanged second hand items. [Durham County Advertiser, 12 May 1821]