Reed, John, Newcastle, cm and looking-glass maker (1773–87). Recorded at Silver St, 1776–78 and Pilgrim St in 1782. Advertised in Newcastle Courant, 19 June 1773 that he, ‘having begun the business of grinding, polishing & silvering plate glass, proposes to serve his friends … with the produce of the new Plate Glass Manufactory, at Howdon Pans … with looking glasses, jamb dowels, chimney glasses, seeing glasses, sconces &c &c, likewise old glasses silvered and framed with mahogany, white burnish gold or Japan frames …’. Announced in the same paper on 18 May 1776 that he was declining business ‘on account of his bad state of health’, and that he had assigned his estate and effects to Joshua Henzell. His freehold messuages or tenements, warehouses and workshops in Silver St, and his stock of cabinet goods were to be ‘disposed of’. Sale of his stock by Thomas Shene, u and appraiser, advertised in Newcastle Courant, 1 June 1776. Stock consisted of ‘mahogany & beach chairs; mahogany dining, turn-over, card, skreen & dressing tables, drawers, beaureau desks, beds, tea chests, bason stands, and hand boards; a mangle and a large assortment of pier, dressing and other looking glasses, in fashionable white, burnished gold, and mahogany frames.’ Reed was still listed at Silver St in 1778. [D] See Robert Reed in Pilgrim St.