Warlow, William

Liverpool, Lancashire and Birkenhead, Cheshire; upholsterer and paperhanger (fl.1829–39)

Recorded in Liverpool (1829-35); at 9 Greetham Street (1829); 27 Lower Pitt Street (1830–31); and 20 Tarleton Street (1835). His showrooms at Lower Pitt Street were stated to be on the corner of Greetham Street and the 1829 and 1830 addresses may refer to the same premises.

Warlow said he priced his stock ‘with a mere shade of profit’ and emphasised the keenness of his prices. He obtained his stock of wall papers from London and in April 1831 featured his ‘SATEN & PLAIN PAPER HANGINGS warranted of the first quality’. He could also offer ‘Cushion & Fast-seat Sofas, Hair Mattresses, Paillasses, Bedsteads etc.: constantly on sale & made to order’ [Liverpool Mercury, 28 May 1830 & 1 April 1831].

This was probably the same William Warlow at 8 Laurel Street, Birkenhead, Cheshire in 1839, which may have been his home address.

Source: DEFM