Thread: Drew & Sons Picadilly Circus Straight Razors

even picture the razor and boxs are amazing

Originally Posted by Eeggman

I have spoke to lots of people around Mayfair to see if they remember the sign. there is no Upper Audley Street as i know only north Audley Street and South Audley Street. There suggestion it may have been on Mount Street the street connect to North Audley Street but no luck yet.

From what I can tell by the map, Mount Street does not connect with North Audley Street:



Regards,
Neil

no joins with South and is part of what people call The mayfair village as has very luxury shops. I thought if its store could be there.

From the dissolution of partnership entries and the excellent set belonging to mycarver, the following is concrete information:

J. Drew & Son, from circa 1870/80s
156 Leadenhall Street
33 - 37 Piccadilly Circus
Kings Rd., Brighton

1882
Regents Circus, Piccadilly (plus the above addresses)



1900
Official name (as registered at Companies House) is changed to Drew & Sons (Piccadilly)
but company name of Drew & Sons is retained, too

1909
Address changes from 33-37 Piccadilly to 33, 35 & 37 Piccadilly

1928
Firm takes on Limited Company status

1973
Drew & Sons (Piccadilly) struck from Companies House Register


The name "J Drew & Son" seems to have been re-registered at some point - at least it is on file with Companies House:



Whether it is anything to do with the original company I do not know.

Regards,
Neil

J Drew and son seem to be a later company in pluming

Could well be - I have seen another J Drew & Son too, but in connection with revenues paid for farm land they own. If only Martin had some proper records we could look at, we might have cracked it...

Regards,
Neil

I hope Martin may come back to the form as he may know something to crack it!

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

From the dissolution of partnership entries and the excellent set belonging to mycarver, the following is concrete information:

J. Drew & Son, from circa 1870/80s
156 Leadenhall Street
33 - 37 Piccadilly Circus
Kings Rd., Brighton

Oh, excellent! You found the Brighton address. I'd been beating my head trying to remember the alternate address I'd seen for J. Drew, but unfortunately spending my days working in a house growing mold from the carpets has dulled my brain a bit. I couldn't remember WHERE the alternate address I'd seen was and I couldn't remember where I'd even seen the set that listed it (it was one of about 5 auction sites I follow, isn't that helpful?)

To add to my amusement, the house I'm trying to clean out is on Brighton Avenue.

Zak - it is beyond dispute that they had an outlet in Brighton, as it features as an address on many of the J. Drew & Son razors. What is debatable is who owned the outlet in Brighton! For it is not listed as J. Drew, J. Drew & Son, Drew & Sons, Drew & Sons (Piccadilly) or J, Drew & Son Ltd. Rather it is listed as belong to one Henry Bernard Drew, who like the earlier Drews (he was born in 1866) specialised in leather cases, portmanteaus and leather goods. He had two shops: 42 Kings Road Brighton and 186, The Beach, Brighton.

Henry's father was John Drew and his brothers included Samuel Summers Drew and Ernest Drew. So, to further convolute things Henry had his own company - H. B. Drew & Co - and he also allowed his brothers to sell their wares in his shops, and those wares included razors which were not made by any Drew but by other makers like Wilkinson & son.

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Zak - it is beyond dispute that they had an outlet in Brighton, as it features as an address on many of the J. Drew & Son razors. What is debatable is who owned the outlet in Brighton! For it is not listed as J. Drew, J. Drew & Son, Drew & Sons, Drew & Sons (Piccadilly) or J, Drew & Son Ltd. Rather it is listed as belong to one Henry Bernard Drew, who like the earlier Drews (he was born in 1866) specialised in leather cases, portmanteaus and leather goods. He had two shops: 42 Kings Road Brighton and 186, The Beach, Brighton.

Henry's father was John Drew and his brothers included Samuel Summers Drew and Ernest Drew. So, to further convolute things Henry had his own company - H. B. Drew & Co - and he also allowed his brothers to sell their wares in his shops, and those wares included razors which were not made by any Drew but by other makers like Wilkinson & son.

What an excellent example of how hard it can be to trace this stuff. The very type-specimen!

I do wish I could remember where I'd seen the very nice J. Drew set recently, it'd go nicely here.