Harry Higgins 46-48 Teme Street Tenbury Wells
The building still exists, a very elegant double fronted Georgian property, one side a cafe, one an art gallery, with accommodation over.
Harry must have been in a substantial business of some kind, this wasn't yer traditional gun trade back yard industrial set up.
You can still buy a gun in Teme Street from Tenbury Guns, and the hardware shop over the road from the cafe will sell you some cartridges.
James Humpherson High Street Bewdley
Unlike Teme Street which is the main street in Tenbury, broad, straight and rather grand, High Street Bewdley is very narrow and higgledy piggledy; you can imagine a small time guy making a living there in a couple of rooms. I had a drink with some old work chums in the Little Pack Horse in High Street a few weeks ago; be nice to think James was there before us.
Much of the Black Country was at one time in Worcestershire before West Midlands sprang into being, so I'd guess a lot of those names from Dudley and Halesowen were lock makers and the like.
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