• The partners were Benjamin Hyde Brough and Thomas Blackhurst. 

• A notice in the London Gazette records that the partnership between Brough & Blackhurst was dissolved on the 30th September 1886 and that Brough continued on his own account. However Godden records the operating period for Brough & Blackhurst as 1872 to 1895 - this is an error with 1895 being the close of business for Brough himself. 

• 1892 Directories record Benjamin Hyde Brough in business on his own account at the Waterloo Works (Keates & Kelly).

• At sometime after 1892 Brough took Olief Bernhard Olsen into partnership and they traded as Brough & Olsen until they became bankrupt in 1895. London Gazette. 

The London Gazette
 5th October 1886

notice of the dissolution of the partnership between
Brough & Blackhurst - Brough to continue on own account 

notice relating to the bankruptcy of 
Benjamin Hyde Brough and Olief Bernhard Olsen

 Brough & Blackhurst
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'Rhine' This name was given to romantic patterns which were widely used in Victorian times - generally showing travellers in a landscape of buildings and trees. They were usually printed in grey but blue examples have been recorded... The title is usually printed in a C-scroll cartouche. - courtesy: Coysh & Henrywood. 

 Improve'd Wild Rose
Brough & Blackhurst
Waterloo Works
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