Roberts & Belk Ltd
The Ironmonger (12 November 1887) noted that the ‘sounding clink of the brazier’s hammer has hardly ever been silent on any working day in [Roberts & Belk’s] Furnival Works since the early part of the present century’. The lineage can be traced through Furniss, Poles & Turner, William Briggs, Roberts & Slater (see Joseph Slater), and Roberts & Briggs. The ‘Roberts’ in these firms was Samuel Roberts, who had been born on 23 August 1807 in Highfield. After a....
