James Hancock
The early experience of James Hancock (c.1819-1902) was apparently as a clerk. Certainly, by 1849 he was working as a warehouseman. By the mid-1850s, he was involved with William Harriss in Harriss & Hancock, electro-platers and gilders, Orchard Lane. By 1858, Hancock was running his own enterprise as an electro-plater in Holly Street. It was a small operation – employing in 1881 four men, six women, three boys, and five girls – but it enabled Hancock to acquire a residence in Wostenho....
