James Allen & Company
Harry James Lansdowne Allen (1873-1933) was born at Bilston, Staffordshire, on 2 February 1873. He was the son of Henry Benjamin Edwards Allen, a shoe dealer and later traveller, and his wife, Caroline Amelia née Baker (who was from the Wolverhampton Boot and Shoe manufacturing family of James Baker & Sons). As a teenager, Harry James was apprenticed as a printer. But in 1897, he launched Allen, Price & Co at Bilston, which dealt in household goods, including cutlery. By 1899, the partn....
