The Post Office London Directory in 1939 listed Priestley & Moore Ltd as a cutlery manufacturer at 7 Ely Place, EC 1. No information has been found on the owners or the capitalisation of the business. However, it was clearly a wholesaler and agent rather than a manufacturer of cutlery (which it would have sourced from Sheffield). After the War, its address was 57 Hatton Garden (a throughfare that was adjacent to Ely Place and in the heart of London’s jewellery quarter). In the 1950s, the com....