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1857, not a decade since Edward and William Hayward had signed their
deed of partnership.
The old sign continued to swing in someone else's
favour but apart from its survival on a few old coal plates made by
Haywards during that short period and still in use today it ceased to be
associated with Hayward Brothers.
We have come some distance from Bread Street and
the family business in glass. During the first phase in Southwark, this
material seems to have played little part in the daily trade, but the
removal of the headquarters of the brothers to the Union Street works
coincides with the reappearance of glass as a cardinal part of the
business.
Pavement lights of iron, glazed with rough cast
glass, were brought into the range of manufacture shortly after the removal
to Union Street. In those days of ill-lit basements and cellars where
candles and oil soon consumed what little fresh air found its way there,
these first pavement lights attained immediate popularity. The bulk of
the trade, however, remained for some years in iron-made articles. Coal
plates of manifold designs, circular and spiral staircases and Sheringham's
Ventilator were the main business.
Being older and more experienced, Edward Hayward
was the guiding influence while William acted as his right-hand man.
Edward also interested himself in the other enterprise, Leggatt, Hayward
and Leggatt, Print Sellers, 79 Cornhill, where he had an office and would
often arrange to meet customers and others concerned with the Borough
business. In addition to his responsibilities as senior partner in Hayward
Brothers, Edward Hayward took a close interest in the more artistic
concern. This brought him into touch with the leading painters of the
day and the many public personalities who visited the Cornhill galleries
to inspect the canvases, engravings and prints on view there. Not least
of these was the Duke of Wellington who, shortly before his death in 1852,
called to examine the picture painted by T. J. Barker which depicted the
historic meeting of his Grace and Marshall
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