Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,240 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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of 38 Bennett's Hill, Birmingham.
1862 Henry Lea started business on his own account as a consulting engineer in Birmingham, mainly in mechanical engineering
1882 Added electrical work to the practice.
1886 William Henry Thornbery joined Mr Lea, forming Henry Lea and Thornberry
c.1898 Mr Thornbery left the practice, which presumably then became Henry Lea and Son
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