Originally Posted by
GNASHER
Rushworths had/have a workshop on St Ann St opp the cop shop.....I was sent to a piano workshop in Brunswick Rd (about where the top end of Staples carpark is now) for a job as an apprentice piano repair person. After seeing the place and talking to the boss I told him I wasn't intrested and buggered off pretty quick,what a dump.
Very interesting GNASHER, thanks for that. I've found out a few details on Rushworths below. Apparently their main business was making organs, then gradually began supplying pianos [from other makers] and adding their name to them. They also started making their own piano's as well.
Cheers, Daz
Some of Liverpool's piano manufactures and retailers.
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Crane and Sons, 217 Scotland Rd, Liverpool [& London] piano manufacturers.
J.B. Kramer & Co, [Liverpool and London].
NEMS ltd [North End Music Stores] musical instrument retailers began life at 62/72 Walton Road as part of Isaac Epstein & Sons furniture dealership, later a dedicated music store opened at Great Charlotte Street under the control of Brian Epstein, and then a second store opened at 12?14 Whitechapel shortly afterwards.
Rushworth's organ-building manufacturers founded in 1828 [in Yorkshire], by William Rushworth. The first premises was at 13 Islington, Liverpool [late 1800's], then moved to Great George Street in the early 20th century, and then finally to St Anne Street in 1972.
Rushworths also had a retail wing, which been in partnership with Van Gruisen until 1894.
Rushworth and Dreaper [merged abt. 1905] - Whitechapel, Liverpool
James Smith & Son, 74 & 76 Lord Street, Liverpool from at least the 1880s to the 1930s
Van Gruisen & Son were at 27 Bold Street, Liverpool from at least 1886 to 1936 [piano agents...]
E.G. Withers & Sons 279 Kensington, Liverpool [piano agents...]
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