>Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 07:47:46 -0000 >From: "eric bell" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Anglo-Italian] Spelzini > >Hello all, > >Just joined this list and am hoping that sks's out there may also be >searching for the illusive Spelzini family or have some further >info on them that might help me get around my current brickwall. > >To date we know that John Spelzini was a barometer maker in Leather >Lane, Holborn in 1840 and had 7 children (4 boys who all stayed in >the same trade). He may also have had a brother called Joseph >although I'm having trouble finding anything that links the two of >them together. > >The 1846 trade directory shows that he was using 81 Leather Lane as >a workshop but seems to disappear after that. (He was still making >barometers until 1865 but not sure where from). As this area of >London was used by several Italian barometer makers I'm hoping he >may have shared a premises with somebody else. Kelly's Directory for 1848 shows a John SPELZINI, barometer maker, at 11 Beauchamp Street, Brooke Street, Holborn. I used to work in Brooke Street, Beauchamp Street must have disappeared long before, and it's very close indeed to Leather Lane. There were still many similar workshops still in the surrounding area in my time (1950s), which was, and is close by to the Italian Church in Clerkenwell Road.-- Cheers, Roy Dent EoLFHS #7549