over what remained of the business after the bombing as an act of kindness to Charles, offering to ‘Caretaker’ the business until Charles was able to take back the running of the business. Gallyon returned the business back to C.S. Rosson in 1947, which was then re-established in ‘White Lion Street’, Norwich. After the Second World War and with the loss of the original archival gun records, the first recorded gun in the new ledger was dated 2 February 1946. The gun was given the serial number 4501. Rosson gun records normally show the date which the gun was finished, in some cases this was the date of the final engraving or sale to the customer. Rosson use several brand names, which denoted the level of quality. The top of its range was Eclipse, followed by Norfolk, County, Expert, Acme and finally Covert. In the early 1950s the business moved to 'Bedford Street' where Charles ran the business until 1956 when he died. The Rosson business was then sold to Stuart Healy's of London and after three years the business went bankrupt. The business was then sold at auction to H.P. Darlow, a wholesale arms and ammunition merchant from Bedford. Darlow tried to run the business unsuccessfully from his remote Bedfordshire office, until in November 1964 Gallyon agreed to buy the gunmaking business, with Darlow retaining the cartridge business. The takeover of the Rosson business was completed on 1 April 1965 and the Rosson name was retained for six months, then in 1966 it was changed to Gallyon & Sons (Norwich) Ltd. More than 26 000 hand-made bespoke sporting guns have been manufactured by Gallyon & Sons of East Anglia since the companies foundation in 1784 up to 2017. In 2017, Quiller Press published a limited edition of "Gallyon and Sons: Gunmakers of East Anglia", a book written by Richard Gallyon and Wendy Trott about the history of Gallyon Guns. The company was incorporated in November, 2019. See also Holland & Holland James Purdey & Sons Westley Richards Boss & Co. References Further reading Firearm manufacturers of the United Kingdom Shotguns Privately held companies of England 1784 establishments in England