 The company purchased the site of Key Hill House, which had been demolished for the extraction of sand.This period was the time when such iconic characters were running business like Alfred Jerrold Nathan who was word famous about his pipe mounts which were mainly made from silver and rarely from butterscotch amber 

The Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas Light Company was established in 1825 and they lit Great Hampton Street in 1836.In 1832, the company started offering piped gas and, by 1840, all jewellers had a supply of gas to their blowpipes.