Thomas Edwards was established in 1901; Thomas died in 1956, and the business was continued by his wife and son.
The writer and poet Donald Cowie, composed an elegy to Thomas Edwards on his death:
'He stood a lifetime in the silvered gloom
And talked of those whose carriages had come
And gone. He spoke appraisingly of boom
Or terror slump he's known - and he'd known some:
A ponderous and a kindly man, a peer
To Palmerston and mannered like a king,
Yet homely oak beneath the rich veneer
And to the stranger ever welcoming:
A master of his trade who detect
The fake blindfolded, and whose nose he'd say
Would tell him of the silvermark suspect
Although it were a saleroom's length away:
Yet never swindling others, and at end
Regretted as a dealer and a friend.' (Donald Cowie, 1956)
