My grandmother's family were all master tailors in the Oxford Street/ Mayfair area in the 1800s. If you delve into the history of the trade in London at that time you learn that they were mainly independent workers who shared work between them, tending to specialise in the different stages of making a garment. Certain pubs were, apparently, often the hubs where work was doled out so the various tailors would meet there.
I would have liked an explanation of where the name Lidman came from. Why didn't he become Alfred Johnson as that would have been more logical from the patronymic explanation? Lidman must have meant something to the family hut it never cropped up. If that had been my family, that would have been the first question I asked.
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