Gold refiners and assayers who occupied 53 and 54 Barbican. The street then named 'Barbican' ran where Beech Street now is, the tunnel section between Aldersgate Street and Golden Lane. The Bryers building was on the north side of the street and can be seen at the centre of this 1942 .
One of the buildings in the area to survive the incendiary bombing in December 1940, it was demolished in 1962. In 2009 Yellow Pages listed "W Bryer & Sons Ltd, Jewellery Supplies" at 25a, Hatton Garden. provides more information about this company plus lots of stuff about the Barbican.
This 1956 photo from the shows the frieze in place between the first and second floor windows of "The Gold Refinery".
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