Joseph Barwick was a watchmaker, born at Irchester, and he was trading in Rushden High Street in 1891. His daughter Elizabeth was a draper's assistant, then aged 17, and Thomas Tinkler, aged 25, was a boarder with him, and working in the business.

Three years later Elizabeth was married, to Thomas Tinkler, at Melton Mowbray where Thomas had been born in 1862. He too was now trading as a watchmaker and jeweller at Higham Road, Rushden.

Joseph had left the jewellery business by 1901 and was living at 4 Griffith Street, and employing others in his new business as a shoe machine sewer, trading as A E & G Barwick (his son George and daughter-in-law Ada E) in Park Place.

This advert is from 1900 when Thomas moved from Higham Road to take over Joseph's shop:

Rushden Echo, 30th Oct 1908, & 1st January 1909 T.E.Tinkler, practical watchmaker and jeweller, removed to the Old Restaurant, opposite Succoth Chapel.

The family moved to Harrold in 1910, and Albert Victor Wanklyn and his wife Sarah Jane took over the business. Their son Stanley Wanklyn had taken over by 1928, and he moved across to 54 High Street. The shop was taken over by Percy House in 1952.