On Blake senior's death in 1784, the eldest son James took over the hosiery business at No. 28 Broad Street, while William moved back to No. 27 next door. Here he set up as a print seller in partnership with James Parker, an expert in mezzotint. Both families lived together above the shop. Despite a boom in print-making and print-selling, this venture lasted only three years before Blake dissolved the partnership and moved around the corner to Poland Street.

27 Broad Street no longer survives. The street has been renamed Broadwick Street, and on the site there now rises a block of high rise apartments, William Blake House. Old houses that survive on Broadwick Street, however, still give a good idea of what No. 27 looked like.

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