Salter Rex - Hampstead

Salter Rex was founded in 1854 by Joseph Salter.  He set up the practice at what is now 311 Kentish Town Road at the early age of twenty.  The area was very different then for Kentish Town – as it is known today – hardly existed.  Popular rumour has it that these offices were originally the old manor house of Kentish Town village, when much of the surrounding area was open country.

For over twenty years the business prospered, but in 1876 Joseph Salter died.  Far from being the end of the practice, it was the beginning of a new era.  The firm was sold to William Rex and James Pearce for the princely sum of £3,200.  Thus began three generations of the Rex family association with the company.