The Leeds Directory for 1817 contains an entry for Skelton & Wells, wine merchants, at premises in Albion Street in Leeds. In 1860 Thomas Casson bought the business from Frank Richardson & Co., and Skelton & Wells are named as their predecessors. Later owners of the business included John Lupton & Son (in Gascoigne Street) and Cairns & Hickey (in Blenheim Terrace)
From the guide to the Day books, letter book and other papers of a Leeds wine merchant (probably Skelton & Wells), 1785-ca.1900, (GB 206 Leeds University Library)