At Number 8 Thomas Street you will find a café bar called Trof.  The first Trof bar was in Fallowfield and a second was opened on Grosvenor Street inw hat had been the Adult Deaf and Dumb Institute.  The third version of this popular format occupies a red brick building on the corner of Thomas Street and Soap Street.  The date on the building is 1881 and the 1888 map of the area, a hand drawn extract of which is shown below, shows that the building was occupied by a jeweller. 



It seems that jewellers and drysalters (presumably curing fish from the nearbly wholesale fish market) were popular occupations in the area.