Established by Benjamin Wade in 1860 in Leeds, Yorkshire and manufacturing pipes for about a hundred and five years (even after the demolition of the factory in a bombing during WWII) before the shuttering of it Leeds factory in 1965. While during it manufacturing days it was known for a more British sense of shaping, with some comparisons made to Charatan’s, the Ben Wade name is now more synonymous with the Danish Fancy style of pipes, thanks largely to the efforts of talented Danish carver Preben Holm, who started carving pipes for Lane under the Ben Wade name for sale in the US until his death in 1989.