In 1840 in Leicester, he formed the company Broadbents Ltd, a busy which serviced builders' merchants and roofing contractors.
[4][5] Broadbent erected a plaque on a gable end next to Leicaster's old Bow Bridge in 1856,[6] which remains part of the 17th century legend of the fate of Richard III’s body.
[7] When the old Bow Bridge at Leicester was demolished to make way for a new and more serviceable structure, a very good engraving of it appeared in The Illustrated London News of February 9, 1861.
"For many years, there was a spot pointed out by visitors as King Richard’s grave, and an old stone inserted in a neighbouring wall bore testimony to the fact.
In the course of events, however, it became necessary to pull down the wall, and build over the spot; and it seemed as if the place of King Richard’s burial would be forgotten altogether, and so it probably would have been but for the enterprise and public spirit of a Leicester townsman, Mr. Benjamin Broadbent, a master builder, and one well known for his many acts of munificence.