Richardson & Binney Ltd was registered as a private limited company in 1925, with £500 capital. The partners were Joseph Henry Richardson (1871-1951), of Herries Road, and John Jarvis Binney (1874-1952), of Blake Street. They had started business as manufacturing silversmiths at 8 Union Lane (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 18 November 1925). J. H. Richardson had been a director of his father’s company Richard Richardson Ltd – indeed, the new firm used that company’s trade mark. J. J. Binney had ....