Richard Rodgers & Son
In 1841, Richard Henry Rodgers (aged 58) and his son of the same name (aged 20) were spring knife cutlers in Porter Brook Yard. The father had been born in Greasborough. He was enumerated in the 1851 Census in Court No. 5, Bowden Street, employing one boy. He later worked in Eldon Street (Richard Rodgers, 1852), then Bath Street (Richard Henry Rodgers, 1856), and later Exchange Works, Edgerton Street (Richard Rodgers & Son, 1859). In 1861, the company advertised as a manufacturer of pen, pocket, d....
