John Barker
John Barker was born in Sheffield in 1863. In 1891 he was living in Abbeydale Road where, according to the census, he was an “Ivory fluter, bone”. Four years later, in 1895 he started an electro-plate and cutlery manufacturing concern at the Lincoln Works, 38 Arundel Street, premises which had previously been used by Isaac Eyre until his death in 1863.In 1901, he was living in Clough Road, Sheffield and listed as a cutlery manufacturer and employer and in 1905 was advertised as manufacturing silver an....
