Bird & Blake
The company of Bird and Blake was the result of a partnership between Edward Bird (1870 – 1916) born in South Molton, Devon, the son of John Bird (a railway clerk) and his wife, Emma and John Harold Blake, the son of Thomas Henry Blake, a spoon and fork manufacturer from Spalding, Lincs and his wife, Mary. Bird had previously operated the Practical Cutlery Co (formed by 1876 as a merchant and manufacturer of table, butchers’, and spear knives at Zebra Works in Union Lane) with John Hardy. That partner....
