William Cheetham & Sons
This company also traded as Sheffield Goods Manufacturing Supply Co. (by 1896), Sheffield Goods Manufacturing Co. (by 1910), and appears as S.G.S. Co. in 1921.The founder, William Cheetham, was born in 1858, at Strood in Kent, just a few months before the family moved to Bethnal Green in the east end of London. His father, George, worked for the GPO at Mount Pleasant. William married Elizabeth Leach, a local girl, in 1881 and they moved to Sheffield where their two sons, George Halstaff (1883) and James Sydney (1....
