George Barnsley & Sons Ltd
George Barnsley (1810-1874) was born into a Sheffield cutlery family on 2 March 1810. He was trained as a file maker and started his own file business in 1836 in Wheeldon Street, Brookhill. In the Census (1851), he was enumerated in Upper Allen Street, when he described himself as a file manufacturer and steel refiner, employing 43 men. In that year, he moved his business to a factory in Cornish Street, Neepsend. Cornish Works (not to be confused with the nearby Cornish Place factory of James Dixon & Sons) en....
