John J. Bagshawe & Company
The Hawley Collection has a table knife marked: ‘THAMES’, on the handle of which an anonymous scribe has added: ‘Made by John James Bagshawe & Co, Thames Steel Works, Furnival Street’. John J. Bagshaw (1835-1875) was born in Sheffield, the son of Samuel (a linen draper at Westbar) and his wife, Maria. John became a book agent and then a commercial traveller, probably in the metal trades. In 1861, he described himself in the Census as a steel merchant. In about 1865 (t....
