Bishop, Carr & Company
This firm has a complex lineage. It may have started with the activities of George Bishop, who was listed in 1774 as a wool shear and edge tool manufacturer. In 1781, he was presumably the George Bishop, wood knife and edge tool maker, who appeared in a Sheffield directory (with no address). Bishop, Weldon & Co had appeared by 1791; and by the end of that decade Bishop, Weldon & Carr, merchants and factors, was operating in Bridge Street. This was apparently the ‘Weldon’, whi....
