Roy Bierton Ltd
Roy Bierton (1929 - 2016) was a cutlery manufacturer with a factory on Well Meadow Street. He learnt his trade in his father, Ernest Bierton’s cutlery works on Bailey Lane.Roy left his father’s company, E Bierton, Mirror Polisher, and started his own company around 1953/4. He worked primarily on his own at first, polishing and sharpening other people’s blades building up his client base. In the beginning the work was hard and dangerous, demanding long hours and working in conditions that today’s healt....
