This partnership began in about 1851 by spring knife cutlers James Bower and John Eadon, who lived in adjacent houses in Trippet Lane. The directory address was Redcroft Row, Trippet lane. They were enumerated in the Census (1851), though the entries are only partly legible. Apparently, John employed eleven men; and James four men. Eadon had been born in Eckington in about 1824; Bower in Sheffield in about 1823. Their enterprise was listed in Trippet Lane in the 1870s. James Bower wa....