George Nixon & Son
According to the firm’s trade advertisements, it was founded in 1835. In 1841, George Nixon was listed as a pen and pocket knife manufacturer in Jericho Street. By 1845, his address was Mount Pisgah (Crookes). This would have been Nixon’s residence and office rather than a factory. In 1851, he described himself as a ‘cutlery master employing one man’ (Census, 1851). His son, Joseph, was a commission agent. His second daughter, Sarah Ann, married Charles Platts....
