Enoch Beal
Several Beals were scissors makers and had been active since at least the late eighteenth century. They were located originally in the villages around Sheffield, such as Bradfield and Stannington. The name ‘Enoch Beal’ occurs in the records of the Freemen of the Company of Cutlers (Leader, 1905-61). The Sheffield directory (1787) listed Enoch Beal, scissors manufacturer, in Bradfield (using the trade mark ‘POG+’). Several Beals gravitated towards the town in the early nineteent....
