William Bradshaw
William Frederick Taylor Bradshaw was born in Sheffield on 1 March 1807. He was the son of James, a grinder, and his wife, Rosanna. In 1841, William was listed as a shopkeeper at 92 Broomhall Street. He was listed again in 1845, though intriguingly the same directory listed a William Bradshaw as a palette knife manufacturer and florist in Little Sheffield. Palette knives were W. F. T. Bradshaw’s speciality. An advertisement in the 1849 Sheffield directory claimed that he was &l....
