W. J. Ramsbottom Ltd
In about 1878, Walter Jeffcock Ramsbottom (b.1849), the son of a brass turner, launched W. J. Ramsbottom (as ‘successor’ to Thomas & Joseph Colley) at Vine Scissors Works, 38 Upper St Philip’s Road. In 1881, his workforce of 26 men produced fine steel scissors, tailors’ shears, butchers’, putty, and palette knives. The company advertised in 1887. Ramsbottom was still involved in scissors manufacture in 1901, when he lived in Western Bank. His trade mark was a spinning....
