Copley & Company Ltd
This firm can be traced to Edwin Copley (c.1818-1886), who was a leading steel fork manufacturer. By the 1840s, he was living and working in Rockingham Street, where (according to a trade directory, 1845) he was making forks and running a beer house. He soon manufactured forks alone and his trade expanded: he employed over a dozen workers by 1871; and a decade later his workforce was 18 men and five women. Edwin and his wife, Hannah, died within days in 1886 at Fitzwilliam Street: the latter on 27 May and E....
