William A. Edley & Company Ltd
William Alfred Edley (1892-1934?) was living with his uncle, Joseph Edley, in Melbourne Road, when the Census (1901) was taken. By the end of the First World War, when he advertised in Wilson & Twigg (1919), William A. Edley had formed his own cutlery company at Replenish Works, Upper St Philips Road. A range of cutlery was offered, especially scissors, in which Edley claimed the largest output in the British Empire. The firm was almost immediately bankrupt, with £4,767 debts. A list of reas....
