William Horridge & Company
This enterprise was launched in the 1840s as a horn and scale cutter in Bow Street (a road that once led into West Street from Church Street). The owner was William Horridge, who had been born in Sheffield in 1820. He was apparently the son of George (a cutler) and Elizabeth. In the early 1850s, Horridge moved to Fargate, where his address was Pool Works. He provided the cutlery trade with handles in stag, buck, horn, wood, buffalo, and bone. The trade expanded swiftly and by 1861 Horridge emplo....
