Doris Walsh
The youngest of five children, Doris Walsh was born on 31 July 1912 into a family with roots in the Sheffield trades (her grandfather had been a surgical instrument maker; her father worked in a steel firm). In 1926, aged 14, she left school and started work as an errand girl at Albert Forrest’s etching shop at Butcher’s Wheel in Arundel Street. As she later recalled, in an interview with Jenkins & McClarence (1989)1, in those days ‘the cutlery empire covered all of Sheffield’.&n....
