Joseph Rodgers & Sons Ltd
In the nineteenth century, Rodgers had an unsurpassed reputation and a history that was said to have been synonymous with the cutlery trade itself. In 1724, a ‘house workshop’ was rented to John Rodgers (1701-15 January 1785) for seven guineas a year, at Holy (or Hawley) Croft, a backstreet off Campo Lane, near the present Cathedral (Leader, 1905)1. In 1724, the Company of Cutlers ‘let’ a mark to John Rodgers – a Star and Maltese Cross (originally registered to another cutler in 1682....
