George Wostenholm & Son Ltd
The founder was George Wolstenholme (1775-1833), whose family name had various spellings. The company once admitted that ‘the precise date of its founding is unknown … [and] … the beginnings of the firm are wrapped in obscurity’ (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 10 December 1919). But this did not prevent Wostenholm’s from advancing various establishment dates (such as 1745 or 1785) and publishing a house history that linked the family to spring knife makers in Stannington in the early 1700s (....
