Harrison Fisher & Company Ltd / Taylors Eye Witness Ltd
This firm began in 1897 at Trafalgar Works. The original address was 58 Wellington Street, which was in a corner block of workshops where Wellington Street intersected with Trafalgar Street. The previous occupant, T. W. Petersen & Co, was vacating the workshops and advertised them as suitable for the cutlery trades (Sheffield Independent, 23 July 1896). The founder of the new business was Harrison Fisher (1871-1907), who had been born in Sheffield, the only son of William Fisher (c.1838-1912) and his wife, Elizabeth. Wil....
