Benjamin Winks & Sons
This enterprise began in about 1847 as Pearson & Winks, with Samuel Pearson and Benjamin Winks (1813-1885) as partners. They manufactured razors, including a ‘diamond edge’ razor, which was advertised in The Sheffield Independent, 3 July 1847, and sold at Wallis’s ironmongers in High Street. Pearson & Winks was also a general merchant and dealer in Eldon Street. Benjamin Winks was apparently the son of Joseph Winks, a razor smith, Little Pond Street, who died on 2 September 1846, a....
