Edward Blaydes & Company
Edward Blaydes was born in Sheffield in 1838, the son of William, a joiner, and his wife, Jane. Edward became a table knife grinder (and also a grocer and earthenware dealer). In the early 1870s, he started a cutlery venture with James Whitham at Northern Tool Works, John Street. This was dissolved in 1875, when Edward launched Edward Blaydes & Co at Advance Works, New Thomas Street [Denby Street]. In 1876, a full-page directory advertisement promised cutlery of ‘every description … f....
