Henry Platts
The directory for 1863 has an advertisement for Henry Platts, as a manufacturer of ‘superior’ table cutlery, shoe, butchers’, palette, and putty-knives. He was based at Excelsior Works in Suffolk Street and lived in Birkendale View, Upperthorpe. He appears to have launched his business as a cutlery dealer in South Street in 1853, before moving to Suffolk Street in the early 1860s. In 1861, he employed a dozen men and one boy. By the 1870s, the business had moved to Stand Cutlery Works....
