William Gregory & Sons
‘A self-made man … of humble origin’ was how the founder, William Gregory, was described (Men of the Period, 1896). Born at Calver in Derbyshire in about 1818, Gregory had learned the art of forging and established his own business in 1843. He appeared in a Sheffield directory in 1865, making table and butchers’ knives in Peel Street, Broomhill. He died on 3 May 1878, aged 60, at his home in Broomhill, and was buried in an unconsecrated grave in the General Cemetery. By then h....
