Hawksworth, Eyre & Co Ltd
This enterprise was the successor in 1833 to Blagden, Hodgson & Co, silversmiths and platers, based in Nursery Street. The partners were Charles Hawksworth and John Eyre. Eventually they shed the company’s Sheffield Plate business – Bradbury (1912)1 remarking that by the 1850s a thousand dies had been scrapped – and began electro-plating. After registering their first mark in 1833 (as plate workers, White Rails), Hawksworth and Eyre filed another five marks by 1894. The firm cont....
