Charles Holmes
At the Great Exhibition in 1851, Charles Holmes, a Sheffield ‘designer and manufacturer’, displayed table knives and a ‘new registered bolster’. Charles can be identified from the 1851 Census as a 39 year-old table knife manufacturer, living with his wife, Hannah, in Gloucester Street. In the subsequent two decades, his workshop was in Burgess Street, Princess Street, West Street, and Milton Street. His business was modest – employing only four workers in 1871 – and Holme....
