Bacon | Thomas Bacon & Son |
Badger | John Badger & Son |
Badger | John William Wrigglesworth Badger |
Badger | William Badger & Company |
Badger | Jonathan Badger |
Badger | Warburton & Badger |
Bagshaw | John Bagshaw & Sons |
Bagshawe | John J. Bagshawe & Company |
Baildon | Standfield, Newbould & Baildon |
Bailey | L S Bailey & Co |
Baines | Baines, Cattell & Company Ltd |
Baker | John Baker & Company |
Baker | John Baker & Sons Ltd |
Baldwin | A Baldwin |
Ball | Ball Brothers & Company |
Barber | Charles Barber & Sons |
Barber | I. & J. Barber |
Barber | James Barber |
Barber | John Barber & Son |
Barber | Thompson & Barber / Thompson & Son |
Barclay | Barclay Bros |
Bardlay | H Bardlay & Co |
Barge | Henry Barge |
Barker | John Barker |
Barlow | Slack & Barlow (Sheffield) Ltd |
Barnascone | Henry Barnascone & Son Ltd |
Barnascone | Lewis Barnascone |
Barnes | Matthew Barnes |
Barnes | Verdon Barnes |
Barnett | N Barnett & Co |
Barnsley | George Barnsley & Sons Ltd |
Barstow | John Barstow |
Barton | Samuel Barton |
Bashford | Thomas Bashford |
Bashforth | Thomas Bashforth |
Batt | John Batt & Company Ltd |
Batt | James Batt & Co |
Batty | W. A. F. Batty |
Baum | Baum Brothers (Sheffield) Ltd |
Baum | Maurice Baum |
Baxter | Robert Baxter & Company |
Baxter | W. & J. A. Baxter Ltd |
Baxter | Hartley & Baxter |
Bayliss | Bayliss & Company Ltd |
Beal | J. & J. Beal Ltd |
Beal | John Beal & Sons |
Beardshaw | George Beardshaw & Son |
Beatson | A E Beatson |
Beckett | William Beckett & Co |
Bedford | John Bedford & Sons Ltd |
Beeston | Beeston & Company |
Beet | Joseph Beet |
Belcher | W.J. Belcher & Co |
Beldon | Beldon, Hoyland & Company |
Belk | Walter Belk & Sons |
Belk | Roberts & Belk Ltd |
Belk | G W Belk |
Bell | Arthur Bell & Company |
Bell | Edmund Bell |
Bell | John & Jonathan Bell |
Bell | Matthew Bell |
Bell | Hardy, Bell & Company |
Bell | Thomas Bell & Son |
Benn | James Benn |
Benn | James Benn |
Bennett | Bennett & Heron Ltd |
Bennett | Norman Bennett |
Bentley | William Bentley & Co |
Beresford | W. Beresford |
Berkley | G. E. Berkley |
Bernard | M. Bernard & Son Ltd |
Berrisford | Berrisford Brothers |
Bertram | Pickslay, Appleby and Bertram |
Best | John, Thomas & James Best |
Biggins | C E Biggins |
Billam | J. Billam Ltd |
Bingham | E. Bingham & Company |
Bingham | C. T. Bingham |
Binney | Richardson & Binney Ltd |
Bird | Bird & Company (Sheffield) 1914 Ltd |
Bird | Hardy & Bird |
Bird | Bird & Blake |
Bird | J E Bird |
Birks | Cam & Birks |
Birks | Birks, Withers & Sykes |
Birtles | Birtles & Co |
Bisby | A. H. Bisby & Company Ltd |
Bishop | Bishop & Froggatt |
Bishop | George Bishop & Sons |
Blaber | Lambert & Blaber Ltd |
Black | J .J Black & Co (Cutlery) Ltd |
Blackwell | Blackwell & Marsden |
Blackwell | William Blackwell |
Blackwell | Walter Blackwell |
Blake | John Blake |
Blake | Thomas Blake |
Blake | Bird & Blake |
Blaydes | Edward Blaydes & Company |
Blaydon | S. Blaydon |
Blyde | Edwin Blyde & Company Ltd |
Blyde | John Blyde Ltd |
Boardman | Boardman Plate Ltd |
Bocking | Samuel Bocking |
Bocking | William Bocking |
Bocking | George Bocking |
Bolsover | Henry Bolsover & Company |
Booth | Henry C. Booth & Company |
Booth | Luke Booth & Son |
Booth | R. Booth Ltd |
Booth | W. Booth |
Booth | William T. Booth |
Borwick | Samuel Borwick |
Boswell | Boswell, Hatfield & Company Ltd |
Boswell | A. Boswell, Son & Naylor Limited |
Boulsover | Thomas Boulsover & Company |
Bowden | John Bowden |
Bowdon | James Bowdon & Co |
Bower | Oliver & Bower Ltd |
Bowers | Sanders & Bowers Ltd |
Bradley | Russell Bradley & Company Ltd |
Bradshaw | John Bradshaw |
Bradshaw | William Bradshaw |
Bradshaw | William Bradshaw & Son |
Brameld | William Brameld & Sons |
Bramhall | James Bramhall & Son |
Bramhall | H Bramhall |
Bramhall | George Bramhall |
Brammall | Joseph Brammall |
Bramwell | J H Bramwell & Co |
Brandon | Brandon, Turner & Co |
Brennan | Fisher & Brennan |
Briddon | Briddon Brothers |
Briggs | William Briggs |
Briggs | William Briggs & Company (Sheffield) Ltd |
Bright | A. Bright & Company |
Bright | K Bright Ltd |
Brightmore | William and John Brightmore |
British | British Silverware Ltd |
British | British Stainless Products Ltd |
Brittain | Brittain, Wilkinson & Brownell |
Broadhead | Broadhead & Atkin |
Broadhead | Broadhead, Gurney & Co |
Broadhead | R. Broadhead & Company |
Broadhead | James Broadhead |
Broadhurst | William Broadhurst & Son |
Broadhurst | Cadman, Son & Broadhurst |
Brook | Edwin Beighton Brook |
Brooke | Peter Brooke |
Brookes | Brookes & Crookes Ltd |
Brookes | John Brookes |
Brookhill | Brookhill Cutlery Works |
Brooksbank | Abram Brooksbank & Company (Sheffield) Ltd |
Brooksbank | H. Brooksbank (Sheffield) Ltd |
Broomhead | Broomhead & Ward |
Broomhead | Benjamin & Joseph Broomhead |
Broomhead | Broomhead, Hinchcliffe & Company |
Brown | Clark & Brown |
Brown | H L Brown & Son Ltd |
Brown | Longden & Brown |
Brown | John Brown & Company |
Brown | Parker & Brown |
Brown Bayley | Brown Bayley Steels |
Brownell | Brittain, Wilkinson & Brownell |
Brownhill | Brownhill & Morgans |
Brownhill | E. Brownhill |
Brownill | Henry John James Brownill |
Brownill | John Brownill |
Brownill | Jonathan Brownill & Company |
Brownill | Addy, Brownill & Taylor |
Brumby | Brumby & Middleton |
Bullous | J. Bullous & Co |
Bunting | Robert Bunting & Sons |
Bunting | Bunting, Langdon & Company Ltd |
Bunting | C. V. Bunting |
Burdekin | B. & J. Burdekin & Company |
Burdekins | Burdekins & Hawley |
Burgess | Larder & Burgess Ltd |
Burgess | J T Burgess & Co |
Burgon | Burgon, Green and Co |
Burkinshaw | Henry Burkinshaw |
Burland | Burland, Ellis & Co |
Burley | James Burley & Company |
Burnand | James Burnand & Sons |
Burrows | Samuel Burrows |
Bushell | A. Bushell (Sheffield) Ltd |
Butcher | W. & S. Butcher Ltd |
Butcher | Wade & Butcher |
Butility | Butility Cutlery Company Ltd |
Butler | George Butler & Company Ltd |
Butler | John Owen Butler |
Buxton | George Buxton |
Buxton | James Buxton |
Buxton | Buxton & Colgrave |
The Blake family came from Wath, near Rotherham, and moved to Sheffield in the late eighteenth century. By 1787, Thomas Blake Sen. had founded a file making business, but his sons – John and Thomas – later became merchants. John Blake (1783-1832) was Master Cutler in 1831. He laid the cornerstone of the new Cutlers’ Hall in June 1832, but within ten weeks succumbed to the cholera epidemic that swept Sheffield. He died after only a few hours’ illness at Port Mahon on 30 Augus....