Henry S. Carr & Son Ltd
This table-knife manufacturer was founded in 1872 by Henry Steel Carr (c.1831-1912). He had been born in Kirk Smeaton, Yorkshire, but was living in Sheffield by 1861, where he became a grinder. In the Census (1881), he was a ‘jobbing grinder’. By 1893, his firm was located at Brunswick Works, Eldon Street. In the early 1900s, George Taylor Carr (1858-1909), the founder’s eldest son (who had been born in Doncaster), had become partner. The latter was involved in perfecting the u....
