Thomas Fretwell & Sons
Thomas Fretwell was born in Sheffield in 1817 and launched a career as a razor smith by 1841, when he was working in the Philadelphia district of the town. Mrs Fretwell was a straw hat maker. In 1849 and 1852, Fretwell was a razor manufacturer listed in Cumberland Street. He briefly moved to Dixon’s Yard in Silver Street, but by the end of the 1850s was in Wellington Street. His firm was now named Thomas Fretwell & Sons, manufacturer of fine razors and a general merchant. In the 1860s,....
