Wilson & Frith
This enterprise was said to have been founded in 1835. One partner was Benjamin Wilson, who in 1845 was living in Chester Street. The other was William Frith (c.1806-1878), who by 1837 was listed in Broomhill. Their speciality was shoe knives (and also table, butchers’, cooks’, and palette knives), which they manufactured (or factored) in the 1840s and 1850s in Chester Street. Wilson seems to have withdrawn from the partnership, but the business continued in Milton Street between the 1860s....
