According to the company, the establishment date was 1890. The owner was George Glossop, who was born in about 1863 in Harthill, Yorkshire, though little is known about his early years. By the late 1890s, George Glossop & Co was listed as a cutlery manufacturer and general merchant at Ellesmere Works, Arundel Street (with George Glossop living in Ellesmere Road). In the interwar period, the firm relocated to Howard Street and Westfield Terrace and broadened its products to include nickel silver stamping....