This firm was established in 1861 and was based at Wheeldon Works, Wheeldon Street. The founder was Henry Innocent (1831-1896), a pen and pocket blade maker, who was the son of George Innocent (a forger) and his wife, Amelia. A trade advertisement has the firm at the ‘top of Broad Lane’, where it was surrounded by busy cutlers. Innocent supplied them with ‘all kinds of Fancy Pen and Pocket Knife Scales, Springs, Blades and Shields and Pencil Desk and Erase Blades, Warranted Cast Steel&rsqu....