Jones & Longbottom Ltd
Originally Austin Nicholson, this firm from about 1904 marketed butchers’ and table steels at Rockhill Works, Victoria Street, with a forge in Rockingham Lane. Jones is unidentified; but the Longbottoms were Reuben (1852-1924) and his nephew Albert Kirk Longbottom (1869-1944). The family had come from Retford, Nottinghamshire. Reuben died on 13 May 1924, aged 72, leaving £3,025. The firm became a private limited company in 1929. Albert died at Retford on 21 August 1944, aged 74, leav....
