Paul Lees & Sons
Paul Lees (c.1790-1871) was listed in 1833 as a hardware dealer in Broad Lane. His next appearance was in 1852 as Paul Lees & Son, table knife manufacturers, Lee Croft, with a house in Scotland Street. By 1856, when an advertisement appeared, the name was ‘& Sons’. Lees is elusive in the Census, but in 1861 he was enumerated in Scotland Street, with his son James, a 20-year-old cutler. His wife Eliza (born at Wadsley Bridge) had died in Hadfields Court, Scotland Street, on 22 April....
