James Joseph Lodge (1873-1936) was born in Dublin, the son of James Lodge and his wife, Cecilia Wardell. This Catholic family moved to Sheffield, where James Sen. worked as a printer. They settled in Woodland Street, Walkley. After James Sen.’s death in 1887, aged 40 (he was buried at City Road Cemetery), his widow and children moved to the Solly Street area. The younger James found work as a buffer and then in a cutlery warehouse.
In 1901, he launched his own cutlery and electro-plate enterprise i....