W. Mills & Son
The Mills’ family lived in the tenements around the factory of Brookes & Crookes, where they worked as spring-knife cutlers. Willis Mills (1877-1947) later worked at Thomas Turner & Co. He married Elizabeth Hibbert Banks (1875-1965) and their son, Ernest Henry Mills, was born in Sheffield on 30 October 1900. Ernest joined his father as an apprentice in 1914. In 1921, only months before the end of his seven-year apprenticeship, father and son lost their jobs during a slack per....
