Turner, Naylor & Company Ltd
Advertisements show a start date of 1810. The partners were John Sorby (1780-1829) – who was related to the Sorbys of Attercliffe – John Turner (bapt.1778-1857) from Eckington, and Henry Skidmore (c.1766-1822). They made edge tools, cutlasses, and machetes in the Wicker. After 1822, the firm became Sorby & Turner. John Sorby died on 4 December 1829, aged 49, and was buried in Attercliffe (Sheffield Independent, 5 December 1829; 22 May 1830). By the 1850s, Turner’s son Charl....
