Hawksley, Needham & Company
This spring knife manufacturer, founded in about 1850, operated from Carver Street under Joseph Hawksley (aged 24 in 1851 and enumerated in the Census as a ‘visitor’ and warehouseman in Cheney Square) and Joseph and Edwin Needham. The partnership was dissolved in 1852. Joseph and Edwin Needham then founded Needham Bros. Joseph Hawksley continued alone for a few years. However, by 1856 Hawksley & Burch, spring knife manufacturer, had been launched in Robert Street. Hawksley&....
