Albert Oates
The Oates’ had been cutlers, scythe grinders, and farmers at Stannington since at least the eighteenth century. In 1855, (William) Albert Oates (1835-1896) began making spring knives. He was listed in 1864 at Wentworth Terrace, but after 1866 rented a workshop at Brookes & Crookes, Atlantic Works, St Philip’s Road, Presumably, he sometimes made knives for the latter. Oates’s own productions used the trade mark ‘AOT’ (granted in 1855). In 1882, he acquired &lsquo....
