Singleton & Priestman Ltd
William Singleton was born in Sheffield in about 1826. Apparently the son of Samuel, a tailor, he became a warehouseman and then spring knife manager. In 1865, he started as a manufacturer of pen, pocket, table, and sportsman’s knives and scissors in Baker’s Hill. Singleton rented the upper storeys of Queen’s Cutlery Works of Mappin. By 1879, the firm was William Singleton & Co and the owner was living in Edge Hill Road in a house on a plot of land sold by the Montgomery Land Soc....
