Ryalls & Cooke
This firm was started in about 1920 at Ryco Works, Bower Springs, by pocket-knife cutlers Arthur George Ryalls (1887-1958) and Charles Frederick Cooke (1889-1962). Ryalls was the son of a coal dealer; Cooke was the son of William (a spring-knife finisher) and his wife, Elizabeth. In 1921, the firm advertised in The Ironmonger a full range of cutlery, but was dissolved two years later. C. F. Cooke & Son, cutlery manufacturer, Holly Lane, appeared in the Sheffield directory in 1925. By 1930, C....
