Edwin Sykes
Sheffield-born Edwin Sykes (cv.1803-1869) began work as a ‘master scissors grinder’ in the late 1820s. He was listed first at Lambert Street. By the end of the 1830s, he was a fine scissors manufacturer at Wentworth Street, Port Mahon. His dwellings and workshops later extended to Watery Lane, which was a narrow backstreet parallel with Wentworth Street. Sykes was a typical ‘little mester’, who employed (according to the Census in 1851) three men. He had two apprentices l....
