W | J. W. |
W | W & H |
Wade | Wade & Butcher |
Wade | Wade, Wingfield & Rowbotham |
Wain | John Wain & Company Ltd |
Wainwright | Alfred Wainwight & Son |
Wainwright | Alfred Wainwright Ltd |
Wainwright | B. Wainwright & Company |
Wainwright | Wainwright & Staniland |
Wainwright | William Wainwright |
Wakefield | A & S Wakefield |
Walburn | T. Walburn |
Walker | C. P. Walker & Company Ltd |
Walker | Eaton, Walker & Company |
Walker | James Walker Ltd |
Walker | O. Walker & Sons |
Walker | Walker & Company (Sheffield) Ltd |
Walker | Walker & Hall Ltd |
Walker | Walker Steel Works Ltd |
Wall | Chapman, Wall & Co Ltd |
Wall | Wall, Kay & Sons Ltd |
Wallace | A. Wallace |
Wallis | Collings & Wallis |
Walliss | W. H. Walliss |
Walsh | John Walsh Ltd |
Walters | John Walters & Company |
Walton | Walton Brothers (Sheffield) Ltd |
Warburton | Warburton |
Warburton | Warburton & Badger |
Ward | Broomhead & Ward |
Ward | Charles F. Ward |
Ward | Eyre, Ward & Company |
Ward | Frederick Ward & Company |
Ward | John Ward |
Ward | Payne Ward & Sons |
Ward | T. A. and J. Ward |
Ward | Thomas Ward & Sons Ltd |
Ward | William J. Ward |
Wardrobe | Wardrobe & Pearce |
Waring | Waring & Gillow |
Warner | E. Warner & Company Ltd |
Warranted | Warranted Sheffield Cutlery |
Warren | Warren Brothers (Sheffield) Ltd |
Warriss | Warriss & Company (Sheffield) Ltd |
Wastinage | Bradbury & Wastinage |
Waterhouse | John William Waterhouse |
Watkinson | John Watkinson |
Watkinson | Jonathan Watkinson |
Watson | George Watson |
Watson | Linley & Watson |
Watts | John Watts (Sheffield & London) Ltd |
Watts | S & J Watts, Manchester |
Webb | Mappin & Webb Ltd |
Webber | Webber & Hill |
Webster | Oliver and Webster |
Webster | Steer & Webster |
Webster | William Webster & Son |
weekly | The Weekly Telegraph |
Weldun | Weldun |
Wells | Sarah Wells & Sons |
Wentworth | The Wentworth Plate Co Ltd |
Westby | John Westby & Company |
Westby | Joseph Westby & Company Ltd |
Wheatley | W. Wheatley & Co |
Wheatley | Walter Wheatley |
Wheatley | Wheatley |
Wheatley | Wheatley Brothers Ltd |
Wheeldon | John Wheeldon & Co Ltd |
Whitaker | G. H. Whitaker & Company |
White | Matthew White |
White | Timothy Whites & Taylors Ltd |
White | W. White & Son |
Whiteaway | Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co Ltd |
Whiteley | Hardy & Whiteley |
Whiteley | James Turner Whiteley |
Whiteley | Tricket, Haslehurst, Whiteley, & Pryor |
Wigfall | John Wigfall & Company |
Wigfall | Thomas Wigfall |
Wigfull | Fry & Wigfull Ltd |
Wigfull | Lee & Wigfull (Sheffield) Ltd |
Wiggin | J. & J. Wiggin Ltd |
Wild | Carr, Wild & Co Ltd |
Wild | Hiram Wild Ltd |
Wild | James P. Wild |
Wild | James Wild & Son |
Wild | W. Wild & Sons (Cutlers) Ltd |
Wild | William Wild |
Wilderness | Wilderness |
Wilding | Robert F. Wilding & Co |
Wilkin | George Wilkin |
Wilkins | Harry Wilkins |
Wilkins | John Wilkins |
Wilkins | WIlkins & Son |
Wilkinson | Benjamin Wilkinson |
Wilkinson | Brittain, Wilkinson & Brownell |
Wilkinson | Henry Wilkinson & Company Ltd |
Wilkinson | Wilkinson Roberts & Co |
Wilkinson | Wilkinson Sword Company Ltd |
Wilkinson | William Wilkinson & Sons Ltd |
Willey | William Willey & Sons |
Willgoose | H. Willgoose & Company |
Williams | Alfred Williams |
Williams | Lindsay Williams |
Williamson | Albert Williamson |
Williamson | Benjamin Williamson |
Williamson | Charles Williamson & Sons |
Williamson | John Williamson |
Williamson | S Williamson & Sons |
Williamson | Walter Williamson |
Williamson | Williamson Bros |
Willis | Mark Willis & Son Ltd |
Wilson | Crowther & Wilson |
Wilson | Herbert Wilson |
Wilson | James Wilson & Son (Ironmongers) Ltd |
Wilson | John Wilson (Sheffield) Ltd |
Wilson | Joseph Wilson |
Wilson | Stephenson & Wilson Ltd |
Wilson | Thomas Henry Wilson |
Wilson | Thomas Wilson (Sheffield) Ltd |
Wilson | Travis, Wilson & Company Ltd |
Wilson | Wilson & Co |
Wilson | Wilson & Frith |
Wilson | Wilson & Pitt |
Wilson | Wilson & Southern |
Wilson | Wilson, Hawksworth & Moss |
Wilson | Wilson, Hawksworth, Ellison & Company |
Windle | Windle |
Wingaard | Carl J. Wingaard & Company |
Wingfield | Henry Wingfield |
Wingfield | Wingfield, Rowbotham & Company |
Winks | Benjamin Winks & Sons |
Winks | Pearson & Winks |
Winterbottom | Nixon & Winterbottom Ltd |
Wish | George Wish & Company Ltd |
Withers | Birks, Withers & Sykes |
Wolstenholme | J A Wolstenholme |
Womersley | Frank Womersley |
Wood | Charles Henry Wood |
Wood | Edwin P. Wood Ltd |
Wood | Frank Wood (1928) Ltd |
Wood | George A. Wood |
Wood | George Wood & Sons |
Wood | H. Wood & Company |
Wood | Pritchard & Wood |
Wood | Wood & Atkinson |
Woodcock | Thomas Woodcock |
Woodcock | Woodcock & Company |
Woodhead | George Woodhead & Sons |
Woodhouse | James Woodhouse |
Woolhouse | Joseph Woolhouse |
Woolhouse | William Henry Woolhouse |
Woollen | John Woollen |
World | World Commodities Ltd |
Worth | B. Worth & Sons |
Wostenholm | George Wostenholm & Son Ltd |
Wostenholm | Joseph Wostenholm & Sons Ltd |
Wragg | John Wragg & Son |
Wragg | Thorpe, Wragg & Company |
Wragg | Wragg Brothers |
Wraggs | Wraggs |
Wreaks | Graveley & Wreaks |
Wright | Axe & Wright Ltd |
Wright | J R Wright |
Wright | John Wright and Son |
Wright | S Wright & Company (Cutlers) Ltd |
Wright | W. Wright Silverware (Sheffield) Limited |
Wright | William, John & Robert Wright |
Wright | Wright & Co |
Wright | Wright Brothers (Cutlery) Ltd |
Wyatt | Carnall & Wyatt |
Wyatt | W. Wyatt & Sons |
Wynnel | Wynnel Cutlery |
S. J. Watts & Co was a wholesale drapery business in Manchester established by brothers Samuel and James Watts. Its prominence in the trade was signalled by its huge multi-storey warehouse on Portland Street – described by Dickens as the ‘merchant palace of Europe’ – which was opened in 1858. The leading light in the business was Sir James Watts (1804-1878), who became mayor of Manchester. Successive generations of James Watts took the business into the twentieth century, when the building beca....