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 |
This firm was launched by (William) Beeston Himsworth (1854-1944), who had been born in Sheffield. He was the son of William Himsworth, a razor grinder and shopkeeper, and his wife, Sarah. The family had apparently been involved with the cutlery trade since the early eighteenth century. Beeston learned razor grinding from his father at Rodgers’ Top Wheel, Norfolk Street, and then in 1874 launched B. Worth, registering half his name – ‘WORTH’ – as a trade mark (probably to ma....