Charles Wells
This firm was listed in a directory (1901) as a manufacturer of carving, cooks’, spur, guard and vegetable forks, cheese scoops, fish eaters, oyster, dessert, and pickle forks, and table steels. The stated establishment date was 1800; the address Bard Street. The business can be traced to Charles Wells (c.1809-1872), who was a carver-fork manufacturer in 1841 in High Street, with a dwelling in New Street, Park. Presumably, he was related to the Wells’ family, which manufactured forks in the Park....
