Bramwell, Brownhill & Co was a manufacturer of Britannia metal and electro-plate goods in Fawcett Street. The new company had acquired the assets of Cyprus Works of Alfred Ecroyd (see Henry Ecroyd). The partners were Edwin Stovin Bramwell and William Brownhill. The latter embezzled £300 and was sentenced to four months’ hard labour (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 17 June 1893).

Edwin S. Bramwell became the owner. He had been born in Sheffield in 1869, the son of Edwin S. Bramwell and his wife Eliza. His father was an assistant overseer and collector, who lived in the Vestry Office at Hill Top, Attercliffe. In 1896, Bramwell & Co registered a silver mark ‘ESB’ from Henry Street Works. In 1909, it became ‘Ltd’ (capital £6,000). Bramwell’s produced electro-plated nickel silver and Britannia metal spoons, forks, and table cutlery. The business was managed by Herbert Boden Howe (1856-1923), who had been born in Bradwell, Derbyshire. He died at his home in Bates Street on 3 October 1923, aged 67, leaving £7,810. The funeral was at Crookes Cemetery. E. S. Bramwell continued to operate the business until about 1927. He died on 24 January 1931, aged 62, at his residence in Tom Lane. His obituary recorded that he had been an invalid, living outside Sheffield, and had died within days of moving to Tom Lane. He left £1,683 and was buried in Fulwood.

The trade marks included Ecroyd’s ‘RELIABLE’ shield (minus the wheatsheaves in the previous mark) and ‘THE MASHER’ device. Bramwell’s was later incorporated in Marples, Wingfield & Wilkins.