This partnership – a scissors and tailor’s shears manufacturer – was apparently formed in 1853.  The partners were William Longley, who lived in Walkley (see Longley Bros), and William Hawksworth (c.1839-1911), who lived in Blake Street, Upperthorpe.  The business was in Allen Street.  By 1876, Longley & Hawksworth was making plain, fancy, and surgical scissors in Wellmeadow Street, where it remained until the partnership was dissolved in 1887.  This marked Longley’s retirement from the business and he died on 25 June 1889, aged 76, leaving £445.  William Hawksworth, Clinton Place, continued the business until his death on 5 September 1911.  He left £444 to his widow Kate Louisa Hawksworth, who in 1913 sold Longley & Hawksworth to George Platts.  The trade mark was a cutler, above the word ‘GOOD’; another was a sailor.   Thomas Ellin had acquired ‘GOOD’ by 1919.