Based in Church Street (and later Bow Street), Lord & Harvey manufactured razors. The partnership between Joseph Lord and George Harvey was listed in directories by 1817. Harvey died on 23 December 1831, aged 52, and was buried in St Paul’s churchyard. The partnership between Joseph Lord and Harvey’s widow, Ann, was dissolved in 1837. Joseph continued alone. In the Census (1841) he was enumerated as a 60-year-old razor manufacturer, living in St Thomas Street with his wife Margaret. She died in 1846, when Joseph was based in Wellington Street. By 1851, he was a pensioner in Shrewsbury Hospital, Sheffield. He apparently died in 1852, but an obituary has not been traced.