By 1839, George Clayton was a table knife manufacturer in Love Street.  He was enumerated in the Census (1851) as a table knife manufacturer, aged 46, living in Shrewsbury Place.  At the Great Exhibition (1851) Clayton displayed: ‘Specimens of table cutlery in black tip, self-tip, white bone, German silver, ivory, and plated on steel in ivory and pearl handles.  A large bread knife’.  In 1852, the business address was Workhouse Lane.  In directories in 1860 and 1868, Clayton advertised silver and plated dessert and fruit knives, table cutlery, palette knives, butchers’ and bread knives and sharpening steels.  The 1868 advertisement claimed a Prize Medal, ‘London, 1851’.  However, the award was not a medal, but a lesser (though creditable) Honourable Mention.  George Clayton, Shrewsbury Road, died on 4 September 1868, aged 65.  He left under £1,500.  His son, Charles Henry Clayton, continued under his father’s name, until his own death on 11 February 1893, aged 56.  The stock of cutlery and tools in Workhouse Lane was sold (Sheffield Independent, 15 March 1893).  The Claytons’ remains lie in unconsecrated ground in the General Cemetery.