Pritchard & Wood (John Pritchard, John Wood, and William Atkinson) were cutlers.  John Pritchard had been listed in 1811 as a founder in Carver Street and then in 1816 as a manufacturer of cast table knives and forks.  Pritchard & Wood ended in 1818, when Wood & Atkinson began trading as a table knife manufacturer in Duke Street.  In 1822, the partners lived in South Street. 

By 1825, the firm had moved to Rockingham Street and the product range (which involved factoring) had widened to include (besides table knives) butchers’ and shoe knives, boot and shoe (heel) plates, and crucible steel. 

The firm was at 96 Rockingham Street, when it ceased trading in 1848.  Wood & Atkinson’s dwellings, warehouses, and workshops near the top of Rockingham Lane were auctioned (Sheffield Independent, 30 December 1848).  Atkinson became a registration agent.  He died on 8 February 1879, aged 81.  A Baptist, he was buried in an unconsecrated grave in the General Cemetery.  He left under £800.