This partnership began in about 1851 by spring knife cutlers James Bower and John Eadon, who lived in adjacent houses in Trippet Lane.  The directory address was Redcroft Row, Trippet lane.  They were enumerated in the Census (1851), though the entries are only partly legible.  Apparently, John employed eleven men; and James four men.   Eadon had been born in Eckington in about 1824; Bower in Sheffield in about 1823.  Their enterprise was listed in Trippet Lane in the 1870s.  James Bower was still resident there when he died on 16 July 1876, aged 53.  He was buried in an unconsecrated grave in the General Cemetery.  John Eadon continued at Penn Works, Penton Street (off Trippet Lane).   He later lived at Carfield Avenue, Norton, and apparently died on 23 December 1897, aged 74, leaving £75.  His son, Arthur (who died in 1911, aged 46) was chairman of Walkley Ward Liberal Association.