This cutlery manufacturer, based at Earl Street, began business in about 1926.  The partners were George Arthur Clark (1865-1940) and William Turner Hardwick (1886-1942).  Clark had been in partnership with Gertrude Brown in Clark & Brown (qv), a cutler and silversmith at Holly Street.  Hardwick was the son of William Roger Brown Hardwick (a bookkeeper) and his wife, Sarah Jane.  William Turner trained as a merchant clerk.  By 1911, he was a cutlery and edge tool traveller.

Clark and Hardwick ended their partnership in 1929, though the latter continued the business under the same name (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 24 August 1929).  By 1933, the business address was St George’s Works, Wheeldon Street; by 1937 it was Westhill Lane.  

By 1939 William Hardwick is listed as a Cutlery Works Manager. He was an enthusiastic railway modeller (see newspaper cutting from the Sheffield Daily Telegraph) and drove an Armstrong car. His family tell us that towards the end of his life he was too ill to drive the car but used to go and sit in it, in the garage at his home, 'Shire-Oaks', 116 Upperthorpe. William was also a keen gardener and had a vinery to grow grapes; he was interested in politics and a keen supporter of Sheffield Wednesday.
 
William Turner Hardwick, of Shire Oaks, 116 Upperthorpe, died at the Royal Hospital (Fulwood Annexe) on 27 December 1942, aged 56.  He left £374 and a widow, Fanny nee Kenyon.  His burial was at Crookes Cemetery.

Additional information courtesy of Liz Toller, granddaughter of William Turner Hardwick.