Fry & Wigfull Ltd

The partners were George Greenup Fry (1904-1973) and Henry Wigfull (1903-1980).   Fry had been born at Bombay [Mumbai], the son of George Eagles Fry and Frances Margaret née Fisher.  The couple had married at a Wesleyan Church at Crookesmoor in 1901, but then moved to Bombay.  George E. Fry died there in 1909, aged 41, and within two years his widow and two children had returned to Sheffield.   Henry Wigfull was apparently the son of William Henry Wigfull, of Lee & Wigfull.  Presumably, he joined the family business.  In 1939, he was living at Matlock, and employed as a departmental works manager at a cutlery firm, which manufactured spoons and forks (Register of England & Wales, 1939).   In the same year, Fry was living at Harley Road in Sheffield and stated his occupation as cutlery manufacturer.

Fry and Wigfull registered their company in 1946 with £4,000 capital as a manufacturer of knives, cutlery, razors, and tools.  It was based at Talbot Works, 92 Harwood Street.  They also operated Aluminium Tableware Ltd.  This was registered in 1947 at the same address, with £2,000 capital, and J. Biggin, Arthur L. Jarvis, and W. T. Twelves as additional directors.  

Fry & Wigfull Ltd was a member of the UK Cutlery & Silverware Manufacturers’ Association.  The firm apparently ceased trading at Harwood Street in the 1970s and then became part of K. Bright Ltd.  Aluminium Tableware Ltd was struck off the Register of Companies in 1969.  George G. Fry, of Whirlowdale Close, died on 19 February 1973.  He left £33,015.  Henry Wigfull, of Willow Cottage, Station Road, Darley Dale, died on 5 May 1980.  His estate was valued at £52,933.  Fry & Wigfull Ltd was finally dissolved in 1995.  Its trade mark was the company initials, ‘F. & W. Ltd’, inside a diamond.