Albert Ibbotson (1876-1948) was the son of Joseph, a file forger, and his wife, Annie.  By 1911, Albert was a spoon and fork filer (worker), who was living his wife, Eliza, at City Road.  He was listed after 1919 as a spoon and fork filer in Bailey Lane.   In the 1920s, he traded as Ibbotsons, a cutlery manufacturer and silversmiths, at Central Works, Bailey Lane.  His partner was William Austin Butler (1880-1956), who was the son of George Thomas Butler (an ivory cutter) and his wife, Lily Matilda.  In 1911, William was enumerated in the Census as a cutlery manager.  In 1927, Ibbotson and Butler dissolved their partnership.  Albert continued to trade, but by the end of the 1930s was a ‘clothing credit traveller’ (Register of England & Wales, 1939).  He died on 20 September 1948, leaving £5,026, and was buried at City Road.  William Austin Butler died on 17 March 1956, leaving £3,440.