Anthony Rotheram
A trade advertisement for Anthony Rotheram (c. 1816-1876) stated that he was ‘many years in the employ of Joseph Rodgers & Sons’. He appears to have started on his own in 1852, when he was listed as a cutlery manufacturer in Solly Street, with a house in Stanton Broom. Over the next decade, Rotheram moved first to Coalpit Lane and then Rockingham Street, where he occupied Old Rockingham Works. He manufactured and sold table, pen, and pocket knives, and razors. An advertisement in 1868,....
