Norman Crapper & Company Ltd
Norman Crapper (1853-1933) was born at High Bradfield, the son of Ebenezer (a farmer) and his wife, Ruth nee Hallam. In 1871, Norman was boarding in Sheffield at the house of Thomas Banks, a shopkeeper in Infirmary Road. Norman was an apprentice ironmonger. By 1881, he had opened an ironmongery business at the Wicker. An advertisement in a 1898 reprint of Samuel Harrison’s ‘Great Sheffield Flood’ showed that Crapper sold cutlery. It was perhaps unusual to place an advertisement in such a publication, but th....
