Thomas H. Blake
Thomas Henry Blake (1850-1940) was born at Spalding, Lincolnshire, the son of Richard (a tailor) and his wife, Mary. By 1871, he was a footman at Wingerworth Hall, near Chesterfield. A decade later, he had founded a silver firm in Sheffield with John Bradley. In the Census (1881), Blake was enumerated at Alexandra Road, Heeley, as a manufacturer employing 12 men, 14 women, nine boys, and a girl.Bradley & Blake had failed by 1885, when Blake launched his own business in Holly Lane as an electro-plate spoon and....
