Graham Clayton
By the 1980s, Graham Clayton (1944-2020) was one of the last makers of Sheffield spring-knives and Bowies. He entered the trade in 1959, aged 15, as an apprentice spring-knife cutler at George Wostenholm. Graham’s introduction to life in a noisy factory was something of a shock after schooldays. ‘The days were so long’, he recalled to the present author in an interview in 1987: ‘I couldn’t believe how long the days were’. The pay was £2 14s 1....
