Brian Alcock
Born in Sheffield in 1942, Brian Alcock left school at 15 and was apprenticed to his father, who had charge of the grinding shop at George Barnsley & Sons. In about 1961, Brian rented a ‘trow’ (a grinding trough) at Sylvester Works of Joseph Elliot. After four years, he moved to Richard Mather in Shoreham Street.In the 1970s, he worked in the Loxley Valley at a refractories firm, but in 1979 returned to grinding at the Beehive Works of Gregory Fenton, Milton Street. In 1993, he was fil....
