John Bednal & Company / Thornhill, Bednal & Company Ltd
The firm of Manchester-born John Bednal (1829-1907) was founded in about 1860 and based in Change Alley. It sold awl blades and shoe knives (Bednal was apparently the son of a shoe maker). James Wilton of Liverpool was involved until 1864. By the 1870s, John Bednal & Co, hardware merchant, was in West Street Lane (where the owner employed a boy and a girl). Bednal retired in 1892. A prominent Nonconformist, Bednal died at his home at Kenwood Park Road on 6 November 1907, aged 79, leaving &po....
