Charles Bradshaw
Born in about 1820 in Nether Hallam, Charles Bradshaw appeared in a Sheffield directory (1849) as a spring knife manufacturer in Kenyon Alley, off Allen Street. He lived in Walkley and the 1851 Census enumerated him as a master cutler, employing ten men. He advertised in directories in 1856 and 1860 his pen, pocket, gardeners’, sportsman’s knives, besides Bowies and dirks. In 1861, his workforce was a dozen men and four boys. By 1863, Charles Bradshaw apparently moved from Kenyon All....
