Clarbour & Hancock
Clarbours – a Quaker family – appear in the apprenticeship records of the Company of Cutlers (Leader, 1905-061). These show that the family was active in cutlery since the early eighteenth century. In the Directory (1787), Benjamin Clarbour was listed as a fork maker at Pond Lane. In the same directory, Hoyland, Clarbour & Barnard was a manufacturer of silver and plated table knives at Hill Foot. The firm’s trade mark was ‘ZC CLARBOUR + SURIOUS’. The next ....
