Rowland Swinden
When Kelham Island Museum opened in 1982, workshops were set aside for a forger, a cutler, and a grinder. The first occupiers were George Watts, Graham Clayton, and Rowland Swinden. The latter had been born in Sheffield in 1931. Rowland’s apprenticeship began in January 1946, when aged 14, he joined the family’s ‘little mester’ business. His grandfather had been a grinder, whose three sons had followed him into the trade, one of them Rowland's father. Rowland’s ....
