George Taylor was born in Sheffield on 19 August 1875. His early life is difficult to trace, but in 1898 at St Mary’s Church he married Adelaide née Laughton (1876-1972). In 1901, George (a fruit knife cutler) and Adelaide were living at Lancing Road. In the Census (1911), the couple were enumerated at Bramall Lane, with two daughters and a son. By 1958, when he was featured in a local newspaper, he had completed over sixty years in the trade (Star, 12 September 1958). He had joined....