William Whittles & Sons
In the late 1840s, Henry Whittles was a spring knife manufacturer in Bath Street. By 1851, he partnered John Froggatt in West Street. Whittles & Froggatt exhibited surgical instruments and pen knives at the Great Exhibition (1851). By 1854, Whittles & Froggatt was making fancy pen knives and surgical instruments in Broom Spring Lane. However, Henry Whittles died on 24 January 1857, aged 51, and was buried in the General Cemetery. By 1860, William Whittles & Sons had been organi....
