Walter Grady
Walter Grady (1849-1920) was born in Sheffield, the son of William (a Scot) and Susan Grady. His father was a comb maker in Rockingham Lane. Aged 12, Walter was already training as a cutler and by 1871 had become a farriers’ knife maker. He established his own business in about 1885. He specialised in plumbers’, glaziers’, and farriers’ knives at Buffalo Horn Works, ‘back of’ Soho Street. It is likely to have been a small operation. It was no....
