Ernest Wright & Son Ltd
The Wright family had been associated with the boring, hardening, and tempering of scissors for several generations. One of them, Walter Wright, was a hard-drinking scissors borer, who rented a workshop room in Leicester Street (off Upper St Philip’s Road) from Brookes & Crookes. William eventually worked alongside his son, Ernest Wright (1880-1954), who established his own business in 1902. Ernest lived in Greenhow Street, Walkley. After the First World War, Ernest Wright moved from L....
