C. T. Skelton & Company Ltd
A well-known spade and shovel manufacturer, this firm was established in 1855 by Masbrough-born Charles Thomas Skelton (1833-1913). Skelton’s began as a backstreet operation in Norwich Street, Park, but at the start of the 1870s moved to Sheafbank Works in Heeley. The firm became ‘Ltd’ in 1902, with a capital of £50,000, but until the Second World War was owned and managed first by Charles and then by his sons, William Simmonds and Sam Edgar (Skelton, 1955). Charles became a Li....
