William Thomas Greenstreet was born in Attercliffe in 1837, the son of Stephen (a labourer) and Mary. In 1841, he was living in Woodside, with his widowed mother Mary Ann (d. 1869). In 1851, Mary was running a lodging house in Nursery Street, with William working as an errand boy. By 1861, Greenstreet was working as a table knife manager and was listed in the directory (1868). In the early 1870s, he occupied a warehouse and workshop at 129 Pond Street (next to Old Ponds Goit), where he started to trad....