W. & H. Hutchinson
Surgical instrument maker Hutchinson’s was described in The Century’s Progress (1893) as the ‘oldest house in the district, if not in the kingdom’. It was founded by William Hutchinson, the son of Matthew Hutchinson, a coach maker at Shiregreen. William was apprenticed to scissors maker Nicholas Timm (or Timms) in Coalpit Lane and became a Freeman in 1796. William Hutchinson’s first address in 1815 was in Church Street, and then in 1818 he was listed in Pinstone Lane (as ....
