George Jowitt & Sons Ltd
George Jowitt (1866-1955) was born in Sheffield on 20 August 1866, the son of Henry (a pocket-blade forger at George Wostenholm) and his wife, Martha. George became a grinder and so joined a trade with an average life expectancy of no more than forty years. He began work aged nine, and after a boyhood of sometimes extreme poverty, by 1881 he was working for a mester and supplying blades to Joseph Rodgers & Sons in a rented workshop on Rodgers’ premises. He worked 53 hours a week for 6s 6d [3....
