William Skidmore & Company Ltd
William Skidmore (1821-1880) was born at Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire. He was the son of Elisha (a farmer) and Hannah. By the 1840s, he was a surgical instrument maker in Sheffield at first Milk Street, and then at Fitzwilliam Street. In 1851, Skidmore & Co displayed its surgical and dental instruments at the Great Exhibition. By 1854, when it advertised in the local directory, Wm. Skidmore & Co was at Enema Works, Cemetery Road and Pearl Street (near the General Cemetery). &nbs....
