George Clayton & Company
By 1839, George Clayton was a table knife manufacturer in Love Street. He was enumerated in the Census (1851) as a table knife manufacturer, aged 46, living in Shrewsbury Place. At the Great Exhibition (1851) Clayton displayed: ‘Specimens of table cutlery in black tip, self-tip, white bone, German silver, ivory, and plated on steel in ivory and pearl handles. A large bread knife’. In 1852, the business address was Workhouse Lane. In directories in 1860 and 1868, Clayton advertised si....
