Thomas Mottram & Company
This firm manufactured shoe, butchers’, cooks’, putty, glaziers’, and cane knives. It began as Mottram & Hawkins in Carr Lane. The partners, first listed in 1852, were Thomas Mottram, a table knife manufacturer, residing in Rockingham Street; and John Hawkins, living in Thomas Street. Thomas Mottram (bapt.1821-1867) had been born at Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire, the son of James and Susanna. Mottram & Hawkins exhibited at the Crystal Palace in 1851. It advertised ....
