Matthew Bell / Bell & Turner
Matthew Bell was a cutler, who was apparently born in Sheffield in 1813, the son of Matthew (a cutler) and his wife, Jane. He married Ann Bamford in 1835 and six years later was living in Bramall Lane. In 1851, he was enumerated in the Census in Columbia Place, Suffolk Road – the former manufactory of John Brown – as a table knife manufacturer (employing twenty men). He briefly partnered Francis Drake Turner in Bell & Turner, at Beehive Works, Duke Street. According to a Sheffield....
