Luke Booth & Son
Luke Booth was listed as a manufacturer of table, butchers’, cooks’, and palette knives in Norfolk Street in 1845, with a house in Leadmill Street. Booth also made Bowie knives. In the early 1850s, Booth’s operations were in Arundel Street, with his home in Shrewsbury Road. Luke Booth, ‘merchant and manufacturer’, died on 7 May 1855, aged 64, and was buried in the General Cemetery’s unconsecrated ground. The business continued as Luke Booth & Son, under John Car....
