Jenkins & Ringrose
This firm was launched in the 1920s at Granville Works, Granville Street, by Charles Edwin Jenkins (1876-1943) and Arthur Ringrose (1891-1957). Jenkins was from Heeley and first worked in a cutlery warehouse. Ringrose (born in Somerset) was a clerk, who withdrew in 1934. Jenkins died in 1943 and was buried in Norton, but Jenkins & Ringrose continued at Granville Street. In 1952, an advertisement in International Cutler offered a range of cutlery: carving sets, table and dessert knives, canteens, br....
