This firm was launched in about 1893 as a merchant and cutlery manufacturer at Gibraltar Works, Gibraltar Street. The partners were from Ecclesfield: Edwin Arthur Green (1863-1946) and Walter Ernest Green (1866-1942). They were the sons of William Green, an iron founder and stove grate manufacturer (from Saxton), and his wife, Elizabeth. In 1871, William Green employed forty workers at foundries in Corporation Street and Ecclesfield. He died at Ecclesfield Common on 6 January 1872, aged 48, and ....