Hepworth, Pilley & Company
This partnership involved Joseph Hepworth (c.1833-?) and Albert Pilley (c.1840-1902). Joseph was born in Sheffield; Albert in Worksop. Their firm was listed in Market Street in 1879 as a cutlery merchants, general commission agents, and importers of foreign merchandise. The trade mark was ‘STAR CUTLERY COMPANY’. In the Census (1881), Pilley lived in Chippinghouse Road and employed three men; Hepworth was in Crescent Road and had a workforce of eleven men and a woman. Hepworth, Pilley....
