Bagshaw & Kitchen was a spring-knife maker in Spring Street by 1817 (with William Bagshaw, probably one of the partners, living in Coulston Croft).  This ended in 1817.  By 1822, William Bagshaw (born c. 1784) was operating alone as a maker of fine pen, sportsmen’s, and pocket knives in the same street.  In the 1828 directory, he was also a grocer.  

In 1837, Bagshaw retired and sold his cutlery stock and warehouse fixtures (Sheffield Independent, 4 March 1837).  

In 1841, William Bagshaw was living in Pitsmoor, with his wife, Hannah, and their teenage son Robert (born c. 1825), who was an apprentice spring knife cutler.  William died on 10 August 1844 at Pitsmoor (aged 60) and was buried in St Paul’s cemetery.  Hannah died on 30 January 1854, aged 67.  Robert continued under his father’s name, which by 1856 was listed in Stanley Street.  Bagshaw displayed at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1855.  By the end of the 1850s, Robert resided in Kenwood Road, Sharrow.   In 1861, he employed six men and one girl, with a workshop in Rockingham Street.   Robert Bagshaw, ‘cutlery manager’, died at Matlock Bank on 8 August 1864.  His burial (unconsecrated) was in the General Cemetery.   He left under £300.