In the early nineteenth century, the Wood family was based in Garden Street.  Between 1816 and 1829, Benjamin, John & Robert Wood was listed as a manufacturer of pen, pocket, and sportsman’s knives in Garden Street.  The address was sometimes given as ‘top of Garden Street’ or Furnace Yard, Garden Street.  In the early 1830s, Benjamin Wood was listed alone in Garden Street (with a residence in Red Hill).  By 1839, Benjamin had been joined by his son – Benjamin Jun. (b.1818).  In the mid-1840s, they traded as Benjamin Wood & Co, in partnership with John Mawson in Castle Hill.  Mawson withdrew in 1846.  By the 1850s, Benjamin Wood & Son was manufacturing fine spring knives in Love Street.  The partnership between father and son was dissolved in 1853.  Probably Benjamin Sen. died in 1858: an individual of that name was buried, aged 78, in Attercliffe on 11 May.  Benjamin Wood & Son was still listed in 1863 in Love Street.  In 1865, Benjamin Jun. was awarded a £2 damages (for loss of time for himself and his apprentice) after the Sheffield Flood.  He was listed in Water Street in 1868, but by 1881 was an inmate at Sheffield Union Workhouse.  He died there in 1886, aged 67, and was buried at Burngreave Cemetery on 23 March.