In the 1830s, Colley & Co was a scissors and razor manufacturer at 98 Arundel Street.  It used the ‘S’ and crossed-pipes mark of Alice Colley and can be considered the ‘successor’.   The enterprise was started by Henry Colley (1802-1881) and James Colley (1806-1868), who were the sons of former Master Cutler William Colley and his wife, Ann.  They were, therefore, the grandchildren of Alice Colley.   Henry and James were listed as partners in the Sheffield directory (1833), but after James withdrew in 1835 the business was operated by Henry and his other brother, Edward (1804-1851).  In 1833, Edward had married Catherine Hall (1805-1862), who was the daughter of silverplater, William Hall, and his wife, Sarah.  (William Hall was a partner in D. & G. Holy).  

In 1839, Colley & Co announced a ‘newly invented scissors’, with ‘a box in the back of each blade, each capable of containing 25 needles, and the other a bodkin.  The scissors are five inches in length, and beautifully made with fluted shanks’ (Sheffield Independent, 13 July 1839).  In 1841, Colley & Co was listed as a merchant, scissors, razor, and lock knife manufacturer at 32 Arundel Street.  In the Census (1841), Edward Colley was living at Arundel Street, with his wife, Catherine, and his mother-in-law, Sarah.  The Colleys – Henry and Edward – joined forces with Sarah and her son, William Hall (1811-1868).  The partnership operated as Colley & Co and William Hall & Co (the latter was the overseas branch).  

Henry Colley withdrew in 1844 and joined Wingfield Rowbotham.  This marked the end of Colley & Co.  In the following year, Hall & Colley appeared in a directory as a merchant and manufacturer of scissors, razors, and table knives in Eyre Lane.   In 1849, the address was 32 Arundel Street and 9 Eyre Lane.  The company used the mark of Edward Barber: ‘CUTLER TO HER MAJESTY’.   It made Bowie knives.  Edward Colley died on 17 June 1851, aged 46, at Blackpool and was buried in the General Cemetery.   In 1853, his widow, Catherine, married Edward’s brother, Henry.  By 1863, only William Hall was listed as proprietor of Hall & Colley.  The firm was in Eyre Lane until the late 1860s, with Hall the only listed partner, living in Heeley.  The firm then apparently ceased business.   William Hall, merchant and cutlery manufacturer of Eyre Lane, died at 98 Arundel Street on 3 March 1868, aged 57.  He was buried in the General Cemetery, leaving under £2,000.  James Colley lived at Seacombe, Merseyside, and in his last years worked as an American merchant’s clerk.  He died on 17 November 1868.