Charles Anthony Argyle (1859-1938) was born in Sheffield, the son of Joseph (a carter and later horse keeper at a brewery) and his wife Maria.  He worked as a railway clerk and then commercial clerk.  In 1883, at Queen Street Chapel he married Clara Emily, the eldest daughter of Fanshaw Dixon.  Charles A. Argyle later began business as a farriers’, plumbers’, and putty knife manufacturer.  In 1901, C. A. Argyle & Co’s address was Pool Works, Burgess Street.  The directory (1905) suggests that Argyle had acquired W. Grady & Co.  By 1911, Argyle was based in West Hill Lane (off Devonshire Street).  Argyle’s traded into the 1920s, when it became a limited company at Argyle Cutlery Works, 156 Rockingham Lane.  However, it was liquidated in 1935.  Charles A. Argyle, 36 Thompson Road, died on 31 August 1938.  He was aged 79 and left £356 to his spinster daughter Elsie.  The firm continued to be listed in Rockingham Lane into the 1940s.  It manufactured butchers’, bread, and cooks’ knives, besides stainless steel table cutlery.  The trade mark was ‘VES’ (which was listed under ‘W. Grady & Co’ in Woodhead, 1991¹).  In the 1950s, Argyle’s address was Perth Works, 60 Garden Street – the location of Petty.

^1. Woodhead, Eileen, Trademarks on Base-Metal Tableware (Ottawa, Canada Parks Service, 1991)