Parkin and Blackwell
of Sheffield
Tools. Steel converters and refiners
1847 – Parkin & Blackwell - Lambert Street, Sheffield [1]
1849 – Parkin & Blackwell - File Manufacturers, 51 Lambert Street [2]
1852 – Parkin & Blackwell - steel and file manufacturers, The Canal Works, Blast Lane, Sheffield. [3]
1854 – Parkin & Blackwell - File & edge tool manufacturers, steel converters & refiners, and makers of the celebrated tempered horse rasps. The Canal Works, Cadman Street [4]
1856 – Parker & Blackwell, steel and file manufacturers, The Canal Works, Blast Lane, Sheffield. [5]
1857 – Parker & Blackwell – File and steel manufacturers, Canal Works, Blast Lane, and tilters & forgers, Birley Meadows [6]
1857 Partnership dissolved. '... the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Joseph Parkin and John Blackwell, in the trade or business of Steel and File Manufacturers, and carried on at Sheffield, in the county of York, in the firm of Parkin and Blackwell, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent. Dated the 24th day of February 1857.'[7]
Jan 1860 – John Blackwell (formerly Parkin & Blackwell) put all his stock, tools and fixtures at the Canal Works up for sale by auction, under an assignment for the benefit of creditors. [8]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Advert for a file maker. Sheffield Independent - Saturday 26 June 1847
- ↑ White’s Directory of Sheffield 1849
- ↑ White’s Directory of Sheffield 1852
- ↑ Kelly’s Directory of Sheffield 1854
- ↑ White’s Directory of Sheffield 1856
- ↑ White’s Directory of Sheffield 1857
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:3 March 1857 Issue:21974 Page:880
- ↑ Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 7 Jan 1860