John C. Cockhill
John Creswick Cockhill was born in Sheffield on 15 February 1826. By 1861, he was a razor manufacturer in Eldon Street, having apparently started his business in 1855. He employed 21 workers. In 1862, he was a razor and spring knife manufacturer at Beehive Works, Duke Street and Porter Street. His corporate mark in the 1862 directory was ‘Beehive’, which was once the mark of John Hinchliffe. His later trade mark was a dragon. By 1868, Cockhill was a manufacturer of razors....
