Thomas Bacon & Son
Thomas Bacon (c.1774-1836), a table knife manufacturer, was listed after 1822 at 45 Hollis Croft. By 1825, when he had been joined by his son, Thomas Jun., the firm manufactured table knives and forks in ivory, wood, horn, bone, and silver. Thomas Bacon lived in Netherthorpe, though by the end of the 1820s Thomas Bacon & Son had a London warehouse in Wardrobe Place, Doctors’ Commons (near St Paul’s Cathedral). In the 1830s, Bacon also became sole Sheffield agent for Robinson’s petroleu....
