John Petty & Sons Ltd
In the 1850s, John Thomas Petty (c.1817-1887) appeared in directories as a grocer and shopkeeper at 58 Garden Street. He was probably the pen blade forger, who was enumerated in the Census in Solly Street in 1841. His father was John Petty, a silver plater and stamper at Solly Street, who died in February 1838 (aged 61); and whose widow, Jane, died on 20 November 1854, aged 72. By the 1860s, John T. Petty was forging blades again. In 1868, he advertised as a maker of farriers’ and oyster knives.....
