Walker & Company (Sheffield) Ltd
Walker & Co was launched in 1909 in Mary Street as an electro-plate cutlery manufacturer. The owner was Sheffield-born Herbert Walker (1877-1951), Kenbourne Grove, Kenbourne Road. He was the son of file manufacturer William Henry Walker (who in 1881 employed two men and a woman ‘partially’) and his wife, Sarah A. During the First World War, Walker & Co operated from Cambridge Street. Between 1919 and 1938, the address was Homeland Works, Button Lane. In 1923....
