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 petroleum naphtha lamps.  However, Thomas Bacon Sen. died in London on 7 February 1836, aged 62.  The press obituary gave his address as Wardle Place (presumably Wardrobe Place), Doctors’ Commons.  His wife Hannah died on 22 February 1849, aged 78.  The firm ceased trading after Thomas’s death.