Henry Greaves, file manufacturer.
By the beginning of the nineteenth century nailmaking in Ecclesfield was in sharp decline because machine-made nails were on the market. Nailmaking smithies were converted into file workshops and domestic file-cutting grew rapidly. In the second half of the nineteenth century hand file-cutters became the outworkers of factories that made hand-cut and machine-made files. Increasingly hand craftsmen were organised into small works. Henry Greaves, pictured here, set up his own small works, St Michael’s Works, at High Greave, Ecclesfield.
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Archiving Reference Number | K/120/a/P CHGA |
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Contributor/s | Original from John Greaves |
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Date Donated to the EDA | 1st October 2016 |
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