Back to the Grindstone : Personal Recollections of the Sheffield Cutlery Industry
Book No. : 013556
Author: Housley, Herbert
ISBN: 1874718288
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
PublishingDate: 1998
Publisher: The Hallamshire Press
Availability: In Stock
Price: £12.50
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to some corners, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint creasing to upper corner of last few pages and no bumping to corners. 174pp.
Autobiography of Bert Housley, partner in the family cutlery manufacturing firm of H Housley & Sons of Sheffield. Includes much in general about cutlery manufacturing in Sheffield and the author's views on why Sheffield stopped being at the forefront of this industry. Scarce.