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Sheffield's proud tradition of supplying cutlery to parliament has been maintained, after a fight to prevent the contract going overseas. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, you can ...

When property developer Adam Higgins, co-founder of Manchester-based regeneration company Capital & Centric with Tim Heatley, first saw the dilapidated Eyewitness Works in Sheffield city centre, he ...

Nina Patel-Bigland, the co-owner of Cutlery Works says: “This was the biggest thing we’ve ever taken on. It was either going to make us or break us. It was the biggest risk of our lives.” Did you know ...

The tremendous variety of tools and cutlery made it very difficult to introduce mechanisation into the cutlery and tool industries in Sheffield. The benefits of mechanisation were cost-related. It was ...

More than 100 people have answered an online plea for more information about knife-makers from the steel city of Sheffield. The Name on a Knife Blade project found new stories and unrecorded knives ...

Nick Duggan a local heritage champion who volunteers at The Hawley Collection at Kelham Island has put together a book ,’500 ...

Sheffield cutlery-makers are still producing stainless steel utensils in the same workshop where the alloy was first used. Cutlery has been made in Sheffield since the 13th century. Harry Brearley ...

Traditionally, Sheffield cutlery and tools had been made and marketed by individual craftsmen. One person would make a knife or tool from start to finish, and would also sell it themselves. But, as ...