Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

William Griffith and Sons

From Graces Guide

of Savile Street East, Sheffield

of Brightside Lane, Sheffield

1906 Advertising for staff.[1]

1916 'Early morning a fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. William Griffiths and Sons, spring manufacturers, Brightside Lane, Sheffield.'[2]

1936 G. E. Griffith of William Griffith and Sons.[3]

1938 Advertising as makers of leaf springs for railway and road vehicle use.[4]

1939 '...Mrs. B. Brackenbury in the sudden death on Saturday of her husband. Mr. James Edwin Brackenbury (62), at his home. 22, Cross Lane. Dronfield. A native of Sheffield. he had lived in Dronfield for over 24 years. For more than 33 years he had been employed as a railway spring maker by Messrs. William Griffiths and Sons, Ltd., Savile Street. Sheffield, having been foreman since 1915...'[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Saturday 06 October 1906
  2. Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 13 November 1916
  3. Sheffield Independent - Saturday 20 June 1936
  4. The Railway Gazette, 30 Nov 1938
  5. Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald - Friday 03 November 1939