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Walker & Hall - Sheffield - 1866

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A toast-rack by Walker & Hall, assayed at Sheffield in 1934:




W&H - Sheffield - 1934

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A folding fruit-knife by Walker & Hall, assayed at Sheffield in 1899:






W & H - Sheffield - 1899

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Mr. Balfour, the Leader of her Majesty's Opposition, was the other day "royally entertained," as he phrased it, in the magnificent show-room of Messrs. Walker and Hall, in Howard-street. The room was for the time being transformed into a banqueting hall, and was thronged by a brilliant assemblage of M.P.'s and other distinguished personages who are in Sheffield just now in connection with the annual meetings of the National Union of Conservative Associations. The visitors had previously gone through the works, and being strangers to the internal economy of an electro-plate manufactory, were very much surprised at the nature and extent of the processes there carried on. The gathering, therefore, was as instructive as it was enjoyable, and the guests of Lieut.-Colonel Bingham, the energetic head of the firm, would carry away with them a very fair idea of the silversmith's craft as it is carried on in Sheffield.

Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 2nd January 1893

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The hospitality extended to the guests from a distance did not end at the Cutlers' Feast. On the following day the Duke of Teck and other distinguished personages were " personally conducted " round some of the large works. In the silver trade the works selected were those of Messrs. Walker and Hall, in Howard Street, and Messrs. Mappin and Webb, in Norfolk Street. The former of these firms employs about 900 hands, and the latter not many less. Time only permitted, therefore, special departments in each to be visited. Sufficient was seen, however, to give our visitors a good idea of the enormous proportions to which the silver and electro-plate trade of Sheffield has attained. The east-end of the town was subsequently visited, and the imposing spectacle of the rolling of an armour-plate witnessed at the works of Messrs. Charles Cammell and Co.

Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 1st December 1892

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