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Hi chaps .brought 2 army jack knives -(sailors knives )today and am having difficulty on finding who made it and how old it might be .its slightly bigger than the others i have of this type and has some stamps on the marlin spike i have not seen before any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks

I may well be missing something though a search of the site didn't bring up an answer. I'm intrigued by the plus sign and number just above the number of posts by a member in the panel to the left of each message. A click on it produces "'Member's total reputation". I wonder how the figure is reached and what its purpose is.

Well, this one is a knife, obviously, anyone got any ideas about the date of manufacture, or know anything of the Company; some postings will be well known, some less so ... more to come ... Details : William Rodgers "I CUT MY WAY" on one side of blade MADE IN SHEFFIELD ENGLAND on the other side.

Much as I hate to be contentious with the originally quoted date of 1900, the notes of the Central Post Office state that it was built in 1910, yet it was in the photo, with the wall mounted clock on the left of shot?..... "Sheffield's Head Post Office operated in the square for almost ninety years. Built in 1910 as an addition to the 1897 post office building on Flat Street, it closed in 1999, with the main post office moving to new premises within the Co-op store on Angel Street." So, I tend to agree with you, madannie77

I don't suppose that it really matters in the context of the comparison between then and now, but I think that old photo of Joseph Rodgers dates from rather later than 1900. The tramway terminated in Fitzalan Square until 1908 when a single track siding was built on Flat Street, terminating opposite Sycamore Street. The line along Flat Street was only doubled and extended along Pond Street in the early 1920s.

It should read Crooked Billet Yard We now go to the White Bear on the left-hand side of High Street to no 10. It stood more or less where McDonalds now stands, opened in 1750 and by 1811 it had been taken over by Mr Foster as his clothing business. Keeping to our left, we head for Fargate to 2 High Street where we find The Thatched House. I couldn’t find when it was opened but it may have been 1841 and by 1928 it had closed. This pub was on Crooked Billet Yard, long gone, but we’ve enjoyed our sip of porter here. Read more at: https://www.thestar.co.uk/retro/retro-sheffield-lost-pubs-crawl-1-7337202