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Hi there .I have been looking online for cutler,s in stanington and serounding areas which I think they call hallamshire, please correct me if I'm wrong.i came up with quite a few.Peter Bales-1590-Benjiman Drable-Brights-Foljambes-Wortcliffes-Jessops-Seliokes-G,Farmer 1721-George Smith-1749-Barber-Joseph Beal-Johnathan Watkins-1787-George. More-RobertHow1774-Montgomeries1797 and Wardle&Bentham-1814.I am not sure but I think I may have one penknife from that eara may be two and another?Here are some photos.No1-G Farmer-No2-Barns-Cutler and Much later i think James Barber.

My Gran would possibly have seen these things in her younger years, perhaps even rode one. though I doubt she had the brass to buy one. The Lady in the photo' apparently lived to be 102. QUOTE - Miss Clara Hayball, (Mrs. Keeling), on a velocipede, taken by her father, Arthur Hayball at his wood-carving works on Cavendish Street (Nos 9, 11 and 13) Year 1875 - UNQUOTE It looks like a reasonably engineered machine, I would love to see a diagram of the design, has anyone come across makers in Sheffield of these machines to this or similar design rather than the more usual bicycle or tricycle? --------- (c) http://picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y00516&pos=26&action=zoom&id=47740