Peace, Ward & Co., Agenoria Steel Works, Savile Street East

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Messrs. Peace, Ward & Co., refined cast steel, Agenoria Steel Works, Savile Street East, 

Advertisement from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford. 1862.

 

Agenoria, Roman Goddess of Activity. 

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Peace, Ward & Co are recorded at Garden Street, including any business by the name of Peace at Garden Street as they possibly are connected.

Robson's Directory 1839

Peace, Wm, file, steel and tool manufacturer, 55 Garden Street 

 

Whites Directory 1849

Peace, Edwin, steel, file & etc. manufacturer, h. Springhill, Crookes.

Peace, Kirby & Co., steel convertors and manufacturers of files, edge tools etc., 55 Garden Street. 

Peace, Wm Hy., file & etc. manufacturer, h. 55 Garden Street. 

 

Whites Directory 1852

Peace, Edwin, file etc. manufacturer, (W.H. & E. Peace) h. Reservoir View, Crookes. 

Peace, Samuel, 2 Wilkinson Street. 

Peace, W.H. & E., file, saw, tool and steel manufacturers, 43 Garden Street. 

Peace, William Henry, file & etc., manufacturers, h. 55 Garden Street. 

 

Whites Directory 1862

 Peace, Alfred, merchant & manufacturer, (Peace, Ward & Co) h. 55 Garden Street. 

Peace Brothers, steel converters & refiners, and manufacturers of sawdls, files and edge tools & etc., 55 Garden Street. 

Peace, Edwin, merchant & file & etc, (Peace Brothers) h. Western Bank. 

Peace, Henry, merchant & mfr., (Peace, Ward & Co.) h. Cliffe Villas, Ranmoor. 

Peace, Samuel, merchant & manufacturer, (Peace Brothers) 6 Clark Street

Peace, Ward & Co., merchants, steel converters, refiners & mfrs of files, saws, edge tools, hammers, spring and table knives & etc., Agenoria Works, Saville Street East. 

Ward, William, merchant & mfr. (Peace, Ward & Co.) h. Wharncliffe Villas, Broomhall Place. 

 

There is a publication 1999 probably out of print: Peace Families of Sheffield A Story of File Makers and Steel Makers, by L Ralph Peace. 

 

Many file etc. businesses with Peace included in the name. 

 

[Lysanderix]

Like very much else in Sheffield’s manufactury the odds are that they merchanted many products they purported to make.
As recently as the 1960s Arthur Balfour were selling no end of steel wires, large forgings, rubberised magnetic strips as if they were produced by themselves. They almost cornered the Hong Kong market for piano wire( for cheap torch springs) All of which was made by Bruntons of Musselborough!