James Cocker, Wicker Wire and Steel Works, Blonk Street

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James Cocker, Wicker Wire and Steel Works, Blonk Street (late John Cocker & Son) 

Advertisement from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford 1862

Advertisement 1859 Melville Directory

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y03106&pos=3&action=zoom&id=49998

 

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/James_Cocker_(Sheffield)

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Sheffield Flood Claim

James Cocker, Merchant and Steel Refiner and Manufacturer of Cast Steel Wire etc., Blonk Street. 

Claim includes list of employees

https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=5-4828

 

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Cocker & Willis, Blonk Street became John Cocker & Son later James Cocker 

 

Whites Directory 1833

Wire Drawers listed in Sheffield Section

Cocker, Jonth, Hathersage. 

Cocker, Robert (iron, brass, copper and music) 86 Peacroft

Cocker, Saml. Hathersage (cast steel wire drawer) 

Cocker and Willis, Blonk Street (cast steel wire drawers) 

Cocker, John, wire drawer. h 10 Nursery Street

Cocker & Willis, cast steel wire drawers and steel refiners, Blonk Street

Willis, William, wire drawer, h. Grindleford Bridge.   

 

Listed under Hathersage section:

Cocker, Jonth, wire drawer

Cocker, Samuel, steel refiner and steel wire drawer

Cocker & Sons, mfrs of needles,fish hooks, awl blades, hackles & etc. 

 

Whites Directory 1842

Cocker, James, steel, wire, & etc, manufacturer, h. 19 Occupation Road. 

Cocker, John & Son, steel, wire, hackle, gill pin, manufacturers and steel rollers, 3 Blonk Street

Cocker, John, steel, wire & etc manufr., h. 1 Joiner Street

Cocker Samuel & Sons, merchants, and manufacturers were at The Porter Steel Works

 

Samuel & Son became Cocker Brothers.   John and Son later became James Cocker. Were both businesses they related? 

 

Whites Directory 1852

Cocker, James, steel, wire &, etc manufacturer. 19 Spital Hill. 

Cocker John & Son, steel, wire, hackle gill pin, spiral spring, music wire & etc., manufrs. and steel rollers, Blonk Street. 

Cocker, John, steel, wire & etc. manufacturer h. 1 Joiner Street. 

 

Whites Directory 1856

Cocker, Jas, steel, wire &etc mfr (John & Son) h. 30 Occupation Road. 

Cocker John & Son, steel, wire, hackle, gill pin, musical wire & etc manufacturers and steel rollers, Blonk Street. 

Cocker, John, wire & etc manufacturer, (John & Son) h. Hallcar Cottage, Occupation Road. 

 

Whites Directory 1862

Cocker, Edmund, wire drawer, Rock Terrace, 83 Rock Street   (may be the Edmund Cocker who was one of employees listed in James Cocker Flood Claim) 

Cocker, James, (late John & Son), steel wire, hackle and gill pin, spiral spring music wire & etc mfr., Blonk Street, h. 60 Occupation Road

Cocker and Sons, wire drawers and manufacturers of needles, spiral springs, hackle and gill pins. Hathersage. 

 

Whites Directory 1879

Cocker, James, steel, wire, hackle, gill pin and spiral spring manufacturer, Blonk Street h. 109 Manchester Road. 

 

From "Water Power on the Sheffield Rivers" edited by David Crossley, with Jean Cass, Neville Flavell & Colin Turner. 

"Wicker Tilts and Wheel. 

From 1785 the works were leased by Blonk and Co, who were named in the 1794 list. They bought the tilts from the Norfolk Estate in 1810 and appear in directories and the Brightside rate books until 1871.

In 1849 Cocker were their tenants, there were still 36 troughs at the Grinding wheel but by the 1870 a wire mill had been built there, although the wheel was still rated. As head and fall are entered in the rate books in 1871, James Cocker still used water power, confirmed by the 1874 and 1895 lists, which record Vickers drawing wire using a low breast wheel."