John Bedford/Bedford, Bury & Co. & Bury's & Co., Regent Works also John Bedford & Sons, Lion Works

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John Bedford, Oughtibridge Steel Works, Regent Works & Lion Works and Messrs Bury & Co. 

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/J._Bedford_(of_Sheffield)

 

https://www.hawleysheffieldknives.com/n-fulldetails.php?val=b&kel=568

 

Whites Directory 1849

Bedford, John, merchant, steel refiner, saw, file and edge tool manufacturer, Regent Works, 297 Portobello Street and tilter and forger & etc. Oughtibridge, h. Wadsley. 

No-one by name of Bury listed. 

 

Whites Directory 1852

Bedford, John, merchant, steel refiner and saw, file and edge tool, cutler & etc. manufacturer, Regent Works, 207 Portobello Street and tilter & forger, Oughtibridge, h. Wadsley. 

No-one by the name of Bury listed. 

 

Letterhead illustrating the Regent Works of John Bedford. 

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Whites Directory 1856

Bedford, John, merchant, steel refiner and saw, file and edge tool, cutlery & etc., Regent Works, Penistone Road, h. Wadsley Park. 

 

Whites Directory 1862

Bedford, Bury & Co., merchants, steel refiners, files, saws and edge tools etc., Regent Works, Penistone Road and Oughtibridge Steel Works. 

Bedford, John, merchant & etc., (Bedford, Bury & Co.) h. Oughtibridge

Bury, Edward Jas, merchant & etc., (Bedford, Bury & Co.) h. Victoria Road, Broomhall. 

Bury, Wm Tarleton, merchant & etc., (Bedford, Bury & Co.) h. Makenzie Place. 

Advertisement entitled Regent Works, Messrs Bury and Co.,from Illustrated Guide to Sheffield, Pawson and Brailsford. 1862.

 

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bedford,_Bury_and_Co

 

Advertisement from Whites Directory 1879.

Whites Directory 1879

Bedford, John (John & Sons) h. Birley House, Wadsley Bridge. 

Bedford, John & Sons, merchants and mfrs. steel, files, saws, tools and shovels, importers of Swedish and Russian irons, Lion Works, Mowbray Street.

Burys & Co. Ltd., manufacturers of steel, files, edge tools, saws, hammers, axes, picks & etc., Regent Works and Philadelphia Works, Penistone Road, Thomas Brown, manager and secretary. 

Brown, Thomas, manager and secretary to Burys and Co. Ltd., h. 246 West Street. 

Advertisement from Sheffield and Neighbourhood, Pawson and Brailsford. 1889

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Advertisement from Whites Directory 1900

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https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bedford,_Bury_and_Co

 

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F167091

 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;p01688&pos=42&action=zoom&id=140918

 

John Bedford & Sons, Lion Works

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/6c4852ae-f0ef-40f9-bd66-500f8b58935c

 

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Regent Works 

From Industries of Sheffield 1888

 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;a03348&pos=1&action=zoom&id=147967

 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s36082&pos=15&action=zoom&id=112138

 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s34526&pos=26&action=zoom&id=108918

 

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t11421 Stonework from Regent Works was displayed at Kelham Island Museum 2006, after the Flood of 2007 did they stay at the same location? 

 

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Sheffield Flood Claim:

William Tarleton Bury, Edward James Bury and John George Thomas Child trading as co-partnership under the firm of Bury's & Co., merchants and manufacturers, Regent Works. 

Names all employees claim for loss of wages. 

https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=5-4822

 

 

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Workers at Bury's & Co., Regent Works

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s36079&pos=3&action=zoom&id=112135

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s36080&pos=4&action=zoom&id=112136

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s36081&pos=5&action=zoom&id=112137

 

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John Bedford & Sons, Lion Works, Mowbray Street. 

c04253  Lion Works from Ball Street

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s38013&pos=16&action=zoom&id=114954

 

Trade Catologue 1885

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Scale of Coour for Temper

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Bronze Lion Paperweight 

 

 

Bury's & Co. Connecticut Style Adze with Fancy Carving. https://www.jimbodetools.com

 

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John Bedford and Co was still with us in the 1970s as were Burys and Co…as part of the Osborn group.

I found the advert showing beater bars fascinating. I was Export Manager at Rotherham Tinsley Steels Ltd in the early 70s where we exported many tonnes of the section around the world…including Poland…where we were paid by barter in Krakus jam and Pek ham….all traded through a London merchant house.

At the time we had a virtual monopoly as we rolled all of the sections whereas our American competitors were limited in what they could produce…as were the Russians. We had reached that position after what I was told was a bit of “daring “intelligence work “as we advanced into Germany in 1945!