Liberty Works (late 1840s) Matilda Street, Sheffield. The current Liberty Works was the original Truro building, which appears at the left in the photograph. Harman and Minnis explain the history of the building as follows: first built in the late 1840s for Joseph Cutts, “manufacturers of silver plate and Brittania metal,” it became the cutlery factory of Atkin Brothers, who remained in business there from 1856 until the 1950s.
Related material including other Sheffield workshops
- Robbed of “twenty-five years of existence” — The Trades of Sheffield and their dangers to worker's health
- “A Broad Hint for a Broad-Head” (on the Sheffield “Outrages”)
- Columbia Works
- Truro Works
- Butcher Works
- Challenge Works
- Grange Works
- Sylvester Works
- Venture Works
- Works at Charles Lane and Arundel Street
- Remains of a factory complex, Matilda Street
- Row of nineteenth-century works, Matilda Street
Photographs 2011 by George P. Landow You may use these images without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]
References
Sheffield. Harman, Ruth, and John Minnis. Pevsner Architectural Guides. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2004.
Last modified 28 May 2018