In the 70s I went into the cutlery trade when leaving school.
Although it was brief, these jobs were mundane, slave driven smelly dirty jobs.
Why I went into this is because of my family worked in them and sort of walked into being an apprenticeship toolmaker.
Toolmaking was the posh job of the cutlery trade along with the silver smiths and used to look down our noses at the buffers.
I am interested if young people today work in these factorys.
Is there any under 20s in these places, under 30s even and when did you start working in them.

i worked at viners.in 70s cant imagine my kids putting up with that

Originally posted by Cycleracer
I am interested if young people today work in these factorys.
Is there any under 20s in these places, under 30s even and when did you start working in them.

Do we still have any cutlery factories in Sheffield?

i worked in harris millers on eyre street when i was about 17 its now a car park they were polish and lo wages then went to footprint tools was a lot better there and stayed for awhile

Originally posted by Andy
Do we still have any cutlery factories in Sheffield?

I believe Richardsons is still going strong.

Not exactly on topic but my great uncle used to own the Knife makers workshop above Morton's on West ST.
I only saw it once. A dirty cluttered place with buckets of knife blades everywhere. He was making a consignment of specialist knives for the Gurkha's at the time. My dad managed to blag one for his knife collection!.