Where is Taylor's Eye Witness Works?

Taylor's Eye Witness Works is in East Midlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 53.3761°, -1.4785°.

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Taylor's Eye Witness Works

Taylor's Eye Witness Works — a garden in england-east-midlands, United Kingdom.

The Devonshire Cat, Sheffield - geograph.org.uk - 1927416 — Graham Hogg — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)

Taylor's Eye Witness Works is a garden of interest in england-east-midlands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Taylor's Eye Witness Works is a Grade II listed former industrial building on Milton Street in the Devonshire Quarter area of Sheffield city centre, South Yorkshire, England. The works specialised in producing kitchen and pocket knives along with various associated products from its construction in 1852 until their vacation in 2018. The building was subsequently redeveloped into apartments. It stands adjacent to Taylor's Ceylon works on the same site, and the Beehive Works on Milton Street, both also listed cutlery works.

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Background

History

John Taylor founded a knife and edge tools firm around the year 1820 in St. Phillip's Road in the Netherthorpe area of the city. In 1838 Taylor applied for and was granted the Eye Witness trademark for his goods, it is said he chose it after being inspired by the line "No eye hath seen such" from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1. In 1852 Taylor moved to the newly built Eye Witness Works on Milton Street. At the time the works only consisted of five single-storey bays and were driven by steam power with a 40-foot chimney stack which is still in place today. Upon the death of John Taylor in 1854 the firm passed to his daughter who had married into the Needham family who were also knife…

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