Notes: | Merchants and manufacturers of steel, files, saws, laminated and coiled springs, buffers, fish bolts and nuts, engineers and tools.
William Ibbotson founder of Ibbotson Brothers, steel converters, refiners, manufacturers and worldwide merchants built the aptly named Globe Works in 1824. The main building was designed to incorporate a domestic residence. The west wing was residential, the east wing counting houses and warehouses. In 1863 he moved to a site on Cross Smithfield before purchasing the former workhouse on Alma Street which he renamed Globe Steel Works.
For more information see Globe Works by Kim Streets (Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 2867 M) |