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Stan Shaw (cutler)

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Shaw stopped producing knives in 2019 due to ill health but continued to demonstrate his craftmanship to the public at the Kelham Island Museum. He died on 26 February 2021, at the age of 94. A commorative plaque by sculptor
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and finishing items of cutlery. Shaw subsequently worked for George Wostenholm, John Watts, and John Clarke. In 1983, Shaw set up his own business in Garden Street. In 2009, he moved to a workshop within the
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at the age of 45. At the age of four, Shaw fell from a roof and landed on his hip. He subsequently also became ill with tuberculosis and spent ten years in hospital.
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Following discharge from hospital, Shaw began working for George Ibberson & Co, where he worked on
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Shaw (furthest right) at his workshop in the Kelham Island Museum
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Stan Shaw (little mester)

Worrall
Sheffield
little mester
Sheffield
England
Worrall
Oughtibridge
silicosis
hafting
Kelham Island Museum
Gordon Young
Cutlers' Hall
"Stan Shaw obituary"
"Around Town Meets... Aroundtown Meets… Stan Shaw"
"Stanley's knife cuts £1500 dash"
"Stan Shaw"
"Life is still at the sharp end for expert Sheffield craftsman in his 90th year"
"New Year Honours for Yorkshire's great and good"
"Sheffield's 'last little mester' Stan Shaw dies at 94"
"Stan Shaw Sheffield: Memorial unveiled outside Cutlers Hall to last 'little mester' knife craftsman"
"News: Stan Shaw Memorial"
Categories
1926 births
2021 deaths
People from Sheffield
Cutlers

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