The Story of the Mushets by Fred Osborn (1952) (General)

by rookancestrybest , United Kingdom, Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 21:33 (5416 days ago) @ rtmushet

A book was published in 1952 by Fred Osborn. Fred Osborn being a direct descendant of Samuel Osborn. Samuel Osborn joined forces with the Mushets in broadening the scope of his steel works in Sheffield, taking advantage of the specialised type of steel which Mushet invented. The firm, at one stage, became known as Osborn Mushet. The business relationship between the two is significant in the history of Sheffield's steel industry for which the city was once famous. Part of this business relationship led to six of the best of Mushet's workers to be transferred from the Forest of Dean to Samuel Osborn's company in Sheffield. I am directly descended from one of the 6 people (Thomas Rook). This meant them relocating from Gloucestershire to Yorkshire in the 1870s.
The book is worth finding, there is a copy that is deposited in Sheffield City Archives which cannot be borrowed or removed from their Samuel Osborn/Osborn Mushet collection but there may well be more copies around though it is probably out of print. They would not allow me to photocopy any of it even for study purposes when I asked but might be able to give you some idea of its content. Sheffield Archive will have its ISBN number but I will look to see if I have it anywhere.
Samuel Osborn's steel works operated from the same building until very recently, but it has only recently closed down. You might also be interested that in Sheffield there is also a Coleford Road. By mistake once I said on this website that it is near Samuel Osborn's but in fact it is in another part of Sheffield which was the heart of the steel industry.