William and Samuel Butcher began manufacturing steel in Sheffield in the late 1810s.
 By 1822, William had acquired three adjacent plots of land on Eyre Lane, and constructed a small steelworks, including a purpose-built crucible steel furnace.
 This was expanded in around 1835 to a three-storey block.
 A former cottage on the corner of Eyre Lane and Brown Lane, long forming part of the complex, is of similar date.
William and Samuel Butcher began manufacturing steel in Sheffield in the late 1810s.  By 1822, William had acquired three adjacent plots of land on Eyre Lane, and constructed a small steelworks, including a purpose-built crucible steel furnace.  This was expanded in around 1835 to a three-storey block.  A former cottage on the corner of Eyre Lane and Brown Lane, long forming part of the complex, is of similar date.
Butchers Wheel