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For over 250 years, generations of British people have trusted the lasting performance and great results they achieve with Spear & Jackson's high quality garden, contractor and hand tools. By combining our great tradition with the latest technologies, and by understanding what you actually want from your tools, we ensure that our products, over 3000 of them, help you take pride in a job well done.

The Spear & Jackson timeline.

1760 John Love, a draper, and merchant Alexander Spear recognised a future in steel and set up a new business in Sheffield called Spear & Love

1814 John Spear, Alexander's nephew, took on a young apprentice called Sam Jackson, who soon proved his worth

1830 A new partnership was formed - Spear & Jackson

1889 James Neill, a successful accountant, turns to steelmaking and patents "composite" steel (steel-backed iron)

1909 The Eclipse trademark is registered by James Neill

1911 The world's first composite steel hacksaw blades are manufactured by Eclipse

1924 Eclipse, having added hacksaw frames to their range, develops the classic shape which all hacksaws now mirror

1941 Winston Churchill visits Neill factory

1985 Eclipse owner Neill Tools buys Spear & Jackson

1990s Eclipse delivers the next generation of cutting with their patented ground tooth technology

1995 Neill Tools is renamed Spear & Jackson plc

2007 Today, Spear & Jackson exports to 115 countries on every continent and has subsidiary companies in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. After 245 years of production, Spear & Jackson's headquarters remains in Sheffield, England.