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We’re known today for our fine garden tools, and for our endorsement by the Royal Horticultural Society. But did you know that Burgon & Ball has historic roots as a tool manufacturer, stretching right back to 1730?
That’s when we started working with steel in Sheffield, in England’s industrial heartland. It’s an area that’s been known for its skills in knives and steel since the 14th century, and we are proud to call it home.
This makes us the UK’s oldest creator of garden tools and accessories, and we still produce high quality steel tools in Sheffield. You can find out more about how our centuries of experience in steel help us make better tools here, or you can get a whistle-stop tour through the last 290+ years of Burgon & Ball here.
Our long history certainly gives us some interesting facts and figures. If you’d like to learn a bit more about us, get some fast facts here.
- Why were our shears used to shear a sheep on New Zealand national television?
- Alan Titchmarsh and the team have used our tools on how many series of ITV’s ‘Love Your Garden’?
- 25 million and counting… We have produced this extraordinary number of which of our products?
We’re proud of our heritage, but we never rest on our laurels! Although we made a name for ourselves as the producer of the world’s finest sheep shears, these days we’re probably better known for our wide range of high quality, gorgeous garden tools, as well as innovative gardening accessories.
Our UK-based design team is constantly working on ideas to make gardening easier, coming up with new solutions to real gardening problems. Keep losing your tools? Take a look at our FloraBrite range. Need something to help with kneeling? Try a Kneelo® memory foam garden kneeler!
So if you’re looking for garden tools with a pedigree of performance, you’ll find them with Burgon & Ball.
I just purchased a really superb carbon steel spade made by Burgon and Ball. Very happy with it. It has a little wear, but not bad for its 45 or so years. It joins my collection of vintage Sheffield made tools.
I can’t find information on sustainability on you pages. Are you CO2-neutral? Where wood comes from? Are your workers paid well, etc.
I have a double bow set of hand shears that I think are uncommon. The overall length is five inches and the blade length is two and a half inches. The shears are marked ‘BURGON & SON SYDNEY’ Can anyone tell me more about these small shears? Were they made for the Australian market and were they made in Sydney? How old would the be?
Cheers, Neil Searle New Zealand.
Hello
I just bought one of your 9 litre watering cans which is everything you claim and I really do like it but it dribbles terribly from the silicon seal at the screw on rose. I have tried to screw it up as tight as possible but it still leaks badly. I wonder if fitting an extra silicon seal would help. I paid full price at RHS Rosemoor in Torrington Devon just a couple of days ago and don’t want to spend years of watering with wet feet.
Thanks Harry
I purchased a small spade from Riverside Garden Centre in Bristol a couple of weeks ago for £34 and first time I used it it not hard ground the handle broke where it connects to the metal part and the way it’s broken it looks faulty wood.
I can send you a photo.
John Miles 07771548121