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Metal Sections
Metal Sections was established by Major Leonard Henderson at Greet in Birmingham in 1931. Henderson designed his own machines to convert steel strip into profiled sections by cold rolling. The first...
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North Middlesex Gas Co.
The North Middlesex Gas Co. was founded in 1862 with gasworks at Mill Hill. The company's area of supply covered Finchley, Hendon, Mill Hill and a part of Golders Green. When the gas industry was...
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Foster, Porter & Co. Ltd.
Foster, Porter & Co. Ltd. were wholesale drapers, hosiers and glovers at 47 Wood Street, London. The company was established in 1842 and traded until at least the 1950s....
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Bee Bee Biscuits Ltd. / Symbol Biscuits Limited
Bee Bee Biscuits was established in 1922 as the Blackpool Biscuit Company. Selling its Brandy Snap and Shrewsburybiscuits locally in Blackpool, the company quickly expanded and in 1924 moved to larger...
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AUR overprint (Welsbach Incandescent Gas Light Co. Ltd.)
The AUR overprint, pictured here on SG 172 and SG 219, was used by the Welsbach Incandescent Gas Light Co. Ltd. Mantles and gas burners made by the company bore the AUR trademark.In 1886 an Austrian...
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Gurney & Co. Yarmouth
The Gurney banking business began with Gurney & Co. Norwich, opened by Quaker brothers, John and Henry Gurney in 1775. They had acquired their wealth as worsted, linen and yarn merchants. As...
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W. Williams & Son (Bread St.) Ltd.
Bread Street is one of the 25 wards of the City of London. The name derives from its principal street which was anciently the City's bread market. Records from 1302 state “the bakers of London were...
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John Barker & Co. Ltd.
In 1870 John Barker and James Whitehead opened a small drapery business at 91-93 Kensington High Street in west London. James Whitehead (a city merchant) was the investor, while John Barker ran the...
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Smedley's Limited
Following a trip to the United States in 1924, a grocer called Samuel Wallace Smedley was inspired to establish a canned goods company in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Canning machinery was imported to the...
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Sanderson Fabrics
Sanderson Fabrics is a trade name ofArthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd., an internationally renowned company in the field of interior design and decorating. The company produces approximately 250,000...
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Peter Yapp
Peter Yapp was a boot and shoe maker and retailer at 200-201 Sloane Street in Knightsbridge, London. The business was active from at least the 1860s to the late 1950s. Despite the company's long...
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Union Assurance Society Ltd.
The company was established in 1714 as the Union Fire Office, with the first meeting being held at the Amsterdam Coffee...
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Lambert Bros.
In the 19thcentury the town of Walsall in the West Midlands became an important centre for the production of the wrought iron tubes that were essential for the supply of town gas. The industry began...
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Wilson & Matheson
Wilson & Matheson were clothing manufacturers and wholesalers in Glasgow. The company was at its peak in the 1870s when it specialised in producing clothing and travel accessories for customers...
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Richard & Tucker Nunn Ltd.
Richard & Tucker Nunn Ltd. were retailers of clocks and watches at 108 Hatton Garden, London. The company acted as a dealer for Smiths English Clocks Ltd., which was one of the most prolific...
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Grindlays Bank Ltd.
In 1828 Robert Melville Grindlay established a company in London called Leslie & Grindlay to arrange passage to and from India for customers and their baggage. In time, the company added private...
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The Hollins Mill Co. Ltd.
Hollins Mill stood on Hollins Lane in the small town of Marple, Greater Manchester and for over a century was a major employer there. The mill was built in c.1830 by Charles Walmsley and in 1859 it...
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N. M. E. P. S. Co. (Northmet Power Company)
The North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Co. was established in 1900 in Wood Green, London to supply electricity to a wide area of north London and Middlesex. The Brimsdown Power Station was bought...
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Louis London & Sons
Louis London & Sons were manufacturers of women's clothing, established in 1859 at Alie Street, London E.1. The factory in Alie Street produced high quality designs which were exported across the...
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Godfreys Limited
Oliver Godfrey was a motorcycle racer who was the very first winner of the Isle of Man Mountain Course TT in 1911 at the age of 23. In 1912 the Senior TT winner was Frank Applebee. The two men became...
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