Fielding and Johnson
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Exhibit at Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester.
of Bond Street Mills, Leicester
Worsted spinners.
1818 Company established.
1922 Fielding and Johnson Limited, West Bond Street, Leicester, was registered as a private company, with a nominal capital of £500,000, to take over the business of worsted spinners and woolcombers carried on as Fielding and Johnson at Leicester and Nuneaton.[1]
1947 The company went public. According to the abridged prospectus, the business was founded in 1720 and had two mills in Leicester (Bond Street and Abbey) and one (Anker) in Nuneaton, and carried on business as worsted spinners for the hosiery trade in all its branches.[2]
1957 Acquired George Lee and Sons.
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