Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Bentley Piano Co

From Graces Guide

of Woodchester Mills, Woodchester, Stroud

See Stroud Piano Co

1938 BENTLEY PIANO CO., LTD. Woodchester Mills, Woodchester, Glos.[1]

1941 Stroud Piano Company, Woodchester Mills. Stroud.[2]

1969 Richard Steele Grover. Chairman and Managing Director.[3]

1986 'THE BENTLEY PIANO CO LTD Successors to GROVER & GROVER Founded 1830 Family tradition over five generations Woodchester Stroud Glos GL5 5NW'[4]


Notes on Woodchester Mill

  • 1889 William Elliott, trading as Elliott and Co., St. Ringer's Court, Woodchester Mills, near Stroud, woollen cloth manufacturer.[5]
  • 1912 Gladman and Co, Piano Works, Woodchester Mills, Stroud.[6][7]
  • 1939 Perkins and Marmont, Ltd., pin manufacturers, of Woodchester Mills.[8]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Gloucester Citizen - Wednesday 14 September 1938
  2. Gloucester Citizen - Friday 03 January 1941
  3. Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 01 January 1969
  4. Walsall Observer - Friday 10 October 1986
  5. Gloucester Citizen - Saturday 31 August 1889
  6. Gloucester Citizen - Monday 22 April 1912
  7. Gloucester Citizen - Monday 08 July 1912
  8. Gloucester Citizen - Saturday 13 May 1939