D. Meredew
of Letchworth
1879 Business started by Daniel Meredew as a maker of overmantels.
1896 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned Walter Southey and Daniel Meredew carrying on business as Manufacturers of Overmantles Sideboards Cabinets Hatstands &c. at 64 65 and 65A Shaftsbury-street New North-road in the county of Middlesex under the style or firm of Southey and Meredew has been dissolved by mutu.il consent as and from the thirtieth day of September 1896. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said Daniel Meredew...'[1]
1907 Daniel Meredew retired and the firm was taken over by Frederick Hard of Hard and Austin, supplier of glass to the company.
1913 Relocated the business to Letchworth
1914 Partnership changes. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned. Charles Hard and Frederick George Hard, carrying on business as Glass Bevellers and Overmantel Manufacturers, at No. 30, Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, in the county of London, under the style or firm of HARD AND AUSTIN, and the business of Manufacturers of Overmantels, at No. 40, Danbury-street, Islington, in the said county, under the style of DANIEL MEREDEW, has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the 31st day of December, 1913. All debts due to and owing by the said late partnership will, as to those due to and owing by the said business of Hard and Austin, be received and paid by the said Charles Hard, who will continue to carry on that business under the same style of Hard and Austin, and as to those due to and owing by the said business of Daniel Meredew be received and paid by the said Frederick George Hard, who will continue to carry on that business under the same style of Daniel Meredew...'[2]
1965 Employing 1,500 with factories at Letchworth, Bradford and Pontefract.
1969 Acquired by Bond Worth Holdings[3]
1978 Went into receivership due to debts of associated companies, especially guarantees for other companies in the Bond Worth group; a new company, Meredew Furniture, was formed to take over the Letchworth factory[4] which was taken over by Stag Furniture Holdings[5]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:6 October 1896 Issue:26783 Page:5503
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:10 April 1914 Issue:28820 Page:3121
- ↑ The Times, Aug 04, 1969
- ↑ The Times, Jun 01, 1978
- ↑ The Times, Sep 29, 1978