Improved Wood Pavement Co

of 32 Lombard Street, EC2

of 46 Queen Victoria Street, London (1876)

of to Blackfriars House, New Bridge Street, EC4 (1922)

1872 The company was registered on 28 November, to acquire the patent of improved wood pavement combining the use of wood with preserving composition packed with stone, and for laying and maintaining same. The Company took over the business and contracts of Samuel Norris and Benjamin Berkley Hotchkiss, who had already laid some wood pavements in London and elsewhere. Bartholomew Lane, EC2 had been paved in December 1871.

By 1914 the Company was a contractor for wood paving, wood block flooring, sawing, excavating, concreting; it had saw mills and works at East Greenwich.

The company became associated with John Mowlem and Co. Ltd, government and public works contractors, and formed with them in 1941 the Mowlem Paving Co. Ltd.

1950s the Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Mowlems

1959 it ceased to operate independently. Its name was subsequently changed to Mowlem Construction (Plant Hire) Ltd and it is now a subsidiary of John Mowlem and Co. plc though Mowlem Construction Co. Ltd.

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