Burnyeat and Dalzell
of Liverpool
1866 Burnyeat and Dalzell established as ship store dealer at 19 Crooked Lane, Liverpool, taking over the existing business of W. H. Leighton and Company. The partners were William Burnyeat of Whitehaven, Cumberland, and his much younger cousin Tom Dalzell. Burnyeat was a butcher in Whitehaven who had moved his business entirely into the provisioning of ships in 1861 (the date often used as the birth of the business). Dalzell had been apprenticed in Liverpool as a ship store dealer, completing his time in 1861. It is believed that Dalzell bought into W. H. Leighton and Co. in about 1863.
1867 Described in a local directory as “ship store and provision merchants, ships chandlers, ships smiths and ironmongers.” At this time the merchant business was at 19 Crooked Lane whilst the ship smith business was at 3 Salthouse Lane but this was later consolidated at Crooked Lane.
1868 By this date, the premises had been expanded through to the contiguous No 10 Litherland Alley
1881 Burnyeat & Dalzell, ships’ store dealer, chandlers, provision merchants and agents for the Scandinavian Preserved Butter Company (Busk, jun. & Co., Copenhagen), 10 Litherland Alley & 19 Crooked Lane.[1]
1887 Bought the freehold of their premises in Crooked Land and Litherland Alley. William Burnyeat’s sons, William Burnyeat II and John Burnyeat admitted as partners.
1890 Additional premises leased at 50 South Castle Street, which became the registered address.
1894 Burnyeat & Dalzell, ships’ stores dealer and provisions merchant. 10 Litherland Alley, 50 South Castle Street and 19 Crooked Lane.[2]
1894 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned William Burnyeat and Miles Edward Burnyeat (as executors of the late William Burnyeat deceased) Tom Dalzell William Burnyeat John Burnyeat and Miles Edward Burnyeat carrying on business as Ship Owners Ship Managers Ship Store and Provision Merchants at South Castle-street and Litherland-alley in the city of Liverpool under the style or firm of Burnyeat and Dalzell has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 30th day of September 1894. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the undersigned William Burnyeat and Miles Edward Burnyeat who will continue to carry on the said business as the executors of their late father William Burnyeat deceased under the present style of Burnyeat and Dalzell...'[3]
1898 After Burnyeat’s estate was settled in Chancery, a limited company, Burnyeat and Dalzell Limited was incorporated to acquire the business from the executors, with William Burnyeat II as chairman, Miles Edward Burnyeat as managing director and Charles Orchardson as secretary. Incorporated. Company number 00057244, capital £50,000.
1898 Tom Dalzell died 30 Mar 1898, having retired from the business some years earlier.
1900 Burnyeat & Dalzell Ltd. Ship-store, provision and general export merchants, ship chandlers, ironmongers, tin and coppersmiths and sail makers; Agents for - the Scandinavian Preserved Butter Co.; Busck Jr, and Co.’s Brand; Burnyeat, Brown & Co., Limited, Cardiff, proprietors of Insole’s Merthyr Steam Coal and Thomas Merthyr Steam Coal; James Dannatt & Sons’ Sunderland Antifouling Compositions. Offices: 50 South Castle Street. Warehouses: 5, 10 and 12 Litherland Alley and 19 & 21 Crooked Lane.
1905 Branch opened in Manchester, with premises at 209 Trafford Road, Salford.
1908 Miles E Burnyeat retired and was succeeded as managing director by Charles Orchardson.
1911 Burnyeat & Dalzell Ltd. Ship-store, provision and general export merchants, ship chandlers, ironmongers, tin and coppersmiths and sail makers; Agents for - the Scandinavian Preserved Butter Co.; Busck Jr, and Co.’s Brand; Hogg Robinson’s “Porter’s” ships’ Composition. Head office – 50 South Castle Street, Warehouses – 5, 12 & 14 Litherland Alley, and 19 & 21 Crooked Lane. Branch at 209 Trafford Road, Salford, Manchester. Agency at 31 Rue d’Amsterdam, Antwerp.[4]
1911 William Burnyeat II retired and was succeeded as chairman by Thomas Braithwaite. Two of William Burnyeat the elder’s grandsons, John Burnyeat II and Harry Wilson Burnyeat, (sons of his son John) elected to the Board with John as joint managing director with Charles Orchardson.
1914 New purpose built premises opened in Antwerp and named Mersey House. Mersey House was used by the occupying Germans as their army HQ during the Great War. History was repeated in WW2 when it again served as German Army HQ.
1915 Charles Orchardson died and was succeeded as joint MD by Harry Wilson Burnyeat.
1919 John Burnyeat became sole managing director. He was also secretary between 1980 and 1923, and appointed OBE in 1920. Harry Wilson Burnyeat returned to Belgium after the war and became joint MD of the Antwerp agency.
1920 The goodwill of Richard Nicholson & Sons of Liverpool acquired and company name changed to Burnyeat, Dalzell and Nicholson
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1881 Liverpool Directory
- ↑ 1894 Liverpool Directory
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:11 December 1894 Issue:26578 Page:7300
- ↑ 1911 Liverpool Director
- Rolt, L. T. C. “Mariners' market; Burnyeat Limited: growth over a century.” Published privately for Burnyeat Ltd., Liverpool, by Newman Neame [London] 1961