Central Cornwall Concrete and Artificial Stone Co
of Bugle
1921 Advertising concrete blocks and reinforced fence posts.[1]
1937 Acquired by ECC
1946-1960s. Manufacturer of the Cornish Unit House
1947 'It was appropriate that the King and Queen should see the "Cornish Units" houses at Bugle, for it was at Bugle that they were first constructed, and their original inventor is Mr. Reginald H. Tonkin, of Bugle, a director of the Central Cornwall Concrete Co., which is a subsidiary of E.C.L.P. When he devised the "Cornish Units" system, Mr. Tonkin's idea was to have houses and bungalows of this type built to meet the needs of the St. Austell district. but the methods of construction, the excellence of the designs of Mr. A. Edgar Beresford, of Newquay, the architect, the speed with which "Unit" houses can be erected, and the immediacy with which the public took to them have all increased the demand. until now there are large numbers of them in various places in Cornwall and in other South-West counties....The concrete is made from china clay debris from the big sand burrows, and the fact that it is almost pure silica makes it a fine quality concrete.'[2]
1970 Voluntary liquidation.[3]