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 167,859 pages of information and 247,161 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.

Cordelova Co

From Graces Guide

Cordelova manufacturers, of 74 Pitt Street and West Silvermills Lane, Edinburgh.[1]

1892 Incorporated as the Cordelova Company Limited, to manufacture Cordelova, a raised relief paper wall covering. The company was incorporated, with capital of £10,000, to acquire and take over as a going concern the business carried on by Thomas Hall and John Robinson Nesbitt, for the manufacture and sale of embossed wall, ceiling, and other relief decoration.[2]

1899 Became part of the Wall Paper Manufacturers Ltd.

1906 Cordelova Company Limited was dissolved.[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. Post Office Edinburgh and Leith Directory 1899-1900
  2. The Scotsman 7 January 1893
  3. National Records of Scotland BT2/2421