Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,647 pages of information and 247,065 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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of 49 to 75, Buckingham Palace Road, London, S.W.
Drapers.
1857 Established by Frederick Gorringe.
1903 Incorporated as a Limited Company.[1]
1951 Take over offer for Hide and Co, of Kingston-on-Thames, rejected.[2]
1961 In January, business and properties acquired by Gresham, and Charles Neale Investments.[3]
1961 In March, Frederick Gorringe sold to R. H. O. Hills.
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