G. Percy Trentham

Building and civil engineering contractors

Company founded by George Trentham (1859-1919) the son of Jeremiah Trentham (1827- ) and his wife Ann White

1880 September 14th. George marries Naomi Hill at Pensett, Staffordshire

1881 August 17th. Birth of George Percy Trentham known as Percy

1896 GPT joins family business of George Trentham

1903 March 12th. GPT marries Edith Chapman and they moved to 77 Booth Street, Handsworth

1903 December 24th. Birth of George Donald Trentham

Percy splits from his father and sets up G. Percy Trentham

1913 His brother Sydney Wallace Trentham becomes a partner

1913 Becomes a limited company and moves to Winchester House, Victoria Square, Birmingham

1918 Acquires Hartskill Quarries

1961 H.Q. in Purley, near Reading

1985 Barry D. Trentham Ltd was incorporated

1996 Barry D. Trentham Ltd had won the fifth largest amount of Lottery-funded construction work

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Major contracts

• Dolwyddelan Reservoir
• Rugby Reservoir 1925
• Alfred Herbert Factory
• Ford Factory at Dagenham and later extensions in 1957. Also Halewood
• Austin Factory buildings at Longbridge
• Chelmsford bypass road
• Wandle Bridge 1937
• North Circular Road, four mile section
• Kenley Aerodrome 1934. Concrete roads
• Trafalgar Square, re-pavement pre-WWII
• Cromwell Road Bridge, WWII
• RAF Hullvington
• RAF Quedgeley
• RAE Great Malvern
• RAF Finningley
• Meaford Power Station
• Holland-on-Sea coastal defences, 1948
• RAF Honnington
• Stafford Railway Station
• Mountstuart Dry Dock, Cardiff
• BP Chemicals, Baglan Bay, Port Talbot
• Queen Alexandra Dock, Cardiff
• Rover factory at Cardiff
• Liverpool Tunnel Relief Flyover
• Speke Airport, runway, 1966
• Didcot Power Station

See Also

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Sources of Information

• Trentham Story, The. 1978