Henry Barrett and Sons
of Union Works, Cutler Heights Lane, Bradford (1922)
of Thornton Road, Bradford 1.
1866 Company founded.
1920 Private company.
1922 Mechanical and Constructional Engineers and Ironfounders. Specialities.—Steel buildings, roofs, girders, cast iron work of all description for buildings.
1961 Structural engineers, iron founders and iron and steel stockholders specialising in steel frameworks for buildings. 150 employees. [1]
1985 Acquired the steel stockholding business of A. H. Allen and Co[2]
1987 Public listing of shares. Acquired J. H. Grant of Oxford, steel distributors[3]
1988 Acquired Westbury Tubular Structures.[4]. Acquired BNL Holdings of Knaresborough, maker of thermoplastic rolling element bearings[5]. Acquired Park Pallet Group of Lancashire, so added a 4th division to the group: Materials Handling[6]
1989 Acquired Don Reynolds (Holdings), makers of flat panel cladding and curtain walling for steel-framed buildings[7]
1992 BNL Ltd of Knaresborough was spun out as a separate company, in which Henry Barrett Group retained an interest.
1992 The listing of the shares in Henry Barrett Group was suspended pending clarification of the financial position; the steel stockholding side of the business was healthy but the construction side had almost no orders and debt had increased[8]. Receivers appointed; Barrett Steel Ltd was incorporated by members of the Barrett family to buyout the steel stockholding and steel buildings businesses[9].