of Bristol and Clifton
First premises on Henleaze Road. Main office at 21-31 Whatley Road, Clifton, Bristol, with depots in Parry's Lane, City Road, Whiteladies Road, Fosseway [1] and Staple Hill.[2]
1924 Hornby's Dairies Ltd. founded following the acquisition of F. W. Gilbert Ltd. and the Norton St. Philip's Dairy Co. Ltd. by Herbert Edwin Hornby (1872-1952).[3]
1926 Premises on Henleaze Road.[4]
1935 Managing Directors: Herbert Edwin Hornby, Samuel Mayer Dubowski, Stanley Raymond Stanley Hornby and Alex Cohen. Dubowski and Cohen were both managers of the Great Eastern Dairy Co. Ltd.[5]
1941 Moved to Parry's Lane, Stoke Bishop, due to bombing of city centre premises in 1940.[6]
1952 Herbert Hornby died on the 17th of February[7]
1956 Hornby's Daries Ltd. voluntarily liquidated.[8]
1959 Company run by the Green family until 1973.[9]
1973 Parry's Lane depot taken over by Cow and Gate. Subsequently owned by Unilever, then Dairy Crest.[10]
2010 Parry's Lane depot closed.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/green-family-ran-company/story-15693245-detail/story.html#rDzrJdXEcwpIBjQ7.99
- ↑ http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/started-work-dairy-aged-14/story-15693267-detail/story.html
- ↑ Western Daily Press, 20 December 1924
- ↑ Kelly's directory, 1926
- ↑ Western Daily Press, 1 July 1935
- ↑ http://www.sheppertonhomes.co.uk/developments/hornby-place-history.php
- ↑ England and Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations)
- ↑ London Gazette, 24 August 1956
- ↑ http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/green-family-ran-company/story-15693245-detail/story.html
- ↑ http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/green-family-ran-company/story-15693245-detail/story.html