Howard and Powell
of Wallbridge Mill, Stroud, cloth makers
1886 The firm was founded when George Edgar Powell and John Howard became partners.
1891 The mill was equipped with 22 power looms.
1891 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, John Howard, Francis Augustus Howard, and George Edgar Powell, carrying on business as Woollen Cloth Manufacturers, at Wallbridge, Stroud, in the county of Gloucester, under the style or firm of Howard and Powell, has been dissolved, by mutual consent, as from the 16th day of April, 1891. All debts due to and from the said Partnership will be received and paid respectively by the said Francis Augustus Howard and George Edgar Powell, who will continue to carry on the said business at Wallbridge aforesaid, under the style of Howard and Powell, as heretofore....'[1]
Gerald Arthur Evans of P. C. Evans of Brimscombe Mills was a director of Howard & Powell.
Mr Powell continued to run the business until some time in the 1920s when his son George Woodman Powell became Chairman.
1961 the company was sold to Mr Wilfred Asquith.
See Also
Sources of Information
- [1] Gloucester Society for Industrial Archaeology