of Wickham Market.
1780 Company established by the Whitmore family.
1822 John Whitmore (1801-1872) commenced business on his own.
1839 Listed as 'John Whitmore, Millwright and Engineer'.
Produced a number of engines and complete windmills.
1855 Employed 60 persons.
1860 John Whitmore brought his 2 sons William Nathaniel Whitmore, aged 27, and John Whitmore Junior, aged 21 into partnership as Whitmore and Sons.
1862 At the 1862 London Exhibition the company was Whitmore and Sons.
1864 200 men were employed at the Iron Works; an office was opened in Mark Lane, London
1868 Partnership change. '... the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, John Whitmore the elder and William Whitmore, as Engineers, Millwrights, Ironfounders, and Coal. Merchants, carrying on business at Wickham Market, in the county of Suffolk, and at Campsey Ash, in the said county, under the firm or style of Whitmore and Sons, has been dissolved by mutual consent, as from the 1st day of January, 1858; and that the said businesses have since been and will continue to be carried on at the before-mentioned places by the said William Whitmore and George Binyon, under the firm or style of Whitmore and Binyon...'[1]
became Whitmore and Binyon.
See Also
Sources of Information
- [1] Mills Archive