William Playne and Co
of Nailsworth, near Stroud
1829 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, William Playne, Peter Playne, Daniel Smith, John Baxter, and William Playne Wise, trading under the firm of William and Peter Playne and Company, as Woollen-Manufacturers and Warehousemen, at Minchinhampton, in the County of Gloucester, and No. 49, Lothbury, London, is this day dissolved by mutual consent; and all accounts relating to the said Partnership are to be settled at the Manufactory of William Playne, at Longfords, in the said parish of Minchinhampton, or at the Warehouse of Playne and Smith, No. 3, Packer's-Court, Coleman-Street, London. Witness our hands this 31st day of December 1825. William Playne. Peter Playne. Danl. Smith. John Baxter. W. P. Wise.'[1]
1835 Partnership change. '...the Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned, carried on at Minchinhampton, in Gloucestershire, and at No, 22, Basinghall-Street, London, as Woollen Manufacturers and Warehousemen, under the firm of William Playne and Co. is this day dissolved, so far as concerns the undersigned- William Playne Wise : As witness our bands this 18th day of July 1835. William Playne, Jun William Playne Wise. John Wise.'[2]
1867 Partnership change. '... the Partnership lately Bursting between us the undersigned, William Playne, Peter Payne Smith, and Edmund Kimber, carrying on business as Woollen Cloth Manufacturers, at Minchinhampton, in the county of Gloucester, and No. 24, Basinghall-street, in the city of London, under the firm of William Playne and Company, was, on the 25th day of March, 1865, dissolved by mutual consent, so far as regards the said William Playne...'[3]
1920 Strachan and Co formed an association with Hunt and Winterbotham and William Playne and Co as Winterbotham, Strachan and Playne