Bath and Portland Stone Firms
Bath and Portland Stone Firms Ltd. of 6-7 Kingston Buildings, Bath (Head Office) and Portland (Works). London Office (Grosvenor Gardens House, S.W.I. (1949).
Owner of stone quarries and stone mines; supplier of stone and concrete products.
1888 Business established by the amalgamation of Stone Bros., Ltd. (Bath), Randell Saunders & Co., Ltd. (Corsham), The Corsham Bath Stone Co., Ltd. (Corsham), R. J. Marsh & Co., Ltd. (Box), Pictor & Sons (Box), Isaac Sumsion (Bath), S. R. Noble (Box).
1888 Incorporated as a Limited Company.
1889 Purchased 6-7 Kingston Buildings and 1 Church Street, Bath, for use as a head office.
Subsequently amalgamated Weston Quarries Co. and Stewards & Co., Ltd. (Portland).
1897 27 Dec: Registered as a limited company.[1]
1960 Names changed to the Bath and Portland Group[2]
1970 Sold the Bath office.