Ironfounders of Commercial Road, Exeter.
Members of the Bodley family ran iron foundry and engineering businesses in Exeter over a period of 177 years. An excellent account is available on-line. [1]
1866 C. M. Taylor takes Alfred Bodley into partnership.[2]
1897 Bodley retires and Alan Barcham Green joins
1901 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Christopher Mardon Taylor and Alan Barcham Green, trading under the style or firm of "Taylor and Bodley," at Northam's Foundry, Commercial-road, Exeter, as Ironfounders, Engineers, and Millwrights, has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the first day of January, 1900. All debts due to and from the firm will be received and paid by the said Alan Barcham Green, who will henceforth carry on the business for his own benefit, under the style of "Taylor and Bodley."'[3]
1926 Mentioned.[4]