Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
1936 Company formed[1]
1936 Wallpapers (Consolidated) Ltd made a share issue in order to fund the acquisition of 4 wallpaper manufacturers and 95 percent of William Pinchin and Co[2]
1955 Merger with private wallpaper retailer, Ben Blaskey Ltd; company renamed Blaskeys (Wallpapers) Ltd[3] which then became a public company[4]
1971 Blaskeys was taken over by Leyland Paint and Wallpaper[5]
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