Bradfords Group

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The Bradfords Group
Privately owned company
Industry Building materials [1]
Headquarters
Yeovil
,
England
£180 million
£4 million
Number of employees
1100
Website www.bradfords.co.uk

The Bradfords Group is a building supplies company with headquarters in Yeovil, Somerset. The business trades as Bradfords Building Supplies and Yeovil Plumbing Supplies in over 40 UK locations. In the year just ended (2018-2019), and following the resignation of the CEO Mark Eburne, the group reported a loss of £14M.

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History

There were Bradfords in Wiltshire from at least the 16th century. [2] William Bradford, who was born in 1750 and lived at Thorney, married Ann Richards in 1782: she worked with her husband in running their business, which included coal merchants and quarries, until he died in 1806. [3] Shortly after this she was joined by her son Job [4] [5] [6] until her death in 1819.

In 1853 the Great Western Railway line was opened from Taunton to Yeovil, and Jabez Bradford started the Yeovil branch of the business. GWR came to an agreement with the Bradford family for sidings to be built near Yeovil Station; [7] Jabez would be mayor of Yeovil from 1880-1882.

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References

  1. ↑ "Bradfords building supplies limited". DueDil. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Wiltshire and Swindon Archive Catalogue - Wills Information". Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Will of William Bradford, Yeoman of Kingsbury Episcopi, Somerset". National Archives. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Greenfield, David. "Chapter 6 The Inception of the Parrett Navigation Company. I.K. Brunel and William Gravatt, 1826-1841" (PDF). University of Portsmouth.
  5. ↑ "1841 Census Kingsbury Episcopi Lambrook Somerset. Transcribed by Sarah Hawkins". Roots Web. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "Buying and Selling land" (PDF). South Petherton Information. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  7. ↑ "John Hallett (1821 - 1899)". Nick Gould Family History. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
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