Catalogue description Records of Poole Brothers Galbraith and Company Limited (and of its Predecessors William Galbraith and Poole Brothers.

This record is held by Bristol Archives

Details of 35036
Reference: 35036
Title: Records of Poole Brothers Galbraith and Company Limited (and of its Predecessors William Galbraith and Poole Brothers.
Description:

Volumes of financial and administrative records.

 

Records of Bristol Cement Merchants' Association

 

Papers and plans re quarries and building contracts

 

Papers and plans re Poole's Wharf

 

Plans re Bathurst Swing Bridge and College Green

 

Papers re various company vessels

 

Miscellaneous papers

 

Photographs

 

Company stationery and posters
Date: 1845-1965
Held by: Bristol Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Poole Brothers Galbraith and Company Limited, Bristol, sand, gravel and coal merchants, 1919-1963

Bristol Sand and Gravel Company

British Dredging (Bristol) Limited

C F Bowles and Sons, Cardiff
Physical description: 154 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Mr. Groves of British Dredging (Bristol) Limited, 129 Redcliffe Street, Bristol 1
Administrative / biographical background:

The firm was formed from two earlier businesses in 1919. Both firms had premises at Poole's Wharf, 139 Hotwell Road before the merger and this remained the main depot. They were principally coal merchants but later became sand and gravel merchants as well.

 

In 1963 the firm was taken over by the Bristol Sand and Gravel Company (later to become British Dredging (Bristol) Limited), which amalgamated in 1964 with F.Bowles and Sons, a private company in Cardiff, and subsequently became a public company. Trading in coal ceased in 1966.
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