Catalogue description JAMES FOOT LTD OF DORCHESTER

This record is held by Dorset History Centre

Details of D1204
Reference: D1204
Title: JAMES FOOT LTD OF DORCHESTER
Description:

Sales ledgers, purchase notes and records of grain purchases.
Date: 1906-1980
Held by: Dorset History Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

James Foot Ltd, Dorchester, Dorset, corn merchants
Physical description: 6 files
Administrative / biographical background:

James Foot first appears in the 1895 Kelly's directory as a corn merchant and miller at 36 South Street and Lower Burton mill. By 1907 the business is described as an 'army, navy and government contractor; corn, seed, oilcake, hay, straw and forage merchant and haulier, 25 South Street and stores, Maumbury Road; and miller, Burton mills and Charminster mills'. In 1927 the business appears as a limited company, and also acted as a coal and manure merchant, nurseryman and seedsman. The company exists today [1993], operating from Maumbury road.

 

The shop in South Street closed in 1992.
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