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Wimpey
George Wimpey was a British construction firm. Formed in 1880 and based in Hammersmith, it initially operated largely as a road surfacing contractor. The business was acquired by Godfrey Mitchell in 1919, and he developed it into a construction and housebuilding firm. In July 2007, Wimpey merged with Taylor Woodrow to create Taylor Wimpey. Wimpey was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1934. History Early years The business was founded by George Wimpey and Walter Tomes as a stone working partnership in 1880 in Hammersmith.White, p. 2 The company built the first Hammersmith Town Hall in 1896, and went on to lay the foundations for the first "electric tramway" in London in the late 1890s. The company also built the White City Stadium complex which included a series of pavilions and gardens for the Franco British Exhibition of 1908 as well as an 80,000-seat Olympic stadium for the 1908 Olympic Games. The Mitchell Era George Wimpey died in 1913 at the age of 58. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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George Wimpey was a British construction firm. Formed in 1880 and based in Hammersmith, it initially operated largely as a road surfacing contractor. The business was acquired by Godfrey Mitchell in 1919, and he developed it into a construction and housebuilding firm. In July 2007, Wimpey merged with Taylor Woodrow to create Taylor Wimpey. Wimpey was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1934. History Early years The business was founded by George Wimpey and Walter Tomes as a stone working partnership in 1880 in Hammersmith.White, p. 2 The company built the first Hammersmith Town Hall in 1896, and went on to lay the foundations for the first "electric tramway" in London in the late 1890s. The company also built the White City Stadium complex which included a series of pavilions and gardens for the Franco British Exhibition of 1908 as well as an 80,000-seat Olympic stadium for the 1908 Olympic Games. The Mitchell Era George Wimpey died in 1913 at the age of 58. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Wimpey
Taylor Wimpey plc (formerly Taylor Woodrow plc) is one of the largest home construction companies in the United Kingdom. The company was created from the merger of rivals Taylor Woodrow and George Wimpey on 3 July 2007. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Its headquarters are based in High Wycombe, England. History Taylor Woodrow Taylor Woodrow was founded in 1921 by 16-year-old Frank Taylor as ''Taylor, Woodrow Limited''. Though Taylor had borrowed money to build two houses in Blackpool, as he was too young to form his own company, his uncle Jack Woodrow lent his name to the business. In the 1930s, Taylor Woodrow diversified into building temporary hospitals, and thereby moved into general construction. Taylor Woodrow Homes constituted a relatively small part of the business, and with housing sales declining in the following 50 years, at the beginning of the 1980s, Taylor Woodrow Homes was still only building around 500 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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George Wimpey was a British construction firm. Formed in 1880 and based in Hammersmith, it initially operated largely as a road surfacing contractor. The business was acquired by Godfrey Mitchell in 1919, and he developed it into a construction and housebuilding firm. In July 2007, Wimpey merged with Taylor Woodrow to create Taylor Wimpey. Wimpey was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1934. History Early years The business was founded by George Wimpey and Walter Tomes as a stone working partnership in 1880 in Hammersmith.White, p. 2 The company built the first Hammersmith Town Hall in 1896, and went on to lay the foundations for the first "electric tramway" in London in the late 1890s. The company also built the White City Stadium complex which included a series of pavilions and gardens for the Franco British Exhibition of 1908 as well as an 80,000-seat Olympic stadium for the 1908 Olympic Games. The Mitchell Era George Wimpey died in 1913 at the age of 58. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Woodrow
Taylor Woodrow was one of the largest housebuilding and general construction companies in Britain. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until its merger with rival George Wimpey to create Taylor Wimpey on 3 July 2007. History Early years Frank Taylor was working in the family fruit wholesaling business in Blackpool when, in 1921, at the age of 16, he persuaded his father that he could build a house for them to live in. With some capital from his father and a loan from the bank, Frank Taylor built a pair of semi detached houses, selling one at a good profit. It was only after financing Taylor's growing housebuilding work for another two years that the bank manager realised that his client was under the legal age for conveying land and uncle Jack Woodrow was brought into the business, creating the Taylor Woodrow name. In 1930, Frank Taylor moved down from Blackpool to London where Taylor Woodrow rapidly expanded the scale of i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wimpey (businessman)
George Wimpey (1855–1913) was an English stonemason, builder and founder of the house building and construction company George Wimpey, which became one of the largest construction companies in the United Kingdom. Career George Wimpey was born at Brook Green in Hammersmith in 1855 and later lived at 84 The Grove in Hammersmith.''Wimpey - The First 100 Years'', published 1980 In 1888 he went into partnership with Walter Tomes and together they created a business which, under their leadership, constructed many buildings including the first Hammersmith Town Hall and the White City Stadium, venue of the 1908 Olympic Games. In later life he became Vice President of the Marlborough Cricket Club and one of the founding shareholders of Chelsea Football Club. He died on 10 February 1913 aged 58 and is buried in the Hammersmith Cemetery Margravine Cemetery, also known as Hammersmith Cemetery, is in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The closest London Underground stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford Chetwood
Sir Clifford Jack Chetwood FRSA (2 November 1928 – 9 February 2009) was a British business man who was chairman of George Wimpey, a major construction company, in the 1980s and 1990s. He was a leader in the building of the Channel Tunnel by TML and a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Early life The son of Stanley Jack Chetwood, a builder, and Doris May Palmer, he was born in Fulham in November 1928."CHETWOOD , Sir Clifford Jack; Kt. (1987)" in ''Debrett's People of Today'' (2006), p. 296 His grandfather, Valentine Chetwood, who died in 1944, was a Hackney carriage driver. In 1953, Chetwood married Pamela Sherlock, and they went on to have three daughters and a son. Business career Chetwood was appointed as managing director and chief executive of Wimpey in 1982, then also became chairman of the company in 1984. At that time, it had over 40,000 employees and annual revenue of £1 billion, divided between a large number of British subsidiaries. Chetwood set out to conver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loch Tummel
Loch Tummel (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Teimheil) is a long, narrow loch, northwest of Pitlochry in the council area of Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is fed and drained by the River Tummel, which flows into the River Tay about south-east of the Clunie Dam at the loch's eastern end.Ordnance Survey. ''Explorer'' Map 1:25000. Sheet OL49, Pitlochry & Loch Tummel. The loch is traversed by roads to both north and south. Along the northern side the road is numbered as the B8019, and runs from the Pass of Killiecrankie on the A9 in the east to Tummel Bridge at the head of the loch. The road on the southern side is unclassified, and meets the A9 further south, near to Pitlochry. The loch gives its name to the Loch Tummel National Scenic Area (NSA), one of 40 such areas in Scotland, which are defined so as to identify areas of exceptional scenery and to ensure its protection by restricting certain forms of development. The Loch Tummel Lyon NSA covers , all of which lies within Perth and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Valley
Team Valley is a trading estate located in Gateshead. It is home to the Retail World retail park, with many large, international companies are based in the area's trading estate. In 2017, there were approximately 700 companies on the estate, employing approximately 20,000 people. The residential area known as the Teams is adjacent to Dunston. History In the 1930s, the Government decided to spend nearly £2 million on this part of Gateshead, establishing the Team Valley Trading Estate as a well-planned industrial environment. The architect in charge was William Holford, with Hugh Beaver as chief engineer. It included a central headquarters, now used by English Partnerships, a bank, post office, and some modestly scaled industrial buildings, as well as some smaller industrial units for start-up ventures. These facilities were laid out along a wide central artery, known as ''Kingsway'', almost long. Work on the estate began in May 1936, and the first factory opened in the Octob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Laing Plc
John Laing Group plc is a British investor, developer and operator of privately financed, public sector infrastructure projects such as roads, railways, hospitals and schools through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and Private Finance Initiative (PFI) arrangements. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index until the court approved the acquisition of the company by KKR in September 2021. History The business can trace its roots back to 1848 when James Laing (born in 1816), along with his wife Ann Graham, and some employees whom they had hired, built a house on a plot of land that they had bought for £30 in Cumberland. The £150 proceeds from the first house financed the building of the next two houses on the same plot of land, one of which (Caldew House in Sebergham) was kept by the Laing family to live in. The family and the business later moved near Carlisle. When James Laing died in 1882, his son, John Laing (born in 1842) too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White City Stadium
White City Stadium was a stadium located in White City, London, England. Built for the 1908 Summer Olympics, it hosted the finish of the first modern marathon and other sports like swimming, speedway, boxing, show jumping, athletics, stock car racing, concerts and a match at the 1966 World Cup. From 1927, it was a venue for greyhound racing, hosting the English Greyhound Derby until its closure in 1984. The stadium was demolished in 1985 and the site is now occupied by White City Place. History Designed by the engineer J. J. Webster and completed in 10 months by George Wimpey, on part of the site of the Franco-British Exhibition, this stadium with a seating capacity of 68,000 was opened by King Edward VII on 27 April 1908 after the first stanchion had been placed in position by Lady Desborough on 2 August 1907. The cost of construction was £60,000. Upon completion, the stadium had a running track and three laps to the mile (536 m); outside there was a , cycle track. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McLean Homes
McLean Homes was a major British housebuilding business. It was bought by a major construction company, Tarmac, in 1972 and the brand ceased to be used in 1996. History The business was formed in 1920 by John McLean and incorporated in 1932. From the early 1950s the Company moved progressively into private housebuilding in the west midlands. It also developed similar homes in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland at the same time. It was the second generation Geoffrey McLean who led the company's post-war growth. He was notable for the modern application of marketing methods, including the part exchange of customers' existing house, careful estate layouts and timber-framed production."Building" April 1967 Growth after the flotation was disappointing and in 1969 the company acquired ''Midland & General Developments'', then controlled by one-time estate agent Eric Pountain. In that year there were further losses on local authority housing contracts and McLean profits fell below their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey Way Mitchell
Sir Godfrey Way Mitchell (31 October 1891 – 9 December 1982) was a construction engineer and entrepreneur who built up George Wimpey into a thriving business. Career Born in Peckham and educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School at Hatcham, Godfrey Mitchell joined ''Rowe & Mitchell'', his father's quarrying business on Alderney on leaving school. He was given a temporary commission in the Royal Engineers in 1916 and served in France. On demobilisation he returned to England and acquired George Wimpey turning it from a small construction company into a thriving business that exploited the need for new housing after World War I. He was Chairman of the Company from 1930 to 1973 and Life President from 1973 until his death. A keen amateur cricketer, he also served as Master of the Worshipful Company of Paviors in 1948. Godfrey Mitchell was knighted in 1948. In 1957 he became a member of the Restrictive Practices Court. He died in Beaconsfield in 1982. Family In 1929 he m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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