Category: Trade: Builder

Culverhouse Bros.

1966

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Culverhouse Bros.
Building Contractors.
Plumbers and Decorators.
Sanitary Engineers.

Prompt and personal attention to all orders.

Estimates given for all classes of work in the building trade.

Church Street, Warminster.
Phone Warminster 2185.
Private telephone: Warminster 2165 and 3002.

A.E. Farr, Ltd.

1966

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A.E. Farr, Ltd.
Station Road, Westbury, Wilts.
Telephone Westbury 356 (5 lines).

Civil Engineering and Building Contractors.

Departments:

Civil Engineering: Earth Moving and Levelling, Pile Driving and Heavy Foundations, Road and Bridge Building, Sewers and Water Mains, Tunnels and Outfalls, Reservoirs and Water Towers, Cooling Towers, Chimneys and Silos, Wharves and Jetties, Railway Stations, etc.

Building, Factories, Offices, Schools, Garages, etc.

Plant Hire: Excavators, Trenchers, Bulldozers, Scrapers, Dumpers, Rollers, Compressors, Mixers, Concrete Pumps, Pile Frames, Winches and Hammers, Mobile Cranes, etc.

Heavy Haulage: Special machinery, Carriers and Low-Loading Lorries for carrying heavy plant and machinery up to 30 tons weight, dismantling and erection of heavy machinery undertaken.

Corsley Wagon Works, 1922

1922

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Corsley Wagon Works
(White and Whitmarsh).
Builders, Wheelwrights, Smiths, &c.
Carts, Drays, Floats, Vans, Wagons, Lorries,
built to order with good materials and workmanship.
All repairs at moderate prices.
Funerals furnished.

Messrs. R. Butcher & Son, 1900

The Pictorial Record, Volume III, no. 26. September 1900, included:

Among the most important of local concerns is the large building and contracting business of Messrs. R. Butcher & Son, which dates back some seventy years. A great uncle of the present proprietor, who carried on the trade of a plasterer only, was the founder of the concern, but in the hands of his successor, Mr. James Grant, it became a general decorating business. Then the present owner’s father became proprietor, and since his decease, building, joinery, masonry and other departments have been added. Mr. Butcher also trades extensively as a line burner and lime merchant, renting the quarries on the Downs near the town, where the lime burning has been carried on for generations. The product is a very superior one, and is in demand practically in every centre of the building trade in England, Mr. Butcher’s enterprise being mainly responsible for this, he having made what was previously a local trade into one of large outside connections.

The general building and storage yards are at 14 Church Street and 2 Silver Street, there being at both places a large and comprehensive stock of builders’ and contractors’ materials. There are good joinery shops, stores for painters’ and decorators’ materials and impedimenta, masons’ sheds, glaziers’ shop, stables and other indispensable adjuncts of an all-round business.

Scaffolding, flag stones and stone rough or wrought, can be supplied in any quantity, as well as timber, lime, cement, and the materials of the building trades generally.

The firm contract for the erection and equipment of buildings, and have a large general jobbing business. As paper hangers and decorators, too, they hold a leading place, and are equally at home in plain and elaborate work of this class. Estimates in this or other departments are furnished free, and work can always be put in hand and finished promptly. Mr. Butcher personally superintends everything, and being himself a thoroughly practical man, bred to the business, this is a guarantee of satisfaction to his clients.