Includes photographs of premises, staff and events , correspondence, a scrapbook of cuttings and ephemera relating to the history of the company, press releases, company brochures and plans (2) of company premises in Greenhill Street 1984.
DR1413
1930-2000
0.009 m3 [3 files]
open
fond
DR982/39: company legal documents. See also DR1069/2/166 letter relating to the history of the company Edward Fox Son.
The company was founded c1880 by Edward Fox. Edward Fox moved from Birmingham to Stratford in the 1860s to take over the new weekly newspaper the Stratford Herald, setting up his own printing and stationery business a few years later. A partnership was formed between Edward Fox, printer and stationer, and his son Harry Fox, printer, 9 Oct 1913, and this became a private company Edward Fox Son Ltd when it was bought by its major client NFU Mutual Insurance Society Ltd in 1929. The company premises were originally situated on the corner of High Street and Bridge Street, then in Bridge Street from c1900 to 1930 when it moved to larger premises in Greenhill Street. A new purpose-built printing works was opened in Masons Road in 1994.
