Reference NumberD1
TitleMEREDITH AND HINGLEY BUILDERS AND UNDERTAKERS, CRADLEY
DescriptionThis collection contains accounts, including balance sheets, purchase and sales ledgers, and invoices; personnel records including salary and wage books; a contracts book.
Date1954 - c.1990
TermBuilding industry
Undertakers
AccessStatusOpen
Extent2 boxes.
LevelFonds
AdminHistoryMeredith & Hingley, Builders and Undertakers, was set up by Arthur Harry Meredith, and later taken over by his son, Rex Arthur Meredith. Meredith & Hingley, Builders, appear in Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire in 1924 at Spring Street, Cradley, but by 1954 had moved to Furlong Lane, Cradley.

Amongst the records was an Accounts Ledger of Cradley Church of England School (January 1952 - January 1969). This school was built by Meredith & Hingley. The Accounts Ledger has been placed with other records of Cradley Church of England School (See Schools Records Catalogue ).

The records in this collection were deposited at Dudley Archives & Local History Service as accession number 9114 and were catalogued as part of the 'Documenting the Workshop of the World' Project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, February 2005
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/604Meredith & Hingley; c.1920s-c.1970sc.1920s-c.1970s
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