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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Pickersgill and Frost
Place	Langley Mill
Place	Langley Mill
Epithet	iron founders
Dates	c1873-1969
History	The business was founded in the early 1870s by Samuel Pickersgill (1828-1890) and John William Frost (1831-1893). The manufacture of stove grates and fireplaces was undertaken at the Star Foundry, Eagle Street, Derby with a showroom at Siddals Road, Derby. In 1895, under the management of John William Frost's sons, Albert Booker Frost (1864-1913) and John Arthur Frost (1869- 1961) the business moved to a foundry at Langley Mill, previously occuipied by the Langley Mill Steel and Iron Works Company. The business closed in 1969.
Source	- Derbyshire Historic Environment Record, Monument MDR11517 - British Newspaper Archive - Wright's Directory of South Derbyshire (1874)
Authorised Form of Name	Langley Mill; Pickersgill and Frost; c1873-1969; iron founders
Cataloguing Notes	History researched and written by cataloguing volunteer Roger Jennens, December 2021.

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