Peter Ford & Sons
Active: 1904 -
Function: alabaster and stone merchants, plaster and cement manufacturers, quarry proprietors
Policy: ' Manufacturers of all kinds of Plaster, Ground Gypsum, etc..'.
'Specially prepared potters plaster, Gypsum Stone for Rockeries'.
Products & Services
Alabaster, 5cwt
Cost: 18s. 9d.
Notes: extra sawing, 15 ft, at cost of 0-7-6, total cost: 1-6-3
Keene's, Martin's and Parian Cements, Mineral White, etc...
Manufacturers of Large Grindstones for Edge Tool Works
'To Account rendered',
Cost: £25 1s. 3d.
Notes: addressed to Earley and Co., Dublin, 29 Feb., 1904.
Institutional and Business Connections
Managed Fauld Plaster Mines and Mills
1865
ECD/9, Loose Folder 2, no. (xxix, xlii).
Invoice of March 31st, 1904, states that the Fauld Mines are located near Sudbury.
Managed Alton and Stanton Stone Quarries
1865
ECD/9, Loose Folder 2, no. (xxix, xlii).
Supplier to Earley and Powells (later Earley and Co.)
23 June 1904
£1 5s. 15d.
Ford & Sons 'supplier to ' Earley & Co.
Earley & Co. Documentation, Box No. 2. Loose Folder 2, invoice dated 23rd June, 1904:
Alabaster, one piece, 5cwt 7/s, 0-18-9.
Gypsum Stone, extra 15ft, 0-7-6.
Sources
Earley and Company (Ecclesiastical Decorators) Documentation: Box 2 of 7 Earley and Company Documentation (ECD)
ECD/9, Loose Folder 2, no. (xxix, xlii).
Citing this record
'Peter Ford & Sons', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib3_1208799467, accessed 28 Mar 2023]
