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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => London and Middlesex => Topic started by: ValJJJ on Sunday 17 August 25 16:45 BST (UK)
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Here's a little puzzle.
I was searching British Newspaper Archive online for Gretchen B L Campbell and found her listed as a director for this new company Universal Amusements Ltd. Stated in the The Stage 19 Sep 1935 edition page 2. With the address I already had for her. I was actually searching to find the date of her divorce from Alfred Claude Campbell. She remarried in 1946 but I know they had divorced by 1944 from his service record.
I do have quite a lot of info on her before this, and also on Alfred, before and after, but I'm intrigued by the fate of this company. Its registered office was Kent House, 87 Regent St, W1. I can't find any reference to it in the London Gazette and nor can I find anything else in the newspaper archive for the company or the other director, who wasn't Alfred. Assuming there was a minimum age of 21 to be a director (no idea though), he is unlikely to be alive so should I give his name here?
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Striking off in 1971 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/45312/page/1661
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Well found and thank you - I do not do well with London Gazette searches.
If it was ended that late, I might be able to find it on Companies House, so will look.
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No nothing online at Companies House, but perhaps the online info doesn't go back that far.
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The other director lived at 61 Hamilton Terrace, St John's Wood, NW8. I'm looking in trade directories for Gretchen Campbell and him.
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Found the death in 1989 of the other director so can give his name. Ralph C S L Williams. I found his full name in the London Gazette: Ralph Charles Linskill Stainthorpe Williams, Chartered Accountant. 21 June 1938 in the bankruptcy court. Of 155 Grove Hall Court, St John's Wood.
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Don’t know if this is the same company?
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/d28b0c74-ba8a-486f-adda-bbc3f5781c2d
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/a765cac4-a5b6-4a46-a2f7-62e10218d3d2
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/e9f1b78f-1ba4-4367-adcf-79524dd5d2bd
Presume this is the Cecil David Dent in second clip
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/06/david-dent-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Thanks, could be? If so, it looks like the company activities changed later along with directors. The original announcement was that the company was 'to carry on the business of caterers for all classes of entertainment and amusement, constructors of theatres, kinemas, halls etc'. Which I don't think the company name conveyed as it sounded like they were providing amusements, not catering.
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Thanks, could be? If so, it looks like the company activities changed later along with directors. The original announcement was that the company was 'to carry on the business of caterers for all classes of entertainment and amusement, constructors of theatres, kinemas, halls etc'. Which I don't think the company name conveyed as it sounded like they were providing amusements, not catering.
I think the word caterers is meant in the sense of catering to, rather than catering for. So not to do with food.
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I thought that first too, but ‘catering for constructors’ is odd. Would constructors need entertainers? Perhaps have them lined up ready for the opening date?
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Don’t know if this is the same company?
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/d28b0c74-ba8a-486f-adda-bbc3f5781c2d
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/a765cac4-a5b6-4a46-a2f7-62e10218d3d2
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-share/e9f1b78f-1ba4-4367-adcf-79524dd5d2bd
Presume this is the Cecil David Dent in second clip
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/06/david-dent-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Cecil David Dent is in the 1939 register as a schoolboy born 1922, with his father Maurice A being a film distributor and one of his brothers, Harry, being an assistant film director and producer.