Nicks Timber
The firm of Nicks & Co has been importing timber through Gloucester for more than 150 years and can claim to be Gloucester’s longest established independent business. Founded by William Nicks, it has remained essentially a family concern through five generations.
History By Chapter
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Chapter Eight
Read now1920's A LITTLE BIT OF A WINDOW ON UNIONS AND WORK IN THE 1920's A surviving agreement between the employers and the Dock Wharf Riverside and General Workers Union who controlled the labour that every timber yard employed shows that...
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Chapter Eleven
Read nowIn July 1939, Nicks & Co agreed to take half of a cargo of 600 standards of spruce being shipped from Digby and St Johns in Canada, with neighbours Griggs & Co taking the other half. To aid discharge, Nicks...
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Chapter Eighteen
Read nowA little background on how I came to Gloucester and Nicks . The final Ship to bring Timber to Gloucester would discharge at Monk Meadow Hempstead 1987 for my old company at the time Williams & Farmer Ltd where I...