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Sunday, 1st August 2010

 
13 BASILDON BOND

BASILDON Bond is perhaps Dickinson's best known brand, but it was not born at one of the company's mills/

It was originated by the firm of Millington and Sons which was founded in the reign of George IV.

In the summer of 1911 Millington’s was considering the introduction of a new rag writing paper and some of the directors of the company were staying at a country house in a little Thamesside village near Goring.

The name of the village was Basildon and that was the name given to the paper.
In 1918 John Dickinson and Co purchased the share capital of Millington and Sons Ltd and the Millington chairmanHenry Godfrey became the chairman of both companies.

The two companies continued to trade independently until 1932 when the final amalgamation took place.

Perhaps one of the best remebered views of Dickinson’s is the main entrance seen here in the early 1930s with the chairman’s car parked outside

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