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Cardiff Baths Company Limited  
                   

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WALES: Cardiff: Guildford Crescent

 
                
          

Please note that, as handwriting is often unclear, names of shareholders are indicative only. When accuracy is important, visitors should consult the original documents;
those with PRO references will be found at The National Archives (Public Record Office, Kew)

                      

 

             
PRO: BT31 550/2231 (All information  is taken from this file unless specifically footnoted)

1861 Memorandum of Association: 19 April

Capital: £2,500 divided into 250 shares of £10

Objects include: Provision of Swimming, hot and cold, vapour, Turkish baths and baths of any other description.

Registered Office: 1 Church Street (7 June)

Shareholders:

c.80 shareholders with maximum holding of 10 shares; most hold between 1 and 5 shares; [cf Rochdale, but more middle class]

1862 Directors include:

J H Insole (Ch)

Secretary: Thomas Waring (Architect of the Baths)

Establishment opened: 1 May (s-0398)

1866 Secretary and Lessee: Thomas Waring

5 year lease, at 4% on the capital

New cooling-room constructed (s-0389)

1867 c.72 shareholders (9 July)

1869 Directors include:

J H Insole (Ch)

Secretary: Thomas Waring (s-0398)

1870 Directors include:

J H Insole (Ch)

H J Paine

Secretary: Thomas Waring (s-0398)

Registered Officer: B Matthews (s-0399)

c.70 shareholders (8 November)

1873 Voluntary liquidation: 11 May

1882 No returns were filed between the years 1872-81

Dissolved under Clause 7(4): 7 March

    

 
 


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