company industry building materials 1 headquarters yeovil england operating income 180 million net income 4 million number of employees 1100 website www.bradfords.co.uk the bradfords group is a building supplies company with headquarters in yeovil somerset . the business trades as bradfords building supplies snows timber crendon timber engineering yeovil plumbing supplies and aspect roofing in over 40 uk locations . history edit there were bradfords in wiltshire from at least the 16th century . 2 william bradford who was born in 1750 and lived at thorney married ann richards in 1782 she worked with her husband in running their business which included coal merchants and quarries until he died in 1806 . 3 shortly after this she was joined by her son job 4 5 6 until her death in 1819 . in 1853 the great western railway line was opened from taunton to yeovil and jabez bradford started the yeovil branch of the business . gwr came to an agreement with the bradford family for sidings to be built near yeovil station ; 7 jabez would be mayor of yeovil from 1880 1882 . references edit bradfords building supplies limited . duedil . retrieved 26 july 2014 . wiltshire and swindon archive catalogue wills information . wiltshire council . retrieved 22 november 2015 . will of william bradford yeoman of kingsbury episcopi somerset . national archives . retrieved 22 november 2015 . greenfield david . chapter 6 the inception of the parrett navigation company . i.k. brunel and william gravatt 1826 1841 pdf . university of portsmouth . 1841 census kingsbury episcopi lambrook somerset . transcribed by sarah hawkins . roots web . retrieved 22 november 2015 . buying and selling land pdf . south petherton information . retrieved 22 november 2015 . john hallett 1821 1899 . nick gould family history . retrieved 22 november 2015 . external links edit bradford building supplies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bradfords group & oldid 703918484 categories companies based in yeovilbuilding materials companies of the united kingdomhidden categories use dmy dates from november 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 february 2016 at 12 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view