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5-536: Walker Greenbank (LON: WGB) is a UK public company designing and manufacturing wallpaper and fabrics, with a history stretching back more than a century. It trades under several brands including Arthur Sanderson & Sons , Morris & Co. , Zoffany and Harlequin. Walker Greenbank prints wallpaper through its subsidiary Anstey Wallpaper Company in a substantial plant in Loughborough which produces wallpapers by modern high-speed processes but also by hand and has

10-485: Is now used as offices. After Arthur Sanderson's death, the business was taken over by his three sons, John, Arthur Bengough, and Harold. In 1919, Sanderson and Sons opened a new factory in Uxbridge to manufacture fabrics. In 1924, Arthur Bengough Sanderson received a Royal Warrant as "Purveyor of Wallpapers and Paints to King George V ". The original blocks for William Morris 's wallpaper designs were included in

15-624: The broadest range of production machinery in Europe. Fabrics are produced in Lancaster. 2016 sales were £88m and profits £10.4m. This article about a manufacturing company in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Arthur Sanderson %26 Sons Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd , now known simply as Sanderson , is a British manufacturer of fabrics and wallpaper , founded in 1860. The company

20-518: The purchase of Jeffrey & Co. When Morris & Co. was dissolved in 1940, Sanderson and Sons bought its wallpaper business and rights to use the Morris name. Today, those archives are held by the parent company Sanderson Design Group, which acquired Sanderson, along with Morris & Co and other historic brands, in 2003. The collection is held in Denham, Buckinghamshire , and is regularly used by

25-538: Was founded in 1860 in Islington , London, by Arthur Sanderson (1829–1882), who began by importing French wallpapers. After several moves, Sanderson established a factory of his own in Chiswick in 1879. An extension to the old factory was designed by Charles Voysey in 1902, and is now a Grade II* listed building called Voysey House. The old Chiswick factory, facing Voysey House, was gutted by fire in 1928 and

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