Bill Beaumont
Textiles can trace its history back over five generations of family
ownership - to 1888, in fact, when Joseph Hargreaves set up a small
weaving shed in Chorley, Lancashire, to supply niche products to the local
cotton markets. Subsequent growth and diversification resulted in a move
to merchant converting and, more recently under the guidance of the
current owner Bill Beaumont, into domestic furnishings. Bill Beaumont,
great-great-grandson of the firm's founder, earned a well deserved
reputation for honesty and integrity both on the Rugby pitch as England
Captain and on BBC TV's Question of Sport programme, values which are
upheld in the business today.
