Our warehousing and transport company has established a place for itself in Bradford’s economy which is unrivalled in the city.
Bower Green Warehousing Ltd was established as long ago as 1953 as a warehousing company serving the wool and textile community, and it’s still a family concern.
The business was founded on 8th July 1953 by Donald Pattison who had previously been a wool sorter. A keen young entrepreneur Donald would have started out for himself rather earlier but for call up into the forces
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In the 1950s however cranes, hand carts and lots of manual labour were then still the order of the day, unlike today when skilled fork lift truck drivers and HGV drivers are used alongside computers and calculators. The still small firm stayed at Trafalgar Street for five years before moving to Buttershaw Mills where it would remain based for the next ten years until it made a move to Green Hill Mills at Laisterdyke before transferring its operations to the firm's present premises in Bradford's Dryden Stree
For years there was no continuity of business, there were always ups and downs in the trade cycle which inevitably made life immensely difficult for the Pattisons as they struggled to develop their business against an evermore hostile economic background in the textile industry. Life was certainly not easy, but as the saying goes 'when the going gets tough the tough get going'. Through the ensuing decades the Pattison family worked to ensure that their firm survived where many others fell by the wayside
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Endless hours of work, investment and innovation, seeding new markets and new opportunities would ensure that what had begun as a tiny undertaking would slowly but steadily grow, surviving the successive waves of boom and bust.
Roger, Alan and Jodie, the founder's grandchildren now run the company with Alan being the Managing Director, also introducing the fourth generation of the Pattison family joining the company with Roger's son Joseph working alongside him in the main warehouse on Florence Street, Bradford
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The business was founded on 8th July 1953 by Donald Pattison who had previously been a wool sorter. A keen young entrepreneur Donald would have started out for himself rather earlier but for call up into the forces
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In the 1950s however cranes, hand carts and lots of manual labour were then still the order of the day, unlike today when skilled fork lift truck drivers and HGV drivers are used alongside computers and calculators. The still small firm stayed at Trafalgar Street for five years before moving to Buttershaw Mills where it would remain based for the next ten years until it made a move to Green Hill Mills at Laisterdyke before transferring its operations to the firm's present premises in Bradford's Dryden Street.
