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STRATFORDS GROUP
The group was founded by George William Stratford (referred to as GWS). He was born in 1882 in Northampton, a son of a shop assistant ironmonger. GWS followed the same line, became fully apprenticed and eventually took a job in Norwich, in Colmans. Also working at Colmans was a Herbert Carnegie whose sister, Miss Emily Gertrude eventually became his wife.
After the end of the Boer War GWS went off to South Africa to seek his fortune, starting as a free-tracking ox-cart packman. Having brought his father to join him, eventually the whole Stratford family came to South Africa moving to Johannesburg where the father set up an ironmonger shop. Emily, a trained teacher, also accompanied them.
GWS, having his qualification as an ironmonger, became a railwayman and stationmaster. He and EGS married and in due course they had one daughter, Audrey, the present proprietor of the firm. While she was still a toddler the family returned to Norwich and decided to stay there. GWS starting as an assistant in an ironmonger shop and occupying his spare time in the Territorial Army, so in 1914 when war broke out on August Bank Holiday, GWS reported to his regiment on that same day. Unfortunately his health was not adequate for the infantry so he did not continue in the Royal Norfolk Regiment but was transferred to the Army Service Corps Becoming a Staff Sergeant working as an enlister in King's Lynn. There, wishing to keep his family near him he obtained the lease of the Coffee Tavern (demolished in 1936 and replaced by Burtons) which offered full restaurant facilities and billiards as well as various sales. During this period he readily took advantage of opportunities afforded both in the Army and in the business.
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