S Morris Ltd

Founded in the shadow of the First World War by Siddie Morris, the grandfather of the current Managing Director, the company began trading as a stone haulage contractor with just a single horse and cart. The company developed throughout the Twenties with the introduction of motorised lorries and by 1930 the company began its first quarrying activities with the purchase of Tout Quarry at Charlton Adam, the site of the present Head Office. Throughout the Thirties and Forties the company expanded its quarrying and haulage activities and during the Fifties began the manufacture of ready mix concrete and precast concrete products. Further expansion occurred in the Sixties with the acquisition of the limestone quarry at Gurney Slade and the formation of a new operating company, Morris & Perry Limited, to develop the quarrying activities at Gurney Slade. In the Seventies production of concrete blocks began at Charlton Adam with egg-layers and in 1983 a new static block factory was ...