More guild living

Following yesterday's post at reference 1, I have now received my first email from Guild Living. From which I learn that all four of their projects, that is to say Bath, Epsom, Walton and Uxbridge, are all in the planning stage.

Now

Then

Also that the corporate HQ is inside what used to be the Metal Box factory in Great Guildford Street off Southwark Street. The name is vaguely familiar so I feel sure that I must have Bullingdon'd down it or past it. A Metal Box factory which used to the home of Barclay & Fry Ltd, Printers, Stationers and Tin Box Makers. Or to be more exact, Metal Box was the result of the merger of four tin box manufacturers in the difficult times after the first world war, one of which was Barclay & Fry. Originally more into printing the sort of paper needed by Barclay's Bank, another part of the same family. Got into making tin boxes by way of printing stuff on tin boxes. Read all about it at reference 2 - a digitised version of a company history from the National Library of Australia of all places.

PS: a little later: I now associate to the fact that I once lived in the same bed-sit house as a wannabee commercial artist who had done a commission for Metal Box which involved reworking the logos and livery for their lorries, which one used to see in the streets at that time.

Reference 1: http://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/08/guild-living.html.

Reference 2: https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6578591. The source of the second snap above. The left hand part of the first snap is the bottom right hand, street side corner of the building in the left hand part of the second hand.