H TOMLINSON & SON LTD

We value a proficient workforce, and as part of our investment in our staff, we encourage professional and personal development and provide training to improve skill sets, reward their effort and excellence, and provide employment to local apprentices by establishing long-term partnerships with local training centres and groups. H Tomlinson & Son Ltd is a forward thinking company, and we actively integrate our Operational Management System within any project framework, including Health & Safety, Quality Management, the Environment, and considerate construction for all. Above all, we offer experience, added value, professionalism, integrity and full commitment to your project. Henry Tomlinson trained as a bricklayer and was admitted as a member of the Operative Society of Bricklayers Walsall branch, 26th August 1893. The first record of houses built by him is for 6 houses in Florence Street, Walsall, in 1902.

In 1923 he entered into partnership with his son, Frank Tomlinson, and the firm became known as H Tomlinson & Son. Beside his son Frank, he had two daughters and three sons, who were all born and lived in Birchills. Two of his sons, Ernest and Wilfred, worked for the firm, and Wilfred’s two sons Roy and Claude, joined the company in 1943 and 1946 respectively. Claude’s son, Mark Tomlinson, joined the company in 1984.

Henry Tomlinson, then H Tomlinson & Son, traded from its currant address in Birchills Street from 1938 onwards to the present day. In 2008, Claude Tomlinson retired, however he expressed a wish that the company remain a family-run business, and Richard Edis, who with over 20 years experience in the construction industry, with firms like Bovis and Wimpey, bought the company, and Edis Developments Ltd became incorporated into H Tomlinson & Son Ltd May 20th 2008. In so doing, the company remains a family run business, now directly employing 45 people.