Collins family

Sectors:

  • Professional services Architecture, interior design, & landscape & garden design services
  • Construction Other construction & civil engineering exc railways, roads & inland navigations
  • Property activities Residential property development & management

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Traced origins in business to William J Collins, 1856-1939, who developed a house building business in the Hornsey area of north London from the 1870s. By 1881 employing 17 men. Thereafter grew his business rapidly, building suburban housing on a speculative basis, particularly at Crouch End and later at Muswell Hill. Particularly noted for Roofield Estate development. His brother Frank was also a builder and on some projects the two worked in partnership. Two of W J Collins's sons, William B and Herbert, worked with their father and provided architectural input. From the 1910s the family started to develop building and architecture interests at Southampton

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