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Bridge McFarland
Bridge McFarland Solicitors
 
 
 
 

History of the Firm

The firm can trace its roots to two Law Practices.  In 1976 John Bridge started the practice of Keeble Hawson Bridge and Co opening a second branch in Lincoln in 1983.  In 1978 Paddy McFarland established the firm McFarland and Co in Louth subsequently opening branch offices in Mablethorpe and Market Rasen.
 
Both practices flourished independently until 1990 when the two firms merged bringing together lawyers Paddy McFarland John Bridge and six other partners to create Bridge McFarland Solicitors.

 

Further mergers then followed in Grimsby with Granville Chapman Geo. A. White & Co, in Louth with Haddon Owen and in Skegness with the Skegness branch of Walkers,Rainey & Owen.


The firm now has offices in Grimsby, Hull, Lincoln, Louth, Mablethorpe, Market Rasen, Skegness and is considered as one of the largest law firms in Lincolnshire, East and South Yorkshire and the Humber regions.


Bridge McFarland Timeline:

1851:   Haddon Owen & Son established in 1 Eastgate, Louth

1890:   Geo. A. White & Co established in Victoria Street, Grimsby

1928:   James Young established a law practice in Grimsby which later became Stephen Ede Cooke & Ashton

1935:   Major Henry Leftwich Haddon Owen left Haddon Owen & Son to establish a partnership with Tony Gladstone in
            Skegness.  Later becoming Walkers, Rainey & Owen

1936:   Granville Chapman established in Victoria Street, Grimsby by Dudley Chapman

1963:   Roger Bygott bought Haddon Owen & Son

1976:   Joint Founding Partner, John Bridge established Keeble Hawson Bridge & Co in Grimsby

1978:   Joint Founding Partner, Paddy McFarland established McFarland & Co in Louth

1983:   Keeble Hawson Bridge & Co open an office in Lincoln

1990:   Keeble Hawson Bridge & Co merged with McFarland & Co to create Bridge McFarland

1993:   Granville Chapman and Geo A. White & Co merged and conducted its business in Abbey Road, Grimsby

1999:   Granville Chapman Geo A. White & Co merged with Bridge McFarland

2000:   Haddon Owen & Son merged with Bridge McFarland

2006:   Skegness branch of Walkers Rainey & Owen merged with Bridge McFarland

2009:   Stephen Ede Cooke & Ashton merged with Bridge McFarland