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Neville Lumb

supplier of commercial sanitaryware

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ28223841 ↗
Source-derived summary

Neville Lumb are a supplier of commercial sanitaryware, part of the Saint-Gobain group.

History

The business was founded in 1882 by George H. Cakebread and Arthur E. Robey as Cakebread Robey & Company and became an important supplier of engraved and stained glass to public houses and hotels in England, such as The Queen's Hotel (now The Queens pub) in Crouch End, The Salisbury in Harringay, and St Andrew's church, Chase Side, in Southgate. They were based at Stoke Newington and from around 1914 at Caroba Works, Wood Green, north London. The supply of sanitary fittings was also an important part of their business, and now their principal activity.

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The public source identifies “Neville Lumb” as supplier of commercial sanitaryware. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Neville, Lumb and supplier.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1882, 1914—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Neville, Lumb and supplier providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q28223841. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1882 and 1914.

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This entry incorporates text from “Neville Lumb” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.