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Lincolnshire Flooring is made up of three key elements There is the contract side of the business Lincolnshire Flooring has a strong history of supplying the contract sector, and this makes up around 50% of Lincolnshire Flooring’s business This often centres around providing and fitting products like carpet tiles and vinyl Clients have included retirement and care homes across Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire Health Authority, Lincoln College, Lincoln University, Lincoln Prison, Lincolnshire County Council, Lloyds, Morrisons and ASDA

A previous blogpost (which can be viewed here) told the story of how Lincolnshire Flooring came into being We now continue that story to look at the early years of Lincolnshire Flooring Tony Jefferson, the founder of Lincolnshire Flooring, had three sons, one of whom was current Managing Director Graham Jefferson Graham worked for British Home Stores, where he was trained, and his last post was at Colchester Whilst there, all but three members of staff were dismissed, and as a result Graham became Assistant Manager

There was some incredibly sad news for the carpet industry and for the country as a whole yesterday when it was announced that Axminster Carpets has applied to go in to administration The historic firm is one of Devon’s largest employees, and around 400 jobs are believed to be at risk Axminster Carpets has a long and proud history Founded in 1755 by Thomas Whitty in the East Devonshire town on Axminster, the company was the first to weave rugs and carpets by hand – a method that came to be known as the Axminster method Today the carpets are still made using natural methods and materials, and have a strongly established reputation for high quality, luxury and durability

Following on from our previous introductory blog post, we wanted to provide a brief history of how Lincolnshire Flooring came to be The history of Lincolnshire Flooring starts in 1956, when Tony Jefferson, father of current Managing Director Graham Jefferson (pictured left), stopped working at the engineering company Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd and started work at the National Flooring Company He was offered “nine and a half” to do that, but didn’t know what exactly that referred to! It could have been nine and a half pounds per week, or it could have been nine and a half thousand per year! Graham was only one year old at the time His father initially started by running the Lincoln branch of the National Flooring Company, but soon went on to open branches in York, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool He took on many major flooring projects, including the Blackpool Ball Room and many of the RAF camps in the county that gave it the name “RAF Lincolnshire”

Hello! Firstly, we would like to say a proper welcome to our new Lincolnshire Flooring blog! We thought we’d start by providing a brief introduction to our company We will be providing some history of the firm in later posts, but thought a brief overview of who we are and what we do would be a good start for now!We provide flooring to most of Lincolnshire, including Lincoln itself, Gainsborough, Boston, Sleaford, Scunthorpe, Louth, Woodhall Spa, Horncastle, and also go over the Nottinghamshire border to Newark Our wide range of flooring includes all types and colours of carpets to suit every taste, wood flooring, laminate flooring, Amtico flooring, Quickstep flooring, and cushion flooring We will be writing more about these in future posts There are three major sides to Lincolnshire Flooring’s business – the retail side which means selling carpets and flooring to the general public, the contract sector for businesses, and the house building side, fitting out flooring in newly built homes

We will be regularly adding our news to this section of the site We hope you enjoy it and we'd love to hear your comments about it The blog was developed by Lincolnshire based DBS Internet Marketing