John Parish White (1855-1917) served his apprenticeship with a builder in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, and afterwards set up his own business at Dunmow in Essex. However, by the mid -1880s he had taken over the Bedford building firm of John Hull, and in 1896 he established the Pyghtle Works on the Bromham Road, Bedford.
Pyghtle is an Anglo Saxon word - “small parcel of land, a small enclosure, a croft"
It was here at the Pyghtle works that the business was to be permanently based.
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