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Chris Kirkland: DirectorPast Role: Knight Frank, Surveyor
They were founded as a partnership in 1923 by Alfred Bowmer, a joiner and Robert William Kirkland – a bricklayer. They undertook general building works and based themselves in the village of Heage in Derbyshire.
Robert Kirkland died at the very young age of 40 and his son Jack, then 15, had to leave school and start earning to support his family.
He joined the company as an apprentice joiner in 1928.
The company flourished and in 1941 Bowmer & Kirkland (Plant) Ltd was formed. This company grew to have over 50 mobile cranes, with one of the biggest in the country – the 110-ton Lorain – within their fleet.
In 1955, Jack Kirkland was appointed Managing Director and six years later the Bowmer & Kirkland partnership was formed into a Limited company. Since then the company has enjoyed growth and success.
