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Clements Langford Pty Ltd

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Agent TypeOrganisationIdentifierUMA-AG-000001548Activities & OccupationsBuildersHistoryClements LANGFORD was born on 25 March 1853 at Portsea, England and arrived in Tasmania in 1864, and Melbourne in 1868. He was apprenticed to the builder David Mitchell in 1869 and won first prize for architectural drawing at the Richmond School of Design in 1874. In 1877-1878 he worked as a carpenter and established a small business with Robert Hutchison in Richmond in 1881. The firm operated under Langford’s name from 1886 and was incorporated as Clements Langford Pty Ltd in 1923. By 1930 the firm encompassed 'shop and office fitters, plumbers, painters [and] decorators', and boasted large joinery, timber-machining and plumbers' shops. The firm flourished from the end of World War I until the ‘credit squeeze’ of the early 1960s. Langford undertook an eclectic range of contracts including premises for Makower, McBeath & Co. Pty Ltd, additions to the university medical school, the Bryant & May factory, Centreway, Hoyts' Theatre in Bourke Street, the Melbourne Sports Depot, the Myer Emporium, Scott's Hotel, the Comedy Theatre, Ball & Welch's store, the Safe Deposit Building, the Adelaide Steamship Co. building, the Dunlop factory at Montague, the Australian Mutual Provident Society's new Melbourne office and the Herald Building. The spires of St. Paul’s Cathedral were built by the firm, with construction completed after the death of Clement Langford in 1930, by his son, George.

Source: Mark Richmond, 'Langford, Clements (1853 - 1930)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplementary Volume, Melbourne University Press, 2005, pp 227-228.Search records of this agent

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Building occupied by Metcalfe and Barnard

Building of Morris Aarons and Sons, J. Bressler, tailor, Mrs Hoffmann and 'The Cecil

Australian Match Works Building, Melbourne

Dalgety & Company Limited, Wool, Grain Tallow & Hide Stores - New Show Floor

Premises of the Burnley Brewing Company

Head Office and Victorian Sales Rooms of Massey-Harris Company

St. Paul's Cathedral Diocesan Book Society buildings

The Building of J. S. Kent, Ornamental Ironworker and General Blacksmith

Pair of shop

St. Stephen's Anglican Church Hall

Unidentified warehouse

Premises of Norman Brothers, Printers and Stationers

The Aberdeen building

House in Power Street, Hawthorn

Church in Kent Street, Richmond

Shops, Flinders Street

Building of E.G.G. Smythers and Company, Wine and Spirit Merchants

Premises of Gollin & Co. Pty Ltd

Building occupied as the office of The Advocate

Premises of the Melbourne Sports Depot

Eilenberg and Zeltner waterproof factory

Premises of Northern Assurance Company

Warehouse, Franklin St

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Langford, Clements: Tender for Repairs to Gardeners Cottage

[UMA-IT-000070680] Melbourne General Cemetery - 1

[1960.0003.00359] William Booth Memorial Mens' Home

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[Clements Langford Job 295-4] Ladies College for Faithful Companions of Jesus Convent at Mt. St. Joseph

Eildon township (YFA Job 92)

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[UMA-SR-000002561] Architectural plans of Clements Langford Pty Ltd

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[1960.0003] Records of Clements Langford Pty Ltd

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Vaucluse College

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Date1923-

University of Melbourne Archives

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Clements Langford Pty Ltd