Company History

Blandfords celebrates 50 years of business

Chris Canham celebrates 30 years at Blandfords, looking forward to the future.

Blandfords relocated to Telford Way Industrial Estate, The units accommodate our needs far better, bringing everything under one roof with greater access to the A14.

Paul Smith takes a step back from the day to day running of the business after 29 years, handing over control to Chris Canham and Andy Baish

Blandford Electrical change entity to Blandfords LLP to allow for the continuing expansion into many new areas of business and ever increasing contract values.

In May the major relocation from our old offices in Park Road Kettering to Broughton Grange takes place. A huge effort supported by all the staff meant no downtime or loss of production occurred in the smooth transition.

Brian Smith retires after thirty-one years of dedication to the firm, then continued to assist as a Consultant to the firm for a further four years before finally hanging up his tools

Andy Baish joins the business and following successful completion of many major projects and with earning credits in the C&G 2400 Electrical Designers Examination is promoted to Technical Manager in 1998. Andy excelled in this role and is promoted to Partner in 2001.

Chris Canham joins the business and progresses through extensive personal and technical training, his high quality of commitment, work output, enthusiasm and extensive business knowledge leads to him becoming a partner in 1990. In 1998 Chris becomes an additional NICEIC Qualifying Manager.

After completing his five-year apprenticeship at RAE Bedford, multi trade trained Paul Smith joins the business. Paul becomes a Partner shortly after.