History
1790’s
Our firm can trace its roots back over 200 years......
George Weir – traded on the High Street, Horncastle, as the Printer and Auctioneer, when this Wolds Market town was drawing visitors from Europe to its Famous Horse Fair. 1830’s Mr Weir Junior, joined the practice Meanwhile in…
1842
George Bell moved from Perthshire to be Land Agent at Revesby Estate. Previously, he had followed his father’s footsteps as land agent on an estate in Perthshire.(see download Tales of a Land Agent-George Bell)
1855
Mr. Weir sold his business to Mr Parish, Senior.
1872
Parish & Son (Walter Booth Parish) moved to present offices in Old Bank Chambers, Horncastle. We still have the tenant right valuation books from this date.(see download Historical Lincolnshire Archives 1871-1910)
1890
Change to Parish & Stafford Walter as Mr Stafford Walter, Valuer, came into partnership.
1897
R Hay Bell apprenticed. His articles forbade gambling “haunting” taverns or contracting matrimonially without his employer’s consent.
1910
Parish, Stafford Walter & Bell as R Hay Bell became a partner.
1947
Robert H Bell came into partnership, having qualified on his return from the war. (see download Memoirs of an Infantry Auctioneer)
1968
Association with George Mawer & Company.
1969
Robert Hay Bell died aged 88. He played an active part in the firm and local community right until his death.
1980
Merger with George Mawer & Company and Masons to form Mawer Mason & Bell.
1984
Opening of our Woodhall Spa Office. Later premises were acquired at the junction of Station Road and Stixwould Road in Woodhall Spa.
1987
Split of Mawer Mason & Bell as three quarters of the firm is sold to the Leeds Building Society. The start of Robert Bell & Company.
1990
Opening of the Coningsby Office managed by Tony Wing.
1998
Residential Management office opened on Burton Road, Lincoln, beneath the walls of Lincoln Castle.
2001
Opening of our new Lincoln City office at 43 Silver Street offering, for the very first time, the company’s full range of property services to the Lincoln market.
2010
Horncastle Town Hall re-opens, managed by Robert Bell & Company and is able to accommodate again our monthly furniture sales. One hundred years after R Hay Bell became a partner in 1910, our firm was incorporated to become Robert Bell & Company Ltd.(see download Auctioneering a talk by Robert Bell)
2017
Our new office at Lindsey Court Horncastle is opened to accommodate the growing number of staff and deals with Residential Lettings (ground floor), Auctions, Commercial Property and Building Land (first floor).
