Hazlewoods History

1919 - 1941

1888

 Marcus Hazlewood, son of a blacksmith, was born in 1888. He later moved to Cheltenham and formed a partnership in Williams, Manning and Hazlewood.

1919 

Williams Manning & Hazlewoods began trading at Centre Stone House, Bennington Street, Cheltenham.

1920

Accounting system, ‘Hazlewood’s Cash Journal’, introduced as copyright design; designed for producing ‘Certified Accounts’.

1935

Office relocation to 1 North Place, Cheltenham.

1941

David Broom took over the running of the practice. 

1942 - 1972

1959

Partner, Bill Wyman, set up mechanised accounting business, MPL Computers Ltd, offering a complete payroll and accounting service to clients.

 MPL Computers Ltd is now  trading as Procurri.

1963

Move to Bayshill Road, Cheltenham. Trading from two offices: Tewkesbury and Cheltenham.

1972

Hazlewoods acquired Cooke, Tortonese & Price (2/3 Oriel Villas, Oriel Road, Cheltenham).

Rose Clark (longest serving staff member) began employment at Cooke,
Tortonese & Price in 1969 and retired from Hazlewoods in 2011 (42 years). 

1973 - 1993

Late 80s/early 90s recession 

 Tewkesbury and Stroud offices shut; staff moved to larger office space at Staverton.

1986

Departed The Limes (four doors down from Bayshill Road) and bought Staverton Court with the proceeds.

Michael Grylls MP (British adventurer, Bear Grylls' dad) opened Staverton office.

Staverton was previously a private health club in 1980 prior to planning for change of office use in 1985. 

1988

Accounting system, ‘Hazlewood’s Cash Journal’, introduced as copyright design; designed for producing ‘Certified Accounts’.

1935

Auditing rules changed. Marcus Hazlewood & Co and Hazlewoods & Co traded in parallel, before merging as Hazlewoods.

1993

Established sector expertise.

1994 - 2019

2005

Hazlewoods transferred to Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) on 1 May. MPL Computers Ltd is now  trading as Procurri.

2014

Planning permission sought on Staverton Office for two storey extrension.

2015

Staverton extension, now known as 'the new build‘, opened in November.

2019

Ranked UK Top 30 independent Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers. 

Over 300 staff and 26 Partners.