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The Diseases of Sheep

How to prevent and how to cure them

William Cooper & Nephews

Berkhamsted

1895

William Cooper started making his arsenical sheep dip in Ravens Lane, Berkhamsted, in 1852, and ended up selling it world wide, the company becoming a leading international producer of veterinary products. This document is a guide to the diseases of sheep which also serves as an advertisement for the company.

For a detailed history of William Cooper and the Company he founded visit the Dacorum Heritage Trust web site. Further information is available on the web site run by the Gazette newspaper.

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This company is of particular interest to me as I joined it in 1962, working as an information scientist specialising in overseas research and development in the veterinary field. This work was based in the Cooper Technical Bureau (picture postcard above) although my office was in the house Berkhamsted Hill, which was part of the research farm.

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Martin Thompson (martinthompson50 @t myfamily.com) writes My grandfather, Edgar E Thompson 1873 - 1929, started work in June 1886 as a Clerk at William Cooper & Nephews, Manufacturing Chemists, Berkhamsted.  Still working as a Clerk in 1901. Eventually became Company Secretary and left there in 1918.  I have a letter on company notepaper written by R P Cooper to my grandfather on his marriage in 1896.

There is a web page for Berkhamsted

If you can add to the information given above tell me.

Page updated August 2005