WHERE IT ALL BEGAN The Boydens story began back in 1852 when George Boyden, a master builder and Quaker, started his own business. His son, Aston, continued the building business which at its height employed 28 sta before being interrupted by the Second World War. Aston died in 1947. Aston’s son, Desmond, my grandfather, was too young to immediately join the building business, instead studying engineering and working for Woods of Colchester. For two years Desmond commuted to London working for a commercial Chartered Surveyors firm based in The Strand, before returning to Colchester to spend 11 years with local Chartered Surveyors firm, C M Stanford & Son, specialising in residential property and farms. THE EXPANSION OF BOYDENS In 1966, Desmond set up his own residential property business initially at Blackheath, Colchester and then onto Balkerne House in Crouch Street. Due to expansion, the business moved next door to Aston House in 1988, where the business has been based ever since. Desmond’s son, David, my father, joined the family business in 1976. In partnership with his father he developed the business, building Boydens’ reputation, taking the best of the family ethos – and combining this with the modern approach and expanding our business across Essex and Su olk. After graduating from university, I joined the family business in 2015.
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