Bloomsbury Group down to London. In 1905 Vanessa began the "Friday Club" and Thoby ran "Thursday Evenings", which became the basis for the Bloomsbury Group, which to some was really "Cambridge in London". Thoby's premature death in 1906 brought them more firmly together and they became what is now known as the "Old Bloomsbury" group who met in earnest beginning in 1912. In the 1920s and 1930s the group shifted when the original members died and the next generation had reached adulthood. The Bloomsbury Group, mostly from upper middle-class professional families, formed part of "an intellectual aristocracy which could trace itself back
William Press Group of Ray Daniels. The name of the company changed from "William Press & Son" to "William Press Group" in 1981. It merged with Leonard Fairclough & Son in 1982 to form AMEC. William Press Group William Press Group was a leading British engineering business which merged with Leonard Fairclough & Son to become a FTSE 100 company, AMEC. The company was founded by William Allpress in 1913 in London. In 1954 it started to focus on developments in cathodic protection for pipelines forming "Metal and Pipeline Endurance Ltd" ('MAPEL'). In the 1970s it converted about 50% of the UK's houses