The company was founded as a family building business in 1877. It changed its name to
F. & E.V. Linford in 1925 and again to
Linford Group in 1970. The company often worked with the local community to build a suitable skillbase for potential future employees to be drawn from, recruiting from local schools and offering employee exchange programmes with other overseas businesses. During the early 2000s, it established a new training center for learning heritage restoration skills. It acquired metalwork restorer Dorothea Restorations in 2007, and the following year bought plasterwork business Trumpers. Amid the
Great Recession, the company opted to increase its presence in the homebuilding sector. During October 2011, it was announced that Linford Group was to be placed into
administration as a result of a series of
bad debts that had been incurred. ==Operations==