Blackburn Assurance Co Ltd

Sectors:

  • Financial services Friendly & other mutual society services exc savings banks, building societies & credit unions
  • Financial services Insurance services exc insurance broking & agency

Notes:

Traced origins to 1839 when established at Blackburn as Blackburn Philanthropic Burial Society. By 1862 had a 80,000 membership. 1863 established Blackburn Philanthropic Mutual Assurance Society for offering life assurance. By 1890 business was still focused on Blackburn, Accrington and Darwin but afterwards spread to other parts of Lancashire. 1910 renamed Blackburn Philanthropic Friendly Collecting Society. 1916 relocated head office to Liverpool. 1933 renamed Blackburn Assurance Co Ltd.

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