CR Smith Conservatories

Name: CR Smith Conservatories
Address: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, GB
Telephone: 0800 200444

Conservatory Installer in Edinburgh, Scotland

About the Business

CR Smith was established in 1917 by Charles Robertson Smith. Originally the company operated a paint and picture framing shop in Alloa and a glazing workshop in James Street, Dunfermline. The company carried out general glazing repairs and fitted single glazed windows. It continued to be owned and run by the Smith family until 1977, when it was bought by Gerard Eadie.

Mr Eadie had been a glazing apprentice with Fife Council before setting up his own business, Gerry Eadie Glazing Contractor, with a £50 loan from his late mother. He had bought glass from CR Smith in James Street and knew Bert Smith, Charles Smith's grandson, very well.

Just 25 at the time that he bought CR Smith, he paid £2,200 - half for the business and half for its Olivetti cash machine. He chose to keep the CR Smith name because of the sixty years heritage that went along with it. However, he recognised that the market was changing.