Moving with the times
Scrutton Bland’s offices have changed over the last one hundred years.
The Diss office was located for many years in Church Street, moving to St Nicholas Street before finally relocating to Victoria Road on the outskirts of the town.
Scrutton Bland’s Cambridge office opened in Milton in 2016
Merrick Hill Insurance was founded in 1968 and was located on St Nicholas Street in Diss. Scrutton Bland acquired the firm in 2004 but retained the Merrick Hill name until recently
Merrick Hill moved to Victoria Road in 2014 and was rebranded as part of the Scrutton Bland brand refresh in 2018
The current Scrutton Bland Colchester office opened in 2007 on the Colchester Business Park with close links to the A12 and is still one of the firm’s key sites.
The Colchester office on St Isaac’s Walk around 1926
The St Isaac’s Walk office were the home of Bland Fielden (now Scrutton Bland) for over ninety years
Construction of the new Colchester office on Severalls Business Park in 2006
The new Scrutton Bland office in Colchester opened in 2007
Originally located in the centre of the town (above what is now Coe’s newsagents) the Ipswich office was relocated to Museum Street and built on the site of the former Black Bell Inn. In 2014 the firm moved again and the current building was opened on the site of the former Temperance Hall.
The Black Bell Inn, on Museum Street Ipswich was pulled down in 1938 and the new Scrutton & Goodchild offices were built on the site in the new Art Deco style
The former Temperance Hall on Crown Street, later the Crown Iron Works, was demolished in the mid-1960s and is now the location for Scrutton Bland’s Ipswich office
Scrutton Bland’s Ipswich office opened at Fitzroy House, Crown Street in 2014 with capacity for over 150 staff
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