There were two leading Ship Agents operating in the town during Falmouth’s heyday in the C19: Fox’s and Broad’s. These companies provided services to ship owners up country, passing on ‘orders’ to ships calling ‘for orders’. They also arranged supplies for visiting captains and acted as consuls for a wide variety of other countries.
In this new article, Bartlett Volunteer Linda Batchelor looks at the early days of Broads, started by the entrepreneurial William Broad, and traces the family involvement in the firm.