Warrington-based contractor had been in business for more than 120 years
Harry Fairclough Construction has gone into administration after more than 120 years in business.
Cheshire-based electrical engineer Eric Johnson of Northwich Ltd, which claims to be a creditor of Harry Fairclough, filed a petition to wind up the Warrington-headquartered contractor with Liverpool鈥檚 county court on Wednesday.
The firm's 150 staff have since been sent home from work with a number taking to social media to express their sadness at the company鈥檚 demise.
Posting to LinkedIn one of the firm鈥檚 senior quantity surveyors said: "For the first time in my life I will be unemployed tomorrow. After over 125 years Harry Fairclough Ltd have ceased trading. Feel awful for my wonderful colleagues, supply chain and subbies that won't recover from this. A truly sad day."
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Another employee said she was "absolutely devastated" by the firm's failure.
She said: "I cannot thank all my fellow employees enough for the last almost 12 years, it's been a great adventure and I'm honoured to have been part of a 125 year history. Farewell HFC, a very, very sad day."
In its last set of accounts, which were for the year to 31 March 2018, the firm posted a pre-tax profit of 拢118,000 on turnover of 拢38m. Both profit and turnover were down on the previous year.
The contractor was appointed to the North West Construction Hub鈥檚 medium value framework last September
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