The Jarrold Group

The Jarrold Group
Company typePrivately held company
Industry
  • Retail
  • Property
  • Training
Founded1770
FounderJohn Jarrold (1745–75)
HeadquartersNorwich, England
Number of employees
over 450
SubsidiariesJarrold Properties;
Jarrold Retail;
Jarrold Training;
St James Facility Management
Websitejarrold.com

The Jarrold Group is a Norwich–based company, founded as Jarrold & Sons Ltd, in 1770, by John Jarrold, at Woodbridge, Suffolk,[1] before relocating to Norfolk in 1823.[2] The Jarrold Group still involves members of the Jarrold family.[3]

Family

Of Huguenot ancestry, the Jerauld family arrived in Essex from France in the late 17th century.[4] Samuel Jarrold served as Mayor of Colchester for 1723/24 and during the 18th century the Jarrolds expanded their mercantile ventures throughout East Anglia, becoming established in Norwich.[5]

The family maintains its record of civic service until the present day: (Herbert) John Jarrold CBE[6] was elected Lord Mayor of Norwich for 1971/72, Peter Jarrold DL (father of Julian, the film director) as Sheriff of Norwich for 1999/2000,[7] and since 2018[8] Caroline Jarrold DL[9] serves as a Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk.[10] The Jarrold family also participates in the civic life of the City of London as liverymen of the Haberdashers' and Stationers' Companies.

Business

Primarily a retail business, Jarrolds department store in Norwich city centre, was designed by George John Skipper between 1903 and 1905. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner describes the Jarrolds store as "baroque" in style. Jarrolds have several shops in Norwich, as well as in Wymondham and Cromer.[11]

Non-retail divisions of the Jarrold Group of Companies include Jarrold Properties, Jarrold Training, and St James Facility Management.

In 2004 Jarrold and Sons announced its intention to sell off a 70% stake of its "Norwich-based magazine printer Jarrold Printing" whose portfolio at that time included "NatMags Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harpers & Queen and Country Living" and which was also producing "IPC, Emap and the Financial Times".[12] Jarold and Sons' "other business interests in retail, publishing, training and property" were to continue as before.

Jarrolds sponsored the construction of a new stand at Norwich City F.C.'s Carrow Road football ground; known as The Jarrold Stand, the original sponsorship deal ceased in 2016.[13]

Publishing activities

John Jarrold Jr. diversified the firm into publishing as early as 1823[14] and in 1877 it published the first edition of the children's classic, Anna Sewell's Black Beauty.[15]

Beginning in the 1920 the firm published Discovery: The Magazine of Scientific Progress for several decades.[16][17]

In 1936 the firm entered the world of paperback book series when it published the Jarrolds' Jackdaw Library[18] and followed up in 1939 by launching its Jackdaw Crime Series.[19]

Book series

The following series were published by Jarrold Publishers (Jarrold & Sons Ltd, Norwich) or one of its imprints, such as Jarrold Colour Publications:

  • The Cotman-Colour Series[20] (some titles also referred to as Jarrold Colour Books)
  • The Empire Educational Series
  • Jackdaw Crime Series
  • Jarrold Aquatic Life Series[21]
  • Jarrold Area Guides
  • Jarrold Bird Series[22]
  • Jarrold Countryside Series[23]
  • Jarrold Garden Series[24]
  • Jarrold Glaven Series[25]
  • Jarrold Nature Series Books[26]
  • Jarrold Sports series AKA I Can Play[27]
  • Jarrold Tableau Series
  • Jarrold Tree Series[28]
  • The Jarrold "White Horse" Series[29]
  • Jarrolds' Jackdaw Library
  • Jarrold's Pocket Companions[30]
  • Ordnance Survey Landranger Guides (joint publisher: Ordnance Survey, Southampton)
  • Ordnance Survey Travelmaster Guides (joint publisher: Ordnance Survey, Southampton)[31]

See also

References

  1. ^ "A name that we know and love in Norwich", Norwich Evening News, Tuesday, 18 May, p. 12.
  2. ^ Heritage & History | Jarrold & Sons Ltd, jarrold.com. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  3. ^ "Jarrold of Norwich bucks High Street decline and gets freedom of city". BBC News. 2 February 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  4. ^ Letters of denization and acts of naturalization for aliens in England and Ireland (1911), edited by William Shaw LittD
  5. ^ "Norwich department store Jarrold celebrates 250th birthday". ITV News. 17 February 2020.
  6. ^ www.thegazette.co.uk
  7. ^ "Mayors and Sherrif of Norwich". www.norwich-heritage.co.uk.
  8. ^ "New Deputy Lieutenants announced". Norfolk County Council. 6 April 2018. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  9. ^ www.thegazette.co.uk
  10. ^ www.norfolk-lieutenancy.org.uk
  11. ^ "Fashion, Beauty, Cosmetics, Toys, House and Home Brands | Jarrold Shopping, Norwich, Norfolk, UK". www.jarrold.co.uk.
  12. ^ John Davies, Jarrolds to sell print arm, PrintWeek, 16 January 2004 . Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  13. ^ www.canaries.co.uk
  14. ^ "Jarrolds". Norfolk Chambers of Commerce. 3 December 2015.
  15. ^ Jarrold's History - 1800s, jarrold.co.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  16. ^ Discovery : the magazine of scientific progress, worldcat.org. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  17. ^ Discovery, worldcat.org. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  18. ^ Jarrolds' Jackdaw Library (Jarrolds (Publishers) London Ltd.) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  19. ^ Jarrold and the Jackdaws, paperbackrevolution.wordpress.com Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  20. ^ Around the Moray Firth Coast, archive.org. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  21. ^ Life in our Estuaries, archive.org. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  22. ^ Birds of the Hedgerows and Commons, archive.org. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  23. ^ The Jarrold Book of the Countryside in Autumn, archive.org. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  24. ^ Adrian Bloom's Guide to Garden Plants. Book 1: Heathers, archive.org. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  25. ^ Life in our Estuaries, archive.org. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  26. ^ Trees in Britain: Broadleaved, Book 2, archive.org. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  27. ^ se:Jarrold sports series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  28. ^ Trees in Britain: Broadleaved, Book 2, archive.org. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  29. ^ Loch Lomond and the Trossachs by Car, archive.org. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  30. ^ Jarrold's pocket companion to Cornwall, archive.org. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
  31. ^ se:Ordnance survey travelmaster guide, worldcat.org. Retrieved 4 August 2025.

Further reading

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