sentences:  Knowing where I lived he did not enthuse about the beauty of the Cotswolds but said, "Of course, we never come back from the south without calling at Gloucester to buy flour from Priday Metford..."" Diana Alexander
  
  The founding families were those of Charles Priday, Francis Killigrew Seymour Metford and Francis Tring Pearce.These three families controlled the company for over one hundred years and across many generations.The Pearce family were involved in milling in the Gloucester area for over a century and for six generations, that is to say right from 1860 until Priday, Metford and Company Limited was sold onto Spillers in about 1986.