Our stores have a lot of history - in fact, we’re over 200 years in the making! Our stores began in the Lincolnshire town of Boston in 1804, when John Oldrid and Richard Hyde purchased a small retail unit.
We’ve grown enormously since then and now have successful stores in Grantham and Boston, including an extensive garden centre. You can find out more about our heritage below.
We are a family business, trading for over 200 years!
2020 -A Global Pandemic temporarily shut our stores for the first time since 1804
2017 -Downtown Grantham Designer Outlet is proposed
2016 - Oldrids Scunthorpe opens
2013 - Downtown Lincoln & Oldrids Gainsborough are opened
2012 - Downtown Grantham is refurbished
2009 - Oldrids' transactional website is launched
2004 - Oldrids celebrates is 200th birthday
2003 - Pescod Hall moves
1998 - Downtown Grantham is enlarged
1989 - Downtown Grantham is opened
1985 - Downtown Boston is refurbished
1981 - Downtown Boston is built
1975 - Oldrids Boston is rebuilt
1969 - Oldrids Boston is demolished
1960- Oldrids New Street opens selling furniture
1920 - Oldrids continues to expand - now selling carpets
1918 - Oldrids purchase additional shops including Pescod Hall
1915 - The Isaac family take over Oldrids
1915 - Oldrids is put up for sale again
1906 - Mr. Sydney Smith takes over the running of Oldrids
1905 - Oldrids is put up for sale
1804 - Oldrids is created by Mr. John Oldrid
