Category: Timeline Stories

May 1 2010, Harri Lloyd Davies became a Partner in the firm. Harri was another partner who had qualified with us and was now successful in becoming a partner.

Our search for new offices took a number of years, partly because very few people were building offices in Swansea and because the 2008 financial crash meant that development and finance became difficult. However, in September 2009, the firm acquired new premises at Langdon House and moved into the offices in late March 2010

Caroline’s back story is interesting in the sense that she joined the Haverfordwest office as a mother of 4 children and started as an accounting technician trainee. She successfully passed these exams and then, encouraged by Stuart Warner, went on to qualify as a chartered accountant. Finally, she became a Partner in the firm on … Continued

The continuing growth of fees meant a need to appoint a further audit/accounting partner in Swansea. On May 1 1997, Alison Vickers, who had joined us as a trainee accountant 11 years earlier, became a partner.

Another area of work that we felt we could improve on was more specialised tax work, and to this end, we recruited Huw Evans as a tax partner on January 1, 1994. Huw joined from an international accounting practice, having previously worked in Cardiff and Swansea.

In May 1987, the firm merged with a practice in Haverfordwest. Willmott Brand, who owned the practice, became a partner in Bevan & Buckland, which now meant that the firm covered an area from Swansea to West Wales.

In November 1985, Frank C Bevan & Co. merged with Sidney H Buckland & Co, and the two partners in Sidney H Buckland, John Jeremy and Wilf Jones, became Partners in the newly named firm of Frank C Bevan & Buckland. The cost of ink to write this name on audit and accounting reports soon … Continued

In 1983, the Partners purchased a small block of fees in Pembroke. This became the base of the Pembroke office and was initially managed by Charles Clewett, who travelled to Pembroke a couple of days a week before permanently transferring to live in Pembrokeshire in the mid-80s.

When the long-established firm of Sidney H. Buckland & Son, Chartered Accountants, was amalgamated with Frank C. Bevan & Co. as Frank C. Bevan & Buckland. Partners Messrs. Wilfred H. Jones, John D. S. Jeremy, and staff moved into Albion Chambers. Yet another move was made to the large steel and glass building at 31 … Continued

Mr. Frank Bevan died in 1947