Ashton Under Lyne Care Home Completion

Apr 25, 2024 | News

Acer Mews Completion Hillside Court Completion Feb 2024 Walter Thompson have recently completed refurbishment works on a care home in Ashton-under-Lyne for Exemplar Health Care. The care home has laid dormant for a number of years, but after recent renovations and...

Lord Mayor’s Award

Apr 23, 2024 | News

Lord Mayor’s Award Lord Mayor’s Award 8th Mar 2024 Walter Thompson are proud to announce that our recently completed project, 12a Adderstone Crescent in Jesmond, Newcastle has been awarded with the 2023 Lord Mayor’s Award from Newcastle City Council in the...

Knowsley Care Home Completion

Feb 25, 2024 | News

Knowsley Care Home Completion Hillside Court Completion Feb 2024 Walter Thompson have recently completed refurbishment works on a care home in Knowsley for Exemplar Health Care. The care home has laid dormant for a number of months and we have renovated and remodelled...

Hillside Court Completion

Feb 8, 2024 | News

Hillside Court Completion Hillside Court Completion 8th Feb 2024 Walter Thompson have recently completed work on Hillside Court care home in Leeds, West Yorkshire. This purpose built home, for adults living with complex and high acuity needs, is now welcoming its...

Harrogate Care Home Completion

Jan 29, 2024 | News

Completion of Fairfax ManorCare Home Completion of Fairfax ManorCare Home 25th Jan 2024 Walter Thompson Contractors have recently completed work on Fairfax Manor, a bespoke, purpose-built, luxury care home situated in the beautiful borough of Harrogate, offering the...

Completion of Manor House Extension

Jan 22, 2024 | News

Completion of Manor House Extension Completion of Manor House Extension 22nd Jan 2024 Walter Thompson Contractors have recently completed work on an extension to an existing Care Home in Gosforth for Hadrian Health Care. Situated in the heart of Brunton Park Village,...

Whickham Care Home Refurbishment

Jul 25, 2023 | News

Whickham Care Home Refurbishment 25th July 2023 Works have just completed on The Manor House Care Home in Whickham, Newcastle. The original home was completed in 2010 and some 13 years later Walter Thompson Contractors have completed a full refurbishment project to...

30 Years Service for Tony!

Jun 28, 2023 | News

Tony Reaches 30 Years Service!   28th June 2023 A company is only as good as its employees and Walter Thompson pride themselves on theirs. From employing local apprentices to offering further education through their academy scheme, Walter Thompson value the...

Sunderland Care Home Completion

Jun 23, 2023 | Healthcare, News, Project Completions

Sunderland Care Home Completion 23rd June 2023 Works have just completed on Hylton care home in Sunderland, a specialist nursing care home for Exemplar Health Care. This scheme was a new build contract on a former social club site with works starting in February 2022...

Excellence Award Winners 2023!

Jun 8, 2023 | News

Walter Thompson Win ‘Excellence Award’! Golden Recognition for Walter Thompson 8th June 2023 Walter Thompson are proud to announce that we’ve been awarded the Premier Guarantee Excellence Award for 2023 in the ‘Commercial Development of the Year’ award...

Castleford Care Home

May 2, 2023 | Healthcare, News

Castleford Care Home Completion 2nd May 2023 Refurbishment works have just completed on Castleford care home, a specialist nursing care home for Exemplar Health Care after 12 months on site. The home supports adults living with high acuity needs including complex...

Stockton Care Home Completion

Apr 26, 2023 | Healthcare, News

Stockton Care Home Completion 26th April 2023 Works have just completed on Tees Grange care home in Stockton, a specialist nursing care home for Exemplar Health Care. This scheme was a new build contract on a brownfield site with works starting in February 2022 and...

Roseside Care Home Completion

Mar 23, 2023 | News

Roseside Care Home Completion 23rd March 2023 Works has just completed on Roseside care home in Liverpool, a specialist nursing care home for Exemplar Health Care. This scheme was a refurbishment contract of an existing care home with works starting on site in August...

Bennett Court Apartment Block Completion

Mar 3, 2023 | News

Bennett Court Apartment Block Completion 3rd March 2023 Works has just completed on a 5 number extra care apartment block unit at Bennett Court, South Elmsall. The apartments provide a much needed increase in the capacity at the complex care service, Bennett Court,...

Skelton Care Home Completion

Feb 24, 2023 | News

Skelton Care Home Completion 24th February 2023 Works have recently completed on Skelton Court in Skelton-in-Cleveland. Skelton Court care home is a contemporary residential care home, set in luxurious and comfortable surroundings and benefiting from private...

National Apprenticeship Week

Feb 10, 2023 | News

National Apprenticeship Week 6th Feb 2023 Walter Thompson has provided opportunities for school leavers to enter the building trade for over 50 years through a successful and well-respected training programme. In addition to its traditional apprenticeships in building...

Pupils Visit Falla Park

Jul 13, 2022 | News

Falla Park School Visits Site 13th July 2022 Walter Thompson had some very special visitors in June when the pupils of Falla Park Community School came to visit our site which is not too far from their School.  The Year 5 class came to see our crane lifts in operation...

Buckingham Care Home Completion

May 20, 2022 | News

Buckingham Care Home Completion 20th April 2022 Clarendon House is located in the heart of Buckingham town centre, close to amenities and at the centre of the community. With care and support facilities being taken to a new level, a real ‘Home from Home’.The home...

Chesterfield Care Home Completion

Mar 29, 2022 | News

Chesterfield Care Home Completion 28th March 2022 Works have recently completed on Belvedere House Care Home in Chesterfield.  Belvedere House is located close to the centre of Chesterfield. Taking care and support facilities to a whole new level, the warm and...

South Elmsall Care Home Completion

Dec 16, 2021 | News

South Elmsall Care Home Completion 1st of December 2021 Works have recently completed on Bennett Court care home in South Elmsall.  This traditional built specialist nursing home supports up to 30 adults living with complex mental and physical health needs over three...

Grantham Care Home Completion

Dec 16, 2021 | News

Grantham Care Home Completion 28th November 2021 Works have recently completed on Royal Windsor Care Home in Grantham.  The home has been designed to a luxurious high standard and has been described as a “five star luxury hotel” by the developers. Providing the...

Billy Retires after 24 Years

Dec 9, 2021 | News

Billy Christon Retires after 24 Year’s Service   3rd Dec 2021 A company is only as good as its employees and Walter Thompson pride themselves on theirs. From employing local apprentices to offering further education through their academy scheme, Walter...

Scarborough School Completion

Sep 4, 2021 | News

Scarborough School Completion 1st September 2021 We have successfully completed a new two form entry primary school close to the town of Scarborough which can accommodate 420 pupils. The project also consisted of the construction of a three class nursery and community...

Birmingham Home Completion

Aug 23, 2021 | News

Birmingham Care Home Completion 23rd August 2021 Works have recently completed on Blackmoor care home in Birmingham.  This traditional built specialist nursing home supports up to 30 adults living with complex mental and physical health needs over three 10-bed units....

Bradford Care Home Completion

Jun 23, 2021 | News

Bradford Care Home Completion 23rd June 2021 Works have recently completed on Wykewood care home in Bradford. Built on the site of an old library, this traditional built specialist nursing home supports up to 40 adults living with complex mental and physical health...

Northallerton Award Winners

Feb 4, 2021 | News

WT Wins Love Northallerton Award Golden Recognition for Walter Thompson 26th Jan 2021 Walter Thompson are extremely proud to announce we’ve won not one but TWO awards in the recent Love Northallerton award ceremony. This is the first of its kind and so it’s a...

Walter Thompson Sponsors Northallerton Town FC

Jan 7, 2021 | News

Walter Thompson Sponsor Northallerton Town FC   7th Jan 2021 RESPECTED construction company Walter Thompson is the new club sponsor of Northallerton Town Football Club. The club, freshly promoted to Ebac Northern League Division One, was on the look-out for a new...

Daventry Care Home Completion

Dec 4, 2020 | News

Daventry Care Home Completion 20th Dec 2020 Astley Hall Care Home is located in the Middlemore area of the Daventry area of Northamptonshire overlooking the Drayton Reservoir. Taking care and support facilities to a whole new level in the local area, the warm and...

20 Years’ Service

Nov 17, 2020 | News

Employees Reach 20 Year’s Service Milestone   10th Nov 2020 A company is only as good as its employees and Walter Thompson pride themselves on theirs. From employing local apprentices to offering further education through their academy scheme, Walter...

Golden Recognition for Walter Thompson

Oct 13, 2020 | News

Golden Recognition for Walter Thompson Golden Recognition for Walter Thompson   13th Oct 2020 ONE of the region’s largest construction companies is celebrating after winning a top national award. Northallerton-based Walter Thompson Ltd was declared winner of the...

Tyne Grange Care Home Completion

Sep 16, 2020 | News

Tyne Grange Care Home Completion   16th Sep 2020 Following our appointment to refurbish an existing 50 bed care home on Grainger Park Road, Newcastle to a 20 bed specialist nursing care home, the scheme was successfully handed over at the end of August 2020....

Breaking Ground

Jul 21, 2020 | News

Breaking Ground on Overdale Community Primary School   21th July 2020 There was excitement at Eastfield as following several years of development the ground was officially broken at the new Overdale Community Primary School site. The site of the new school, which...

2020 FT Group Charities

Feb 28, 2020 | News

FT Group Chosen Charities for 2020   28th Feb 2020 Following on from our AMAZING fundraising success over the last two years where we managed to raise a staggering £10k we are pleased to announce that for the next two years the FT Group will be supporting not...

Breckon Hill School Completion

Feb 20, 2020 | News

Breckon Hill School Completion   20th Feb 2020 Work has recently completed at Breckon Hill Primary School, Middlesbrough. The new build classroom extension which included refurbishment works of kitchen and boiler room, new electrical and mechanical installation...

FT Group Raises £10K+

Feb 7, 2020 | News

FT Group Raises £10K+ for Charity   28th Jan 2020 Is there anything better than helping a charity, especially when it’s one that helps try to beat a terrible disease like prostate cancer? The stats from this awful illness are shocking to read: Prostate cancer is...

Pudsey Care Home, Completion

Jan 28, 2020 | News

Pudsey Care Home Completion   28th Jan 2020 Walter Thompson have successfully completed the construction of a new 86 bedroom care home on the grounds of the former Musgrave Court located on Crawshaw Road, Pudsey.   New Purpose Build Care Home Pudsey The new...

Weaponness House Completion

Sep 25, 2019 | News

Weaponness House Completion   25th Sept 2019 Walter Thompson recently completed work at Weaponness House Boarding School in Scarborough on behalf of Scarborough College. The project started in October 2018 with a 46 week programme and handed over in the middle of...

Cleckheaton Care Home Completion

Jul 7, 2019 | News

Cleckheaton Care Home Completion   07th July 2019 Birch Park Care Home is a special type of care home, purpose-built and providing affordable, independent living in a welcoming, homely environment. The home is well situated on Serpentine Road, in Cleckheaton...

Hucknall Home Completion

May 17, 2019 | News

Hucknall Care Home Completion   17th May 2019 Walter Thompson have recently completed a new purpose-built 74 bed Care Home for Crown Care Group on a former print works site.   New Purpose Build Care Home Hucknall Beaumont House recently handed over on time...