Online Searches Limited enters creditors' voluntary liquidation with Adcroft Hilton appointment
Online Searches Limited, a Lancashire engineering and technical consultancy, has entered creditors' voluntary liquidation with joint liquidators appointed on 21 May 2026. Full notice and Companies House record.
Information for general guidance, drawn from the public record. Not legal, financial, or insolvency advice. If you are affected by an insolvency, consult a licensed practitioner or qualified solicitor.
Jane Hardy and Rosalind Hilton of Adcroft Hilton Limited, based at 269 Church Street, Blackpool, were appointed joint liquidators to Online Searches Limited on 21 May 2026. The appointment followed a creditors' voluntary liquidation, an insolvent winding-up resolved by the company's members without a court order.
Members and creditors of the company made the appointment, according to the notice published in the London Gazette on 29 May 2026.
The company
Online Searches Limited is registered at Silverley, Park Road, Darwen, Lancashire, which is also its principal trading address. Its nature of business is described as engineering related scientific and technical consulting, corresponding to SIC code 71122.
The company was incorporated on 1 August 2007 under the name ADB Architectural Services Limited and changed its name to Online Searches Limited on 1 December 2014. Its most recent accounts were made up to 31 August 2025 and filed as micro-entity accounts.
The liquidators
Hardy and Hilton both practise from Adcroft Hilton Limited's Blackpool office. Their office holder numbers, as listed in the Gazette notice, are 9384 and 8604 respectively. Georgina Gleeson is named as the contact at the firm, which can be reached by telephone on 01253 299399 or by email at recover@adcrofthilton.co.uk.
Officers at the time of liquidation
John Richard Gardner has been a director of Online Searches Limited since 1 August 2007 and remains in post. Emily Susanne Gardner has served as company secretary since the same date and her appointment also remains current. Neither officer has a recorded resignation on Companies House.
Secured charges
No secured charges are registered against Online Searches Limited at Companies House.
Common questions
Are you owed money by Online Searches Limited?
In a creditors' voluntary liquidation you are an unsecured creditor unless you hold a registered charge or retention of title. The liquidators will write to known creditors with a proof-of-debt form. A statement of affairs prepared by the directors and the chair of the creditors' decision procedure should be available on request. Read more about proof of debt and where you sit in the creditor hierarchy.
Did you work at Online Searches Limited?
In a CVL, employees are typically dismissed at or shortly after the liquidator's appointment. Wages owed up to a statutory cap, holiday pay, notice pay and redundancy may be claimable from the Redundancy Payments Service. The liquidators will normally provide RP1 case-reference numbers to the affected staff. See gov.uk: your rights if your employer is insolvent.
Do you hold a deposit, gift card or undelivered order from Online Searches Limited?
Customers with paid-but-undelivered orders, gift cards or deposits rank as unsecured creditors in the liquidation. Where you paid by credit card and the amount was over £100, Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 may let you claim from the card issuer for breach of contract or misrepresentation by the supplier; the rules apply per item, not per transaction, and the card must be a regulated credit card. Debit-card payments may be recoverable via chargeback.
Are you a director of a company connected to Online Searches Limited?
Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 applies the moment the company enters liquidation. If you intend to be involved in another company using the same or a similar name within five years, you must rely on one of the three statutory exceptions and file the relevant notice. Acting in breach is a criminal offence and exposes you to personal liability for the successor's debts.
Sources
- The London Gazette notice (code Appointment of Liquidators)
- Companies House record 06330282
- Editorial standards: how we source and review; five-pass pipeline.
