About Us

History

B Portwood & Co Ltd were founded in 1963 by Bernard Portwood ACII, originally in High West Street, Gateshead and is currently still managed by the Portwood Family.

Offices

The firm has three offices: 9 Bewick Road, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear: 145 Newgate Street, Bishop Auckland and 44 Medomsley Road, Consett, DH8 5HA.  The Consett Office is the one that handles all the internet travel insurance enquiries.

Ethos

The firm has always believed in treating its customers fairly, to act on their best interests and to help them on any insurance matter that they may have. For travel insurance, for instance, we will help customers select the correct policy, do a medical screening for medical conditions on some contracts and, of course, help and advise them should they need to make a travel insurance claim.

Other Policies

As well as travel insurance, each office provides quotes for all sorts of personal and business insurance such as landlord insurance. Details can be found on the main website. Like travel insurance the policies offered will tend to be better than those bought online - but slightly more expensive. It is up to you as a customer to decide if the advice, service and cover is worth paying a little bit extra.

More on travel insurance

At our main site,(which deals in landlord insurance) we have various travel insurance options

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