Historical shares in a company - lost information

[SealSong]

Hoping that someone can advise.

Many many years ago in the 80's on my 18th birthday my mum told me that she had bought me a few shares in the company she worked for.
I never had any paperwork or information on this, and sadly my mum passed away a few years later.
This company is still going and is a strong national company.
I have never had any kind of dividend or whatever from these shares, and I don't even know how many shares I have, it may be worth very little in monetary terms.
I would like to trace these, and see if I am owed anything.
I plan to write to the compay with the scant information that I have, but is there any other way I should approach this?

Go onto the Companies House website beta.companieshouse.gov.uk , that will give you the registered office address of the company and the name of the company secretary. Write or email the company secretary (if the co has a website, that may give a contact email address for the co sec), giving as much detail as you can (eg names, dates, addresses)

What was the name of the company in the 1980's when your mother worked for it?

I'd write to the Registrar who holds the company's shares.

I agree google the share registrar. Most common ones are Equiniti, Computershare and Link.

If you look at the corporate section of the company website it may say who the registrar is, I tracked some down to Equiniti this way recently.

Thanks everyone, that's really helpful

I work in a company secretariat and agree that contacting the registrar is the way to go. The easiest way is via a search in the investor section of their website and it'll be published in the last annual report available on there.