R. V. Marriner Limited, Business Archive
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Type of record: Archive
Title: R. V. Marriner Limited, Business Archive
Classmark: BUS/Marriner
Creator(s): R.V. Marriner Limited()
Date(s): 1630-1979
Language: English
Size and medium: 133 volumes and boxes of documents
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6951
Collection group(s): Business Archives
Description
Summary of Contents:
1. Marriner Textile Business Records. 1804-1942.
2. Marriner Miscellaneous Personal and Estate Records. 1750s- 1930s.
3.. Lister Family (Frizinghall), Textile Business Records. 1760-99.
4. Lister Family, Personal and Estate Records. I750s- 182I.
5. John Anderton, Cullingworth (Wilsden Mills), worsted manufacturing records. 1810-66.
6. Seventy boxes of mixed business and personal papers, Seventeenth to twentieth centuries.
Box numbers containing the most important business papers are as follows: M = Marriner, L = Lister, A = Anderton, S = Spencer (woolstapler, Keighley), 0 = Other including Watson Blakey, Smith & Greenwood:
5. 1741-1820S (SM).
6. 1865-9 (M).
8. 1790S- 1847 (LM).
13. 1862-79 (M).
14. 1820-53 (M).
16. 1791 (0).
21. 1813-55 (OM).
22. 1818-58 (M).
32. 1786-1891 (M).
36. 1835-1905 (M).
40. 1831-50S (M).
43. c. 1870S- 1950 (M).
45. 1820S, 30s, 1908 (M).
46.1784-1883 (MO).
47.1825-1918 (M).
48.1820S- 70S (M).
54.1782-50 (ASM).
56.1908 (M).
57.1784-1919 (OM).
59.1797-1860s (A).
60.(M).
61.1820S- 99 (M).
62.1796--1811 (S).
64.1680s - 1816 (SAO).
66.1841-84 (M).
68.1776-1925 (M).
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Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections.
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Biography or history
R.V. Marriner Limited, of Greengate Mills, Keighley, were worsted spinners and manufacturers. The company was originally established c.1784 as Watson, Blacky, Smith and Greenwood, cotton spinners. It later became William Marriner, 1784-1808, B. and W. Marriner, 1808-1888, Marriner Son and Naylor, 1888-1908, and finally R.V. Marriner Limited, 1908. The firm gave up loom weaving in 1837 and concentrated on worsted spinning.
Greengate Mill was built in 1874 at the height of the cotton spinning boom. By the late nineteenth century Marriner's concentrated primarily on the production of knitting wools for the home and foreign markets.
In 1922 Marriner's advertised the fact that they span 'all classes of hosiery and hand-knitting yarns in botany, crossbred, camel-hair etc.' Their speciality was the production of yarns for 'sports-coats, scarves, etc.'
See J. Hodgson, Textile Manufacture, and other Industries, in Keighley (1879), pp. 52-5.
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