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Total number of records: 54

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woollen and worsted manufacture1
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R.V. Marriner Limited1
Parkwood Mills Company1
Ripley, Edward1
Robert Clough Limited, Keighley1
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Ripley, Henry William1
Longbottom, Edward1
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Yorkshire Land and Warping Company, Business Archive

1875-1947

Comprises: (1) Many bundles of legal documents drawn up between the Warping Company and various other companies and individuals during the late nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentiet...

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Glenesk-Bathurst correspondence and papers

Glenesk, Algernon Borthwick (1830-1908)

1801-2000

The Glenesk-Bathurst papers revolve around the Morning Post, an influential Conservative newspaper which eventually merged with the Daily Telegraph, and relate mainly to the Edwardian period though th...

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Jonathan Akroyd Business Archive

Akroyd, Jonathan

c.1772-1802

Lane Head, Ovenden, near Halifax. Clothier, in partnership until c. 1782 with his younger brother James, founder of James Akroyd & Sons, stuff manufacturers, worsted spinners and merchants, 49 North...

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Henry Briggs, Son and Company Limited, Business Archive

1865-1961

Minute books of the coalmaster's company.

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John Bowling and Company Limited, Cyclops Foundry, Business Archive

1878-1954

Comprises the following records: (1) Wages books, 1886-1892; (2) Books of quarterly and annual balances, 1898-1951; (3) General ledger, 1886-1895; (4) Financial memorandum book, 1887-1896; (5) Books o...

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Act of Parliament relating to Boothferry Bridge

1924-1925

Incomplete

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Calverley papers : petitions, letters and other documents from Sir Walter Calverley and others, concerning the Broadcloth Acts of 1725, 1733, 1741 and 1765

Calverley family

1639-c.1768

These papers mainly concern the renewal of the Broadcloth Acts in 1733 and 1741. They were given to the Library in 1922 by Mr Clarke-Thornhill. With one exception, they are listed here in chronologica...

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Edward Longbottom and family, Dyers of Batley, Business Archive

Longbottom, Edward

c.1831-1885

The collection has been divided into four groups: pattern books (numbers 1-4); recipe books (numbers 5-19); day books (numbers 20-27); and miscellaneous items (numbers 28-30). The pattern books con...

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Association of Woollen and Worsted Manufacturers Leeds, Archive

1899-1933

Vol.1, 1899-1914; vol.2, 1915-1918; vol. 3, 1925-1933

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William Ackroyd, Otley Mills, Business Archive

William Ackroyd Limited

1817-1963

Comprises various ledgers, notebooks, legal documents, cash and wages books, and books concerning stock balances. -------

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Airedale Mill Company Limited, Business Archive

Airedale Mill Company Limited

1860-1931

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- Airedale Mi...

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Jeremiah Ambler and Sons Limited, Business Archive

Jeremiah Ambler and Sons Limited

1828-1933

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- Business Ar...

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John Bancroft and Company Limited, Business Archive

John Bancroft and Company Limited

1885-1938

----------- 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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T. Berry (Bradford Limited), Business Archive

T. Berry Limited, Bradford

1906-1922

Comprises a cash book and several purchase, sales, and trade ledgers.

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Henry Booth and Sons Limited, Business Archive

Henry Booth and Sons Limited

1859-1949

Comprises a business journal for the years 1859-1867 and a letter dated 8 August 1949, from Alfred Booth, Director, explaining the terms used in the volume.

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Thomas Boyd (Leeds) Limited, Business Archive

Thomas Boyd Limited Leeds

1889-1932

Summary of Contents: I. Cash Books. 1889-1932. II. Ledgers. 1896-1923. III. Finishing Books. 1893—1913. IV. Employment and Wages Records. 1891-1917. I. CASHBOOKS. 1889-1932 These ...

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Business and Financial manuscripts

1682-1963

Includes minutes, ledgers, accounts, correspondence and invoices for numerous named individuals and businesses.

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William and Jonn Clarkson Limited, Business Archive

William and Jonn Clarkson Limited

1855-1862

William & Jonathan Clarkson, Ltd Smale Well Mill, Pudsey. Woollen cloth manufacturers,

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J. T. Clay and Sons Limited, Business Archive

J.T. Clay and Sons Limited

1812-1928

Stock account book and scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, letters and notices. The stock book is lettered on spine: 'Clay & Earnshaw Stock 1812 and 1814, and on the front cover: 'Clay & Earnshaw Crow...

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Robert Clough (Keighley) Limited, Business Archive

Robert Clough Limited, Keighley

1806-1939

Comprises: (1) Day books; (2) Sales and purchase ledgers; (3) Wages books; (4) Miscellaneous ledgers; (5) Letters; (6) Cash and account books; (7) Plans

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Samuel Cockroft and Company Limited, Business Archive

Samuel Cockcroft and Company Limited

1881-1897

Samuel Cockroft & Co, Ltd. Barkerend Mills, Bradford. Established 1852. Worsted spinners

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John Crabtree and Sons Limited, Business Archive

John Crabtree and Sons Limited

1882-1940

One volume contains a few newspaper cuttings from November 1887 about the death of John Crabtree to 1940, the centenary of the company. Manuscript notes on the history of Bradford written in 1882 ha...

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