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Total number of records: 46
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Archive Collection:
MS 1315
MS 1315
c.1950-1962
Comprises notes on Oldham cotton spinners and Derbyshire miners, with numerous typed extracts from the 'Derbyshire Times'.
Archive Collection:
MS 1565
MS 1565
1869-1960?
The collection contains the professional and personal papers of Aldred Farrer Barker. These include papers and correspondence about his textile related interests and his work on sheep breeding and wo...
Archive Collection:
MS 158
MS 158
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...
Archive Collection:
MS 200
MS 200
1788-1886
The firm was founded in 1788 by John (1765 - 1845), son of a Leeds draper, to take advantage of recent developments in the spinning of flax by machine. He set up a partnership with Samuel Fenton and R...
Archive Collection:
MS 26
MS 26
1914-1931
On the manufacture of ropes, twines, and threads made from flax, hemp, jute, manila, and sisal at Fairbairn, Lawson, Combe Barbour, Hope Foundry, Leeds
Archive Collection:
MS 356
MS 356
1839-1880
Includes samples of cloth, plans of the estate, sketches of properties on the estate and a schedule of purchased from the estate.
Archive Collection:
BUS/Ackroyd
BUS/Ackroyd
1817-1963
Comprises various ledgers, notebooks, legal documents, cash and wages books, and books concerning stock balances.
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Archive Collection:
BUS/Airedale
BUS/Airedale
1860-1931
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Airedale Mi...
Archive Collection:
BUS/Ambler
BUS/Ambler
1828-1933
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Business Ar...
Archive Collection:
BUS/Bancroft
BUS/Bancroft
1885-1938
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Archive Collection:
BUS/Berry
BUS/Berry
1906-1922
Comprises a cash book and several purchase, sales, and trade ledgers.
Archive Collection:
BUS/Booth
BUS/Booth
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.