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Albert Edward Leak of Lille and Leeds notebooks
Leak, Albert Edward (1875-1931)
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
Aldred Farrer Barker correspondence and papers
Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964)
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...
Marshall and Company, Business Archive
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...
Papers of the Leeds White Cloth Hall
1749-1897
The papers in this collection consist largely of legal documents and correspondence, of which very many are copies or drafts. No attempt has been made to describe the latter more closely than as 'draf...
Additional papers of the Leeds White Cloth Hall
1756-1897
The Leeds White Cloth Hall papers (MS 283) were listed in Handlist 2, now supplemented by the list on pp 484-517 of The West Riding Cloth industry : a catalogue of business records, compiled by Patric...
Notebook compiled by Albert Edward Leak, 1895, containing specifications and data for the textile industry
Leak, Albert Edward (1875-1931)
1895
Includes some comparisons between British and French or Belgian practice
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...
Hobson, Clegg and Company, Business Archive
Hobson, Clegg and Company
1876-1889
Comprises: (1) Personal letters including a letter to 'Jonas' from B.L.' expressing displeasure at the way business had been conducted in his absence, dated 1876. Three letters, dated 1877, to the ...
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...
Thomas Benson Pease, plans and related materials from the Sheepscar estate
Pease, Thomas Benson (1782-1846)
1839-1880
Includes samples of cloth, plans of the estate, sketches of properties on the estate and a schedule of purchased from the estate.
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. -------