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John Bancroft and Company Limited, Business Archive

Archive Collection: BUS/Bancroft Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: John Bancroft and Company Limited, Business Archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: BUS/Bancroft

Creator(s): John Bancroft and Company Limited()

Date(s): 1885-1938

Language: English

Size and medium: 4 vols in individual folders.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6898

Collection group(s): Business Archives

Description

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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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Comprises: Four factory registers with details of holidays and half holidays given in the factory; dates when the factory was limewashed; details of children and young persons employed in the factory; accidents. Register 1, 1879-1885; Register 2, 1885-1901; Register 3, 1902-1915; Register 4, 1914-1938.

Biography or history

John Bancroft and Company Limited, of Charles Mill, Oxenhope, Keighley, were worsted spinners, established in 1810. This firm became part of Bancroft & Sunderland Ltd. in 1959. It was based at Eagle Mill, Dalton Lane, Keighley.

System of arrangement

The BUS/Bancroft catalogue is based on an historic inventory, created in 1972. The arrangement of material does not necessarily represent the original order of the archive and it is considered partly processed by an archivist. When making requests to consult, please be aware that there may be discrepancies between description and physical arrangement. The retrievable unit for this collection is file level.

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