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George Crowther and Company Limited, Business Archive

Archive Collection: BUS/Crowther (G) Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: George Crowther and Company Limited, Business Archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: BUS/Crowther (G)

Creator(s): George Crowther and Company()

Date(s): 1833-1883

Language: English

Size and medium: 8 vols

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6926

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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Chronological list - includes items marked * which were found with the Crowther items but probably not referring to the same concern.


*1. Invoice Book (North and South America and Sydney). Aug. 1833 - April 1840.


Invoices give great detail of colours, types and values of woollen cloths shipped by G. Barret from Liverpool or London for sale in America or Sydney. Carriage, insurance charges, duties and cargo markings are all given. Indexed by name of purchasing firm or agent abroad.


*2. Fragment of account book of unknown firm. 1832-40. Accounts of named suppliers of wool merchandise and dyeing and printing services - all West Riding.


*3. Book of weave pattern instructions inscribed Jas N. Barret, Churwell. Hardly used (n.d.).


4. Cash Book. May 1872 - June 1874.

Detailed entries of cash receipts and disbursements naming recipients, sources and reasons for the cash transfers. Includes weekly mill wages, disbursements from various mill departmental accounts, and colliery expenses. Summaries at the end of each month are given. Credits include mill, manufacturing, and Leeds bank accounts, debits include sales expenses, mill expenses, milling account, manufacturing, dyeing, colliery, and Leeds bank account. Columns differentiate between mill accounts and bank account. Loose invoices include two from cloth finishers and statements of the balance of named accounts 1876. Rough cash account, 1877-8.


5. ‘Cash Book 1874’. July 1874-Aug. 1880.

As item 4.


6. ‘Cash Book A 1878’. Feb. 1878-Jan. 1883.

As item 5 with overlap because of mistakes towards the end of item 5.


7. Details of bills receivable. 1863-78.

(Usual columnar details.)


8. Details of bills payable. 1870-7.

(Usual columnar details.)


9. Weaving Details. June 1882-Jan. 1883.

Record of pieces produced giving description, price, warp, set, picks, weight of warp, and weight of piece. Also details of wool weft inputs and cotton warps - their suppliers, weights and values. Costs of loom rent, weaving, lists and gears, milling, staining and finishing, are given.

Biography or history

George Crowther and Company, of Lane Side Mills, Churwell, near Leeds, were woollen manufacturers, established in the late 1830s.

System of arrangement

The BUS/Crowther catalogue is based on an historic inventory, created in 1968. 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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