John Foster and Son, Business Archive
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Type of record: Archive
Title: John Foster and Son, Business Archive
Classmark: BUS/Foster
Creator(s): John Foster and Son()
Date(s): c.1820-1950
Language: English
Size and medium: 301 vols, boxes, and rolls
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6929
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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Black Dyke Mills, Queensbury, Nr Bradford Worsted, alpaca, mohair, spinners and manufacturers Established 1819.
See Industries of Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Part I (1888), p. 207; Fortunes made in business, Vol. 2 (1884), pp. 3-56; E. M. Sigsworth, Black Dyke Mills: A History, with introductory chapters on the development of the worsted industry in the nineteenth century (1958); ‘Pioneers of the wool textile industry’, Wool Record, Vol. 23 (1923), pp. 1232-7; ‘Fosters of Queensbury and Geyer of Lodz,
1848-62’, in Yorkshire Bulletin of Economic and Social Research, Vol. 3> no. 2 (July 1951), pp. 67-82.
Summary of Contents:
I. Ledgers. 1828-41.
II. Private Ledgers. 1841-89.
III. Stock Books. 1830-90.
IV. Memoranda Books. 1842-58.
V. Bank Books and Cash Books. 1828-88.
VI. Wage Books. 1820S-81 (incomplete).
VII. Intake and Weighing-Off Books. 1840-66.
VIII. Cost and Price Books. 1838-73.
IX. Colliery and Clay Pit Records. 1826-63.
Comprises: (1) Ledgers, 1828-41; (2) Private ledgers, 1841-89; (3) Stock books, 1830-90; (4) Memoranda books, 1842-58; (5) Bank and cash books, 1828-88; (6) Wage books, 1820s-81 (incomplete); (7) Intake and weighing-off books, 1840-66; (8) Cost and price books, 1838-73; (9) Colliery and clay pit records, 1826-63; (10) Private letters: (i) Incoming, 1846-82; (ii) Outgoing, 1852-1902; (11) Letter files (incoming) on specific subjects, 1849-80; (12) Mainly incoming correspondence, much extracted from private letter files, 1833-ca.1950; (13) Partnership papers, 1868-84; (14) Papers of various railway companies, 1852-84; (15) Miscellaneous papers, 1824-1923.
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John Foster and Son, of Black Dyke Mills, Queensbury, near Bradford, were worsted, alpaca and mohair spinners and manufacturers, established in 1819.
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