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John Reddihough Limited and William Gawthorp & Company, Business Archive

Archive Collection: BUS/Reddihough Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: John Reddihough Limited and William Gawthorp & Company, Business Archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: BUS/Reddihough

Creator(s): John Reddihough Limited(); William Gawthorp and Company()

Date(s): 1875-1922

Language: English

Size and medium: 8 vols

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6960

Collection group(s): Business Archives

Description

Summary of Contents:


1. Private Business Records of John Reddihough. 1875-1922.


2. Records referring to William Gawthorp & Company. 1882-97.


See W. R. Millmore, 'John Reddihough Ltd, Bradford: a record of enterprise and integrity', Wool Record, Vol. 80, (1951), ppĀ·.1427-1429. (B).


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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.

Biography or history

John Reddihough Limited, of 21 Horton Lane, Bradford, were wool merchants, top makers, and wool combers. They formerly operated as Reddihough and Murgatroyd, woolstaplers. William Gawthorp and Company were commission wool combers, Bradford. John and Frank Reddihough were partners, and from the 1890s there were other partners in common with John Reddihough Ltd.

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