Wormalds and Walker Limited, Business Archive
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Wormalds and Walker Limited, Business Archive
Classmark: BUS/Wormalds
Creator(s): Wormalds and Walker Limited()
Date(s): 1810-1913
Language: English
Size and medium: 316 items in 313 vols and 2 pamphlet boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6971
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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Some of the early items are here listed in detail but the majority are included under summary heading only.
Summary of Contents:
I. 'Private' Ledgers. 1810-70.
II. Letter Books. 1823-64. (About 175,000 outgoing letters with much information particularly on the American trade.)
III. Inventories and Valuations, 1858, 1878.
IV. Order Books. 1862-1913.
V. Cost Books. 1876-87.
VI. Purchase and Sales Ledgers. 1880- 1900.
I. 'Private' Ledgers. 1810-70.
1. Ledger, of Thos Cook. 1810-43.
Personal diary, giving an account of local farming conditions and activities, religious and political affairs. Comments on prices, state of trade and other references to business, naming purchasers and describing business journeys to Liverpool and London. Alphabetical list of persons with their locations, c. 1815. Possibly wool suppliers. Loan accounts, Thomas Cook with William and Thomas Bayldon of Barnsley, 1810-15. Cook borrowing more than £2,000. Private prayers, 1841-3.
2. 'Balances and Private Ledger'. 181 1-24.
Accounts of John Hague, Crownest; John Wormald, Highbury, London; Thomas Cook; and John Hague, junior, 1811-24. These show balances of capital in trade and interest accruing yearly. Thomas Cook and John Hague, jnr accounts show profit figures. Balance sheets, 31 Dec. c. 1816, 1818, and 1819.
On the credit side are the balances of all the ledgers and major accounts. Debits include capital in trade of the partners and other debts. Profit is calculated and divided among the partners. The c.1816 account has no profit calculation. Loose paper giving the amount debited to the private accounts of owners of Dewsbury Mills for cost of new mill and machinery, giving details of property, c. 1862.
Detailed inventory and valuation of shafting, gearing, engines, boilers, water-wheels, gas apparatus, Feb. 1862.
This collection has been the subject of an unpublished University of Leeds Ph.D. thesis, 'Dewsbury Mills: a history of Messrs Wormalds and Walker Ltd', by F. J. Glover, 1959. http://lib.leeds.ac.uk/record=b1455059
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Biography or history
Wormald and Walker Limited, of Dewsbury Mills, Dewsbury, were blanket manufacturers. The company was originally established in 1811 as Hague and Cook, by Thomas Hague and his nephew John Cook with John Greenwood. The Wormald family joined the company in the 1840s.
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