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Skelton and Wells Leeds wine merchant, Business Archive

Archive Collection: MS 1686

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Skelton and Wells Leeds wine merchant, Business Archive

Level: Collection

Classmark: MS 1686

Date(s): 1785-c.1900

Language: English

Size and medium: 5 volumes and 1 folder

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7604

Collection group(s): Cookery Collection

Description

Comprises: i) Accounts: September 1785 - February 1791; ii) Accounts: January 1787 - December 1788; iii) Day book: January 1787 - November 1813; iv) Letter book, 1814 - 1832; v) Index to letter book; vi) Miscellaneous printed documents relating to later ownership of the business, including a Foreign Wine Licence issued in 1845 in the name of William Wells


Includes some printed items.

Biography or history

The Leeds Directory for 1817 contains an entry for Skelton & Wells, wine merchants, at premises in Albion Street in Leeds. In 1860 Thomas Casson bought the business from Frank Richardson & Co, and Skelton & Wells are named as their predecessors. Later owners of the business included John Lupton & Son (in Gascoigne Street) and Cairns & Hickey (in Blenheim Terrace).

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