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Archive Collection:
MS 1315

c.1950-1962

Comprises notes on Oldham cotton spinners and Derbyshire miners, with numerous typed extracts from the 'Derbyshire Times'.

Archive Collection:
MS 1565

1869-1960?

The collection contains the professional and personal papers of Aldred Farrer Barker. These include papers and correspondence about his textile related interests and his work on sheep breeding and wo...

Archive Collection:
MS 158

c.1772-1802

Lane Head, Ovenden, near Halifax. Clothier, in partnership until c. 1782 with his younger brother James, founder of James Akroyd & Sons, stuff manufacturers, worsted spinners and merchants, 49 North...

Archive Collection:
MS 200

1788-1886

The firm was founded in 1788 by John (1765 - 1845), son of a Leeds draper, to take advantage of recent developments in the spinning of flax by machine. He set up a partnership with Samuel Fenton and R...

Archive Collection:
MS 26

1914-1931

On the manufacture of ropes, twines, and threads made from flax, hemp, jute, manila, and sisal at Fairbairn, Lawson, Combe Barbour, Hope Foundry, Leeds

Archive Collection:
MS 356

1839-1880

Includes samples of cloth, plans of the estate, sketches of properties on the estate and a schedule of purchased from the estate.

Archive Collection:
BUS/Ackroyd

1817-1963

Comprises various ledgers, notebooks, legal documents, cash and wages books, and books concerning stock balances. -------

Archive Collection:
BUS/Airedale

1860-1931

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- Airedale Mi...

Archive Collection:
BUS/Ambler

1828-1933

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- Business Ar...

Archive Collection:
BUS/Bancroft

1885-1938

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. -----------

Archive Collection:
BUS/Berry

1906-1922

Comprises a cash book and several purchase, sales, and trade ledgers.

Archive Collection:
BUS/Booth

1859-1949

Comprises a business journal for the years 1859-1867 and a letter dated 8 August 1949, from Alfred Booth, Director, explaining the terms used in the volume.