Parkwood Mills Company Business Archive
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Parkwood Mills Company Business Archive
Classmark: BUS/Parkwood
Creator(s): Parkwood Mills Company; John Broadbent and Sons; Longwood Finishing Company
Date(s): 1817-1923
Language: English
Size and medium: 91 items in 48 vols and 8 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6957
Collection group(s): Business Archives
Description
Comprises:
(1) Stock records, 1826-73; (2) Day books, stock and sales, 1842-61; (3) Mill ledgers, 1848-1918; (4) Sales and purchase records, 1817-1904; (5) Cash and bank books, 1841-1918; (6) Wage books, 1848-1911; (7) Rent books, 1849-81; (8) Minute books and balance papers, 1887-1923; (9) Miscellaneous mill and building accounts, 1848-71; (10) Miscellaneous papers, 1825-ca.1915
Numbers 38, 52, and 55 are not used in the Brotherton Library sequence, which ends with number 92, but the extra numbers 4a and 8a are included, thus making 91 actual items altogether.
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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. Referred to as 'John Broadbent & Sons' in this document.
The 'Original Reference' noted on the catalogue documents the number given in the original Hudson listing of the collection.
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Biography or history
Parkwood Mills Company, of Longwood, near Huddersfield, were commission spinners, twisters, warpers, weavers and menders. In 1887, according to their Articles of Association, they were dyers, millers and finishers. They incorporated John Broadbent and Sons, who were woollen manufacturers, and Longwood Finishing Company, who were scourers, millers, dyers, finishers and London shrinkers.
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