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business records1
coal mines and mining1
woolen and worsted manufacture1

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Gott Family1
Hopps, John1

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Archive File

Recipes without patterns

1839-41

Some accompanied by customer's name. Some recipes dated, 1839-41. ff 16. ff 5v-6r: medical recipes. ff 6v-16r blank. 10" x 8". Paper cover, inscribed on front, "Sundries Colours. Cotton & Woolens".

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Lister Family (Frizinghall), Textile Business Records

1760-1799

33. Account Book, James Lister. 1760-77. Accounts of more than roo named debtors from West Riding, Lancs., and South Scotland. Payment of rents on estate, sales of yarn, etc. are detailed. Also accoun...

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Documents relating to the British coal industry

1890-1948

(1) Signed minutes of a preliminary meeting of West Yorkshire colliery owners at Leeds, 10 February 1890, with a view to forming an asociation (2 ff.); (2) Waiver in respect of the Guarantee Fund of W...

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Textile Business Records

1804-1942

----------- Please see the attached Concordance.pdf to ascertain the relationship between the numeration of the records and the shelf numbers used by Special Collections. ----------- 1. Weavers...

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Recipes with patterns

14 March 1831

ff 40. ff 4v-8r show the costs of materials used in various dyes for John Edwards and Sons, Halifax, March 14, 1831. 7" x 4". Leather covers.

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Gott papers, section 1: business records relating to the firm of Leeds woollen merchants

Gott Family

1770-1931

Comprises: (1) Papers concerning Richard Thompson, 1770-1771; (2) Miscellaneous records of Wormald, Fountaine and Gott, 1780-1785; (3) Aire and Calder Navigation accounts, 1785-1792; (4) Accounts of c...

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5. Varied social and business correspondence. 1827-1852.

1827-1852

Leeds, concerning the letter from Greathead accepting him for the teaching post in Reading. Two letters from John Kennedy, Paisley, teacher, recommending Isaac Holden to accept situation as teacher in...

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XV. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 1824-1923

c.1824-1923

282. ‘Jno. and Geo. Thackrey’ Debt Book. 1824-30. Record of debts owing to Thackreys ‘supposed good’, ‘doubtful’, and ‘bad’. Debtors are named and on the credit side are dates and...

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Seventy boxes of mixed business and personal papers

1630-1950

Box 1 - Papers referring to the Parish Church, Keighley, the Sunday School, and Keighley Free Grammar School. 1820s- 80s. Statement of the 'Samaritan Fund', Keighley Parish Church, 1826. Poll Book fo...

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6. Letters and papers, business and social. 1840-9.

1840-1849

Ten bundles. 1. Letters. 1840. Many written by Isaac Holden. Copies of two letters from Isaac Holden to Townend, one about his position with the firm and the success of his innovations and the other...

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8. Letters and papers, business and social. 1860-72.

1860-1872

Seventeen bundles. 1. Letters, i860. Several letters from Isaac Crothers in Croix referring to the condition of trade, use of various wools, shafting and gears ordered, and the showing of combing ma...

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XIV. RAILWAYS. 1852-1884

1852-1884

(Some of this material is of special interest as it would have been available only to directors of the railway companies.) Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway (See also section on Halifax & Ovenden J...

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