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Total number of records: 12

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Business Archives6
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture5

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textile industry12
business records6
occupations5
community life4
food4
land use4
nature4
agriculture3
animals3
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Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)2
Assistant Manager of the Styal Estate1
Barry, Michael V (1935-)1
George Crowther and Company1
Gledhill, James1
Humphries, Dennis1
Hutt, Francis1
James France and Company Limited1
Lownds, Annie1
Marshall, John (1765-1845)1

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Archive File

Business records of G. and J. Stubley Limited

1903-1905

Comprises details of materials (wool, yarn, and oil) required to produce over 1,000 different blends of yarn. The names of suppliers of wool or yarn are sometimes indicated

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William Rhodes Limited, Business Archive

1845-1937

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

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Sound Recording, Buckinghamshire

Tilling, Philip M (1938-); Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1967

Francis Hutt, recorded in Horton; talks about building and thatching corn stacks; clipping hedges; market gardening; milk round with pony - first job, aged eleven; carters' wages; ploughing and horse ...

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Sound Recordings, [Cheshire]

Price, Sarah M

August 1977

Annie Lownds talks about working at Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, before it was a museum - hours of work, pay, work (weaving) techniques and process. [Tr. 6] Mary Wolstenholme and her sister, Nellie, tal...

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Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1960s]

James Gledhill, recorded in Golcar; talks about working in a woollen cloth textile mill - processes, differences between spinning/producing woollen and worsted materials; leisure time, including a des...

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Sound Recordings, Devon

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

1 April 1963

[Collector announcement]; Ernest Warren, recorded [outside] in Ponsworthy; talks about the recent snowfall; farming (crops, cream/buttermaking); his first job milling flour and driving a horse and car...

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Papers of the Leeds White Cloth Hall

1749-1897

The papers in this collection consist largely of legal documents and correspondence, of which very many are copies or drafts. No attempt has been made to describe the latter more closely than as 'draf...

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George Crowther and Company Limited, Business Archive

George Crowther and Company

1833-1883

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

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James France and Company Limited, Business Archive

James France and Company Limited

1838-1913

Miscellaneous records recording work done: 1) Day Book. June 1838—April 1849. Apparently a daily record of the yarn spun possibly giving the names of customers (‘France’s & Fox’s), the type...

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Marshall and Company, Business Archive

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...

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Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire

Pitkannen, Hannu

[1960s/early 1970s]

[Collector announcement, in which he provides background information on his fieldwork project, the locations visited and informants interviewed; he also comments on the quality of the recordings, the ...

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William Ackroyd, Otley Mills, Business Archive

William Ackroyd Limited

1817-1963

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

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