The file includes a poster addressed 'To the clergy, gentry, shopkeepers and inhabitants of Keighley generally' from the woolcombers of Keighley dated 1843. There are original and copy photographs of...

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Spinners’ Wages Book

Aug 1828-Jan 1841

Record of weekly wages paid to between 30 and 60 named spinners and spinning families (mostly female). Weekly rate per spinner is given. Totals are periodically carried to Ledger (item 1). Page 51 giv...

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III. STOCK BOOKS. 1830-1890

c.1830-1890

10. Stock Book, etc. 1834. 1830-4. Marked John Foster. Includes 1830-2 account of John Foster with George Oxley (yarn supplier) giving details of twist and warp purchases with prices paid. Also a ‘...

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IV. MEMORANDA BOOKS. 1842-1858

1842-1858

60. Memoranda Book (6S. B. Foster’). March 1842-April 1843. Notes about appointments, receipts, orders, and purchases, naming various concerns involved. Quantities, descriptions, and prices of yarns...

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VI. WAGE BOOKS. 1820's-1881

c.1820-1881

97. Sorters’ Reckoning Book. Early nineteenth century. ‘Ready Reckoner’ giving amounts of pay for sorting various weights at different rates of pay. 98. Spinners’ Wages Book. Aug. 1828-Jan....

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