Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 46 records

Total number of records: 46

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives44
Books and printed items2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture38
Business Archives4
Quaker Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
textile industry46
occupations38
persons30
clothing and dress29
handicraft29
implements, utensils etc15
culture6
play6
community life5
home5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)31
Outhwaite, T. G.27
Hunter, Mr T.4
Wright, John T2
Akroyd, Jonathan1
Alley, Elisabeth1
Baldwin, John R1
Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964)1
Barker, Benjamin (1838-)1
Blake, Fred1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17003
From 18002
From 190040
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17991
Up to 18992
Up to 199942
Up to latest1

Archive File

Saddles and Horse Collars: A Study of Selected Craftsmen

Wynne, Victoria

1979

M.A. study on the manufacture of saddles and horse collars, based on fieldwork undertaken in Walsall. Firms visited include G. T. Palmer and Son and J. C. Huskisson and Son. Chapters cover the informa...

More details


Archive Collection

Aldred Farrer Barker correspondence and papers

Barker, Aldred F (1868-1964); Barker, Benjamin (1838-); Hart, Solomon Alexander (1806-1881)

1869-1931

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...

More details


Archive File

Miscellaneous antiquarian notes, mainly relating to the Yorkshire textile industry, compiled by William Bunting Crump, ca. 1920-1935

William B. Crump

c.1920-1935

1-3 Small note books on navigations and woollen industry, c. 1920-30. 4. Note book "C" on common fields, 1924. 5. Note book "P" on enclosure awards, 1929. 6-8. Packets of loose papers on enclosures an...

More details


Archive Item

Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Bryon, Fiona

10 Dec 1980 - 15 Dec 1980

Jim Roche, recorded in his home, talks about the Leeds clothing industry in the 1920s/30s; starting work at John Baron's; describes contracting out, machinery, processes, hours of work, health (T.B. p...

More details


Archive Sub-collection

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...

More details


Archive Collection

Jonathan Akroyd Business Archive

Akroyd, Jonathan

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...

More details


Archive Collection

T. Berry (Bradford Limited), Business Archive

T. Berry Limited, Bradford

1906-1922

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

More details


Archive Collection

J. T. Clay and Sons Limited, Business Archive

J.T. Clay and Sons Limited

1812-1928

Stock account book and scrapbook of newspaper cuttings, letters and notices. The stock book is lettered on spine: 'Clay & Earnshaw Stock 1812 and 1814, and on the front cover: 'Clay & Earnshaw Crow...

More details

Ropemaking: Weaving Braid
Archive Item

Ropemaking: Weaving Braid

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Ropemaker, Mr. T. G. Outhwaite , weaving cotton braid on a loom in his workshop, Hawes ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1265 and LAVC/PHO/P1266. With typed note. Card 12 in a ...

More details and larger image

Ropemaking: Twisting Cotton Threads
Archive Item

Ropemaking: Twisting Cotton Threads

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Ropemaker, Mr. T. G. Outhwaite, setting in motion the spinners that will twist the cotton warp set out on the rope walk into threads, Hawes ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P12...

More details and larger image

Ropemaking: Twisting Cotton Threads
Archive Item

Ropemaking: Twisting Cotton Threads

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

June 1962

Strands of cotton warp, set out on a rope walk, being twisted into threads at the workshop of ropemaker, Mr. T. G. Outhwaite, Hawes ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1250 . Wit...

More details and larger image