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Rules for testing yarn
1830s-1840s
Weighing and calculation procedures for testing the quality of yam and warp, number of hanks in a piece, the draft and twist of a spinning frame and drawing frame, the length of slubbing on a bobbin, ...
Letter Bundle
1833-1910
Includes 1833 list of the values of materials of many types and in stated places (materials involved in the various stages of worsted production). Details of various frames, 1838. Papers referring to...
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...
1. Papers referring to patents and other business affairs. 1830s-1850s
1830-1859
Includes: 1. French passport of Isaac Holden, April 1834. 2. Small number of short business and social letters to and from Isaac Holden. 1830s-40s. 3. ‘Loss of weight in spinning’ notes, July 1...
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...
XII. MISCELLANEOUS INCOMING LETTERS. 1833-c. 1950
c.1833-1950
(Mainly extracted from Private Letter files) 179. Bundle. 1833-1910. Includes 1833 list of the values of materials of many types and in stated places (materials involved in the various stages of w...
Calverley papers : petitions, letters and other documents from Sir Walter Calverley and others, concerning the Broadcloth Acts of 1725, 1733, 1741 and 1765
Calverley family
1639-c.1768
These papers mainly concern the renewal of the Broadcloth Acts in 1733 and 1741. They were given to the Library in 1922 by Mr Clarke-Thornhill. With one exception, they are listed here in chronologica...
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...
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...