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Total number of records: 21

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business records5
textile industry4
letters1
woolen and worsted manufacture1

Count of People and organisations

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Edward Ripley and Son1
Gott Family1
Hopps, John1
John Foster and Son1
Ripley, Edward1
Ripley, Henry William1
Thomas Boyd Limited Leeds1
William Hanson and Company Limited1

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Revised pages from item 5205, [no date]

1877-1950

8 ff. Comprises revisions of pp. 4, 5, 11, 12, 13 [13a], 14 and another.

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General Register

c. 1850-1900

A register of Children (12-13) working part time and young people (13-18) working in the mill, an accident report log, a log of industrial poisonings and steam boiler inspection logs. Gives informatio...

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Draft of notice

29/4/1782

Draft of notice from the Sheriff of Yorkshire to Thos. Scatchord and Wm Halton, bailiffs, to levy £28.3.11d of the goods of Thos. Brooke, being damages awarded to John Wheatley et al., this sum to ...

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Documents concerning the sale of the Hall, 1895-1896

1895-1896

Envelopes T 1 to T 8 Envelope T 1 Documents 1-11: Documents of December 1895 -January 1896 preceding the meeting of stand holders of 14th January 1896. Envelope T 2 Authorisations to proxies by sta...

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William Hanson and Company Limited, Business Archive

William Hanson and Company Limited

1924-1954

Comprises: 1) Credit ledgers, 1931-1951; 2) Debit ledgers, 1927-1950; 3) Invoice day-books for payments, 1929-1951; 4) Day-book for receipts, 1943-1951; 5) Wage books, 1924-1950; 6) Purcha...

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Sundry documents relating. Bathurst and Borthwick families.

1828-1891

(1) Unidentified press-cutting on descent from Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. (2) Press-cutting from Morning Post on 3rd Earl Bathurst. (3) Extract of a letter from Mrs. Hankey to Christine...

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Notices of transfer of stand s, 1876-1892

1876-1892

40 ff. These are listed below. Listed by vendor, purchaser and date 1 Bannister, Thomas Briggs, Benjamin 11 September 1876 2 Bland, Isaac Fletcher, Jonas 4 April 1879 3 Briggs, Alfred ...

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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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John Foster and Son, Business Archive

John Foster and Son

c.1820-1950

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

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I. Debtors and Creditors Ledgers. 1775-1911

1775-1911

Most have several hundred accounts and are indexed. 1. John Jowitt, Jun. Ledger. 1775-1815. Named debtor and creditor aCCQuntsdetailed with amounts and types of goods and services.transacted. Much...

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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...

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X. PRIVATE LETTERS. 1846-1902

c.1846-1902

(Most letter-bundles in sections X, XI, and XII contain several hundred letters each) 132. Private Letters i.Jan. 1846-Dec. 1856. Letters and telegrams to Messrs John Foster & Sons with some copies...

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