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Businesses (67)

Ainsworth Mercerising Co Ltd, mercerisers Bolton, Lancashire
Alfred Hughes & Co Ltd, export packers and makers up Manchester, Lancashire
Allied Breweries Ltd Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire
Ashton Brothers & Co Ltd, cotton spinners and manufacturers Hyde, Cheshire
B & SH Astardjian, textile merchants Manchester, Lancashire
Bentley, Smith & Co Ltd, bookbinders cloth and leathercloth mfrs Manchester, Lancashire
Bleachers & Dyers Mutual Indemnity Co Ltd Manchester, Lancashire
Boiler Insurance & Steam Power Co Ltd Manchester, Lancashire
British Rail Engineering Ltd
Budenberg Guage Co Ltd Altrincham, Cheshire
Butterworth & Duncan, architects Rochdale, Lancashire
Courtaulds Ltd, manufacturers of crape, dress fabric, artificial silk and other manmade fibres London;Braintree, Essex;Coventry, Warwickshire
Customagic Manufacturing Co Ltd, loose cover manufacturers Manchester, Lancashire
D & H Mallalieu Ltd, woollen manufacturers Delph, Yorkshire
Daniel Adamson & Co Ltd, boilermakers Dukinfield, Cheshire
David Turner & Co, drapers, Rochdale Rochdale, Lancashire
Delta & Pine Land Co United States of America
Drury Gomersall & Partners, architects and surveyors Manchester, Lancashire
Dunlop Heywood (Housing) Co, estate agents Manchester, Lancashire
Eagle Spinning Co Ltd, cotton spinners Rochdale, Lancashire
Fine Spinners & Doublers Ltd, cotton spinners and doublers Bolton, Lancashire
Frank Pearn & Co Ltd, pump manufacturers and hydraulic engineers Manchester, Lancashire
Great Central Railway Co London
Groves & Whitnall Ltd, brewers Salford, Lancashire
H Evers (Aggregates) Ltd, road haulage contractors Manchester, Lancashire
Hale Golf Club Manchester, Lancashire
Harold Greenwood, architect
Harwood, Cash & Co Ltd, cotton doublers Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
J Pickup & Sons Ltd, metal bellows manufacturers Marple, Cheshire
John Davenport & Son, rope, twine and tarpaulin manufacturers Manchester, Lancashire
Joshua Hoyle & Sons Ltd, cotton spinners and manufacturers Bacup, Lancashire
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co Manchester, Lancashire;Horwich, Lancashire
Lancashire Cotton Corporation Ltd, cotton spinners and manufacturers Manchester, Lancashire
Lilac Mill Ltd, cotton spinners and manufacturers Oldham, Lancashire
London & North Western Railway Co London
London North Eastern Railway Gorton, Lancashire
Madewel Products Ltd, fire alarm manufacturers Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester & Salford Savings Bank Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester & Southampton Railway Co
Manchester Alliance Life & Fire Office Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Commercial Buildings Co Ltd Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Ship Canal Co Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Stock Exchange Manchester, Lancashire
Maple Mill Ltd, cotton spinners and doublers Oldham, Lancashire
Maureen Ibberson, midwife Stretford, Lancashire;Manchester, Lancashire
Methodist Insurance Co Ltd York, Yorkshire
Methodist Insurance Co Ltd Manchester, Lancashire
Milnrow Spinning Co Ltd, cotton spinners Rochdale, Lancashire
Moorfield Spinning Co Ltd, cotton spinners Shaw, Lancashire
National Vulcan Engineering Insurance Group Ltd Manchester, Lancashire
North Ainley, solicitors Oldham, Lancashire
Paul Catterall Son & Son Ltd, cotton spinners, and mfrs Preston, Lancashire
Reliance Machine Co Ltd, hardware factors Manchester, Lancashire
Rent collectors Manchester, Lancashire
Robert Platt Ltd, cotton spinners and manufacturers Stalybridge, Cheshire
Rochdale Canal Co Manchester, Lancashire
Samuel Buckley & Co Ltd, machine tool makers Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire
Samuel Bunting & Co, cotton doublers Stockport, Cheshire
Societe Cotonniere d'Hellemmes Ltd, cotton manufacturers France
Thomas Robinson & Co Ltd, dyers and bleachers Ramsbottom, Lancashire
Tootal Broadhurst Lee Co Ltd, cotton manufacturers Manchester, Lancashire
Townhead Mill Co Ltd, cotton spinners Rochdale, Lancashire
Trafford Park Cold Storage Ltd Manchester, Lancashire
Victor Mill Ltd, cotton manufacturers Stalybridge, Cheshire
Vulcan Boiler & General Insurance Co Ltd Manchester, Lancashire
WH Suttons & Sons, estate agents and auctioneers Manchester, Lancashire
William Jackson & Sons, canal carriers Manchester, Lancashire

Organisations (184)

72nd (Royal Manchester Volunteers) Regiment of Foot Manchester, Lancashire
Adelphi Lads Club, Salford Salford, Lancashire
Ainsworth Isolation Hospital Ainsworth, Lancashire
Aitken Memorial and Jubilee Cottage Hospital, Ramsbottom Ramsbottom, Lancashire
Altrincham General Hospital Altrincham, Cheshire
Altrincham United Reformed Church
Amalgamated Engineering Union: Bury 123 BE branch Bury, Lancashire
Amalgamated Engineering Union: Ramsbottom branch Ramsbottom, Lancashire
Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators: Shaw and Royton branch Oldham, Lancashire
Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers: Manchester no 3 branch Manchester, Lancashire
Amalgamated Textile Workers Union: Bolton and district Bolton, Lancashire
Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers: Sale Sale, Cheshire
Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers: Salford Salford, Lancashire
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers: Broadheath branch Broadheath, Cheshire
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers: Broadheath no 2 branch Broadheath, Cheshire
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers: Broadheath no 4 branch Broadheath, Cheshire
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers: Bury no 3 branch Bury, Lancashire
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers: Partington branch Partington, Cheshire
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers: Radcliffe Bridge branch Radcliffe, Lancashire
Ancoats Building Preservation Trust Ancoats, Lancashire
Aniline Black and Tannic Discharges Section Manchester, Lancashire
Association of Co-Licencees Manchester, Lancashire
Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff: North West area North West
Association of Scientific Workers: Trafford Park branch Trafford, Lancashire
Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staff: AEI Manchester branch Manchester, Lancashire
Auctioneers and Estate Agents Institute of the United Kingdom: Manchester branch Manchester, Lancashire
Bleachers Federation Manchester, Lancashire
Bleaching Trade Advisory Board Manchester, Lancashire
Bolton and District Card and Blowing Room Operatives Association Bolton, Lancashire
Bolton Coroner Court Bolton, Lancashire
Bridgewater Hospital, Eccles Eccles, Lancashire
British Red Cross Society: Blackley branch Blackley, Lancashire
British Spinners and Doublers Association Manchester, Lancashire
British Textile Employers Association Manchester, Lancashire
Bury Borough Petty Sessions Bury, Lancashire
Bury County Hospital Bury, Lancashire
Bury General Hospital Bury, Lancashire
Bury Petty Sessions Bury, Lancashire
Carers UK
Carers Wales Wales
Charity Commission: Manchester charities accounts Manchester, Lancashire
Charter Street Ragged School and Working Girls Home, Manchester Manchester, Lancashire
Colour Users Association Manchester, Lancashire
Communist Party of Great Britain: Manchester and district Manchester, Lancashire
Controlled Comprehensive Shrinkage Association Manchester, Lancashire
Cotton Employers Parliamentary Association Manchester, Lancashire
Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers Association Manchester, Lancashire
Countrywide Holidays Association
Denton chapel Denton, Lancashire
Didsbury and South Manchester Womens Zionist Society Didsbury, Lancashire
Dyers of Man-Made Fibre Fabrics Federation Manchester, Lancashire
Eccles and Patricroft Hospital Eccles, Lancashire
Eighteen Plus Club, Greater Manchester Greater Manchester
Electrical Association for Women: Urmiston branch Urmiston, Lancashire
Employers Federation of Bleachers Manchester, Lancashire
English Folk Dance and Song Society: Manchester District branch Manchester, Lancashire
Fairfield General Hospital, Bury (formerly Jericho Hospital) Bury, Lancashire
Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays
Federation of British Scooter Clubs
Federation of Calico Printers Manchester, Lancashire
Federation of Engravers Manchester, Lancashire
Federation of Master Cotton Spinners Associations Manchester, Lancashire
Federation of Master Packers Manchester, Lancashire
Flannelette Printers Association Manchester, Lancashire
Flixton charities Flixton, Lancashire
Florence Nightingale Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Bury Bury, Lancashire
Friends of Ancoats Building Preservation Trust Ancoats, Lancashire
Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union: Screiber factory shop stewards committee Trafford, Lancashire
Girl Guides Association: Crumpsall 5th Company Crumpsall, Lancashire
Greater Manchester County Labour Group Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester Federation of Boys Clubs Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester lieutenancy Manchester, Lancashire
Greater Manchester plans of abandoned non-coal mines Manchester, Lancashire
Greater Manchester Transport Action Group Manchester, Lancashire
Heywood Borough Petty Sessions Heywood, Lancashire
Heywood Card Room Workers Heywood, Lancashire
Hope Hospital, Salford Salford, Lancashire
Income and Land Tax Commissioners, Manchester division Manchester, Lancashire
Indigo Printers Association Manchester, Lancashire
Institution of Electrical Engineers, Association of Women: Urmston and district committee Urmston, Lancashire
Invisible Histories - working people of Salford Salford, Lancashire
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society Lancashire;Yorkshire, West Riding
Light Goods Bleachers Association Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester and District Far Eastern Prisoners of War Association Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester and District Working Men's Club and Institute Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester and Northern Counties Ornithological Group Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester City Council Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Coroner Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Dickens Fellowship Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Jazz Society Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Office and Warehouse Advisory Council Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Port Health Authority Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Region Youth Hostel Association Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Royal Eye Hospital Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Studies Organisation Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Wheelers, cycling club Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Women's Hockey League Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester Workingmen's Clubs Manchester, Lancashire
Manchester, Salford and District Society of Brewers and General Coopers Manchester, Lancashire;Salford, Lancashire
Master Packers Association, Manchester Manchester, Lancashire
Medical Women's Federation London
Micklehurst ratepayers Micklehurst, Lancashire
Middleton and Tonge Petty Sessions Middleton, Lancashire
Middleton Angling Society Middleton, Lancashire
Middleton Petty Sessions Middleton, Lancashire
National Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters and Decorators: unnamed branch
National Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters and Decorators: unnamed branch Lancashire;Lancashire
National Association of Operative Plasterers: Manchester branch Manchester, Lancashire
National Association of Plasterers, Granolithic and Cement Workers: Manchester branch Manchester, Lancashire
National Fire Service, City of Salford area Salford, Lancashire
National Society of Metal Mechanics
National Union of General and Municipal Workers: Castleton branch Castleton, Lancashire
National Union of General and Municipal Workers: Rochdale branch Rochdale, Lancashire
National Union of Railwaymen: Manchester district council branch Manchester, Lancashire
National Union of Textile and Allied Workers: Rochdale district Rochdale, Lancashire
Non-Associated Bleachers Manchester, Lancashire
North Manchester Camera Club Manchester, Lancashire
North West Conservation and Restoration Executive Cheshire;Lancashire;Lancashire;Cheshire
North West Region Health Authority North West
North West Water Authority
North Western Electricity Consultative Council
North Western Naturalists Union
Northenden Civic Society Northenden, Lancashire
Northern Circuit Manchester, Lancashire
Northern Counties Hospital for Incurables, Bury Bury, Lancashire
Oldham Magistrates Court Oldham, Lancashire
Oldham Photographic Society Oldham, Lancashire
Oxford Archaeology North Lancaster, Lancashire
Prestwich Asylum Prestwich, Lancashire
Prestwich Hospital Prestwich, Lancashire
Print Trade Production Council Manchester, Lancashire
Rail Passengers Committee for North Western England North West
Ramsbottom Cottage Hospital Ramsbottom, Lancashire
Rayon Weaving Association Manchester, Lancashire
Rochdale Borough Magistrates Court Rochdale, Lancashire
Rochdale District Coroner Rochdale, Lancashire
Rochdale Petty Sessions Rochdale, Lancashire
Royal Lancashire Volunteers Lancashire;Lancashire
Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Salford Salford, Lancashire
Salford and Trafford Health Authority Salford, Lancashire;Trafford, Lancashire
Salford Area Health Authority Salford, Lancashire
Salford Hospital Management Committee Salford, Lancashire
Salford hundred lay subsidy Salford, Lancashire
Salford Insurance Committee Salford, Lancashire
Salford Magistrates Court Salford, Lancashire
Salford Royal Hospital Salford, Lancashire
Salford Skin Hospital Salford, Lancashire
Scout Association: Greater Manchester West Manchester, Lancashire
Scout Association: Stretford 1st Troop Stretford, Lancashire
Society of Master Calico Printers Manchester, Lancashire
Soroptimist International: Manchester club Manchester, Lancashire
St Mary parish, Prestwich Prestwich, Lancashire
St Peter parish, Blackley Blackley, Lancashire
Swinton Hospital Swinton, Lancashire
Tebilized Trade Mark Users Association Manchester, Lancashire
Textile Finishing Trades Association Manchester, Lancashire
Textile Officials Association
This is How We Got Here: LGBT activist stories Manchester, Lancashire
Trafford Park Development Corporation Trafford, Lancashire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Adlington office Adlington, Lancashire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Altrincham and Bowdon branch Altrincham, Cheshire;Bowdon, Cheshire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Burnley branch Burnley, Lancashire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Bury branch Bury, Lancashire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Buxton branch Buxton, Derbyshire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Great Harwood branch Great Harwood, Lancashire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Heywood branch Heywood, Lancashire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Liverpool branch Liverpool, Lancashire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Manchester branch Manchester, Lancashire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Middleton branch Middleton, Lancashire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: North West regional office Manchester, Lancashire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Pendleton branch Pendleton, Lancashire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Royton and Shaw branch Oldham, Lancashire
Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Wilmslow branch Wilmslow, Cheshire
Union of Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS)
United Bleachers Association Manchester, Lancashire
United Kingdom Textile Manufacturers Association Manchester, Lancashire
United Roller Coverers Association: Rochdale branch Rochdale, Lancashire
Vegetarian Society
Victorian Society of Manchester Manchester, Lancashire
Wide-Split Printers Society Manchester, Lancashire
Wire and Wire Rope Employers Association
Wire and Wire Rope Makers Association
Worsley Rehabilitation Clinic Worsley, Lancashire
Young Womens Christian Association: North West region

Persons (11)

Diaries (7)

King, John Prestwich, Lancashire
Knowles, Ellis, (fl 1847), musician
Unnamed male, (fl 1819), commentator on Peterloo massacre Manchester, Lancashire
Unnamed male, (fl 1837), diarist Greater Manchester
Unnamed, (fl 1819), Peterloo Massacre witness Manchester, Lancashire
Unnamed, (fl 1873), travel diarist Cheshire;Lancashire;Lancashire;Cheshire
Wightman, Frank Cheshire;Lancashire;Lancashire;Cheshire

Families (10)

Ackers family of Manchester and Moreton Hall, Cheshire Manchester, Lancashire
Assheton family, baronets, of Middleton Middleton, Lancashire
Bagot family of Bolton Bolton, Lancashire
Bootherstone family of Sale and Salford Sale, Cheshire;Salford, Lancashire
Egerton family, Earls of Wilton Heaton Hall, Lancashire;Radcliffe, Lancashire;Batley, Yorkshire;Wrinehill, Staffordshire;Farthingoe, Northamptonshire;Holywell, Flintshire
Entwisle family of Foxholes Fox Holes, Lancashire;Rochdale, Lancashire
Haworth family of Tottington Tottington, Lancashire
Legh family of Lyme Park Lyme Park, Cheshire
Royds family of Falinge Rochdale, Lancashire
Stott family of Rochdale Rochdale, Lancashire

Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (30)

NRA 29656 Daniel Adamson & Co Ltd, boiler makers, Dukinfield link to online catalogue
NRA 32476 Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Manchester branches link to online catalogue
NRA 35542 Bridgewater Hospital, Eccles link to online catalogue
NRA 32474 British Textile Employers Association link to online catalogue
NRA 29688 Samuel Buckley & Co Ltd, machine tool makers, Ashton-under-Lyne link to online catalogue
NRA 43739 Budenberg Guage Co Ltd, Altrincham link to online catalogue
NRA 27050 Bury and Rochdale Methodist marriage registers link to online catalogue
NRA 43736 Bury Area Health Authority
NRA 32473 Bury Borough Petty Sessions
NRA 32472 Bury County Petty Sessions
NRA 24463 Countrywide Holidays Association link to online catalogue
NRA 30126 Courtaulds Spinning, textile and manmade fibre mfrs, Manchester and Oldham
NRA 35543 Eccles and Patricroft Hospital link to online catalogue
NRA 23568 Egerton family, Earls of Wilton: deeds and papers link to online catalogue
NRA 43737 English Folk Dance and Song Society: Manchester District branch link to online catalogue
NRA 43373 Greater Manchester County Record Office: misc accessions
NRA 32494 Heywood Borough Petty Sessions
NRA 32480 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Works, Horwich link to online catalogue
NRA 32477 Legh family of Lyme: family and estate papers link to online catalogue
NRA 29448 Milnrow Spinning Co Ltd link to online catalogue
NRA 24068 National Fire Service: Salford area
NRA 32478 National Union of Railwaymen: Manchester District Council branch link to online catalogue
NRA 43733 National Union of Textile and Allied Workers: Rochdale district link to online catalogue
NRA 43730 National Vulcan Engineering Insurance Group Ltd, Manchester link to online catalogue
NRA 43738 Oldham Photographic Society link to online catalogue
NRA 43760 Rochdale Canal Co link to online catalogue
NRA 35544 Royal Manchester Children's Hospital link to online catalogue
NRA 43372 Salford Royal Hospital link to online catalogue
NRA 35545 Swinton Hospital link to online catalogue
NRA 43732 The Vegetarian Society link to online catalogue

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