Catalogue description JOHN CROSSLEY AND SONS/JOHN CROSSLEY AND SONS LTD/JOHN CROSSLEY AND CARPET TRADE HOLDINGS LTD/CARPETS INTERNATIONAL (DEAN CLOUGH MILLS), HALIFAX, CARPET MANUFACTURERS, RECORDS (ADDNL) - BUSINESS PAPERS OF LORD GARNOCK

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Title: JOHN CROSSLEY AND SONS/JOHN CROSSLEY AND SONS LTD/JOHN CROSSLEY AND CARPET TRADE HOLDINGS LTD/CARPETS INTERNATIONAL (DEAN CLOUGH MILLS), HALIFAX, CARPET MANUFACTURERS, RECORDS (ADDNL) - BUSINESS PAPERS OF LORD GARNOCK
Description:

JOHN CROSSLEY AND SONS LTD (DEAN CLOUGH MILLS) NORTHOWRAM, HALIFAX, CARPET

 

MANUFACTURERS 1928-1978

 

CORRESPONDENCE AND COMPLAINTS 1928-1978

 

PUBLICATIONS AND SPEECHES 1932-1965

 

FINANCIAL RECORDS 1946-1977

 

PLAINS DEPARTMENT RECORDS 1950-1963

 

BOARD MEETINGS 1956-1967

 

BROCHURES ETC 1956-1973

 

JOHN CROSSLEY - CARPET TRADE HOLDINGS LTD. HALIFAX 1964-1966

 

BOARD MEETINGS 1964-1966

 

CROSSLEYS OVERSEAS COMPANIES, 1952-1989

 

USA 1952-1966

 

CANADA 1958-1989

 

WESTERN GERMANY 1963-1967

 

AUSTRALIA 1967-1972

Date: 1928-1989
Related material:

See also:

 

DC; S:56; V:41 MP:11; MIC:22; MIC:28; MISC:807; MISC:1019;HAS/B:24

Held by: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

John Crossley and Sons, carpet manufacturers

John Crossley and Sons Ltd, carpet manufacturers

John Crossley and Carpet Trade Holdings Ltd

Carpets International (Dean Clough Mills) Halifax, carpet manufacturers

Physical description: (58 boxes/1.16 cubic metres)
Access conditions:

CRO: 6,12-14, 43-46

 

On restricted access for 30 years from the last date of the documents

Custodial history:

Accession number(s). 1486

 

Date(s) of accession: 3 Apr 1992

 

Computer Reference number: CC01486

 

Catalogued: 28 May 1992

Subjects:
  • Manufacturing industry
Administrative / biographical background:

John Crossley, founder of Crossleys Carpets, was born in 1772. He was apprenticed to his uncle, John Webster, as a carpet weaver, before going to work for a William Currer at Luddenden. About 1800, he became manager of Job Lee's carpet factory in the Lower George Yard, Halifax. In 1802, John, his brother Thomas, and James Travis took a lease on Dean Clough Mills. After 20 years, the lease expired and the partnership dissolved. John renewed the lease in his own right. In 1830, he bought out the only other carpet factory in Halifax, Messrs Abbott and Ellerton. When he died in 1837 aged 64, there were 300 employees at Dean Clough. The business was carried on by his 3 sons, John, Joseph and Francis. In 1864, John Crossley and Sons was formed into a joint stock company, one of the first in the country to take advantage of the Limited Liability Company legislation passed in 1862. Four fifths of the shares were kept by the 3 brothers. The prospectus indicates that they had factories at Halifax and Kidderminster, and warehouses at London and Manchester at this stage. By 1900, the workforce stood at 5000. During the First World War, production was switched to produce webbing, blankets and khaki yarn, and machine shops were turned over to shell production. There were similar changes during the Second World War. In 1953, John Crossley and Sons Ltd and Carpet Trades Ltd, Kidderminster, were amalgamated into John Crossley and Carpet Trade Holdings. In 1969, came the merger with the Carpet Trades Manufacturing Company of Kidderminster into Carpets International. In 1970, the Chairman, Patrick Crossley, retired and the Headquarters of the Group was moved to Kidderminster. In 1982, the decision to close Dean Clough became known, and the last carpet stocks produced there were moved out in 1987. After 6 generations of Crossleys, carpet manufacture at Dean Clough came to an end.

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