Catalogue description CORDS LTD (PECKET WELL MILL), HEBDEN BRIDGE, CORDUROY AND FUSTIAN MANUFACTURERS

This record is held by West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

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Reference: PW
Title: CORDS LTD (PECKET WELL MILL), HEBDEN BRIDGE, CORDUROY AND FUSTIAN MANUFACTURERS
Date: 1913-1979
Related material:

See also AG, and MISC985
Held by: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Cords Ltd, Hebden Bridge, corduroy and fustian manufacturers
Physical description: 53 boxes/1.06 cubic metres
Access conditions:

Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited : A Greenwood, Hebden Bridge

 

Accessioned : 1985 Oct 23
Administrative / biographical background:

Pecket Well Mill in Keighley Rd, otherwise known as Pecket Well Shed was a weaving mill opened in 1858. It was rebuilt after a fire in 1873 and later traded as Cords Ltd. The business became a subsidiary of M Chapman and Sons (Textiles) Ltd, Stockport. Alan Greenwood was the Director of the Company when the records were deposited in 1995. This was the last fustian-weaving mill in Hebden Bridge when it closed in 1998. The mill, engine house, chimney and weaving shed date from 1840 to 1858 and are listed. In June 2003, there was a proposal to convert the building into flats
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