Catalogue description Records of S. Cockburn and Son of Ossett, Printers
This record is held by West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Reference: | C101 |
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Title: | Records of S. Cockburn and Son of Ossett, Printers |
Description: |
C101/1 - C101/3 Purchases C101/4 - C101/17 Sales C101/18 - C101/22 Accounts C101/23 - C101/27 Premises C101/28 - C101/38 Printing Blocks, Etc. C101/39 - C101/81 Almanacks And Yearbooks C101/39 - C101/56 Ossett Almanack and Yearbook C101/57 - C101/64 Horbury Almanack and Yearbook C101/65 - C101/69 Soothill Almanack and Yearbook C101/70 - C101/76 Thornhill Almanack and Yearbook C101/77 - C101/81 Dewsbury Almanack and Yearbook C101/82 - C101/106 Printing Commissions and Samples C101/107 - C101/108 S E Cockburn, Batley Grammar School Notebooks C101/109 - C101/110 Secondary Works |
Date: | 1876-1951 |
Held by: | West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
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Physical description: | 110 files |
Access conditions: |
Open |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
S. Cockburn and Son of Ossett were the printers and publishers of the Ossett Observer, founded 1864, and the Horbury Observer, founded in 1870. Only accounts relating to their newspaper publishing are amongst this collection, but other examples of their commercial publishing are represented by their almanacks and yearbooks, and examples of commissioned printing and samples of all kinds of work. After the sale of their newspaper interests their printing activities were increasingly dependent upon work undertaken for the West Riding County Council. The firm was finally bought out by the West Yorkshire County Council to enable it to establish an in-plant printing unit. |
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