Catalogue description WILLIAM MORRIS AND SONS LTD., SOWERBY BRIDGE, WORSTED SPINNERS, RECORDS.

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Title: WILLIAM MORRIS AND SONS LTD., SOWERBY BRIDGE, WORSTED SPINNERS, RECORDS.
Description:

William Morris and Sons Ltd., Sowerby Bridge, Worsted Spinners

 

Order Books, 1844-1946, WIM/1-59

 

Machinery Accounts, 1849-1892, WIM/60

 

Stock Records, 1849-1972, WIM/61-77

 

Bills, 1864-1917, WIM/78-79

 

Financial Records, 1874-1960, WIM/80-93

 

Purchasing Records, 1887-1968, WIM/94-108

 

Legal Records, 1889-1920, WIM/109

 

Trading Records, 1892-1898, WIM/110-111

 

Time Records, 1897-1936, WIM/112-116

 

Journal, 1898-1904, WIM/117

 

Insurance Policies, 1901-1908, WIM/118

 

Costing Records, 1901-1932, WIM/119

 

Safety Records, 1905-1916, WIM/120

 

Production Records, 1905-1971, WIM/121-126

 

Sales Records, 1909-1970, WIM/127-136

 

Reference Works, 1910-1927, WIM/137-140

 

Making-up Records, 1912-1965, WIM/141

 

Banking, 1913-1916, WIM/142-150

 

Insurance and Wages, 1916-1969, WIM/151-165

 

Chamber of Commerce Records, 1925-1932, WIM/166

 

Administration, 1926-1941, WIM/167-169

 

Nominal Ledgers, 1933-1954, WIM/170-174

 

Bobbins Records, 1934-1971, WIM/175-176

 

Secretary's Records, 1935-1945, WIM/177-180

 

Dispatch Records, 1937-1940, WIM/181-191

 

Order Sheets, 1938-1940, WIM/192-194

 

War Records, 1939-1951, WIM/195-201

 

Prices, 1940-1973, WIM/202-207

 

Canteen Records, 1942-1945, WIM/208-209

 

Recombing Records, 1947-1965, WIM/210-214

 

Remittance Records, 1950-1951, WIM/215

 

Merchandising Records, 1957-1962, WIM/216-217

 

Dyeing Records, 1923-1947, WIM/218-221

 

Records held from other Firms, n.d., WIM/222-223

 

Photographs, n.d., WIM/224-227

 

William Morris and sons Ltd., Stansfeld Mills, Sowerby, Worsted Spinners

 

Order Books, 1848-1972, WIM/228-270

 

Engineering, 1874-1885, WIM/271

 

Stock Records, 1879-1951, WIM/272-278

 

Costings Records, 1880-1945, WIM/279-280

 

Purchasing Records, 1880-1964, WIM/281-311

 

Sales Records, 1882-1925, WIM/312-314

 

Deliveries Records, 1882-1964, WIM/315-326

 

Financial Records, 1883-1941, WIM/327-337

 

Production Records, 1901-1923, WIM/338-339

 

Insurance Records, 1911-1921, WIM/340-341

 

Rovings and Drawings Records, 1911-1917, WIM/342

 

Banking, 1911-1933, WIM/343

 

Day Book, 1912-1914, WIM/344

 

Tendering, 1913-1914, WIM/345-346

 

Canteen Records, 1914-1976, WIM/347-348

 

Garage Accounts, 1916-1917, WIM/349

 

Packing Records, 1917-1919, WIM/350

 

Secretary's Records, 1919-1935, WIM/351

 

Sales Ledgers, 1919-1949, WIM/352-353

 

Machinery Records, 1921-1933, WIM/354

 

Samples Records, 1922-1924, WIM/355

 

Administration, 1924-1956, WIM/356-366

 

War Records, 1939-1941, WIM/367-368

 

Wages, 1940-1947, WIM/369-370

 

Records concerning other Firms, 1950-1969, WIM/371-377

 

Nominal Ledger, 1954-1956, WIM/378

 

Recombing Records, 1968-1970, WIM/379

 

Company Stamp, n.d., WIM/380

 

Photographs, n.d., WIM/381-382

 

William Morris and Sons Ltd., Corporation Mill, Sowerby Bridge, Worsted Spinners

 

Stock Records, 1878-1904, WIM/383-385

 

Financial Records, 1880-1947, WIM/386-389

 

Registration, 1884-1938, WIM/390-408

 

Wages Records, 1887-1947, WIM/409-427

 

Reports, 1927-1952, WIM/428-429

 

Bobbins Records, 1929-1934, WIM/430

 

Insurance Records, 1946-1951, WIM/431-432

 

Reference Works, 1948-1957, WIM/433-434

 

Quality Control, n.d., WIM/435

 

William Morris and Sons Ltd., Hollins Mill, Warley, Worsted Spinners

 

Records, 1923-1924, WIM/436

 

William Morris and Sons Ltd., Bradford Warehouses, Worsted Spinners

 

Samples Records, n.d., WIM/437-440

 

Company Stamp, n.d., WIM/441

 

William Morris and Company, Hereford, Worsted Spinners

 

Records, 1875-1908, WIM/442.
Date: 1844-1976
Held by: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

William Morris and Sons Ltd, worsted spinners of Sowerby Bridge
Physical description: 109 boxes / 2.18 m³
Subjects:
  • Textile industry
Administrative / biographical background:

William Morris and Sons Ltd had a number of mills:

 

Stansfeld Mills, Triangle, Sowerby

 

Owned from 1848, the mills closed in 1970 because of structural faults. They were largely demolished in 1985. Attached to the mill was a hostel for female workers, opened in 1921 and used until the 1950s.

 

Corporation Mill, Sowerby Bridge, Warley

 

This mill produced khaki worsted yarn for the Army and materials for the Navy in the First World War. Work from Stansfeld Mills was transferred here from 1970. It closed in October 1979 with the loss of 135 jobs. Crestol Ltd (hair care manufacturers) used the mill from 1980-1986. In 1989 J and C Joel Ltd, specialist textile merchants and international dealers bought it. In 1990 some space was let to the Treadmill Fitness and Health Centre. In 1979 Corporation Mill was the last Sowerby Bridge worsted spinners to close.

 

Other sites were Hollins Mill, Warley, warehouses at 13-15 Barkerend Rd, Bradford, and a business in Hereford founded c1875. Eventually the firm became a branch of Illingworth Morris and Company Ltd.
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