J. C. Waddington and Sons Limited, business archive

Scope and Content

Comprises: (1) Miscellaneous nineteenth-century records, 1816-1902; (2) Wage books, 1863-1929; (3) Twentieth-century trade and production records, 1907-47.

Administrative / Biographical History

J.C. Waddington and Sons Limited, of Crown Point Dye-Works, East Street, Leeds, were woollen and worsted dyers, established in 1869. The firm was until April 1869 known as William Brayshaw and Sons. Most of the nineteenth-century records relate to the latter.

Access Information

Access to this material is unrestricted.

Note

In English

Other Finding Aids

Described in Patricia Hudson, The West Riding wool textile industry: a catalogue of business records from the sixteenth to the twentieth century , 1975

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