Comprises: (1) Stock records, 1826-73; (2) Day books, stock and sales, 1842-61; (3) Mill ledgers, 1848-1918; (4) Sales and purchase records, 1817-1904; (5) Cash and bank books, 1841-1918; (6) Wage books, 1848-1911; (7) Rent books, 1849-81; (8) Minute books and balance papers, 1887-1923; (9) Miscellaneous mill and building accounts, 1848-71; (10) Miscellaneous papers, 1825-ca.1915.
Parkwood Mills Company Business Archive
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- ReferenceGB 206 BUS/Parkwood
- Dates of Creation1817-1923
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- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description91 items in 48 vols and 8 boxes Numbers 38, 52, and 55 are not used in the Brotherton Library sequence, which ends with number 92, but the extra numbers 4a and 8a are included, thus making 91 actual items altogether
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Administrative / Biographical History
Parkwood Mills Company, of Longwood, near Huddersfield, were commission spinners, twisters, warpers, weavers, and menders. In 1887, according to their Articles of Association, they were wool dyers, millers, and finishers. They incorporated John Broadbent and Sons, who were woollen manufacturers, and Longwood Finishing Company, who were scourers, millers, dyers, finishers, and London shrinkers.
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Described in Patricia Hudson, The West Riding wool textile industry: a catalogue of business records from the sixteenth to the twentieth century , 1975, under Broadbent, rather than Parkwood, in the alphabetical sequence