Samuel Cockcroft and Company Limited, Business Archive

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

Scope and Content

Comprises: (1) Day book, 1881-1893; (2) Order book, 1888-1895; (3) Wages book, 1895-1897.

Administrative / Biographical History

Samuel Cockcroft and Company Limited, of Barkerend Mills, Bradford, were worsted spinners, established in 1852.

Arrangement

The BUS/Cockcroft catalogue is based on an historic inventory, created in 1972. The arrangement of material does not necessarily represent the original order of the archive and it is considered partly processed by an archivist. When making requests to consult, please be aware that there may be discrepancies between description and physical arrangement. The retrievable unit for this collection is file level.

Access Information

Access to this material is unrestricted.

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

Geographical Names