Comprises: (1) Letter books, 1823-64, about 175,000 outgoing letters with much information particularly on the American trade; (2) Order books, 1862-1913; (3) Cost books, 1876-87; (4) Purchase and sales ledgers, 1880-1900; (5) Private ledgers, 1810-70; (6) Private memoranda, 1847-92.
Wormald and Walker Limited, business archive
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 BUS/Wormald
- Dates of Creation
- 1810-1913
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 316 items in 313 vols and 2 pamphlet boxes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Wormald and Walker Limited, of Dewsbury Mills, Dewsbury, were blanket manufacturers. The company was originally established in 1811 as Hague and Cook, by Thomas Hague and his nephew John Cook with John Greenwood. The Wormald family joined the company in the 1840s.
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