Comprises various ledgers, notebooks, legal documents, cash and wages books, and books concerning stock balances.
Business records of William Ackroyd Limited, worsted spinners of Otley Mills, Otley.
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 BUS/Ackroyd
- Dates of Creation
- 1817 - 1963
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 57 volumes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
William Ackroyd Limited, were worsted spinners of Otley Mills, Otley, West Yorkshire, established in 1815.
Arrangement
This collection was deposited in four separate batches. Items 4-15 as the second deposit in 1974, items 16-56 as the third deposit in 1980 and item 57 as the fourth in 2015.
Access Information
This collection is subject to various access conditions.
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