Bolton and District Card, Blowing and Ring Room Operatives' Provincial Association

Rules, annual and quarterly reports and accounts.

Formed in c.1858 as the Bolton Card Grinders and Strippers' Association, the union had several name changes before becoming the Bolton and District Union of Textile and Allied Workers in 1968. In 1982 it merged with the Bolton and District Weavers, Winders and Warpers' Association, the North Lancashire and Cumbria Textile Workers' Association and the Amalgamated Textile Trades Union (Wigan, Chorley and Skelmersdale District) to form the North West Lancashire, Durham and Cumbria Textile Workers' Union. This union later joined the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union in 1986.

Reference: Arthur Marsh, Victoria Ryan and John B. Smethurst, Historical directory of trade unions. Volume 4. Aldershot : Scolar Press, 1994.

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

Link to full catalogue: http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/BRO

See also: Bolton and District Operative Cotton Spinners' Provincial Association; Blackburn Power-Loom Weavers' Unions; Northern Counties Amalgamated Association of Weavers; Oldham Provincial Card and Blowing Room and Ring Frame Operatives' Association