Comprising: Ownership, Partnership and Incorporation 1848-1967 [DYPARK/1]; Directors 1947-1964 [DYPARK/2]; Property 1935-1961 [DYPARK/3]; Pension Scheme 1952-1964 [DYPARK/4]; Personnel 1875-1960 [DYPARK/5]; Manufacture 1900-1973 [DYPARK/6]; Trade Marks 1872-1904 [DYPARK/7]; Sales 1874-1915 [DYPARK/8]; Advertising 1896-1964 [DYPARK/9]; Accounts 1872-1967 [DYPARK/10]; Administration 1918-1965 [DYPARK/11]; Photographs 1908-1953 [DYPARK/12]; and Secondary works (1896)-(1977) [DYPARK/13]
RECORDS OF S PARKINSON AND SON (DONCASTER) LIMITED, MANUFACTURING CONFECTIONERS
This material is held atDoncaster Archives
- Reference
- GB 197 DYPARK
- Dates of Creation
- 1848 - [1977]
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 13 boxes 0.208 cubic metres
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The firm was established by Samuel Parkinson, confectioner, grocer and tea dealer, in High Street Doncaster in the early nineteenth century. The Parkinson family connection ceased in 1893 on the sale of the business to Samuel Balmforth and a sleeping partner. Incorporation as a limited company followed in 1912. Thereafter the main emphasis of the business was on the manufacture of confectionery which had begun in the mid-ninteenth century with the production of baking powder and the firm's best known product, Parkinson's Doncaster Butterscotch. In 1961 the company was acquired by the Hollands Confectionery Group which was itself taken over by the Cavenham Food Group in 1965. The business ceased production in 1977, and the surviving records were then transferred to the Archives Department
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