The collection comprises:
Signed minute book recording meetings of Directors, Annual General Meetings and extraordinary meetings, Jan. 1894-Jun. 1983 and Jan. 1989-Nov. 1990 (BTI 1);
Company papers: incomplete copy of a sale catalogue of stock-in-trade of Tatham and Co., in Bankruptcy, to be sold by tender in January 1894; certificate of incorporation of Tatham and Co. Ltd, 4 Jan. 1894; Articles of Association of Tatham and Co. Ltd, Jan. 1894; photocopy Memorandum of Association, Jan. 1894; Special Resolution passed 13 May 1908; copy Returns under the Companies Act, 1921-1928; bundle of share transfer certificates, 1897-1976; Rules of the Tatham and Co. Ltd Discretionary Pension Scheme, 1977 (BTI 2/1-8);
Plans of the Tatham and Co. site in Ilkeston, 1877 [20th century copy] -1984, plus a 20th century photocopy of a letter with plan attached containing a report on Tatham's property in Nottingham and Ilkeston, 1885 (BTI 3/1-11);
Photographs and newspaper cuttings: album containing portraits of Tatham family members, photographs of the Kensington Works, newspaper cuttings reporting the fire at the factory in October 1963, colour prints showing lace machines and the damage caused by the fire in February 1980, and newspaper cuttings reporting the fire at the factory in February 1980; folder of loose newspaper cuttings relating to the company, 1963, 1979 and 1980; and folder of black and white photographs of the factory site and workers, 1979-1980 (BTI 4/1-3);
Family history research papers: certified copy marriage certificate of Allen Tatham and Eleanor Redhead, 1891; calling card of Mr and Mrs A. Tatham on the occasion of the marriage of Eleanor Redhead and Allen Tatham, 1891; certified copy marriage certificate of Albert Leslie Jones and Nora Tatham, 1926; notes on the ownership of the land on which the factory was built, and the history of the company; and printouts of pedigree charts of the Tatham family, 1990s (BTI 5/1-5);
Framed painted portrait of Allen Tatham, first Chairman of the company at its incorporation in 1894 (BTI 6)