Catalogue description KENT WOOL GROWERS LTD

This record is held by Museum of English Rural Life

Details of CR KWG
Reference: CR KWG
Title: KENT WOOL GROWERS LTD
Description:

Records of Kent Wool Growers Ltd
Date: 1920-1970
Arrangement:

AC1/1-13 Ledgers

 

CR KWG/AC2/1 Cash Book

 

CR KWG/AC4/1-8 Wages Books

 

CR KWG/AC7/1-51 Financial Statements

 

CR KWG/AD1/1 Minute Book

 

CR KWG/CO2/1-2 Rule Books

 

CR KWG/CO2/3-7 Share Registers

 

CR KWG/P2/B1 Advertising Leaflet (British Wool Marketing Board election)

 

CR KWG/P4/1-12 Society Newsletters

 

CR KWG/PH3/1 Postcard

 

CR KWG/SP1/1-2 Published Material (Historical)
Held by: Museum of English Rural Life, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Kent Wool Growers Ltd, agricultural co-operative
Physical description: 100 Documents
Immediate source of acquisition:

CR72/96

 

The records were deposited by Kent Wool Growers Sep 1972, as a permanent loan.
Subjects:
  • Ashford, Kent
  • Agricultural co-operative
Administrative / biographical background:

Kent Wool Growers Ltd was established in 1920 with headquarters in Ashford. Its purpose was to enable wool producers to combine to market their wool in the lucrative London market as opposed to selling individually and less profitably to local dealers, who offered an all-in price for wool rather than grading and pricing each clip according to its quality. From an initial membership of 75 and selling 2,500 fleeces at auction in London, the society had expanded to 1,341 members and handling 244,800 fleeces by 1939, becoming an 'A' Merchant under the British Wool Marketing Board after the War (ie collecting and grading wool for marketing as the Board's agent).
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