Catalogue description S. PARKINSON AND SON (DONCASTER) LIMITED, MANUFACTURING CONFECTIONERS

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Details of DY/PARK
Reference: DY/PARK
Title: S. PARKINSON AND SON (DONCASTER) LIMITED, MANUFACTURING CONFECTIONERS
Description:

OWNERSHIP, PARTNERSHIP AND INCORPORATION 1848-1967

 

DIRECTORS 1947-1964

 

PROPERTY 1935-1961

 

PENSION SCHEME 1952-1964

 

PERSONNEL 1875-1960

 

MANUFACTURE 1900-1973

 

TRADE MARKS 1872-1904

 

SALES 1874-1915

 

ADVERTISING 1896-1964

 

ACCOUNTS 1872-1967

 

ADMINISTRATION 1918-1965

 

PHOTOGRAPHS 1908-1953

 

SECONDARY WORKS (1896)-(1977)

Date: 1848 -[1977]
Related material:

Several descriptive items about the firm and its history are to be found at DY/PARK/13/1-4.

Held by: Doncaster Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

S Parkinson and Son (Doncaster) Limited, manufacturing confectioners

Physical description: 13 series
Immediate source of acquisition:

Acc. 317

Subjects:
  • Hollands Confectionery Group
  • Cavenham Food Group
Administrative / biographical background:

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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