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Catalogue description HARTLEY AND WORSTENHOLME, SOLICITORS, CASTLEFORD
This record is held by West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
| Reference: | C290 |
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| Title: | HARTLEY AND WORSTENHOLME, SOLICITORS, CASTLEFORD |
| Description: |
HARTLEY AND WORSTENHOLME, SOLICITORS, CASTLEFORD, AND PREDECESSORS FINANCIAL RECORDS 1-38 BUSINESS TRANSACTED: CLIENTS, OFFICE, ETC 39-61 MISCELLANEOUS DEEDS AND PAPERS IN THE POSSESSION OF HARTLEY AND WORSTENHOLME (not necessarily part of the main series) 62-70 REGINALD A WILSON, SOLICITOR, CASTLEFORD FINANCIAL RECORDS 71-89 BUSINESS TRANSACTED: CLIENTS, ETC 90-95 OTHER SOLICITORS OR UNIDENTIFIED 96-100 CASTLEFORD, NORMANTON AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL 101-103 METHLEY INDENTURE 104 |
| Date: | 1690-1974 |
| Held by: | West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 5 Sub-fonds |
| Access conditions: |
Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
Deposited in 1980 by Mr A R Collen, for Hartley and Worstenholme, Solicitors, Barclays Chambers, Castleford. Additional deposit in 1992 |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
It is not easy to be entirely sure about the early history of Hartley and Worstenholme's predecessors. At least as early as 1878, Mr C A Phillips was practising as a solicitor in Castleford. By 1899 he had taken a partner, and the firm had become known as Phillips and Briggs, until sometime before 1911 when Mr Briggs was replaced by Mr Hartley, with a consequent change in title to Phillips and Hartley. The Phillips side of the business ended in 1924, when a new partnership was formed, Hartley and Worstenholme, by which name the firm is still known today. The collection also includes records of at least two other Castleford solicitors, most importantly those of Reginald A Wilson, mainly of Station Road. This firm appears in Bennett's Business Directory in 1908, as T Wilson, solicitor, of 31 Carlton Street. By 1936, two partners, Wilson and Schofield, were practising at the same address, but between 1947 and 1950, the business, by then known as Reginald A Wilson, had been transferred to Sagar Street. The connection with Hartley and Worstenholme appears to date from 1951. A very few other records seem to relate to a third firm, C W S McHugh. The address here is also Carlton Street, though unfortunately the actual number of the premises is not known. These records predate Mr T Wilson, and the precise connection is unknown, i.e. it cannot be ascertained from the records which survive, whether Mr Wilson took over the firm or merely the premises |
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