Catalogue description C W MATTOCK LTD., SOWERBY BRIDGE, MANUFACTURING CONFECTIONERS

This record is held by West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

Details of MAT
Reference: MAT
Title: C W MATTOCK LTD., SOWERBY BRIDGE, MANUFACTURING CONFECTIONERS
Date: 1915-1979
Held by: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

C W Mattock Ltd, Sowerby Bridge, manufacturing confectioners
Physical description: 16 boxes/0.32 m³
Access conditions:

Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited : G Speak, Sowerby Bridge

 

Accessioned : 1985 May 8
Administrative / biographical background:

The firm was set up in 1888 and some of its customers included the National Trust and royal houses. It had property in Industrial Rd and West St, Sowerby Bridge. It was taken over in 1964 by an Ipswich Company, Burton Son and Sanders, which later merged with the Matthew Holdings group of Epsom. In 1977 it was bought by the then Managing Director, George Speak and a partner. They sold it to Jon's Confectioners of Sowerby Bridge, which was later taken over by Wilkinson's of Jersey. In 1990 receivers were brought in but they were unable to find a buyer. At the auction of its equipment in January 1991 there were 100 bidders including a New York firm
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