Catalogue description WILLIAM EDLESTON LTD, ASQUITH BOTTOM MILLS, SOWERBY BRIDGE, WOOLLEN MANUFACTURERS

This record is held by West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

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Title: WILLIAM EDLESTON LTD, ASQUITH BOTTOM MILLS, SOWERBY BRIDGE, WOOLLEN MANUFACTURERS
Description:

WAGE RECORDS 1908-1986 WE/1-30

 

QUALITY PARTICULARS AND COSTINGS 1914-[1949] WE/31-39

 

PURCHASE AND SALES LEDGERS 1922-1955 WE/40-46

 

DELIVERY BOOKS 1922-1963 WE/47-54

 

CASH BOOKS 1931-1952 WE/55-60

 

PURCHASE DAY BOOKS 1935-1957 WE/61-67

 

OTHER RECORDS MID 19 CENT - 1980 WE/68-99

Date: MID 19th CENT -1986
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Other family records are held at Durham County Record Office

Held by: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

William Edleston Ltd, Sowerby Bridge, woollen manufacturers

Physical description: 74 Boxes/1.48 cubic metres
Access conditions:

Open

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited: J Kaye, Sowerby Bridge

 

Accessioned: 1991 Aug 7

Subjects:
  • Textile industry
Administrative / biographical background:

William Edleston, the second son of Robert Edleston, established the Firm in 1848. They were pioneers in the blanket and South American long wool trade, and also specialised in pure camel hair and alpaca clothes. Robert Edleston had accumulated considerable property by the time of his death in 1865. His property was administered after his death by means of the creation of the Robert Edleston Trust, which included the woollen mill, though not the woollen business, which became the subject of a separate Trust, the Administrators of William Edleston, after the death of his son, William. The business was carried on by William's three brothers, the Revd Dr Joseph, Robert and Dickinson Edleston, and then by their descendants with a general manager. The business had a large home trade, being contractors to the Admiralty and War Office, and their goods were also shipped to every corner of the world. It became a limited company in 1939. It came to concentrate on supplying top European fashion houses with high-class mohair and cashmere accessories and textiles. When these records were deposited in 1991, the firm was the William Edleston Division of Moorbrook Textiles Ltd.

 

Extracted from trade directories

 

1834 - William Edleston and Company, Sowerby Bridge, woollen dyers

 

1845 - William Edleston and Company, Asquith Bottom Mill, woollen and stuff dyers and finishers

 

1861-1897 - (1) William Edleston, Asquith Bottom woollen mills, Sowerby Bridge, woollen manufacturers; and (2) William Edleston and Company, Dye Works, Sowerby Bridge, dyers and finishers

 

1908-1936 - William Edleston, Asquith Bottom, woollen manufacturers

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