Catalogue description SIR FREDERICK WHITLEY-THOMSON, MAYOR OF HALIFAX, MP, RECORDS
This record is held by West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale
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Title: | SIR FREDERICK WHITLEY-THOMSON, MAYOR OF HALIFAX, MP, RECORDS |
Date: | 1868-1930 |
Held by: | West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | 13 boxes/0.26 cubic metres |
Access conditions: |
Open |
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Deposited : G Hood, London Accessioned : 5 Feb 1985 |
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There is a distinct link with textiles that accounts for the considerable wire manufacture in the Halifax area. The carding of fibres either by hand or the carding engine requires wire to be set in the cards; wire is also used to separate warp threads in looms. Wire manufacturers frequently went on to become card manufacturers also and sometimes tanners too. John Whiteley and Son was one of the earliest manufacturers of wire for cards, established in 1791 when cards were made entirely by hand. They had premises in Winding Rd by 1822. In the 1840s they moved to Brunswick Mills, West Parade, worsted mills established by Thomas Smith Scarborough and his brothers. In 1863 they were visited by the Prince of Wales. By the 1890s they employed 300 work people and they went on to have customers worldwide |
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