Catalogue description Job Beaumont and Son Ltd. of Woodland Mills, Longwood, Records.

B/JB/1 Deeds

B/JB/2 Articles of Association

B/JB/3 Shares

B/JB/4 Wages

B/JB/5 Financial

Balance shhets

Valuations

Private ledger

Nominal ledger

Sales ledger

Commission ledger

Purchases day book

Sales day book

Cash book

Bills receivable and payable

Disclosure of fraud

B/JB/6 Production

Order book

Census of production

Raw materials

Dyeing

Twisting

Warp and weft

Making

Parcels books

B/JB/7 Miscellaneous.

Job Beaumont and Sons Ltd, Longwood

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• Textile industry

According to Colne Valley Folk by Ernest Lockwood, Job Beaumont began weaving on a handloom at his home in Lamb Hall Road, Longwood in 1862. He eventually got together seven looms and two were worked by his sons, John and Enos, he also obtained a ten spindle winding machine. As business improved it was transferred to Parkwood Mills and powerlooms werer used. By 1882 the plant had increased to forty-three looms, ten sets of carding machines and six pairs of spinning mules. The teasing rooms, dye house and finishing plant were in different rooms in the mill.

In 1903 Woodland Mills were taken over and ten additional looms, making sixty in all, were obtained. By the 1930's the firm was employing nearly five hundred people. They manufactured fancy woollens, suitings, overcoatings and cap cloths and specialised in sports cloths ladies' costume cloth, mantle and sports flannels.

Despite healthy order books, eighty percent of which were for export, the firm closed in 1976 due to the recession. There was a workforce of one hundred and fifteen at the time of closure.

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