Major accessions to repositories in 2005 relating to Furniture and Interior Design

Local

Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service

• Cryselco Ltd, electric lamp mfrs, Kempston: further records 1911-1930 (Z1098)

City of Westminster Archives Centre

• Liberty plc, drapers, department store, fabric designers, furnishers and upholsterers, manufacturers of jewellery and wallpapers, London: additional material incl advertising, fashion and home guard books, advertising and promotional material 1993-2005 (Acc 2402)
• Liberty plc, drapers, department store, fabric designers, furnishers and upholsterers, manufacturers of jewellery and wallpapers, London: additional records incl guard books and files of articles, promotional material, photographs, Liberty At Home magazine and videos 1997-2005 (Acc 2397)

Dorset History Centre

• Bird & Cox, builders, decorators and shopfitters, Weymouth: building plans, design books, photographs and papers 1800-2000 (D/BIC)

Durham County Record Office

• Hugh Mackay & Co Ltd, carpet manufacturers, Durham: additional records 1860-1967 (D/Ma)

East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

• Hasslewood Taylor, furniture maker and upholsterer, Beverley: records incl customers' account book, bank books, materials books, note books and copy MS autobiography 1853-1885 (DDX1077)

Guildhall Library

• G J Dawson, clock case maker, London: accounts and job books 1906-59 (Ms 36688-91)

Isle of Wight Record Office

• Wadham & Sons Ltd, furnishers, Newport: records incl brochures, publicity material, accounts and history of the business c1904-61 (ac2005/46)

Lincolnshire Archives

• AE Syson & Son, cabinet makers and french polishers, Lincoln: records incl accounts and stock books 1895-1971 (SYSON)

Sheffield Archives

• Painted Fabrics Ltd, Norton, Sheffield: papers and photographs c1920-2002 (2005/147)
• Queening & Walker Ltd, painters and decorators, cabinet makers, Sheffield: nominal ledger 1955-71 (2005/3)

Shropshire Archives

• JH Morgans, paint and wallpaper merchants, Albrighton: records incl ledgers and accounts 1965-1984 (7277)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

• Firths Carpets, Bailiff Bridge: financial records and minutes 1895-1998 (WYC:1261)

National

Victoria & Albert Museum, Archive of Art and Design

• George Henry Walton, designer and architect: papers 1788-2003 (AAD/2004/7)
• Heal & Son Ltd, department store, bedding, quilt and mattress manufacturers, cabinet makers and upholsterers, London: additional records 1974-2004 (AAD/2004/3)