English Spinners Ltd

• Reference:GB 254 MS 86/14
• Dates of Creation:1947-1981
• Name of Creator:
  English Spinners Ltd
• Physical Description:
  0.20 linear metres

• Administrative / Biographical History

  English Spinners Ltd was a firm of textile spinners and manufacturers, incorporated in 1945. Initially at Turner Street Works, Blackburn, the company was acquired by A & S Henry & Co Ltd in 1949, and in the same year the works moved to Rockfield Mill, Blackburn. In the period c.1950-1955 the company started to specialise in the spinning of Kraft yarns and between 1955 and 1957 became a subsidiary of A& S Henry & Co (Dundee) Ltd. By 1966 the company had ceased trading.

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• Acquisition Information

  The records were deposited by A & S Henry & Co Ltd 1984-1993 (AccM/207, AccM/245, AccM/293).

• Note

  English Spinners Ltd was a firm of textile spinners and manufacturers, incorporated in 1945. Initially at Turner Street Works, Blackburn, the company was acquired by A & S Henry & Co Ltd in 1949, and in the same year the works moved to Rockfield Mill, Blackburn. In the period c.1950-1955 the company started to specialise in the spinning of Kraft yarns and between 1955 and 1957 became a subsidiary of A& S Henry & Co (Dundee) Ltd. By 1966 the company had ceased trading.

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  Paper

• Archivist's Note

  Fonds level description compiled by Sarah Chubb, Archives Hub Project Archivist, January 2002.

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