Ashworth Cotton Mills: Stock Books and Accounts

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 Eng MS 1201
  • Dates of Creation
      1831-1879
  • Physical Description
      various sizes. 2 volumes with loose sheets (15 folios);

Scope and Content

Stock Books and Accounts of the Ashworth Cotton Mills of New Eagley and Egerton near Bolton: Stock Book, 1831-1879; Quarterly Stock Accounts Book, 1832-1852; and loose Stock Accounts, December 1846 - January 1847.

Related Material

Lancashire Record Office holds correspondence, order and stock books, valuations, papers relating to water power and family papers for Henry and Edmund Ashworth, cotton spinners, 1817-1850 (ref.: GB 0055 DDAS ): see http://www.a2a.org.uk/html/055-ddas.htm.

Bibliography

See Rhodes Boyson, The Ashworth cotton enterprise: the rise and fall of a family firm 1818-1880 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970).