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Reference: D/X 1215 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Henry Pease and Co., woollen manufacturers, of Priestgate Mills, Darlington

Covering Dates: 1833-1969

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Catalogue Description

Records of Henry Pease and Co., Priestgate Mills, Darlington

deposited on long-term loan

29 July 1998 Acc: 2536(D)

HENRY PEASE AND COMPANY

Woollen manufacturing in Darlington by the Pease family commenced in the early eighteenth century and the Priestgate Mills were established in 1752. A series of family partnerships controlled the firm, culminating in that of Henry Pease and Co. The business retained that name until 1903 when a private limited company was established under the name of Henry Pease and Co. Limited. In 1920 the business was taken over by Lister and Co. of Manningham Mills, Bradford, but it retained its name and continued to operate at the Priestgate Mill in Darlington until the mill's closure in 1972.
For other records of the business, see D/HP 1-110

Catalogue Contents

Minute books (Ref: D/X 1215/1-2)

Minute book of partners' meetings, 27 August 1879 - 23 January 1884
(1 volume, leather bound)


Minute book of partners' meetings, 23 December 1891 - 1 February 1899
(1 volume, leather bound)

Ledgers (Ref: D/X 1215/3-4)

Private ledger (indexed), 2 June 1894 - 1 July 1902
(1 volume, leather bound)


Private ledger (indexed), 30 November 1949 - 31 March 1969
(1 volume, leather bound)

Reports and balance sheets (Ref: D/X 1215/5-21)

Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 4 August 1904
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 4 August 1905
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 3 August 1906
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 2 August 1907
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 6 August 1908
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 15 June 1909
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 14 June 1910
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 13 June 1911
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 11 June 1912
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 17 June 1913
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 23 June 1914
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 15 June 1915
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 20 June 1916
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 19 June 1917
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 18 June 1918
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 16 June 1919
(1 paper, printed)


Directors' report, annual balance sheet, and profit and loss account to be submitted to the annual general meeting of the company, 25 June 1920
(1 paper, printed)

Miscellaneous (Ref: D/X 1215/22-95)

Letter from John Pease, Darlington, to Samuel Lloyd, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, concerning the advantages of Manley's Improved Fire Feeder and Smoke Consumer and asking whether Lloyd continues to like his new steam engine boilers since 'I have particularly in view our Locomotive Engines, which being mainly used for heavy work do not indispensibly require that rapid generation of Steam which is needful upon the Liverpool Line', 3 September 1833 Written on reverse of printed notice concerning Manley's Improved Fire Feeder and Smoke Consumer, September 1828
(1 paper, printed and manuscript)


Letter from Henry Pease and Co., Darlington, to Samuel Lloyd, Wednesbury, Birmingham, concerning the final accounts of 'the old Firm' [John and John B. Pease and Co.], 25 July 1836 Written on reverse of printed notice announcing the dissolution of the partnership between John and John B. Pease and the continuation of their worsted spinning business by Henry Pease and Co., 10 October 1835
(1 paper, printed and manuscript)


Note of the financial liabilities of the firm as at 12 December 1891
(1 file)


Letter from Clark and Moscrop, Feethams, [Darlington], architects, to W[alter] Brunskill concerning accepted tenders for work on Priestgate Mills, 1 June 1894
(1 paper)


Report of Henry Pease and Co. on the working of Priestgate Mills for the six months ending 30 June 1895
(1 paper)


Report of Henry Pease and Co. on the working of Priestgate Mills for the six months ending 31 December 1895
(1 paper)


Report of Henry Pease and Co. on the working of Priestgate Mills for the six months ending 30 June 1896
(1 paper)


Draft report of Henry Pease and Co. on the working of Priestgate Mills for the six months ending 30 June 1898
(3 papers)


Profit and loss account for Priestgate Mill and Henry Pease and Company for the six months ending 31 December 1895
(1 paper)


Profit and loss account for Priestgate Mill and Henry Pease and Co. for the six months ending 30 June 1896
(1 paper)


Profit and loss account for Priestgate Mill and Henry Pease and Co. for the six months ending 31 December 1899
(1 paper)


Profit and loss account for Priestgate Mill and Henry Pease and Co. for the six months ending 30 June 1903
(1 paper)


Report by Walter Brunskill on a visit made to W. Hollins and Co., Nottingham, wool and cotton spinners, to see Drosophore humidifying machines, 19 February 1896
(1 paper)


Balance sheet, and profit and loss account of Henry Pease and Co. for the six months ending 31 December 1897
(1 file)


Letter from C.K. Stock, New Plymouth, Idaho, U.S.A., to Henry Pease and Co., Darlington, concerning the transfer to the latter of the 'Monarch' share, 4 August 1898 Previously enclosed in D/X 1215/1
(1 paper)


Comparison of balance sheets of 30 June 1898 and 31 December 1900 Previously enclosed in D/X 1215/1
(1 paper)


Report by W[alter] Brunskill on the desirability and practicability of artificially conditioning woollen yarn, n.d. [c. 1900]
(1 paper)


Notes of figures for repairs, additions to machinery, depreciation, wages and debit balances for the six months ending 31 July 1892 - 30 June 1899, n.d. [1900]
(1 paper)


Correspondence between Sir Joseph Pease, Hutton Hall, Guisborough, Yorkshire, and Walter Brunskill, Darlington, concerning the valuation of the company on the death of Arthur Pease, 19 and 20 February 1901 Previously enclosed in D/X 1215/1
(2 papers)


Letter from Joseph A. Pease, 92 Northgate, Darlington, to Walter Brunskill, concerning the financial and banking arrangements of the company, 15 April 1901
(1 paper, typescript)


Comparison of totals for machinery, bills payable, bank accounts, stocks and debtors [from balance sheets of] 31 December 1898 and 31 December 1900, 17 April 1901 Previously enclosed in D/X 1215/1
(1 paper)


Letter from Walter Brunskill, Darlington, to Sir Joseph Pease, concerning terms of trade in the spinning industry and enclosing a letter from William Alexander Smith, Hanover Street, Glasgow, Scotland, 25 November 1901, and a list of terms arranged with the company's Scottish customers, 26 November 1901
(3 papers)


Account of purchases of machinery, expenditure on maintenance, and depreciation, for six-monthly periods, 30 June 1893 - 30 June 1902
(1 paper)


Account of W.B. Peat with Henry Pease and Co. Ltd., 30 June 1902
(1 paper)


Memorandum from F.W.T. Newboult, Bradford, Yorkshire, wool merchant, to [Walter] Brunskill concerning financial matters and the 'temporary position in which the Pease family are placed', 27 December 1902
(1 paper)


Copy certificate of incorporation, memorandum and articles of association of Henry Pease and Co. Ltd., registered 22 May 1903
(1 file, printed)


28 May 1903 (1) William Barclay Peat, 3 Lothbury, City of London, chartered accountant (2) Henry Pease and Co. Ltd. Agreement for the sale by (1) to (2) of goodwill of worsted spinning business of Henry Pease and Co. (carried on by Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease of Hutton Hall, Guisborough, Yorkshire), with all plant, premises and pending contracts Consideration: £50,000 (£25,000 of which was to comprise preference shares of £1 each)
(1 paper, printed)


Balance sheet of Henry Pease and Co. for the six months ending 30 June 1903
(1 paper)


20 July 1903 (1) Henry Pease and Co. (2) Cleveland Trust Ltd. Copy mortgage from (1) to (2) of land on each side of Priestgate and land on corner of Crown Street and Priestgate, in Darlington, with the mills, warehouses and other buildings erected thereon Consideration: £35,000 of 5% debenture stock
(1 file, printed)


Notice of extraordinary general meeting of the company to be held on 21 July 1908 to amend the articles of association of the company, 1 July 1908
(1 paper, printed)


Details of special resolution altering the articles of association of the company, passed on 21 July 1908, and confirmed on 6 August 1908
(1 paper, printed)


Notes of of an address [by Walter Brunskill] to the company workforce on wages in the company, manufacturing problems in Darlington, and the benefits offered by the National Federation of Women Workers, 24 September 1908
(5 papers)


Handbill for a public meeting organised by the Darlington Trades and Labour Council Special Propaganda Campaign, with an address by Julia Varley on the 'Principles and objects of the National Federation of Women Workers' on 24 September n.y. [1908]
(1 paper, printed)


Letters from J.A. Lempriere, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to Walter Brunskill, concerning Australian wool prices, yields and quality and golf, 7 July 1909 - 28 October 1911
(5 papers)


Address by Walter Brunskill to the company workforce on the payment of increased wages and the quality of the output, 22 July 1909
(4 papers)


Letter from William Alexander Smith, Hanover Street, Glasgow, Scotland, to [Walter] Brunskill, concerning a speech by the latter, improvements in trade and the former becoming chairman of a new Marine Salvage Company, 13 August 1909
(1 paper)


Letter from J.A. Lempriere (Lempriere Brothers, wool brokers), Melbourne, [Australia], to [Walter] Brunskill, concerning the season's wool sales and golfing, 14 October 1909
(2 papers, typescript)


Copy letter from Walter Brunskill to [J.A.] Lempriere concerning the quality and supply of Australian wool, and golf, 30 March 1910
(2 papers)


Letter from Arthur Pease, Northgate, Darlington, to [Walter] Brunskill, concerning a possible purchaser of large blocks of shares in Henry Pease and Co., 3 January 1911
(1 paper)


Notes on numbers of hands who left or started work in 1912, reasons for leaving in 1912, numbers of hands receiving wage increases in 1912 and table of wages paid in different sections of the mills [in 1912], 1912
(5 papers)


Notes on wages paid to hands in different sections of the mill with details of names and numbers of spindles minded, n.d. [c. 1912]
(10 papers)


Letter from J.A. Lempriere, Whitehall Court, London, to [Walter] Brunskill concerning foreign wools, 9 August 1915
(1 paper)


Letter from A.R. Hollins (William Hollins and Co., hosiery spinners), Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, to Walter Brunskill, concerning the possible purchase of Henry Pease and Co. by the former (with copy reply), 17 - 18 April 1917
(4 papers, 1 typescript)


List of preference and ordinary shareholders, n.d. [1920]
(1 paper)


Letter and covering letter drafted (but not sent) by W[alter] Brunskill to the Yorkshire Post in reply to accusations of profiteering, 19 January 1920
(6 papers, typescript)


8 June 1920 (1) [not completed] (2) [not completed] (3) Lister and Co., Manningham Mills, Bradford Draft agreement for the sale by (1) and (2) to (3) of all preference and ordinary shares in Henry Pease and Co. Ltd Consideration: £3 6s.8d. for each share, £4,500 to the present directors as compensation for loss of office, and £4,400 to be distributed for the benefit of the employees of the company
(1 file, typescript)


9 June 1920 (1) Claude Edward Pease, Selaby Hall, near Darlington, on behalf of himself and other preference shareholders (2) Walter Brunskill, Morland, Darlington, on behalf of himself and other ordinary share-holders (3) Lister and Co., Manningham Mills, Bradford Draft agreement for the sale by (1) and (2) to (3) of all shares in Henry Pease and Co. Ltd. Consideration: £200,000 [amended in pencil to £196,500]
(1 file, typescript)


Letter from Christopher R. Robinson, Secretary of Henry Pease and Co., Darlington, to shareholders informing them of the provisional agreement and asking for their approval, 17 June 1920
(1 paper, printed)


Stock account of wool, coloured tops, and tops, 31 October 1920
(8 papers)


Tax calculations on profit and loss balance, and capital assets, 31 October 1920
(1 paper)


Newspaper cutting of the annual meeting of Messrs. Lister and Co. reporting the acquisition of Henry Pease and Co., 20 January 1921
(1 paper, printed)


Photograph of the interior of the mill showing two male workers employed in scouring, n.d. [c. 1950]
(1 photograph, 25 cm. x 19.5 cm., black and white)


Photograph of the interior of the mill showing two female workers at a loom, n.d. [c. 1950]
(1 photograph, 25 cm. x 19 cm., black and white)


Newspaper cuttings reporting a talk on the history of Henry Pease and Co., 27 January 1962
(2 papers, printed)


Copy special resolution altering the articles of association of the company, passed at an extraordinary general meeting held on 27 October 1967
(1 paper, printed)