Pathways in the Nineteenth-Century British Textile Industry

This collection brings together primary sources on the British textile industry across the long nineteenth-century, a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary. This set provides an extensive range of resources on the calico printing industry, textile warehousing and shipping, and textile waste and recycling.

Dr Philip A. Sykas, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

VOLUME II THE COMMERCIAL TEXTILE WAREHOUSE Volume II: List of images Volume II: Timeline Volume II: References Introduction to Volume II: The Commercial Textile Warehouse PART 1: Astonishing 'stores of stuffs': evolution of the commercial warehouse 1 'Commerce' HODSON, FRANCIS MARCELLUS (COMP.) 2 'Cannon-Street. - The Old' GREGSON, JOHN STANLEY 3 'Commercial Buildings' LOVE, BENJAMIN 4 'A Week at Manchester' WILKS, JOHN 5 'Manchester, by A Manchester Man' LAMB, ROBERT, REV. 6 'A Manchester Warehouse' LOWE, JAMES 7 'In a Manchester Warehouse: By an Utter Stranger to Business' POLLITT, ROBERT (ATTRIB.) 8 Wakeford Brothers. Opening Address, 'System of Business', and 'Mode of Payment' 9 'The Fancy Trade of Manchester: Its Origin and Struggles' RYLANDS & SONS LTD. PART 2: Trading floor and counting house: the daily routine 11 'Warehouse Work . . .', and 'A Criticism . . . a Parting . . .' BAMFORD, SAMUEL 12 'The Mercantile Community of Manchester' LOVE, BENJAMIN 13 'Business Recollections' HAYES, LOUIS M 14 'Managing a Manchester Warehouse' 1 GIBBS, HENRY S. 15 List of salaried staff by department, around 1845-55 S. AND J. WATTS AND CO. 16 Letter from Mr Pearson concerning employment, 20 May 1854 JOHN MUNN AND CO. 17 'Manchester Warehouses' DRENNAN, W. R. 18 'A Manchester Home-Trade Warehouse' MORTIMER, JOHN 19 Letter to Sam Mendel, 22 Nov 1872 JOHN MUNN AND CO. 20 'Warehouse Slang' NODAL, JOHN H. (ED.) PART 3: Trade palaces: the setting for commerce 21 'Preface' and 'The Warehouses &c.' DUFFIELD, HENRY G. 22 'New Warehouses' PAULTON, A. W. (ED.) 23 'Manchester Architecture. II. Present' and 'Manchester Architecture. III. Future' 24 'The Arrangement of Warehouses' ROBERTON, JOHN 25 'Access to London Warehouses' BRIERLEY, JOSEPH 26 'A Manchester Warehouse: Messrs. A. Collie & Co.'s' GODWIN, GEORGE (ED.) 27 'The Business Streets . . .' MORTIMER, JOHN PART 4: Fire! Fire! Fire!: a risky business 28 Haigh, Marshall and Tidswell Warehouse Fire HARROP, JAMES (ED.) 29 'On Fires' HAYES, LOUIS M 30 'Manchester Police Fire Engine Establishment' LOVE, BENJAMIN 31 'Modern Manchester: Municipal' PERRIN, JOSEPH 32 Garnett, Jeremiah (ed.). 'Serious Fire at a Waste Warehouse. £7,000 Damage'; Sowler, Robert Scarr (ed.). 'Conflagration in a Cotton Waste Warehouse' 33 'Great Fires' EMMOTT, WILLIAM T. (ED.) 34 '"Bruce," The Manchester Fire Horse' TOZER, ALFRED 35 'Great Fire in Manchester. Warehouses Destroyed. Gallant Rescue'; Milners Safe Co. Ltd. 'Great Fire in Manchester. Eight Milner's Safes Recovered from the Ruins. Testimonials already received' DUNCKLEY, HENRY (ED.) 36 'Reminiscences of an old draper' ABLETT, WILLIAM HENRY (AS TOLD BY JOHN BRILL ABLETT) 37 'Damaged by Fire and Water'; 'Caution. Five Pounds Reward'; 'Great Fire in London' COOK, A. S. AND ANDERSON, J. AND ANDERSON, J. 38 'The Insurance of Textile Works' LINSTOW, C. A. PART 5: Merchant aristocracy: sketches of mercantile lives 39 'The Origin, Rise and Progress of the Principal Manchester Firms'; Extracts from: 'Introduction', 'I. Kershaw, Leese', 'IV. S. & J. Watts & Co.', 'V. Rylands', 'VI. Rylands & Sons', and 'VII. Bannerman & Sons' HADFIELD, CHARLES (ED.) 40 'Glasgow' BURN, JAMES DAWSON 41 Selections from The Commercial Companion and Peerage of Commerce PUSELEY, DANIEL 42 'Fortunes Made in Business: Copestake, Hughes, Crampton & Co.' HOGG, JAMES (ED.) 43 'Our Temples of Trade', 'Bradbury, Greatorex and Co.', and 'Messrs. Leaf and Co.' 44 'Historical Firms: Messrs. Stewart & Macdonald, Glasgow' RAMSAY, T. G. (ED.) 45 'S. & J. Watts & Co., Manufacturers, Merchants, and General Warehousemen' BERCRY, W. A. AND ELLIS, G. A. (EDS.) PART 6: Home trade and shipping trade: merchants, middlemen and foreigners 46 'The Merchant' TABART, BENJAMIN (ED.) 47 'Factor' MCCULLOCH, JOHN RAMSEY 48 'The Middleman in Commerce' HELM, ELIJAH 49 'The Merchant Who Shall be a Foreigner in the City of Manchester Consecutively Given, from 1784 to 1870' SCHOLES, JOHN 50 'Merchants and Warehousemen (General Trade)' and 'The Manchester Shipping Trade' HOSKING, ALBERT W. 51 'Fortunes made in Business. Messrs. A. & S. Henry & Co.' BURNLEY, JAMES 52 'Marketing Methods' 53 Samuel, Arthur Michael. 'How Goods are Paid For' HAUSE, JAMES MONROE PART 7: Making up and marking up: commercial etiquette 54 'Local Gleanings. No. 6 Manchester and its fabrics in the last century', and 'Local Gleanings. No. 7. Manchester in 1799' NEMNICH, PHILIPP ANDREAS 55 Owen Owens and Son. Extracts from Packing Book, late 1830s, and Packing book, 1837-39 56 'Remarks from Calcutta'; 'Stock inventory' LEACH, WILLIAM & CO. AND ROBINSON AND KELHAM 57 On Making Up Linens; 'Sale of Linens-Style of Folding' CHARLEY, WILLIAM THOMAS AND CHARLEY, WILLIAM 58 'Rival Velveteen Manufacturers: Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster' SCOTT, CHARLES PRESTWICH (ED.) 59 'Packing and Packing Materials' DAVIS, GEORGE E., DREYFUS, CHARLES, AND HOLLAND, PHILIP 60 'Packing of Textile Fabrics' and 'Packing for Different Countries' SHAW, ALBERT D. 61 'Packing Goods for China' MARSDEN, RICHARD (ED.) 62 'Bleachers' Marks' HAUSE, JAMES MONROE 63 'Methods of Obtaining Business in Coloured (Woven) Goods' HEYLIN, HENRY BROUGHAM Index