J B Aitkin, Widnes
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2pp. typed notes on company processes
Site plan 1916
Site plan 1939
Extract from Widnes weekly news of death of J. B. Aitkin 1934
Sketch of works muriate (ammonium chloride) plant 1916
Information on titles to land
Albright and Wilson, Oldbury
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Report on visit to works by museum staff 1986
Letter regarding 1.
Reprint Chem. And Ind. August 31st 1963 regarding Research
Department
Job assessment scheme at works 1969
Sales leaflet / article regarding Holmes Marine Life protection
Association (owned by A and W)
Aluminium Co Ltd
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Albright and Wilson Ann St. works Widnes
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Chart of company and subsidiaries at 1956
Company publication on history
Museum notes on Co. history and artefacts in museum collection
Essay on company: ‘Ann St. before Albrights.’
Company notes about new plants in 1979
Essay by E Jones office manager 1933 about Widnes workers
List of taped interviews with process workers
Leaflet on works fire brigade 1952
Essay on works history J Smith January 1984
Interview with former process workers 1983
Various press cuttings
Copy from Albright news 1959 attitude about women process workers
M. Hanley
Alumina Co Ltd
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2.
3.
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5.
Key facts about Alcan (owner of Alumina Co Ltd)
Aluminium Sulphate
ATC 21 Use of aluminium sulphate
Notes on company history
‘The iron bridge alum works’ reprint from ICI news Feb 1952
Anglo Blackwells
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Anglo Blackwells: company history
High speed steel alloys Ltd
‘Export awards 1983’ cutting from ‘The World’ 1985
Product information
List of photographs on loan from Co. 1982
List of accessioned items storied in vault
Report on visit to works by museum researcher 1982
Atlas Chemical Company
1.
Company History and notes on James Hargreaves
Australia Alum Co. , Runcorn
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3.
Brief typed notes on company history
Ordinance survey 1927 showing site of works
Copy of sales leaflet
Barium chemical Ltd, Widnes
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2.
Correspondence with customers regarding quality of barium sulphate
Insurance Policies
BASF (Mersey Chemical Works)
1.
Typed history of works and its various ownerships
Richard Bealey
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2.
Visit to Bury reference library regarding Bealey Archives
Letter from Gordon Rintoul Regarding Bealey Archives
B.I.C.C.
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BCR copper products brochure
BICC Making it work brochure
The BICC Group brochure
William Blythe, Accrington
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Visit report by museum staff 1984
Site plan
Company accounts 1911-1914
Co. productsadvert1931
Internal memos regarding board meeting
Aerial views of factory in 1960
Miscellaneous office memos, receipts etc
Two coloured photos of plant in 1987
Thomas Bolton, Widnes
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Letters to and from museum regarding ‘Thomas Bolton’ publication
Visit report: former Thomas Bolton works site 1985 by museum
researcher
Brief typed note and company listing
Reprint from Metal Industry March 24, 31 1950 about copper written by
Thomas Bolton’s Staff
Reprint from Commercial Art and Industry Oct 1932 about works
BOC Marsh works, Widnes
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2.
3.
Visit by museum staff 1982
Visit by museum staff 1984
Company publicity leaflet
British Industrial Plastics, Oldbury
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2.
Letter from BIP to museum
Photocopies of two books about the history of BIP
Brunner Mond
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List of book references
Report from ICI the forerunners W J Reader
Copy of Mond’s m/s estimates 1982
M/s estimate from Haber on costs of soda ash
List of photos and correspondences in Chester Archives
Company letter to trade contact 1926
News paper cutting
Extracts from Northwich Guardian 1986
M/s notes on company history
List of documents in Widnes library Research room
M/s
Note regarding John Brunner
L. Monds English Patents
Photocopies of photos of A. W. Tangye, Holland, Blowing engine,
Solvay, black ash revolver
Typed historical notes of company
Costs of Solvay and Leblanc processes 1872
List of important dates in Co. history
Salt museum publication Sir J. Brunner
Typed notes on Co. history
Essay on producer gas at Warrington
M/s essay ‘B. Mond at war 1914-19’
Similar to 19
Notes: ‘Waste from the Ammonia process’
Extract from ‘British Industry under free trade’ 1903 -: The alkali industry
Negotiations with Brunner regarding markets 1900
Bush, Boake, Allen, Widnes
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History of company
History of Dans Road Site
Product brochures
Report of meeting on site by museum staff 1979
Plan of site 1979
Similar to 2
Albright magazine 1966 regarding the formation of the company
Sales pamphlet
9. News paper cutting – Halton world of commerce 1983
10. News paper cutting – Runcorn world 1982
11. 12. 13. 14. Sales brochure
W. J. Bush, West Bank
1.
Brief typed history
Chemical and Metallurgical Corp, Runcorn
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3.
Notes on company history
Production statistics 1920’s
Advertisement 1932
Calder and Mersey extract Co.
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2.
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Brief history
Advertisement
Site map
ICI Hillhouse, Fleetwood
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Site plan card
Report of site visit by museum staff 1982
History and description of factory
Brief description of site 1898
ICI, Gaskell Marsh, Widnes
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Typed history of site
Company report describing site 1949
Details of production plants
Gaskell Deacon, Widnes
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Site plan
Article on Co.
Letter from Henry Deacon’s Granddaughter, 1989
M/S notes on company history
Early photographs (anon)
Bleaching powder production statistics
Inventory of works 1891
Deed of dissolution of partnership Pilkington/Deacon
List of documents of Eccles public library
Obituary Holbrook Gaskell
H. Gaskell’s French passport
Letter from former employee
Site plan
Evidence to river pollution conclusion 1870
Typed notes on company history
Site plans
Rating valuation list Widnes 1874
Production statistics
Brief history of site
Production statistics
List of artefacts and photos
Article: the Gaskells
Report F Hunter regarding interview with old employee 1885
Article: Gaskell Deacon 1853-1953
Various documents
Company history 1853-1930 typed
ICI Pilkington Sullivivan works, Widnes
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Descriptive Brochure
Descriptive leaflet
Typed history
Company report 1933
Costs of products 1931-1945
M/S notes of visit to factory 1983
Typed notes of visit to factory 1985
Biographical and other company details
Memorandum and articles of association
Press cuttings 1986 regarding new paraquat plant
History of flint making
Press cutting regarding WW2 bomb
Brief historical summary
Essay on early ICI.
ICI. Report on Greenbank works 1966
Article Greenbank magazine on history of factory 1925
ICI. Report on works
Letter reminisces of former manager
Production statistics
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21.
Schedule of buildings 1939
Notes on land leases 1871, 1868
Carty and Sons Ltd, London
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2.
Publicity brochure
Product price list 1975
Chance and Hunt
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ICI report 1949
History of firm
List of production costs
Colloids Ltd, Widnes
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3.
Brief history
Product Sheets
Sales brochure
Croda Organic chemicals Ltd, Widness
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Company history
Press cutting
History of Bowman
History of Bowman
Visit by museum staff, report 1985
Site plan
Visit by museum staff, report 1982
List of archive material received form Co. 1985
Press cutting, Widnes weekly, news 1985
Company advert 1956
Press cutting “World” 1985
Press cutting “World” 1986
Staff handbook
Card with company name
Crosfield, Warrington
1. Company Brochure 1924
Costain Petrocarbon Ltd. Manchester
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Sales Brochure
Sales Brochure
Sales Brochure
Dearborn Chemicals Ltd. Widnes
1. History of company
2. Conditions of company
3. Misc. letter
4. product flow sheet 1969
5. Report by museum staff 1982
6. Report by museum staff 1982
7. The story of our development
8. Reprinted, Effluent and water treatment journal 1979
9. Company newsletter
10.
Article in ‘Ambassador’.
11. House journal, W R Grace
12. Press cutting, August 1963
13. Annual report W R Grace 1984
J H Dennis Cornubia Copper works
1. History
2. Press cutting and company history, Widnes weekly news 1959
Desoto Alkali Company, Widnes
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3.
Company history
Memorandum of articles of association
Similar to (1)
Dista, Speke
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4.
Family day programme 1984+company history
Company journal 1979
Company brochure
M/s historical notes
Ditton Brook Iron Works
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Site plan
History of company
Misc. m/s notes
List of land titles
Letter from ICI i.e. company listings
Copies of wills
List of references
8. Extract from select com.
9. Misc. m/s noted of reports of interviews with workers
10. Memorandum of associations
11. Obituary of W.M. Thorburn
12. Misc. m/s historical notes
13. List of original shareholders
Dunlop Tire Co.
1. Dunlop tyre production 1976
2. Dunlop, Speke 1970-85
W.R.Earp, Runcorn
1. History note
2. Typed history of Tannery house, Preston Brook
3. Article, Widnes Weekly News 1978
4. Guardian 1957, fire at factory
5. Site plan 1942
6. Site plan 1917
7. Site plan date?
8. Location
9. References
10. Misc. office documents
11. Papers W.R.Earp’s election as county councillor 1889
12. Title deeds to land
Evans Medical, Speke
1. Company history
F.B.C(Fisons/Boots)
1. Notes of Museum staff visit 1982
2. TRICHLORO ISOCYANIC ACID Chemistry experiment
3. Company fact sheet
4. Press cutting i.e. company future
5. Sheets on certain products
6. Company descriptive brochure
7. Catalogues of products
Thos Fleetwood Widnes
1.Brief historical notes
2.Information on land lease
Golding Davis & Co.
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Article, Chemistry and industry 1960
List of shareholders
Production statistics
Descriptions of fire at works
Notes of company history
Sources of information on company
Chance Sulphur recovery process royalties ledger
similar to 5
Transfer of lease 1869
Extract press cutting funeral. R.Holden Davis
Misc. Historical notes
Site valuation and description
M/s notes i.e. take-over by UAC
Similar to 5
M/s notes biography, Davis
Transfer of lease 1869 onwards
Liquidation of G.D---UAC 91
Biography extract Liv.Daily post 1904
Family trees
Small historical extract 1960
Hall Brothers and Shaw, Widnes
1. M/c Company history
2. Extract from Cheshire records
3. Hall Family tree
4. Evidence for river pollution 1870
5. Factory inventory
6.
Site plans
Handley and Beck, Runcorn
1.Press cuttings i.e. company history
2.letters to the museum
Hay Gordon & Co., Widnes
1. M/s Notes on company history
2. schedule of sale of plant 1892
3. Cheshire Rec office
4.Summaries of company correspondence 1892
Hazlehurst, Runcorn and Liverpool
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2.
Printed Company history
Advertisement
Gossage, Widnes
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Lecture on company history
Reprint for “Grocery” 1909
Advert from ‘the wheel’ 1924, i.e. the company
Press cutting, Widnes weekly news1972, i.e. company history
Company history
Data sheet
Copy, Land lease 1854
Reprints, “the wheel” 1926-8
List of memorandum + documents
Indenture schedule 1852-3
Documents relating to sale of land 1964
Article on soap and Gossage
Article, “working for Gossage”
Letter: museum, Major Gossage 1983
Press cutting i.e. old employee
Press cutting, Widnes weekly news 1977
Letters: i.e. photo of employees
Press cuttings, Widnes weekly news
Short article, Gossage
Patent 762/1853
Land lease details1853
Photocopies of photographs
M/c biography Gossage
Misc. office documents
Report on visit to museum 1982
Article, Antiquarian Horology
Photograph of old postcard
List of photos
Photos, Gossage works
M/s Gossage patent
Extract from office files
M/s list of Warrington Guardian references
List of photocopies
Patent 7267 1836
Highfield Tannery, Runcorn
1. Company history
2. Another company history
3. Company advertisoning brouchure
4. Brief description in town guide
5. Product advertisment
6. Runcorn weekly News regarding closure 1967
7. Transcript of interview with former employee
8. Biographical notes on R H Posnett
9. Description of processes 1966
10. Museum document refering to visit of Mr C C posnett
11. Interviews withformer employees
12. News cutting from Runcorn News
Hutchinson and Earle
1.Company history
2.Report on the evidence of river pollution
3.Report about shipping
I.C.I., Castner Kellner (1)
1. List of ICI archives
2. Descriptive pamphlet of works
3. Descriptive pamphlet
4. Descriptive pamphlet
5. Chemistry and industry 1964 article on Works
6. Company history
7. Company history
8. Descriptive pamphlet
9. Chlorine production figures
10. Company history
11. Description of electrolytic processes
12. External report-cell room and salunol plant
13. General Chemical Division News articles
14. List of company documents
15. Statistics-salaries and bleaching
16. Notes on a visit to works by museum staff
17. Correspondence-S. Bornett, technical chemist.
18. Products chart
19. Historical notes
20. Notes on company founders
21. Reminiscences of a former employee
22. Memo from police 1940
23. List of plant costs 1898-1937
24. Letter from Clayton Aniline Company
25. Historical essay on Castner
26. List of photographs
27. Notes on meetings and cataloguing
28. List of employees 1897
29. Internal report on research.
30. Flow diagram of chemical processes
31. Business history of company
32. Notes on labour policy 1896/1946
33. Contact at ICI re photos, exhibits
34. Process monograph: historical introduction
35. Article, the locomotive, on battery locomotive 1925
36. Museum letters re artefacts
37. Production figures September 1948
38. ICI report 1949
39. Notes on the early years of the company
40. Target master plan (German bomber information)
41. Monitor magazine 1995
42. Diagrams
43. Chronicle of ICI history & business and social history to 1926.
ICI Castner-Kellner Runcorn (2)
1. Correspondence-ICI and museum
2. Mercury cell process-flow diagram
3. C-K images
4. Derelict cottage at C-K works
5. Amalgam decomposition
6. Widnes weekly news 1896
7. C-K during the war
8. Article- no more carbon anodes
9. Meeting with Steve Kelham
10. Titanium anodes article-1959
11. Informative pamphlet
12. Historical notes
13. Research
14. ICI archive catalogue
15. C-K history brief notes
16. Photo list
17. Construction of the Weston point works
18. ICI archives catalogue
19. The lives of the founders of the company
20. Photo of C-K and Weston point
21. General chemical division news articles
22. Diagram of Mercury rocking cell 1897
23. Original designs (1892/4) for rocking cell
24. Notes on products
25. C-K and the electrolysis of brine
26. Agreements between C-K and the Ministry of Munitions, 1913
27. Chemistry and industry magazine articles
28. Article by an employee
29. Information on original plant installed
30. Day’s routine-mercury cells
31. Capital expenditure on new plant and equipment
32. Rocking cells-electrolytic procedure diagrams
33. Description of same
34. Rocking cells/chlorine production
35. Museum correspondence
36. The development of Castner mercury cell process
ICI Central Laboratory, Widnes
1. ICI historical report
2. ICI souvenir booklet
3. General chemical division news article
4. A map
5. Letter in Chemistry and industry
6. Notes and references on people involved
7. More of 6
8. Some history
ICI-Gaskell Marsh works, Widnes
1. History of site
2. Company report describing site
3. Details of production plants
4. General chemical division news articles
5. Details of production plants
6. about the reorganisation
7. Notes on the early development of the plant
ICI Hillhouse, Fleetwood
1. Site plan
2. Report of site visits by museum staff
3. History and description of factory
4. Brief description of site, 1898
5. Production of chlorine
6. ICI report 1949
7. Museum report
ICI Lostock, Northwich
1. Report on visit to Lostock
ICI Mond Division
1. Location map
2. General chemical division news1964
3. General chemical division manning levels, 1930s
4. Report on accounts 1930
5. Runcorn Research Establishment history
6. Correspondence re sandstone marker at Beechwood
7. Reports of visits by museum staff 1983
8. Mond Mail 1985 article re display of historical documents
9. Production figures, 1930s
ICI Pilkington Sullivan works, Widnes
1. Descriptive brochure
2. Descriptive leaflet
3. History of works
4. Company report 1933
5. Interpretation of product data 1931-45
6. Notes of visit to factory 1983
7. Notes of visit to factory 1985
8. Biographical and other company details
9. Memorandum and articles of association
10. Press cuttings 1986 re new Paraquat plant
11. History of flint making
12. Press cuttings re WW2 bomb
13. Brief historical summary
14. Essay on early ICI
15. ICI report on Greenbank works, 1966
16. Greenbank Magazine article on history of factory
17. ICI report on works, history and operations
18. Letter-reminiscences of former Manager
19. Production statistics
20. Schedule of buildings 1939
21. Notes on land leases
22. Notes for “shut down Pilkington Sullivan and Wigg works” film
23. General chemical division news article on shutdown
24. Statistics
25. ICI report 1949
26. Notes on Chemical places in Widnes
27. Plant history
28. Chlorine production figures
ICI Randle works, Runcorn
1. ICI report 1949
ICI Rocksavage Works, Runcorn
1. Informative leaflet
2. Historical notes
3. ICI report 1949
4. Plant history
5. Plant history
6. Liverpool Echo press cutting
7. Chlorine production figures
ICI Wade works, Northwich
1. ICI report 1949
ICI Wednesbury
1. ICI report 1949
ICI West Bank Power Station, Widnes
1. Site description and history
2. Description in General Chemical Division news
3. Report of visit by Liverpool Engineering Society
4. Description in Electrical review
5. Brief description 1923
6. Description 1929
7. Description 1970
8. Operating statistics 1925
ICI Winnington & Wallerscote, Northwich
1. Descriptive leaflet
2. Chemistry and Industry magazine article on history
3. World press cutting- tower demolition
4. Booklet of visit to Wallerscote, 1958
Johnsons, Runcorn
1. History
2. List of Patents
Lancashire Metal Company, Widnes
1. Memorandum and articles of association
2. Miscellaneous information
Lankro, Manchester
1. Company history and description
2. Obituary of founder
3. Company 50 years report
Laporte (& Peter Spence), Warrington
1. Interox company brochure
2. History of Peter Spence and Sons
3. Press report re Hurlet Alum works
4. Aerial view of factory
5. Report of museum staff visit 1982
6. History of Peter Spence and Sons
7. History of Peter Spence and Sons
8. History of Laporte
9. Letter to museum re artefacts
10. Laporte annual report: 1980
11. Laporte annual report: 1981
12. Laporte annual report: 1982
13. Laporte annual report: 1984
14. The Industrial Chemist article re Sulphuric acid production at Peter
Spence
15. The Lead Chamber process
16. History of the company
Leather’s Chemical Company
1. Company leaflet
Lever Bros/Unilever
1. Leaflet
2. Soap marketing
3. Early Laboratory photos
4. Distribution of partnership certificates to employees
5. Part of Lever Brothers Magazine, 1929
6. Brombero port estate map
Liver Alkali Company, Widnes
1. Memorandum and articles of association
2. Brief notes on setting up of company
3. History of company
4. Notes on land leasers
5. List of factories incorporated into UAC
6. Press reference
7. Extract from UAC publication
8. Golding Davis and Co- Memorandum and articles of association
9. Company history, details of shareholders and particulars of land
McKechnie Chemicals Ltd, Widnes
1. Report of visit by museum staff 1982
2. History of company
3. Company brochure
4. Press cuttings 1985
5. Description of copper sulphate process
6. History of copper sulphate manufacture
7. History of company
8. History of company
9. Brief history
10. Functions and constitution of works committee
11. Short description of company
12. Book list
Mather and Platt
1. Letter to museum staff
2. Extract from a draft of company history
3. Extract from “The Right Hon Sir William Mather”
4. Extract from “Sir William Mather”
5. Company brochure
6. Company brochure
Mathiesons, Widnes
1. Agreement re acid drains 1886
2. Transcripts of works correspondence
3. History of works
4. Transcripts of correspondence
5. Statistical data
6. Funeral report- D.D. Mathieson
7. Extracts from “Worrell’s Commercial Directory” c.1870-1900
8. Extracts from Chemical Trade journal 1901 re fraud
9. Extracts from “A History of the Chemical Industry in Widnes”
10. Extracts from Liverpool directories 1879
11. Company history
12. Literature references and notes re company history
13. Chemistry and Industry 1955 article
14. Notes re land lease
15. Transcripts of Mathieson Wills
16. Family history
17. Valuation of business 1919
18. Extracts from company letters
19. Map of Widnes
20. Site plan 1882
21. Photos of works
22. Local map
23. Land lease details
24. Transcripts of press cuttings 1906
25. Report on Mannheim contact process
26. Letters to and from museum staff
27. Contents page
28. Email query re E.M. Davies
Mort Liddell and Company, Widnes
1. Indenture of lease
2. List of Widnes ratepayers 1874-5
3. Extract from “Alkali Producing Works of the United Alkali Company”
4. List of firms acquired by the United Alkali Company
5. Transcript of article from Widnes Weekly News 1883
6. Report on company
Murgatroyd’s, Middlewich
1. Booklet- “The Story of Murgatroyd’s”
2. Miscellaneous photos
Muspratt, Liverpool
1. Street plan of Liverpool 1836
2. Site plan 1848
3. Report of 1838 trial
4. Print of etching of factory 1830
5. “Profits and Pollution”
6. Production details 1868-9
7. Entries in trade directories, 1798-1860
8. Letter from Liebig to J. Muspratt 1844
9. Street plan of Liverpool 1847
10. “The Muspratts of Liverpool”
Muspratt, Newton-le-Willows
1. Letter from local resident re pollution
2. O. S. map of N.-le-W.
3. Indictment for pollution misdemeanours
4. Letter from manager to J. Muspratt re production 1836
5. Letter from Liebig to J. Muspratt 1846
Muspratt, Widnes
1. Copies of office documents, 1871
2. Essay on Widnes politics and E. K. Muspratt 1885
3. Notes on works
4. Articles in Widnes Weekly News 1922
5. Production statistics in 1870
6. Production statistics
7. List of Russian workers 1916
8. Land lease details 1866
9. Consumption and Production data
Muspratt and Huntley, Flint
1. Maps and site plans
2. Obituaries of R. Muspratt
3. Company history
4. Museum correspondence with Clwyd county record office
5. Summary of an article in Industrial Archaeological Review
6. Extracts from Historic Notices of Flint
7. Factory apprenticeship indenture 1859
8. Newspaper cutting 1919 re factory closure
Netham Chemical Company
1. Company history-article, Chemistry and Industry 1985
2. Correspondence between museum staff and Gloucestershire Council
3. Letter from Bristol; history of company
4. ICI report 1949
North British Chemical Company (McClellan)
1. Notes on company history
Northbrook Chemical Works, Bradford
1. History of company
Associated Octel, Ellesmere Port
1. Report by museum staff on visit to works 1983
2. Article in Industrial Chemist 1954
3. Article in The Engineer 1954
4. Company publication re leaded petrol 1983
5. Company report on lead fallout
6. Company report on Italian articles on lead pollution
7. Company publication re company objectives
8. Company publication re lead in the atmosphere
9. Company publication re unleaded petrol
10. Company publicity leaflet
11. Octel news, 1985
12. Company report on unleaded petrol
A&F Pears
1. Publicity leaflet
2. History of company
Richard Powell
1. Consumptions and productions yearly
Platt’s Foundry, Widnes
1. Reports of visits by museum staff
2. Brief historical notes
Price’s of Bomborough
1. Patent for distillation of glycerine; essays on glycerine
2. Chapters from Manufacture of candles, 1891
3. Essay on the fatty acid industry
4. Museum Inventory of equipment
5. Notes on candle making
6. Brief historical notes
7. Diagrams of candle making process
8. Inventory of candle making and other equipment
9. List of company documents kept at Birkenhead library
10. Essays on candles, candle making etc.
11. Essays on candles, fatty acids and related processes
12. Company product list 1950
13. Transcript from company publication re fatty acids
14. Transcript from company publication re candle making
15. Company history and description of processes
16. Copy of treatise on production methods
17. Notes and article on company history
18. Notes on glycerine production
Proctor and Gamble
1. Questions and answers about marketing at P&G
Rare Earth Products
1. Booklet on applications
2. Product guide
3. Press cutting re company 1986
Reckitts colours, Hull
1. History of Ultramarines
2. Reckitt magazine 1968
3. Article on company history
4. Article on company history
5. Notes on dyestuffs exhibit at museum
J. Riley, Hapton, Lancashire
1. Valuation report 1919
2. Company publicity booklet
R. V. Chemicals, Bromborough
1. Report of visit by museum staff, 1985
Runcorn Soap and Alkali
1. Extract from Liverpool directories
2. Brief historical notes
3. Summaries of literature references
4. Monumental inscription of Wigg family
5. Obituary of Charles Wigg
6. Family history notes
7. Extracts from alkali inspectors’ reports
8. Notes on land assignments 1852
9. Transcript of press cutting 1883 re death of John Johnson
10. Transcript of monumental inscription of Johnson family
11. Extracts from file on Johnsons
12. ICI site plans
13. Company resolution re transfer to United Alkali Company 1891
14. Extracts from file on company
15. Notes re wills, leases etc
16. Evidence to Rivers Pollution Committee
17. Memorandum and Articles of Association 1865
18. Notes on company history
19. Draft of leaflet on company history
20. Land conveyance 1869
21. Advertisements 1876
22. Extract from Warrington Guardian
Salt Union, Weston Point
1. Correspondence by museum
2. Correspondence
3. Site photo
4. Notes on company, history and salt
5. ICI report 1938
Shell, Carrington
1. Brochure, “a new life for Carrington”
2. Article, The Industrial Chemist, re developments at Carrington
3. Report of museum visit, 1986
Shell, Stanlow
1. Report of visit by museum staff
2. Informative leaflet
3. Questions and answers wallet
4. Information leaflet
5. Environmental health book
6. Annual report 1983
7. Chemical processes
Spencer Chapman & Messel
1. Advertisement
Steetley Chemicals Ltd, Widnes
1. Newspaper cutting re closure
2. Historical and process notes
3. Historical and process notes
4. Brochure describing factory
5. Products brochure
Sulphur Company Ltd
1. Brief notes
TAC Construction materials Ltd
1. Process description
2. Extract from Widnes Handbook
3. Extract from Widnes Handbook 1920
4. Pamphlet on company products
5. Advert for products
Tennant St. Rollox, Glasgow
1. Picture of Charles Tennant
2. Article from Industrial Archaeology
3. Article on history
Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Company
1. Brief notes on company history
2. Notes on material in Durham County council archives
Land conveyances:
3. 1870
4. 1877
5. 1894
6. 1956
7. 1923
8. Local board minutes, 1886-92
9. Extracts from Chemistry and Industry
10. Archival material in Chester records office
11. List of Widnes ratepayers 1874-85
12. Literature references
13. Obituary of Sir Charles Tennant
14. Company history
15. List of company joining United Alkali Company
16. Extract from A History of the Chemical Industry in Widnes
17. Historical notes
J. W. Towers (Gallenkamp)
1. Instructions for hydrogenation apparatus
2. Interview with former manager
3. Brief notes of company history
4. List of company pensioners
5. Brief historical notes
6. Official company history and product advertisements, 1932
7. Advertisement, 1950
United Alkali Company
1.
1. Products brochure 1917
2. Annual report 1900
3. Takeover statistics 1892
4. Essay on company advertising policy 1895
5. Products brochure 1924
6. Agreement between Solvay Company and UAC, 1901
7. Agreement between Solvay Company and UAC, 1898
8. Evidence to parliamentary comission re working conditions
9. Legal document re formation of UAC
10. Miscellaneous papers re noxious gas evidence [missing]
11. Flow chart showing origins of UAC
12. List of companies comprising UAC
13. Agreement re caustic soda 1915
14. Report on soda ash production at Fleetwood [missing]
15. Product pamphlet 1915
16. Agreement between Solvay Company and UAC
17. Memorandum of association, share capital, prospectus 1891
18. Production statistics 1889-1901
19. Paper re UAC relationship with rivals
20. List of alkali producing works of UAC
21. ICI report: Reminiscences of the Chemical Industry in Widnes and
Fleetwood, 1901-28
2.
1. Report on Castner Mercury cell process and its rejection by UAC
2. Essay on Strategy and Structure of UAC, 1977
3. Report- “the Epitome and Epitaph of the Leblanc industry”
4. History of UAC 1890-1926
5. Report on reorganisation of 1984
6. Historical notes on formation and rationalisation
7. Historical notes on the Entrepreneur and British Economy
8. Historical notes on early merger movements
9. Historical notes on mergers 1880-1918
10. Statistics
11. List of companies acquired by UAC
12. Extract from product list 1917
13. List of companies acquired by UAC
14. Caustic soda production dates.
3.
1. History and statistics
2. Miscellaneous products and land purchase and plant extension
3. Details of land purchase and plant extension
4. Statistics
5. Data on works’ chimneys
United Sulphuric Acid Corporation
1. Souvenir brochure 1955
2. Process description
3. Historical notes
4. Correspondence and OS map
5. Notes on history, process etc.
6. Report on design and construction of factory
Thos. Vickers, Widnes
1. Land lease 1870
2. Correspondence re land lease 1872
3. Site plan
Correspondence:
re land lease:
4. 1885
5. 1879
6. 1882
7. 1884
8. 1882
9. Office correspondence 1879
re land lease:
10. 1873
11. 1875
12. re ground rents 1877
13. Office correspondence 1892
14. Notes on land leasing and ownership
15. Photo of works c1930
16. Site plans, 1895, 1869
17. Brief notes on company history
Correspondence:
18. re land rights 1877
Office correspondence
19. 1873
20. 1885
21. Site Office correspondence plan 1885
22. Legal accounts re leases
Correspondence:
23. Office correspondence 1875
re leases
24. 1875-6
25. 1875-6
26. Office correspondence 1892
re leases
27. 1881
28. 1880
29. 1879
Vine Chemicals, Widnes
1. Order book 1975-9
2. Blank purchase orders
3. Copies of purchase orders 1979
4. Product data
Ward Blenkinsop Ltd, Widnes
1. Notes on company history and products
2. Notes on company history and products
3. Reports of visits by museum staff 1982
4. Press cuttings re job losses 1985,-6
5. Product catalogue
6. Price list 1949
7. Brochure 1979
8. Company magazines 1981
9. Company magazine 1963
10. Brief history
11. Brief description
Wells and Galloway Ltd
1. Notes re company history
2. Evidence to Rivers Pollution Committee
3. Memorandum and articles of association
4. Press cutting re use of patents
Weston Chemical Company Limited
1. Articles of association and brief history
Whiffen and sons Ltd, Widnes
1. Company history booklet
2. Company history and description booklet by Fisons
Widnes Alkali Company, Widnes
1. Brief history
2. Advertisement, 1887
3. Evidence to Rivers pollution committee
4. Description of black ash furnace1887
5. Memorandum and articles of association
6. Extracts from Widnes Weekly News, 1885
7. Memorandum and articles of association and notice of final winding-up of
company
8. Sullivan and co. Memorandum and articles of association
9. Letterand notice re winding-up of company
10. Article, The Engineer, re black ash furnace
Widnes and Ditton Land Company
1. Memorandum and articles of association
Widnes Foundry
1. Company history and product brochure
2. Reports of visits by museum staff 1982,-4
3. Patent for improvements to process vessels
4. Recollections by former employee
5. Brief history of compny
6. Engineering drawings of products
7. Abstract of land indenture
8. List of artefacts and documents
Widnes Metal Company
1. Memorandum and articles of association
2. Legal documents re land ownership
3. Press cutting describing processes
4. Brief company history
Widnes Soap Company Ltd
1. 25 years anniversary brochure
2. Balance sheets, 1950,-2,-7
3. Advertisements
4. Extract from Widnes Official Handbook, 1948
5. Extract from title deed
6. Press extract re death of R. W. Bloomer 1957
7. Press extract re products 1933
Widnes Sulphur Company Ltd
1. Memorandum and articles of association
Widnes Traders Association
1. Notes on records
2. Minutes of meetings 1874-90
3. Minutes of meetings 1874-91
4. Notes re LNWR records
5. Miscellaneous acts of the association
6. Press extracts
7. Notes and various dates
8. Brief historical notes
Wigg Bros. and Steele, Runcorn
1. Notes on freehold agreements
2. Production statistics
3. Historical notes
4. Historical notes 1957-48
5. Will of Edward Wigg 1851
6. Census returns, 1841,-51
7. Extracts from Liverpool directories
8. Wigg family tree
9. Extracts from Cheshire record office archives
10. Description of salt cake plant
11. Description of plant continued
12. Description of Kemsol plant
13. Notes on Chance’s sulphur recovery plant
14. Extracts from Cheshire directories
15. Machinery diagrams
16. Area maps
Godfrey Woodhead and Company Ltd, Huddersfield
1. Process description 1983
2. Press cutting re chemical accident 1985
3. Process description 1985
J. L. Wright, Runcorn
1. Evidence from Rivers Pollution Committee