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  <dc:title>English Sewing Cotton Company Ltd and predecessors</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Accession, Apr 2024:
ESCCo. employees handbooks, 1950 &amp; 1957; Programme for Open Day, 1967; Programme for dinner and dance to celebrate the opening of the new canteen and recreational hall, 1965; ESCCo. Industrial Employees Pension Fund handbook, 1960; Memo: Brief precis of the functions of the Standards Department, both internally and in its relationship to Head Office, 1959;  Correspondence and memos regarding ESCCo. bells, 1968 and 1975; ESCCo. graduate training programme induction; Management structure, naming departments and managers, 1982; Revaluation of North, South and East mills, 1953; List of demolition dates of Derwent Valley Mills buildings, c1969; List of dates of building and cost of demolition of old old buildings, and list of dates and cost of new mill buildings in Belper, c1969; Pattern for Strutt's Lustre Knittings: Lacy Stripes, leaflet 8027, Pattern for Strutt's Milford Knitting Cotton: Three smart Sweater, leaflet 4096; Hand drawn diagram of river water and turbine uses, mid 20th century; Plan of Milford Mill, 1912, showing water supply from Pearn or Rees-Roturbo Electric pump and Worthington Steam Pump, with marked additions for water supply for fire brigade, 1941; Plan of production area, 1969 East Mill , showing layout of machinery and course of tail race, Jun 1969; Oral history notes	 from Dorothy Kerry on working in Belper mills from the age of 13, and from  J Osbourne, retelling a story of her mother being late for work during the winter, having walked from Heage to Belper c1912
Thread Division: 
Long service awards presentation, September 1976; Details and guidance for Open Day, Jun 1977; Belle Vue Mills, Skipton, North Yorkshire - historical development of Thomas Dewhurst's Mills; Thread Division &amp; Description of Dewhurst Mills and making of Sylko thread, Oct 1979: The Belper and Milford Mills - History of the Strutts mill building, housing and  welfare policies.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[c1912]-1979</dc:date>
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