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D503 - Butterley Company of Ripley, colliery owners, iron founders, mechanical engineers and brick manufacturers and subsidiaries - 1675-20th cent
1 - Title deeds - 1675-1973
2 - Title deeds - 1803-1897
3 - Company and Administration - 1839-1965
4 - Companies Acts annual returns - 1907-1980
5 - Seal books - 1888-1966
6 - Register of mortgages - 1960-1969
7 - Directors' records including appointment and resignations, holdings and interests - 20th cent
8 - Directors' meetings minutes - 1878-1957
9 - Indexes to minute books - 1888-1929
10 - Draft Directors meetings minutes - 1888-1901
11 - Working Directors' meetings minutes - 1938-1948
12 - Correspondence - 1795-1910
13 - Correspondence - 1894-1904
14 - Managing Directors' annual reports - 1889-1967
15 - Chairman's statements and reports of proceedings at AGMs (except for 1965 and 1966) - 1926-1967
16 - Shares - 1888-1936
17 - Register of shares/members - 1912-1967
18 - Register of preference share holders - c1935-1964
19 - Dividend books - 1914-1954
20 - Debentures - 1888-1934
21 - Shares - [early 20th cent]
22 - General management
23 - Certified accounts - 1881-1967
24 - Auditors' reports, half-yearly from 31 Mar 1880 to 31 Mar 1906 - 1880-1906
25 - Auditors' reports, balance sheets and accounts Half-yearly from 31 Mar 1909 to 31 Sep 1938 - 1909-1966
26 - Profit and loss accounts - 1810-1967
27 - Profit and loss accounts, and other financial records - 1820-1963
28 - Private ledger of Benjamin Outram and Co, later Butterley Company - 1796-1856
29 - Private ledgers - 1852-1969
30 - Private ledger of subsidiaries - 1967
31 - Private journals - Butterley Ironworks - 1855-1936
32 - Subsidiary private journal, relating to compensation, welfare, schools, etc - 1938-1944
33 - Private cash books - 1885-1937
34 - Nominal Ledgers - 1944-1966
35 - General Financial Records - 1790-1888
36 - General Financial Records - 1888-1960
37 - Capital accounts - 1888-1945
38 - Financial - General
39 - Salaries ledgers - 1883-1924
40 - Salaries cash books - 1921-1947
41 - Codnor Park Wages - 1944-1945
42 - Furnace Ledgers - 1800-1944
43 - Production account books - 1885-1934
44 - Codnor Park Forge Cost Books - 1882-1962
45 - Bar mills costs books - 1917-1930
46 - Puddles, ball furnaces and bar mills costs books - 1934-1943
47 - Other financial records - 1810-1948
48 - Mineral rents ledgers, with indexes - 1888-1947
49 - Mineral rent journals - 1889-1947
50 - Coal sales and Coal Nationalisation Act, 1946 - 1849-1850
51 - Forge Book - 1824-1874
52 - Codnor Park managers' report books, marked 'letter books' - 1895-1927
53 - Works letter books - 1906-1915
54 - Daily tonnage of steel produced and pig iron analysis - 1941-1962
55 - Codnor Park Stock Books - 1902-1948
56 - Order Books - 1951-1965
57 - Specification and technical drawing - [19th cent]-1917
58 - Correspondence and other items concerning production - 1801-1886
59 - Contract books - 1924-1944
60 - Contracts - 1838-1907
61 - Shipping from Codnor Park - 1906-1910
62 - Record books of seams/mines purchased and worked - 1901-1914
63 - Mines worked record/account books - 1908-1946
64 - Abstracts of mineral conveyances, leases and agreements, including accounts of overpaid minimum rents (1888-1937) and balances of minerals purchased (1906-1937), with drafts and indexes - 1791-1942
65 - Correspondence, valuations, draft leases and other papers concerning Mining Property - 1877-1893
66 - Coal Industry Nationalisation Compensation - c1947-1958
67 - Schedules and valuations of plant and premises - 1791-1920
68 - Accounts, plans, agreements and other papers concerning plant, premises and stock - 1793-1943
69 - Farming and tenancy records, including leases, agreements, valuations - 1862-1971
70 - Farming and tenancy records for Codnor, Loscoe, Swanwick, Golden Valley and Codnor Park, including rent accounts - 1865-1969
71 - Tenancy records concerning London property - 1880-1955
72 - Other tenancy records - 1892-1899
73 - Plans - General
74 - Plans of individual properties - 1849-c1897
75 - Plans from conveyances, leases, etc. originally bound in a volume which was damaged by damp - 1875-1901
76 - Plans - mining
77 - Plans - mining
78 - Patents, specifications and related papers - 1806-1915
79 - Legal papers relating to the Cromford Canal - 1789-1869
80 - Other legal papers, including disputes - 1820-1955
81 - Social Survey, being a statistical report on men employed by the company, living at Aldercar, Langley, Codnor and Eastwood - 1856
82 - Employees and working conditions - c1800-1940
83 - Apprenticeship indentures - 1831-1909
84 - Other records relating to apprentices - 1852-1889
85 - Labour - wages and disputes - 1865-1933
86 - Workmen's Pension Scheme - 1953-1982
87 - Workmen's Compensation Trust - 1934-1954
88 - Other records relating to labour welfare - 1854-1898
89 - Prices and promotional
90 - Photographs - castings and products
1 - Photograph album of castings and products for potential clients 17 photographs of condensor, small castings, bedplates and turbine castings - [early 20th cent]
2 - Photograph album of castings and products for potential clients 13 photographs of condensor, centrifugal pump, bedplate and iron water tank - [early 20th cent]
3 - Photograph album of castings and products for potential clients 16 photographs of rope haulage gear, pumps, iron bedplates, tubbings and bollards - [early 20th cent]
4 - Photographs removed from a damaged album of album of castings and products Large castings - [20th cent]
5 - Photographs removed from a damaged album of album of castings and product Culham Bridge (?) over River Thames - [20th cent]
6-7 - Photographs removed from a damaged album of album of castings and products Large castings - [20th cent]
8 - Photographs removed from a damaged album of album of castings and products Small castings, c1931 - [20th cent]
9 - Photographs removed from a damaged album of album of castings and products Steel container - [20th cent]
10 - Photographs removed from a damaged album of album of castings and products Patent steel body van - [20th cent]
11 - Photographs removed from a damaged album of album of castings and products Hauling gear - [20th cent]
12 - Photographs removed from a damaged album of album of castings and products Pulley wheels - [20th cent]
13 - Photographs removed from a damaged album of album of castings and products Silage and fodder cutter - [20th cent]
14 - Photographs removed from a damaged album of album of castings and products Smaller castings - [20th cent]
15-24 - Photographs removed from a damaged album of album of castings and products Unidentified machinery - [20th cent]
25 - Casting for unidentified machinery - [early 20th cent]
26-27 - Casting for condensors - [early 20th cent]
28-29 - Castings for iron tanks, one with group of workmen - [early 20th cent]
30-33 - Castings for unknown machinery, possibly a condensor - [early 20th cent]
34 - Smaller castings - [early 20th cent]
35 - Smaller castings - c1931
36 - Drain covers - [mid-20th cent]
37-38 - Presses - [early 20th cent]
39-49 - Equipment photographs - assorted presses and pneumatic clutch, with description details on back, Cowlishaw Walker, Biddulph, Stoke-on-Trent - [mid-20th cent]
50-53 - Hauling gear machinery for Craig and Donald of Johnstone [Scotland] - [early 20th cent]
54 - Lathe, Wadkin and Co, Leicester - [mid-20th cent]
55 - Unidentified machinery, Wilkins and Mitchell Darlaston, Staffordshire - [early 20th cent]
56 - Steel container - [mid-20th cent]
57 - "B Patent steel body van" - [early 20th cent]
58 - 2 machines for Royal Aircraft establishment to provide air for engine and carburettor testing - [early 20th cent]
59 - Wagon built for North Wilford Power Station - [early 20th cent]
60 - Cast iron piping for electricity works, Kingston, Isle of Wight - [mid-20th cent]
61 - Pipes being laid for Weymouth Corporation Electricity Department - [mid-20th cent]
62 - Vitaulic cast iron main being lowered at Newhaven Harbour - [mid-20th cent]
63-64 - Bridge sections on track (on back, Hornchurch Road) - [early 20th cent]
65-66 - Construction of shed at Dover Station - 1914
67-69 - Construction of depot goods shed for Southern Railway - [early 20th cent]
70-71 - Shell of structure in construction, with workmen (possibly Dover ?) - [early 20th cent]
72-73 - Long series of strutts (for roof ?) - [early 20th cent]
74 - Cast iron aqueduct over River Calder at Stanley Ferry (badly damaged) - [late 19th cent]
75-76 - Unidentified bridge built by Butterley Company, including workmen (faded) - [early 20th cent]
77 - Workmen on Brandon Bridge over River Ouse - 1928
78 - Road bridge for "Nigeria Ibadan NASP" - 1932
79 - Culham Bridge over the River Thames - [early 20th cent]
80 - Appleford Bridge near Oxford, over River Thames - 1928
81-82 - Bridges (2) at Boston, one showing complete single span bridge and one in the process of construction - [early 20th cent]
83 - Exhibition stand for the Royal Show at York - 1948
84 - Georgian house made out of Butterley bricks for the Daily Mail Ideal Homes Exhibition - [1960s]
85 - Railway wagon - [early 20th cent]
91 - Photographs - Works and premises
92 - Photograph - individuals
93 - Photographs - groups and functions
94 - Other illustrative material
95 - Miscellaneous - History of Company
96 - Miscellaneous - Articles
97 - Miscellaneous - Directors, etc
98 - Miscellaneous - Business
99 - Miscellaneous - Assorted
100 - Butterley Housing Co Ltd
101 - First Inter-Town Properties Ltd
102 - A H Couser Ltd/Butterley Simms Wulpa Lift Co Ltd/Butterley Wulpa Lift Co Ltd/Butterley Engineering Co Ltd/Butterley (E) Ltd
103 - F C Hibberd and Co Ltd/Butterley (FCH) Ltd
104 - T Darnell and Sons Ltd/ Butterley (TD) Ltd
105 - Vibrocon (Norwest) Ltd/Richard Lees Ltd
106 - Blaby Brick and Tile Co Ltd/Butterley and Blaby Brick Companies Ltd/Butterley Brick Co Ltd
107 - Aglite (Midlands) Ltd/Butterley Aglite Ltd
108 - G Tucker and Sons Ltd
109 - Mugginton Sand and Gravel Ltd
110 - Apex Sand and Gravel Ltd
111 - Lincolnshire Traffics Ltd/Butterley Quarries Ltd - 1945-1970
112 - Ackroyd Quarries Ltd
113 - Agricultural Limes Ltd
114 - H Appleyard (Grimsby) Ltd
115 - Dunston Stone Quarries Ltd
116 - Grasby Limes Ltd
117 - Hartsholme Gravel and Sand Co Ltd
118 - Hartsholme Sales Ltd/Aglite Engineering Ltd/Butterley (AE) Ltd
119 - Lincolnshire Construction Co Ltd
120 - Lincoln Stone Quarries Ltd
121 - E Plant and Sons (Grimsby) Ltd
122 - Trentford Gravels Ltd
123 - Crystalime Ltd/Trentford Mixed Concrete Ltd
124 - Pre-Mixed Concrete (Lincoln) Ltd
125 - Lincoln Mixed Concrete Ltd
126 - Parish Quarries Ltd/Exhibition Minerals Ltd
127 - Butterley Building Materials
128 - National Star Brick and Tile Holdings Ltd - 1934-1989
129 - Star Brick and Tile Co Ltd
130 - Neal and Co Ltd/National Brick Co Ltd
131 - Tondu Brickworks Co Ltd
132 - National Star Floor and Wall Tiling Co Ltd
133 - Bayliss Brickworks Ltd/Birmingham Brick Co
134 - National Star Group Sales Ltd
135 - Abersychan Brick Co Ltd
136 - Cwmbran Brick Co Ltd
137 - Clay Products Ltd
138 - Claughton Manor Brick Co Ltd
139 - Castle Brick Co Ltd/Castle Fire Brick Co Ltd, Buckley, Flintshire - 1961-1974
140 - Unidentified
UL - Butterley Company and subsidiaries: unlisted records - 20th cent
George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist
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