| Description | Business records, including:
Cash accounts 1934-1988 (11 vols), correspondence with breeders etc. 1930s-1960s (1 folder), published laying trial records and certificates awarded mid 20th cent (1 bundle), product catalogues 1932-1970 (1 bundle), plan of farm c1954-1956 (damaged: to be copied and returned with A3 printed copy), programmes for annual dinners of Chesterfield Poultry Producers and Alfreton Poultry Producers 1930s-1950s, Monthly egg registers 1926-1967, recording pen, breed, number of eggs by month, comparison with previous year (4 vols), various poultry magazines 1920-1960, Wing Band Book c1930s-1940s, recording wing band numbers of breeding stock, breed, sex and date hatched, with another volume containing rough notes on the same subject, Death record for 1931, recording date, wing band number, age, house, breed and cause of death, printed Registers of Accredited Poultry Breeding Stations and Accredited Hatchers 1944-1968 (some gaps), with other poultry-related publications of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries |
| Administrative History | Hill Top Poultry Farm, Temple Normanton, near Chesterfield was owned by the Wright family. The farm was founded in 1916 by Sarah Wright, wife of James Wright, but the earliest surviving record of it dates from 1922. The business began in response to wartime demand for eggs. The original site was on land owned by the Temple Normanton Colliery Company, but in 1920 on the sale of the Wingerworth Hunloke estates, ten acres were purchased and the farm moved to its new site, where it remained as a working business until 1990. After the Second World War, the farm was owned by John Wright, son of James and Sarah, and his wife Norah. On Norah Wright's death in 1990, the business was wound up. |
| Custodial History | These records were donated to Derbyshire Record Office by a private individual in January 2015. |