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Collapse D356 - Butterley Company of Ripley, colliery owners, iron founders, mechanical engineers and brick manufacturers and other papers - 19th cent

D356 - Butterley Company of Ripley, colliery owners, iron founders, mechanical engineers and brick manufacturers and other papers - 19th cent

1 - Wallet of William Thomas, Butterley Iron Works. Thomas is listed as an agent of the Butterley Company in an 1846 Directory. The wallet contained the following papers:- - 1832

2-7 - Butterley Company promissory notes, signed on behalf of the company by William Thomas - 1837-1842

8 - Note of experiments in melting pig iron at Messrs Gibson and Co.'s foundry at Derby, using Lane End pigs, and Butterley pigs, May - 1841

9 - Account of shares - [c.1845]

10 - Cure for corns and cure for toothache (taken from The Lancet) - 1840

11 - Prescription for colycinth pills, issued by Thomas Cooper, dispensing chemist, Leicester, to Mr Thomas - 1841

13-20 - Miscellaneous medical prescriptions and recipes - [c.1840]

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Local Studies Periodicals

Local Studies Periodicals

National Coal Board

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), naval officer and arctic explorer

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