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Collapse D7247 - ? Tansley Mills: notes by Samuel Unwin, 1800 and other papers re industrial and social history - 19th cent

D7247 - ? Tansley Mills: notes by Samuel Unwin, 1800 and other papers re industrial and social history - 19th cent

1 - Note of death at the age of 102 of Samuel Sneap, wheelwright, of Ockbrook - [c1829]

2 - Manuscript advertisement by John Stenson, Bag Lane, Derby, glass blower and barometer maker - 19 July 1823

3 - Weekly totals of soap used by Samuel Unwin in bleaching and cleaning cotton and calico pieces for sale - Jul 1800-Jan 1801

4 - List of subscribers to freeing of Willington Bridge from tolls - 1898

5 - Declaration by John Smith of Tansley, to Mr Godwin, excise collector, Wirksworth that Smith's stillhouse and store room in Lumsdale are used for depositing white salt to make acid for bleaching cloth - nd [mid 19th cent]

6 - Letter from Charles Willatt, Swiney Lane to the Hon. Frederick Strutt about Thomas Wheatcroft of Thacker Hill, Chevin, Belper and his involvement in the Pentrich rebellion of 1817 - 27 Apr [1896]

7 - Sketches of bridges etc [no place given] - [19th cent]

8 - Notice of dissolution of partnership in zinc trade business and division of profits between Charles Sylvester and George Hood - 11 Nov [1809]

9 - Transcript of a sign advertising in verse the services of James Rippon, chimney sweep [?Chesterfield] - [late 19th cent]

10 - Derby St Peter Notes and draft notes re parish duties for churchwarden including distribution of poor relief - [early 19th cent]

11 - Notes on quantities of chemicals [?Used for bleaching or other textile processes] including copperas, sumac and alum - [19th cent]

12 - Copy advertisement for John Rotherham, Friargate, Derby dealer in musical instruments and 'curiosities'. Has for sale finger organ, bird organ, flutes, hautboys [oboes], clarinets, bassoons, spinets, harpsichord , upright piano and concert horns - 1803

13 - Notes and recipes for textile dyeing and processing - 19th cent

14 - Note on characteristics of electricity - 19th cent

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

Strutt family of Belper

National Coal Board

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

Harpur Crewe family of Calke

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

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