Cork Spinning and Weaving Company Ltd.

Repository: Cork City and County Archives

Identity Statement

TitleCork Spinning and Weaving Company Ltd.
Archive ReferenceIE CCCA/B530
Web Link to this Entryhttps://iar.ie/archive/cork-spinning-weaving-company-ltd
Creation Dates1868-1918
Extent Medium9 items

Context

Creator(s): Cork Spinning and Weaving Company Ltd.

  • Administrative History ↴

    Established in 1889 with the purchase of the former ‘Cork Flax Spinning and Weaving Company’ mills premises at Blackpool, Cork city. (The former mills operation was opened in 1867 by a Mr. Shaw possibly on the site of the old Millfield distillery. This factory went into liquidation in 1885). Directors in 1891 were the company founder James Ogilvie JP, Queenstown/Cobh; Henry McFerran, Managing Director; Thomas Lunham JP, Sidney Place; William T. Green, Belgrave Place; Francis H. Thompson, Lauriston. Registered office at Millfield, Blackpool, Cork. Major investment was made by the company in new machinery and facilities for the mills. The company carried out the spinning of flax and the manufacture of various textiles. The company operated until at least c.1927, also operating looms for weaving and by 1920 was employing roughly 1,000 people. Some of the mills complex was later taken over by William Dwyer and later Sunbeam Wolsey, and the manufacture of textiles continued on the site until 1995.
  • Archival History ↴

    Donated in 1998.
  • Immediate Source Acquisition ↴

    Donation

Content & Structure

  • Scope & Content: Cork Spinning and Weaving Company Ltd. ↴

    Note book, 1868, containing technical formulae and calculations for spinning and weaving.

    Series of annual reports of the Directors of the Cork Spinning and Weaving Co. Ltd., 1891 – 1912. Gives statement of account/ profit and loss account, balance sheet including capital and liabilities, property and assets, as well as comments on trading conditions and various investments carried out such as machinery and cottages for employees.

    Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Cork Spinning and Weaving Company Limited, 1889

    MS. essay or article entitled ‘Irish Flax Growing’. Concerns ways of improving Irish flax production. Contrasts practices in Ireland with those in Holland and Belgium, in pulling, watering/retting, drying and scutching flax.

    Notices, 1918, from Robert M. Scott, Secretary, Cork Spinning & Weaving Company Limited. Concerns resolutions at Extraordinary General Meeting relating to shares and payments of dividends.

    Abstracts from accounts Cork Spinning & Weaving Company. Compares figures from 1890 each year up to 1900 for profit and loss account, balance sheet, property and assets, distribution of net profits.

    Newsclipping, 1911 concerning ‘Commercial Buildings Company’, Annual General Meeting.

    Draft list of Shareholders of Cork Spinning & Weaving Company showing total capital of £40,000, possibly, with initials of major shareholders and amounts invested.

    Parts of a printed book, possibly by James Hill Dickson, on the Culture and Manufacture of Flax.

  • Appraisal Destruction ↴

    Permanent Retention
  • Arrangement ↴

    Note book, 1868, containing technical formulae and calculations for spinning and weaving.

    Series of annual reports of the Directors of the Cork Spinning and Weaving Co. Ltd., 1891 – 1912. Gives statement of account/ profit and loss account, balance sheet including capital and liabilities, property and assets, as well as comments on trading conditions and various investments carried out such as machinery and cottages for employees.

    Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Cork Spinning and Weaving Company Limited, 1889

    MS. essay or article entitled ‘Irish Flax Growing’. Concerns ways of improving Irish flax production. Contrasts practices in Ireland with those in Holland and Belgium, in pulling, watering/retting, drying and scutching flax.

    Notices, 1918, from Robert M. Scott, Secretary, Cork Spinning & Weaving Company Limited. Concerns resolutions at Extraordinary General Meeting relating to shares and payments of dividends.

    Abstracts from accounts Cork Spinning & Weaving Company. Compares figures from 1890 each year up to 1900 for profit and loss account, balance sheet, property and assets, distribution of net profits.

    Newsclipping, 1911 concerning ‘Commercial Buildings Company’, Annual General Meeting.

    Draft list of Shareholders of Cork Spinning & Weaving Company showing total capital of £40,000, possibly, with initials of major shareholders and amounts invested.

    Parts of a printed book, possibly by James Hill Dickson, on the Culture and Manufacture of Flax.

Conditions of Access & Use

Access Conditions Open by appointment to those holding a current reader's ticket
Creation Dates1868-1918
Extent Medium9 items
Material Language ScriptEnglish
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Allied Materials

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Descriptive Control Area

Archivist NoteBrian McGee
Rules/ConventionsISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2nd ed. Ottawa: International Council on Archives, 2000.
Date of Descriptions40634