| Description | File containing various items relating to the history of Kerfoots. Original file labelled "Company profile, V 0f B Story, A-U-L Ex Butterworth book 1823, Bardsley Brewery 1832, Dodgson and Grundy 1896".
Items in the file include: tablet list (nd), list of pastilles and lozenges (2 copies, nd), list of compressed tablets (1899), photograph of view of canteen from river (nd), two photographs showing construction of RM stores (previously stored in a Kerfoot's envelope), copy of newspaper report from 1891 on fire at north block, Dodgson and Grundy, Bardsley with typed transcription, biographical details on Mr Thomas Kerfoot, photocopy of short history of Shaw and Bentley, Bardsley Brewery (2 copies), photocopies prospectus of England in Ashton-under-Lyne by Winifred Bowman (2 copies), typescipt history of the history and development of Thomas Kerfoot and Co Ltd (1974), photocopy of article on the company from the Financial Times (3 Jan 1989), extract from James Butterworth's Description of Town and Parish of Ashton etc. relating to Knott Lanes area (2 copies), photocopied company profile from ABPI News (14 Jan 1966, 2 copies), photocopied schedule of title deeds, photocopied plan of factory site (original dated 1896), road plan of area around factory, photocopied plan of Bardsley Vale Mills (original dated 1885, copied 1985), photocopied plan of site (original possibly dated 1897-1907), typed early history of Bardsley Brewery (2 copies). |
