AINLEY BROTHERS (ELLAND) LTD. (MOUNT WORKS ELLAND), TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS

The firms whose records are included here are:-

Ainley Bros. Mount Works, Elland, textile manufacturers - founded 1931

Ainley's Carpet Stores Ltd. Mount Works, Elland, carpet manufacturers - founded in 1966, it had taken over Cash Carpet Stores founded 1963 from Ainley Bros. Ltd., its name being changed to Ainley's Carpets Ltd. in 1967

L. and F. Boardman, a husband and wife partnership who were proprietors of F. Yates and Co. in 1966

Cold Harbour Dairy Farm, Yeadon - Ainleys owned a farm at Otley and one at Yeadon, mainly for personal supplies of eggs, milk, etc.

G. A. Field and Co., Spa Well, Elland - clothing distributors

Gladstone House, Queens Road, Halifax - property taken over by Ainleys including the Lyric cinema

Heaton and Josephy Ltd., Leeds - woollen merchants and manufacturers

G. and A. Herbert Halifax Ltd., textile manufacturers/distributors

Hirst, Kettlewell and Co. Ltd., Progress Works, Milford Street, Huddersfield - clothing manufacturers founded in 1904

A. J. Jewson, Westgate, Halifax, gun and fishing tackle seller

Arthur Mitton Bradford Ltd., Bradford, textile manufacturers and merchants

P. A. Equipment Co., Huddersfield, suppliers of clothing to institutions such as hospitals, schools, etc.

W. H. Sutcliffe and Co. Ltd., Huddersfield, manufacturers of lindsey for aprons and petticoats

West Vale Knitting Mills Ltd., Stainland Road, West Vale, clothing manufacturers - its pre-war trade was the supply of dishcloths, scourers, etc. but it has now closed in spite of reforming in 1968

F. Yates and Co. Halifax Ltd., West Parade, Halifax, clothing manufacturers - no longer in production

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Deposited : W Ramsden, Elland

Accessioned : 1985 Jul 17

Ainley Bros. began as a partnership in 1923, run by the Ainley family, who still have an interest in the firm. It rapidly expanded, taking over or creating other firms which all became part of the Ainley Group.

The Group used to make and/or distribute all kinds of articles of clothing and other materials ranging from dishcloths and scourers to carpets. Much of their trade was with institutions hospitals, children's homes, poor law institutions, schools, etc.

In recent years trade has dropped, and the Group no longer manufactures its own goods, acting merely as distributor. Many of the firms formerly part of the Group have now been closed, and all activity is concentrated at Mount Works