J. AND N. PHILIPS AND CO. LTD. OF TEAN, STAFFORDSHIRE AND OF MANCHESTER, MANUFACTURERS...

M97/1 MINUTES

Buyers' Meetings, 1929-1939

M97/2/1-23 FINANCE

M97/2/1. Ledgers, 1806-1922

M97/2/2. London Accounts, 1887-1907

M97/2/3-4 Cash Books, 1943-1963

M97/2/5-6 Sales Figures, 1870-1894

M97/2/7-8 Stock, 1899-1939

M97/2/9-19 Financial Papers, 1938-1939

M97/2/20. Miscellaneous, 1916

M97/2/21-23 Tean Mills Financial Papers, 1957-1968

M97/3 CORRESPONDENCE AND ORDERS, 1753-1769

M97/4/1-5 PATENTS

Tean Needle Loom Patents

M97/4/1. British Patent, 1944-1951

M97/4/2. Australian patent, 1944-1951

M97/4/3. Swiss Patent, 1945-1951

M97/4/4. United States Patent, 1945-1947

M97/4/5. Canadian patent, 1945-1950

M97/5/1-4 STAFF

M97/5/1. Instructions, 1854-1930

M97/5/2. Travellers' Amounts, 1851-1911

M97/5/3. Travellers' Diary, 1907

M97/5/4. Jokes about Members of the Firm, 1910-1932

M97/6-9 FIRMS CONNECTED WITH J. AND N. PHILIPS AND CO.

M97/6 JAMES CHADWICK AND BROTHER, EAGLEY MILLS NR. BOLTON, COTTON SPINNERS AND THREADMAKERS

Diary, 1830, notes on applicants for jobs, 1843-1850

M97/7/1-36 ISAAC THORP AND SONS LTD. OF MANCHESTER, TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS AND WAREHOUSEMEN

M97/7/1. Minutes, 1897-1904

M97/7/2. Articles of Partnership, 1891-1896

M97/7/3-17 Finance

M97/7/3-6 Shares

M97/7/3-4 Share Certificates, 1896-1920

M97/7/5. Indemnities Against Actions Arising from the Issue of New Certificates, 1899-1920

M97/7/6. Mortgage of Shares, 1912

M97/7/7. Articles of Association, 1896

M97/7/8. Alterations to Articles of Association, 1902-1908

M97/7/9. Proposed Sale of Company, 1910-1911

M97/7/10. Reduction in Capital, 1917

M97/7/11. Sale to J. and N. Philips and Co. Ltd., 1920-1921

M97/7/12. Assets and Liabilities, 1916-1944

M97/7/13-17 Miscellaneous Financial Papers

M97/7/13. Letters from Lancs. and Yorks. Penny Bank Ltd., 1911-1921

M97/7/14. Bank Pass Books, 1915-1917

M97/7/15. Guarantee of Payment of Debt, 1912-1914

M97/7/16. Reductions in Salaries Because of World War I, 1914-1916

M97/7/17. Sale of Manchester Ship Canal Shares, 1919

M97/7/18-34 Property

M97/7/18. Church Street, Manchester, 1869-1910

M97/7/19-21 15/17 Church Street

M97/7/19. Sale Particulars, 1873

M97/7/20. Erection of New Warehouse, 1908-1917

M97/7/21. Leases of 15/17 Church Street, 1909-1919

M97/7/22-24 Mortgages of Church Street Property, 1886-1920

M97/7/25. Sale to J. and N. Philips and Co. Ltd., 1921-1922

M97/7/26. Elbow Passage, Manchester, 1897-1898

M97/7/27. North Parade, Manchester, 1868-1869

M97/7/28. Roman Street, Manchester, 1915-1919

M97/7/29. Turner Street, Manchester, 1914

M97/7/30. Union Street, Manchester, 1895-1896

M97/7/31. Silver Arcade, Leicester, 1917

M97/7/32. Valuations, 1883-1921

M97/7/33. Property Accounts, 1900-1920

M97/7/34. Plans, 1865 and no date

M97/7/35. Correspondence with Solicitors, 1916-1917

M97/7/36. Solicitors' Bills, 1896-1916

M97/8/1-8 W. SMITH AND CO. AND J. AND N. PHILIPS, BRIDGE MILLS (WITNEY) LTD.

M97/8/1. Board Minutes, 1926-1948

M97/8/2-8 Finance

M97/8/2. List of Stock and Shareholders, no date

M97/8/3. Balance Sheets and Accounts, 1925-1939

M97/8/4. Profit and Loss Accounts, 1936-1938

M97/8/5. Costings and Financial Reports, 1939-1956

M97/8/6. Departmental Production and Cost Records, 1947-1951

M97/8/7. Distribution of Labour and Overhead Expenses, 1947-1951

M97/8/8. Income Tax Assessments and Allowances, 1943-1951

M97/9/1-10 JOHN ORMOND TAYLOR OF NORLAND FACTORY, HAMILTON, LANARKSHIRE, MANUFACTURER

M97/9/1. Agreements, 1935-1942

M97/9/2-4 Finance

M97/9/2. Notes on Agreements and Book Values, 1941-1949

M97/9/3. Cost of Machinery, 1936-1937

M97/9/4. Balance Sheets, 1936-1940

M97/9/5-10 Correspondence, 1936-1950

M97/10/1-81 PROPERTY

M97/10/1-43 Owned by J. and N. Philips

M97/10/1-13 Deeds

M97/10/1. Brick Croft and Turner's Meadow, Red Lion Street, Manchester, 1748-1867

M97/10/2. North of St. Paul's Chapel, Manchester, 1777

M97/10/3-5 Brick Croft, Thomas's Street, Manchester, 1774-1787

M97/10/6. Thomas Street and Tib Street, Manchester, 1953

M97/10/7. Turner Street, Manchester, 1810-1861

M97/10/8. Schedules of Deeds, 1938-1967

M97/10/9-13 Rights of Light, Manchester

M97/10/9. Tib Street, 1882-1885

M97/10/10. John Street and Thomas Street, 1893

M97/10/11. Thomas Street, 1900

M97/10/12. Church Street, 1905-1910

M97/10/13. Tib Street and Hilton Street, 1957

M97/10/14. Book Values of Properties Leased Out, 1922-1941

M97/10/15 Rentals and Plans, 1922-1936

M97/10/16. Rents Unpaid, 1932-1933

M97/10/17. General Rate Assessments and Rebates, 1932-1934

M97/10/18. Schedule A Assessments, 1941-1942

M97/10/19. Valuation, 1939

M97/10/20-44 Files on Individual Properties

M97/10/20. Sports Ground, Ford Lane, Didsbury, 1931-1947

M97/10/21-35 Manchester

M97/10/21. 1-7 Church Street, 1927-1937

M97/10/22. 42-48 High Street and 1-7 Church Street, 1923-1952

M97/10/23-26 15 and 25 Church Street, 1923-1958

M97/10/27. 25 and 35 Church Street, 1924-1926

M97/10/28. 35 Church Street, 1925-1954

M97/10/29-34 27-33 Church Street, and 1 and 2 Union Street

M97/10/29. 27 and 29 Church Street, 1949

M97/10/30. 31 and 33 Church Street, 1946-1949

M97/10/31. 3-11 Red Lion Street, 1949

M97/10/32. 1 Union Street, 1920-1953

M97/10/33. 27-33 Church Street and 1 Union Street 1953-1955

M97/10/34. Bull's Head, 2 Union Street, 1924-1958

M97/10/35. 4 and 6 Union Street, 1935

M97/10/36-41 Newton Heath

M97/10/36. Schedules of Deeds, 1922-1945

M97/10/37. Leases, 1923-1944

M97/10/38. Copies of Returns for Income Tax Assessment, 1920-1940

M97/10/39. Valuations, 1922-1943

M97/10/40. Correspondence, 1920-1949

M97/10/41. Plans, 1921-1940

M97/10/42-43 Staffordshire

M97/10/Tean and Cheadle

M97/10/42. Valuations for Insurance, 1906

M97/10/43. Plan, no date

M97/10/44. Yorkshire

M97/10/Leeds, 1924

M97/10/45-79 Property Leased to J. and N. Philips and Co. Ltd.

M97/10/45. Indexes of Leases 1917-1927

M97/10/46. Schedules of Branches and Offices with Tenancy Arrangements 1931-1943

M97/10/47-49 Bristol, 1919-1946

M97/10/50. Devon, Plymouth, 1917

M97/10/51-54 Lancashire

M97/10/51. Cheetham, 1920

M97/10/52-54 Liverpool, 1913-1927

M97/10/55-56 Leicestershire

Leicester, 1924-1925

M97/10/57-59 London, 1918-1946

M97/10/60. Staffordshire

Hanley, 1917-1927

M97/10/61. Sussex

Brighton, 1919-1920

M97/10/62-64 Warwickshire

Birmingham, 1917-1939

M97/10/65-68 Yorkshire

M97/10/65-67 Leeds, 1930-1941

M97/10/68. Sheffield, 1915

M97/10/69. Ireland

Dublin, 1931

M97/10/70-73 Scotland

Glasgow, 1920-1940

M97/10/74-79 Wales

M97/10/74-77 Cardiff, 1920-1926

M97/10/78-79 Swansea, 1919-1953

M97/10/80-81 War Damage to Properties, 1941-1947

M97/11 TEAN CHARITIES

Correspondence, 1940-1950

The following records were deposited in the Library in May 1970 by Philips, Brocklehurst Ltd. of Macclesfield, with the exception of M97/3 which was deposited in October 1950.

John (1724-1803) and Nathaniel (1726-1808), second and third sons of John Philips of Tean and Checkley, Staffs., formed a partnership as smallware manufacturers or tape weavers in Tean in 1747. Their younger brother Thomas (1728-1811) soon joined them, as well as having a hatting business in Manchester. During the later 18th century they developed smallware weaving near Manchester at Radcliffe and Whitefield, Nathaniel taking up residence at Stand, Whitefield and Thomas at Sedgeley, Prestwich. In the 1770s the family had two smallware firms in Manchester itself, under the names of John and Nathanial Philips, and Nathaniel (1698-1776) and Falkner (born 1744) Philips, which remained distinct for another fifty years, and a hatting business under the name of Thomas and Nathaniel Philips. [For a discussion of the early years of the firm based on a letter book, 1753-1769 (M97/3) see The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, by A. P. Wadsworth and J. de L. Mann, 1965]

The Manchester firm of J. and N. Philips became the headquarters of a nationwide merchanting and manufacturing enterprise.

In 1830 they acquired an interest in the firm of James Chadwick and Brother of Eagley Mills, near Bolton, cotton spinners and thread-makers, which, however, retained its old name until well into the 20th century.

In 1914 they opened a warehouse in London.

In 1915 they became a Private Limited Co. and in 1919 a Public Limited Company.

In 1921 they expanded their premises in Church Street, Manchester, where they had been situated since 1826, by purchasing the firm of Isaac Thorp and Sons, textile manufacturers and warehousemen.

In 1926 they acquired a large interest in Smiths of Witney, blanket manufacturers.

During the Second World War part of the Church Street premises were requisitioned by the Ministry of Works and used for the censorship of mail of British prisoners of war. (M97/10/25/10-14)

J. and N. Philips and Co. Ltd. closed in 1970.