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Brotherton & Co Ltd: Plans of premises in Leeds and Rothwell.

Catalogue reference: WYL1934

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This record is about the Brotherton & Co Ltd: Plans of premises in Leeds and Rothwell. dating from 1875-1959.

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Reference: WYL1934
Title: Brotherton & Co Ltd: Plans of premises in Leeds and Rothwell.
Date: 1875-1959
Description: They relate to the site at Stourton, Leeds, formerly occupied by Brotherton & Co., which was taken over by the Mond Division of ICI. After the merger in 1958 between the Metals Division of ICI and Yorkshire (formerly Leeds) Copperworks Ltd to form Yorkshire Imperial Metals Ltd, the site was partly occupied by this new company. These plans also appear to relate to the neighbouring site of Yorkshire Tar Distillers, a division of Croda Hydrocarbons Ltd.
Related material: For requisition books and log books of Yorkshire Copperworks Ltd see WYL 644 and for a history of the company see WYL 1910. Records of Yorkshire Tar Distillers will be found at WYAS Wakefield (C574).
Held by: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds
Language: English
Creator(s): <corpname>Brotherton and Co Ltd</corpname>
Physical description: 8 files
Custodial history: These plans were part of the archives of Grimley (estate agents and property advisers), 3 Brindley Place, The Water's Edge, Birmingham B1, and have been transferred to Leeds from Birmingham Central Library.
Record URL: https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/e8bd6a38-684d-4245-8574-651a2be9bf09/