| Description | Originally compiled by former Chairman Alfred Haigh (from 1933), and passed to new Chairman Sidney Hill (1955-1969).
Note at front dated 1948 reads "I intend to put on this file papers taken from recent files relating to Bonus issues, capital matters, Articles of Association etc. I begin however by putting on a list of some interesting things in an earlier file of mine marker Shares..."; noted added in 1956 by Sidney Hill: "I revive this file for special notes, especially historical notes, and matters of top level interest, although not necessarily for current action."
At front, list of contents with some background information [compiled recently]
The first section includes historical notes on the Brittain family.
The second part of the file contains items of historical interest collected by Sidney Hill, including:
copy of the 1890 Memorandum of Association; order of service for the benediction of the Works Chapel, 31 December 1907 with article in the Leek Post; words addressed to male employees at a meeting 20 August 1908 [relating to Trade Union membership]; order of service of benefaction of the Re-organised Works, Ivy House Paper Mills, 1907; notices to staff: Call for Men, 1915, Christmas message 1918, shorter working hours 1919, booklet containing letter to male employees 1928 [re welfare issues and proposed superannuation scheme], booklet on Proposed Men's Pension Fund 1928; publicity brochure for Brittains Limited, 1932; historical notes 1942, 1946; order of service [first page only] for the memory of Frederick Haigh 1853-1943; card for Frederick Haigh's fifty years of service, newspaper cutting re fire at Cheddleton Mill, 1948; Memorandum and Articles of Association 10 March 1959; annual report and statement of accounts 1959; publicity brochure featuring the new No 14 Mill and its machine; letter and news cutting re Sidney Hill's retirement in 1969; [?draft] letter from Sidney Hill to Carl dated 1974 re history of Goldstraws & Steeles and Cheddleton Mill; photograph of Board and staff at No 11 Mill, 1948 and photograph of Board members on trip to America [names identified on the back of both photographs]; photographs of George F Malcolm; publicity brochure c1956 [new Mill No 13 under construction]. |