• Located At: Staffordshire Record Office
• Document Reference Number: D1214, D1227, D1262
• Date: 19th cent-20th cent
• Level: Collection
• Extent: 3 Sub-fonds
• Format: Businesses
• Description: Records of Wardle and Company and related firms
  These volumes and papers form the records of Wardle and Davenport and a number of firms which were merged with or taken over by Wardle and Davenport. These were Brunt Fynney and Company (acquired 1906), T. and V. Myatt (acquired 1906) and William Milner and Sons (acquired 1960). For both Brunt Fynney and Myatt, there are documents for the periods before acquistion by Wardle and Davenport and also afterwards, when they were administered as subsidiaries. Peri-Lusta was a company set up and owned by Wardle and Davenport. It traded as a subsidiary. Attribution of volumes to a specific firm has not always been possible; similar ledgers, wage books etc. were used by the various firms. Three ledgers, 1789-1831, relate to an earlier firm which, from internal evidence, may in 1799, have been Messrs. Scarratt and Lucas (D1227/F/1-3).
  The documents comprise mainly minute books, shareholders' registers, financial working volumes (ledgers, day books, sales and wages books). There is a certain amount on stock but little on machinery and production. There are twentieth-century plans of Wardle and Davenport's works, including their Nab Hill estate of the 1920s.
  For many of the day books and wage books, a sample only was preserved.
• Category:Textile industry
• Category:Silk manufacturers
• Related Material: See also 618, photocopies of letters from William Morris to Thomas Wardle about dyeing processes. Also separate business collection of Joshua Wardle, silk dyers.
• Legal Status: private
• Access Conditions: Records less than 30 years old are not normally open for public inspection. Please contact Staffordshire Record Office for further information. Records of staff have a longer access restriction (please ask).
• Reproduction Conditions: Any questions concerning the publication of images of documents in this collection should be directed to the County Archivist, Staffordshire Record Office, Eastgate Street, Stafford ST16 2 LZ.
• Ref No: G156

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