J B Aitkin, Widnes

  1. 2pp. typed notes on company processes
  2. Site plan 1916
  3. Site plan 1939
  4. Extract from Widnes weekly news of death of J. B. Aitkin 1934
  5. Sketch of works muriate (ammonium chloride) plant 1916
  6. Information on titles to land

Albright and Wilson, Oldbury

  1. Report on visit to works by museum staff 1986
  2. Letter regarding 1.
  3. Reprint Chem. And Ind. August 31st 1963 regarding Research Department
  4. Job assessment scheme at works 1969
  5. Sales leaflet / article regarding Holmes Marine Life protection Association (owned by A and W)

Albright and Wilson Ann St. works Widnes

  1. Chart of company and subsidiaries at 1956
  2. Company publication on history
  3. Museum notes on Co. history and artefacts in museum collection
  4. Essay on company: ‘Ann St. before Albrights.’
  5. Company notes about new plants in 1979
  6. Essay by E Jones office manager 1933 about Widnes workers
  7. List of taped interviews with process workers
  8. Leaflet on works fire brigade 1952
  9. Essay on works history J Smith January 1984
  10. Interview with former process workers 1983
  11. Various press cuttings
  12. Copy from Albright news 1959 attitude about women process workers M. Hanley

Alumina Co Ltd

  1. Key facts about Alcan (owner of Alumina Co Ltd)
  2. Aluminium Sulphate
  3. ATC 21 Use of aluminium sulphate
  4. Notes on company history
  5. ‘The iron bridge alum works’ reprint from ICI news Feb 1952

Anglo Blackwells

  1. Anglo Blackwells: company history
  2. High speed steel alloys Ltd
  3. ‘Export awards 1983’ cutting from ‘The World’ 1985
  4. Product information
  5. List of photographs on loan from Co. 1982
  6. List of accessioned items storied in vault
  7. Report on visit to works by museum researcher 1982

Atlas Chemical Company

  1. Company History and notes on James Hargreaves

Australia Alum Co. , Runcorn

  1. Brief typed notes on company history
  2. Ordinance survey 1927 showing site of works
  3. Copy of sales leaflet

Barium chemical Ltd, Widnes

  1. Correspondence with customers regarding quality of barium sulphate
  2. Insurance Policies

BASF (Mersey Chemical Works)

  1. Typed history of works and its various ownerships

Richard Bealey

  1. Visit to Bury reference library regarding Bealey Archives
  2. Letter from Gordon Rintoul Regarding Bealey Archives

B.I.C.C.

  1. BCR copper products brochure
  2. BICC Making it work brochure
  3. The BICC Group brochure

William Blythe, Accrington

  1. Visit report by museum staff 1984
  2. Site plan
  3. Company accounts 1911-1914
  4. Co. productsadvert1931
  5. Internal memos regarding board meeting
  6. Aerial views of factory in 1960
  7. Miscellaneous office memos, receipts etc
  8. Two coloured photos of plant in 1987

Thomas Bolton, Widnes

  1. Letters to and from museum regarding ‘Thomas Bolton’ publication
  2. Visit report: former Thomas Bolton works site 1985 by museum researcher
  3. Brief typed note and company listing
  4. Reprint from Metal Industry March 24, 31 1950 about copper written by Thomas Bolton’s Staff
  5. Reprint from Commercial Art and Industry Oct 1932 about works

BOC Marsh works, Widnes

  1. Visit by museum staff 1982
  2. Visit by museum staff 1984
  3. Company publicity leaflet (missing)

British Industrial Plastics, Oldbury

  1. Letter from BIP to museum
  2. Photocopies of two books about the history of BIP

Brunner Mond

  1. List of book references
  2. Report from ICI the forerunners W J Reader
  3. Copy of Mond’s m/s estimates 1982
  4. M/s estimate from Haber on costs of soda ash
  5. List of photos and correspondences in Chester Archives
  6. Company letter to trade contact 1926
  7. Newspaper cutting
  8. Extracts from Northwich Guardian 1986
  9. M/s notes on company history
  10. List of documents in Widnes library Research room
  11. M/s
  12. Note regarding John Brunner
  13. L. Monds English Patents
  14. Photocopies of photos of A. W. Tangye, Holland, Blowing engine, Solvay, black ash revolver
  15. Typed historical notes of company
  16. Costs of Solvay and Leblanc processes 1872
  17. List of important dates in Co. history
  18. Salt museum publication Sir J. Brunner
  19. Typed notes on Co. history
  20. Essay on producer gas at Warrington
  21. M/s essay ‘B. Mond at war 1914-19’
  22. Similar to 19
  23. Notes: ‘Waste from the Ammonia process’
  24. Extract from ‘British Industry under free trade’ 1903 -: The alkali industry
  25. Negotiations with Brunner regarding markets 1900

Bush, Boake, Allen, Widnes

  1. History of company
  2. History of Dans Road Site
  3. Product brochures
  4. Report of meeting on site by museum staff 1979
  5. Plan of site 1979
  6. Similar to 2
  7. Albright magazine 1966 regarding the formation of the company
  8. Sales pamphlet
  9. Newspaper cutting – Halton world of commerce 1983
  10. Newspaper cutting – Runcorn world 1982
  11. 12. 13. 14. Sales brochure

W. J. Bush, West Bank

  1. Brief typed history

Chemical and Metallurgical Corp, Runcorn

  1. Notes on company history
  2. Production statistics 1920’s
  3. Advertisement 1932

Calder and Mersey extract Co.

  1. Brief history
  2. Advertisement
  3. Site map

Carty and Sons Ltd, London

  1. Publicity brochure
  2. Product price list 1975

Chance and Hunt

  1. ICI report 1949
  2. History of firm
  3. List of production costs

Colloids Ltd, Widnes

  1. Brief history
  2. Product Sheets
  3. Sales brochure

Croda Organic chemicals Ltd, Widnes

  1. Company history
  2. Press cutting
  3. History of Bowman
  4. History of Bowman
  5. Visit by museum staff, report 1985
  6. Site plan
  7. Visit by museum staff, report 1982
  8. List of archive material received form Co. 1985
  9. Press cutting, Widnes weekly, news 1985
  10. Company advert 1956
  11. Press cutting “World” 1985
  12. Press cutting “World” 1986
  13. Staff handbook
  14. Card with company name

Crosfield, Warrington

  1. Company Brochure 1924

Costain Petrocarbon Ltd. Manchester

  1. Sales Brochure
  2. Sales Brochure
  3. Sales Brochure

Dearborn Chemicals Ltd. Widnes

  1. History of company
  2. Conditions of company
  3. Misc. letter
  4. product flow sheet 1969
  5. Report by museum staff 1982
  6. Report by museum staff 1982
  1. The story of our development
  2. Reprinted, Effluent and water treatment journal 1979
  3. Company newsletter
  4. Article in ‘Ambassador’.
  5. House journal, W R Grace
  6. Press cutting, August 1963
  7. Annual report W R Grace 1984

J H Dennis Cornubia Copper works

  1. History
  2. Press cutting and company history, Widnes weekly news 1959

Desoto Alkali Company, Widnes

  1. Company history
  2. Memorandum of articles of association
  3. Similar to (1)

Dista, Speke

1. Family day programme 1984+company history

2. Company journal 1979

3. Company brochure

4. M/s historical notes

Ditton Brook Iron Works

  1. Site plan
  2. History of company
  3. Misc. m/s notes
  4. List of land titles
  5. Letter from ICI i.e. company listings
  6. Copies of wills
  7. List of references
  8. Extract from select com.
  9. Misc. m/s noted of reports of interviews with workers
  10. Memorandum of associations
  11. Obituary of W.M. Thorburn
  12. Misc. m/s historical notes
  13. List of original shareholders

Dunlop Tire Co.

  1. Dunlop tyre production 1976
  2. Dunlop, Speke 1970-85

W.R.Earp, Runcorn

1. History note

2. Typed history of Tannery house, Preston Brook

3. Article, Widnes Weekly News 1978

4. Guardian 1957, fire at factory

5. Site plan 1942

6. Site plan 1917

7. Site plan date?

8. Location

9. References

10. Misc. office documents

11. Papers W.R.Earp’s election as county councillor 1889

12. Title deeds to land

Electro Bleach and By-Products, Middlewich.

1. The Hargreaves-Bird Process. Brief chronology

2. Hargreaves-Bird Apparatus Illustrations

3. Photograph of Hargreaves-Bird diaphragm cellroom at Middlewich

4. Records of the Elecrolytic Alkalai Company Ltd 1899-1914

5. Article from ‘The World’s Paper Trade Review’ March 14th, 1902

6. Details of electrolytic chlorine 7 electrolytic bleach

7. Article on Electro-Bleach & By-Products Ltd, Middlewich (reprinted from ‘Power User’ - November 1918

8. Articles on The British Empire Exhibition, 1924, about the company

9. Hand written notes about the company, including interviews with former employees.

10. Liverpool Daily Post newspaper cutting on company

Evans Medical, Speke

  1. Company history

F.B.C(Fisons/Boots)

1. Notes of Museum staff visit 1982

2. TRICHLORO ISOCYANIC ACID Chemistry experiment

3. Company fact sheet

4. Press cutting i.e. company future

5. Sheets on certain products

6. Company descriptive brochure

7. Catalogues of products

Thos Fleetwood Widnes

1.Brief historical notes

2.Information on land lease

Gaskell Deacon, Widnes

1. Site plan

2. Article on company

3.Letter from Henry Deacon’s Grandaughter, 1989

4. M/S notes on company history

5. Early photographs (anon)

6. Bleaching powder production statistics

7. Inventory of works

8. Deed of dissolution of partnership Pilkington/Dean

9 List of documents from Eccles Public Library

10. Obituary Holbrook Gaskell

11. H. Gaskell’s French passport

12. Letter from former employee

13. Site plan

14. Evidence to river pollution conclusion 1870

15. Typed notes on company history

16. Site plans

17. Rating valuation list Widnes 1874

18. Production Statistics

19. Brief history of the site

20. Production Statistics

21. Lists of artefacts and photos

22. Article : The Gaskells (missing)

23. Report F Hunter regarding interview with old employee 1885

24. Article Gaskell Deacon 1853-1953

25. Various documents

26. Company history 1853-1930 typed

Golding Davis & Co.

  1. Article, Chemistry and industry 1960
  2. List of shareholders
  3. Production statistics
  4. Descriptions of fire at works
  5. Notes of company history
  6. Sources of information on company
  7. Chance Sulphur recovery process royalties ledger
  8. Similar to 5
  9. Transfer of lease 1869
  10. Extract press cutting funeral. R.Holden Davis
  11. Misc. Historical notes
  12. Site valuation and description
  13. M/s notes i.e. take-over by UAC
  14. Similar to 5
  15. M/s notes biography, Davis
  16. Transfer of lease 1869 onwards
  17. Liquidation of G.D---UAC 91
  18. Biography extract Liv.Daily post 1904
  19. Family trees
  20. Small historical extract 1960

Hall Brothers and Shaw, Widnes

1. M/c Company history

2. Extract from Cheshire records

3. Hall Family tree

4. Notes on leases and other matters

5. Evidence for river pollution 1870

6. Factory inventory

7. Site plans

Handley and Beck, Runcorn

1.Press cuttings i.e. company history

2.Letters to the museum

Hay Gordon & Co., Widnes

1. M/s Notes on company history

2. Schedule of sale of plant 1892

3. Cheshire Rec office

4. Summaries of company correspondence 1892

Hazlehurst, Runcorn and Liverpool

1. Printed Company history– ‘The History of Hazelhurst House’

2. Advertisement

Gossage, Widnes

  1. Lecture on company history
  2. Reprint for “Grocery” 1909
  3. Advert from ‘the wheel’ 1924, i.e. the company
  4. Press cutting, Widnes weekly news1972, i.e. company history
  5. Company history
  6. Data sheet
  7. Copy, Land lease 1854
  8. Reprints, “the wheel” 1926-8
  9. List of memorandum + documents
  10. Indenture schedule 1852-3
  11. Documents relating to sale of land 1964
  12. Article on soap and Gossage
  13. Article, “working for Gossage”
  14. Letter: museum, Major Gossage 1983
  15. Press cutting i.e. old employee
  16. Press cutting, Widnes weekly news 1977
  17. Letters: i.e. photo of employees
  18. Press cuttings, Widnes weekly news
  19. Short article, Gossage
  20. Patent 762/1853
  21. Land lease details1853
  22. Photocopies of photographs
  23. M/c biography Gossage
  24. Misc. office documents
  25. Report on visit to museum 1982
  26. Article, Antiquarian Horology
  27. Photograph of old postcard
  28. List of photos
  29. Photos, Gossage works
  30. M/s Gossage patent
  31. Extract from office files
  32. M/s list of Warrington Guardian references
  33. List of photocopies
  34. Patent 7267 1836

Highfield Tannery, Runcorn

1. Company history

2. Another company history

3. Company advertisingbrochure

4. Brief description in town guide

5. Product advertisement

6. Runcorn weekly News regarding closure 1967

7. Transcript of interview with former employee

8. Biographical notes on R H Posnett

9. Description of processes 1966

10. Museum document referring to visit of Mr C C Posnett

11. Interviews withformer employees

12. News cutting from Runcorn News

Hutchinson and Earle

1.Company history

2.Report on the evidence of river pollution

3.Report about shipping

Hutchinson Doc Estate

1. Hutchinson estate papers

2. Cross letter books

3. Letters from Jack, Teresa and William Norwood

Hutchinson Dock & Estate Company (West Bank)

1. A letter in the Warrington Guardian(dated November 30th 1872) ‘The New Canal, Dock scheme on the banks of the River Mersey.

2. A photograph of the Dock scheme on the banks of the River Mersey.

3. A photograph of the Dock scheme on the banks of the River Mersey.

4. Handwritten notes ‘Transcript Notes from Dr Hickee’.

5. Photocopies of typed notes on ‘West Bank Dock, Widnes’. This includes copies of photographsof West Bank Dock (Frank Whitby may be the possible author).

6. Handwritten details of Cargos at West Bank Dock taken from the Warrington Guardian March 1879.

7. Handwritten notes taken ‘A Sample Study of the Chemical Industry of Runcorn & Widnes’ (taken from Marion Fords Dissertation 1970).

8. Typed notes on West Bank Dock taken from ‘Linked to the World’ (Widnes Chamber of Commercelate 1920’s).

9. Plan showing ‘GreenoughsNo 2 Leasehold and Brookhouse 1873’ (2 copies) (unknown source).

10. Plan showing leases of the land off Hutchinson Street (unknown source).

11. Plan of land leased to John Hutchinson (unknown date and source).

12. Photocopies of leaseholds (unknown source).

13. Photocopies from Book 1. Leases and Agreements 1867-1890.

14. Photocopies from Book 2. Leases and Agreements 1874-1879.

15. Photocopies from Book 3. Lease Agreements 1873-1888.

16. Photocopies from Book 4. Leases Agreements1856-1883.

17. Information on John Hutchinson Land Leases. Taken from Leases and Agreements Vol 4, Hutchinson Estate Office, West Bank (dated 23rd June 1864).

18. Plan of the leases assigned by Gossage to Hutchinson and Earle (dated 29/10/1858). Taken from Lease Book 4.

19. Photocopies from Book 5. Leases and Agreements 1860-1885.

20. Photocopies from Book 6. Leases and Agreements 1896-1906.

21. Photocopies from Book 7. Index of Leases and Agreements 1895-1903.

22. Photocopies from Book 8. Index of Leases and Agreements (unknown date).

23. Photocopies of an Index of Leases and Agreements 1955-1956 (Book 9?).

24. Photocopies of an Index of Leases and Agreements (Book 10?, unknown date).

25. Photocopies of an Index of Leases and Agreements 1912-1964 (Book 11?).

26. Photocopies of an Index of Leases and Agreements 1955-1966 (Book 12?).

27. Photocopy of Book 13. Index of Leases and Agreements 1968-1971.

28. Photocopies of Lease Book 14 (1947?).

29. Photocopies of Lease Book 15 (unknown date).

30. Photocopies of Lease Book 16(unknown date).

31. Photocopies of the Contents of Lease Book 17 (1984?).

32. Handwritten notes on ‘Hutchinson Dock and Estate Company’.

33. List of ‘Information in Mr Constable’s Office’ on ‘Hutchinson Estate’ (Albert Constable, last Superintendent of the Dock Estate).

33. List of ‘Information in Mr Constable’s Office’ (Albert Constable, last Superintendent of the Dock Estate).

34. List of ‘Information in Mr Constable’s Office’ (Albert Constable, last Superintendent of the Dock Estate).

35. List of ‘Information in Mr Constable’s Office’ (Albert Constable, last Superintendant of the Dock Estate).

36. Handwritten notes on ‘Construction’, ‘Private Ledgers 1872-1875’, ‘Balance Sheets’ and ‘1862 Journal’.

John Hutchinson’s West Bank Dock Estate by Widnes by Paul Crane.

‘John Hutchinson’s West Bank Dock Estate Widnes – It’s Origins and Development’ by Paul Crane (Halton Chemical Industry Museum).

ICI – General

1. Report on the inter-war structure of ICI

2. Portraits displayed in the Cunard Buildings, Liverpool

3. Cutting from Chemical and Industry June 8th 1928. 1st board meeting

4. Cutting from Chemical & Industry 1962

5. Lists of products and factories

6. Article ‘The Corporate Alchemists – Explosive Development’

7. Missing

8. Book review by W.J. Reader

9. W.J. Reader extract (2 copies)

10. Article – Sir John Henry James,1986, taken from ‘Business’ magazine

11. Article on ICI in the 1980’s

12. Article on ICI management systems

13. ICI magazine article 1951

14. Reminiscences of the chemical industry in Fleetwood and Widnes 1901-1928

15. ICI report ‘Accidents at Work’

16 Article – ‘The Scientific Background to ICI Products’

17. ICI report 1982

18. ICI report 1949

19. Miscellaneous reports about ICI

ICI, Billingham

1. Report ‘Chemistry & Industry’ 1958 on ‘The Billingham Enterprise – A Short

History of the Billingham Division of ICI Ltd from 1920-57’

2. ICI report ‘ICI – A Short History of ICI at Billingham – 1917-77

3. ICI report 1949 – Cassel Works

4. ICI report (ICI8828)

I.C.I. Castner Kellner (1)

1.List of ICI archives

2. Descriptive pamphlet of works

3. Descriptive pamphlet

4. Descriptive pamphlet

5. Chemistry and industry 1964 article on Works

6. Company history

7. Company history

8. Descriptive pamphlet

9. Chlorine production figures

10. Company history

11. Description of electrolytic processes by Paul Pinnington Parts1 &2

12. External report-cell room and salunol plant

13. General Chemical Division News articles

14. List of company documents

15. Statistics-salaries and bleaching

16. Notes on a visit to works by museum staff

17. Correspondence-S. Bornett, technical chemist.

18. Products chart

19. Historical notes

20. Notes on company founders

21. Reminiscences of a former employee

22. Memo from police 1940

23. List of plant costs 1898-1937

24. Letter from Clayton Aniline Company

25.Historical essay on Castner

26. List of photographs

27. Notes on meetings and cataloguing

28. List of employees 1897

29. Internal report on research.

30. Flow diagram of chemical processes

31. Business history of company

32. Notes on labour policy 1896/1946

33. Contact at ICI re photos, exhibits

34. Process monograph: historical introduction

35. Article, the locomotive, on battery locomotive 1925

36.Museum letters re artefacts

37. Production figures September 1948

38. ICI report 1949

39. Notes on the early years of the company

40. Target master plan (German bomber information)

41. Monitormagazine 1995

42. Diagrams

43. Chronicle of ICI history & business & social history to 1926 by David Platt

44. Chronicle of ICI history & business & social history to 1944 by David Platt

ICI Castner-Kellner Runcorn (2)

1. Correspondence-ICI and museum

2. Mercury cell process-flow diagram

3. C-K images

4. Derelict cottage at C-K works

5. Amalgam decomposition

6. Widnes weekly news 1896

7. C-K during the war

8. Article- no more carbon anodes

9. Meeting with Steve Kelham

10. Titanium anodes article-1959

11. Informative pamphlet

12. Historical notes

13. Research

14. ICI archive catalogue

15. C-K history brief notes

16. Photo list

17. Construction of the Weston point works

18. ICI archives catalogue

19. The lives of the founders of the company

20. Photo of C-K and Weston point

21. General chemical division news articles

22. Diagram of Mercury rocking cell 1897

23. Original designs (1892/4) for rocking cell

24. Notes on products

25. C-K and the electrolysis of brine

26. Agreements between C-K and the Ministry of Munitions, 1913

27. Chemistryandindustry magazine articles

28. Article by an employee

29. Information on original plant installed

30. Day’s routine-mercury cells

31. Capital expenditure on new plant and equipment

32. Rocking cells-electrolytic procedure diagrams

33. Description of same

34. Rocking cells/chlorine production

35.Museum correspondence

36. The development of Castner mercury cell process by Paul Pinnington Parts 1& 2

ICI Central Laboratory, Widnes

1. ICI historical report

2. ICI souvenir booklet

3. General chemical division news article

4. A map

5. Letter in Chemistry and industry

6. Notes and references on people involved

7. More of 6

8. Some history

ICI-Gaskell Marsh works, Widnes

1. History of site

2. Company report describing site

3. Details of production plants

4. General chemical division news articles

5. Details of production plants

6. about the reorganisation

7. Notes on the early development of the plant

ICI Hillhouse, Fleetwood

1. Site plan

2. Report of site visits by museum staff

3. History and description of factory

4. Brief description of site, 1898

5. Production of chlorine

6. ICI report 1949

7. Museum report

ICI Lostock, Northwich

1. Report on visit to Lostock

ICI Mond Division

1. Location map

2. General chemical division news1964

3. General chemical division manning levels, 1930s

4. Report on accounts 1930

5. Runcorn Research Establishment history

6. Correspondence re sandstone marker at Beechwood

7. Reports of visits by museum staff 1983

8. Mond Mail 1985 article re display of historical documents

9. Production figures, 1930s

ICI Pilkington Sullivan works, Widnes

1. Descriptive brochure

2. Descriptive leaflet

3. History of works

4. Company report 1933

5. Interpretation of product data 1931-45

6. Notes of visit to factory 1983

7. Notes of visit to factory 1985

8. Biographical and other company details

9. Memorandum and articles of association