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Actions	Photographs of the Mount Street Mills works of John A Wood Ltd Remove from selection Add to selection TitlePhotographs of the Mount Street Mills works of John A Wood Ltd ReferenceYA2013.27 CreatorJohn A Wood Ltd John A Wood Ltd was a textile manufacturer with registered offices at 82 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester, and a factory at Mount Street Mills in the Harpurhey district of Manchester. The company used Jacquard looms to manufacture lace and an upholstery fabric called Moquette, used to cover seats on railway coaches, buses and trams. The company is known to have been in existence at the Great Bridgewater Street address in 1868. By 1936, it was one of only three textile manufacturers making Moquette in the city, based at Mount Street Mills. The founder of the company, John A Wood, was born in Leeds around 1826, and appears on the 1861 Census as a coach lace manufacturer, living on Upper Brook Street, in the Chorlton upon Medlock area of Manchester. Reference to John A Wood, coach lace manufacturer of 30 Spring Gardens, Manchester, is made in the 1863 Slater's Trade Directory for Manchester and Salford. Date c 1905-c 1915 Scope and ContentA collection of photographs showing male, female and child workers at various locations in the company premises, including workers operating Jacquard looms to produce lace and Moquette, workers in the packing room, female workers in the spinning room, male workers in the boiler room, and a group photograph outside the factory. Extent14 mounted prints LanguageEnglish Archival historyThe photographs were taken for John A Wood Ltd. They were then kept by William Edward Jervis, who worked at Mount Street Mills with his wife Alice and sister Elsie, as he and his family feature on some of the images. William Jervis was foreman at the mills. Jervis passed the archive on to his grandchild, who donated them to the museum in 2013. Levelfonds Repository nameScience and Industry Museum Conditions governing accessOpen access. Conditions governing ReproductionCopies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions. Related object Collection of Photographs relating to Simpson and Godlee Limited Collection of Photographs relating to Simpson and Godlee Limited.

TitlePhotographs of the Mount Street Mills works of John A Wood Ltd

ReferenceYA2013.27

Date

c 1905-c 1915

Scope and ContentA collection of photographs showing male, female and child workers at various locations in the company premises, including workers operating Jacquard looms to produce lace and Moquette, workers in the packing room, female workers in the spinning room, male workers in the boiler room, and a group photograph outside the factory.

Extent14 mounted prints

LanguageEnglish

Archival historyThe photographs were taken for John A Wood Ltd. They were then kept by William Edward Jervis, who worked at Mount Street Mills with his wife Alice and sister Elsie, as he and his family feature on some of the images. William Jervis was foreman at the mills. Jervis passed the archive on to his grandchild, who donated them to the museum in 2013.

Levelfonds

Repository nameScience and Industry Museum

Conditions governing accessOpen access.

Conditions governing ReproductionCopies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions.

Related object

Collection of Photographs relating to Simpson and Godlee Limited
Collection of Photographs relating to Simpson and Godlee Limited.