One of the earliest items within the Horrockses archive is a map showing the land owned by the family at Bradshaw, which clearly identifies a stone mill owned by John Horrocks Senior alongside a cotton mill owned by John Horrocks Junior. His family operated a quarry in the area which was where Horrocks would first begin spinning cotton, selling the finished yarn in Preston.

John Horrocks was born in Edgworth, near Bolton, in 1768. A recent funding award offered the opportunity to spend some time working on the earliest records in the collection, primarily those which date before 1887 when an amalgamation led to the formation of Horrockses Crewdson and Co. Our large collection of business records relating to the Horrockses cotton firm was first deposited at Lancashire Archives in 1969, and has proved popular with researchers throughout the last half century. Explore descriptions relating to cotton spinning on the Archives Hub.Įxplore descriptions relating to Preston on the Archives Hub.

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