Wainstalls Mills The History of I & I Calvert Ltd 1821-1951
A history of I & I Calvert Ltd., of Wainstalls Mills, Wainstalls, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: W. Onslow Garnett
Date: 1951
Location: Wainstalls
Format: Business History
Document ID: 100818
Library ID: 27737763
"Wainstalls Mills. The History of I & I Calvert Ltd 1821-1951" by W. Onslow Garnett, published in 1951, Festival of Britain Year.
The document contains 78 pages, and contains a background history of wool making in Wainstalls and a specific history of the company and its buildings. Includes pictures of buildings, founders and directors, maps and aerial photographs.
Calvert's mills, at Wainstalls, Halifax, were used in the textile trade from 1821 to 1951, and the three mills were supplied with water from the adjacent Cold Edge Dams. To these mills a number of orphan children were brought from Liverpool in 1890 to earn their living working long hours. The nearby graveyard bears mute witness to those who died while employed there and records their ages. The author was Managing Director of the company at the time of his premature death in a car accident in 1958.
