I have chosen this collection because I was lucky enough to be involved in cataloguing and arranging the records (D1589). It is titled the Calico Printing Library of Alderman J G Hurst of Glossop, and includes records of Edmund Potter & Company Ltd, calico printers, Dinting Vale, Glossop. The Edmund Potter & Company Ltd swatch … Continue reading Treasure 36: The Edmund Potter ‘shirt’ and fabric pattern books
Last week I spent 7 hours numbering and reboxing the documents in this collection, which may sound easy but I found it difficult to get all the items back into the 21 boxes they had been previously placed in. I knew they would fit in, but I was not sure how I would do it. I did, … Continue reading Potter & Co: Completion
If you have been following my blog each week you will already know that I have been organising a collection that was donated to the Derbyshire Record Office between 1975 and 1976. As a trainee archivist I am prone to making mistakes, and this has been the project that has taught me the most; and has … Continue reading Potter & Co Collection: 414 items later
After tackling Box 13, I decided that I needed to finally sort out the photographs that are in the collection. When the collection had first been deposited in the Derbyshire Record Office, the photographs had been grouped together but not in any particular order. Therefore, to make it easier for users, I grouped the photographs … Continue reading Potter & Co Collection: Photographs
In my previous post I was battling with my miscellaneous box, and was required to tackle it when it came to my attention that the collection needed restructuring. 5 hours and 94 items later, the box has been sorted through and catalogued onto CALM ready to be arranged into categories (series and subseries) during my next … Continue reading Potter and Co Collection: No Longer a Miscellaneous Box
One of the worse phrases that can be used in an archive catalogue is the word “miscellaneous” since this does not explain the documents that are being held. In the Potter and Co collection I had, for the time being, filled a boxed with “miscellaneous” material to be dealt with at a later time. It … Continue reading Potter and Co Collection: Dealing with “Miscellaneous” material
My name is Elissa Rowe and I am currently doing a masters in Archives and Records Management at the University of Dundee, and I have been volunteering at the Derbyshire Record Office for 3 years. I have been working on the Potter & Co collection from the beginning when it came out of the strongrooms … Continue reading Potter and Co Collection
A few weeks ago we blogged about the Beatrix Potter connection with our collection of archives from her grandfather’s printing company, Edmund Potter & Co, Calico Printers of Dinting Vale, Glossop (D1589). The collection contains some beautiful original pattern books, and also a rather amazing shirt which we think dates from around 1883. The … Continue reading Preservation – Edmund Potter & Co. Shirt
Recently we were visited by two ladies who were researching Edmund Potter & Co Calico Printers of Dinting Vale, Glossop. Edmund Potter & Co was once possibly the largest calico printworks in the world, and on checking our catalogues we discovered that we had an uncatalogued collection which no-one had been particularly aware of. The collection (D1589) was bequeathed to us … Continue reading Derbyshire’s Beatrix Potter connection
The unfortunately named daughter of Thomas and Ellen Green was baptised in Bolsover on 27 March 1869. Her elder sister, Parnel was baptised on 29 April 1866. Not surprisingly this family grabbed my attention, and I have endeavoured to identify if any of these unusual names had a particular family sentiment attached. However, my endeavours only … Continue reading Dungsworth Ada Petrina Greenhough Potter Green
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