Batley Topic List
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The following source list was originally available only on paper in one of the West Yorkshire Archive Service offices. It may have been compiled many years ago and could be out of date. It was designed to act as a signpost to records of interest on a particular historical subject, but may relate only to one West Yorkshire district, or be an incomplete list of sources available. Please feel free to add or update with any additional information. |
Official Records
Batley Borough Council minutes 1869-1974
Batley Borough Fire Brigade ledger/report book l905 KAl30
Batley enclosure award 1803 and enclosure map 1809
Batley Local Board minutes 1853-1869
Batley rate books 1832-1982 and valuations 1837-1974
Batley Township records 1673-1922 KC72 and KC563
Batley Gregory Street Primary School log books 1893-1986
Batley Medical Officer of Health reports 1895-1971 KAl77
West Riding County Council, Education Department, minutes for Batley 1945-1974
Chapel and Church records
Batley Carr Congregational Church records 1893-1996 KC814 see also KC851
Batley Park Road Baptist Church, records 1875-1940 KC1036
Batley Providence Congregational Church, Hanover Street, records 1840-1971 KC384 and KC962
Batley Talbot Street (UMFC) Methodist Church, records 1902-1994 WYK1125
Healey United Reform Church (formerly Healey Congregational), Batley, marriage register 1989-1994 KC989
Soothill Congregational Church, records 1876-1990 KC621
Staincliffe Baptist Church, marriage register 1940-1948 KC516
Family and Personal
Hannah Briggs of Birstall, papers 1865-1995 including Batley Grammar and Batley Girls' Grammar School magazines KC753
T Hampson, land agent to Earl of Wilton, illuminated address from the Batley tenantry, 1874 KC44
Kaye family collection of deeds, including William Healey of Batley 1784-1788 KC725
Alderman Ben Richardson of Batley, papers 1917-1974 DD/BR
Michael Sheard, Batley, appraiser’s licence, 1853 KC1010
Alderman Ben Turner, M.P., Secretary for Mines 1929-1930, scrapbook 1824-1908 DD/BT
Business records
Batley Co-operative Society Limited, 1886-1968 KC63/16
J. Blackburn & Co. Ltd., woollen manufacturers, New Ings Mill, l9th-20th cent.KC197
John Blackburn, shoddy manufacturer, Old Mill, 19th-20th cent.KC196
Brigg and Sons, woollen and worsted manufacturers 1792-1902 KC73
BRB (Residuary) Limited, records re former railway companies 1887-1976 comprising Great Northern Railway, includes railways in Batley WYK1105
F.S. Gladwin, rag merchants, accounts 1915-1958 KC75
Great Northern Railway, Batley Station, 1893-1897 KC144
G. Hemingway & Co., day book 1897-1911 KC77
George H. Hirst, woollen manufacturer, 1868-1970 B/GHH see also additional records WYK1091
James B. Hunt & Sons Limited, rag merchants and shoddy manufacturers, Batley, financial records 1891-1947 KC889
George Jessop, clothing manufacturers and retailers, Station Road, (later Jessops (Tailors) Limited) 1901-1967 KC441
Joseph Newsome & Sons Ltd., woollen manufacturers, Victoria Mills, 1889-1964 KC456
Benjamin Redfearn, druggist and grocer of Wellington Street, Batley, recipe book 1860s KC678
J. & J. Saxton, chemical manure manufacturers, c.1909-1976 B/JJS
James Smith & Co., woollen manufacturers, records 1900-1937 KC811
J.F.T. Spiking & Sons, insurance brokers, registers of insurance policies 1865-1956 including many for businesses in Batley KC71
G. & J. Stubley Ltd., woollen manufacturers, 1863-1912 KC74
J.T. & J. Taylor, woollen manufacturers and merchants, correspondence and statements from Vienna 1873 KC288
Walfox Ltd. (later Howard Lloyd & Co.), manufacturing chemist, 1928-1992 KC774
Walker & Smith (Batley) Limited, textile machine makers 1870-1948, also includes Norton & Son, machine makers, Heckmondwike, ledgers 1877-1895 KC811 and KC927
Yorkshire Private Telephone Company, 1906 KC641
Societies
Batley Arts Discussion Group, minutes 1949-1957 KC143
Batley Assemblies Club, minutes 1894-1899 KC175
Batley and Birstall Chamber of Commerce 1910-1974 S/KCC and KC105
Batley Christmas Dole and Charity Organisation 1874-1945 KC239
Batley and District Agricultural Society, accounts 1900-1915 S/BA
Batley and District Nursing Service 1907-1944 KC145
Batley Female Friendly Society sample pages for 1809, 1811, 1815-16, 1847-48 KX373
Batley Mechanics Institute, minutes 1854-1875 KC403
Batley Rotary Club records 1946-1996 KC816
Batley Rugby Union Football Club, minutes 1911-1951 KC141
Batley Trades Council and Labour Party, minutes 1923-1928 DD/BR
Batley Warship Week, Wings for Victory, Salute the Soldier, and Thanksgiving Campaign, Publicity Committee minutes 1941-1944 KC226
National and Local Government Officers' Association, Batley branch, minutes 1919-1947 KC142
Maps
Batley enclosure award 1803 and map 1809
Township of Batley, 1756 map of land belonging to J. Taylor
Township of Batley, 1857 plan of ward boundaries
Miscellaneous
Bagshaw Collection of deeds and other papers 1664-1908 KC82
Batley deed 1697 KC497
Batley deeds relating to Kilpin Hill 1821-1920 KC617
Batley deeds 1703-1923, re property in Commercial Street KA134
Batley Enclosure Award files 1977-1990, re land awarded for quarrying KA136
Batley Library Collection, 1825-1986 includes patents, Board of Surveyors, Tithes, Board of Health, Welfare, Registrar, Overseers’, Holiday Home Fund, Friendly and Trades, Inclosure, Ladies’ Hospital, Town Mission, White Lee Methodist and township records WYK1137 and WYK1137.2
Batley, sale plan and particulars of properties c.1880 KC677
Batley, sale plan of building pland at Mount Pleasant l877 KC622
Healey, Batley, poster re sale of timber trees 1855 KC694
"The Old Hall", Birstall, file 1964-1965 BB (KA173)
Quitclaim 1662, for land at Batley Carr (photocopy) KX345