Harrison and Sykes

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History

Harrison & Sykes were linen, wool, and yarn sheet manufacturers of 21 King's Head Buildings, 19 Albion Street, and 15 Upperhead Row, Huddersfield.

It is believed the business was originally a partnership between George Dyson Sykes (1844-1910) and Thomas Harrison, but this was dissolved in December 1876:[1]

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, Thomas Harrison and George Dyson Sykes, both of Huddersfield, in the county of York, carrying on business at 21, King's Head Buildings, Cloth Hall Street, and 19, Albion Street, both in Huddersfield aforesaid, as Canvas and Wool Sheet Manufacturers, under the style or firm of Harrison and Sykes, was this day dissolved by mutual consent. And that all debts due from and to the said late partnership will be paid and received by the said George Dyson Sykes, by whom alone the said business will be henceforth carried on under the said style of Harrison and Sykes.

Dated this 20th day of December, 1876.
Thomas Harrison.
George Dyson Sykes

An invoice dated 16 August 1892 noted that the company had won a "first class gold medal" at the Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition of 1883 which was awarded to G.D. Sykes. The firm also offered:

  • flax & jute packing canvas, boiling cloth, and hemp & jute sheetings
  • sackings, sacks, logwood bags, bales, oil cloths, tape on reels, etc.

After Sykes' death in 1910, the following notice was posted:[2]

NOTICE is hereby given that all creditors and other persons having any claims or demands against the estate of George Dyson Sykes, late of Ashdene Park Drive, Huddersfield, in the county of York, deceased, lately carrying on business as a Canvas and Linen Merchant, under the name of Harrison and Sykes, at 15, Upperhead Row, Huddersfield aforesaid (who died on the 3rd day of November, 1910, and whose will was proved in the Wakefield District Probate Registry, on the 29th day of November, 1910, by Sarah Jane Sykes, of Ashdene Park Drive aforesaid, the relict of the said deceased, and George Edward Sykes, of 38, New Hey Road, Huddersfield aforesaid, Canvas and Linen Merchant, and William Edmund Sykes, of Ashdene Park Drive aforesaid, Wholesale Clothier, sons of the deceased, the executors therein named), are hereby required to send particulars, in writing, of such claims or demands to me, the undersigned, the Solicitor for the said executors, before the 13th day of February, 1911, after which date the said executors will proceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased among the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims and demands of which they shall then have had notice; and the said executors will not be liable for the assets of the said deceased, or any part thereof, so distributed, to any person of whose claim they shall not then have had notice.

Dated this 13th day of January, 1911.
JOHN SYKES, Market Place, Huddersfield, Solicitor for the said Executors

By the time of the 1937 Directory, wool merchants B. Boothroyd and Son were listed at 15 Upperhead Row.

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Notes and References

  1. London Gazette (22/Dec/1876).
  2. London Gazette (17/Jan/1911).