Guide to the Collections of the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford (as filmed by the AJCP)

Note re death of George William Mitchell, St Peter's, Cook's River, native of Bradford., 21 November 1863 (File 3)

Taken from list of deaths in Sydney Morning Herald. (1p.)

Letters of Administration for estate of George William Mitchell, woolsorter of Cook's River, 5 April 1864 (File 4)

Catherine Mitchell (Mittagong) to W. Bradfield (Bradford), 18 July 1867 (File 4)

re her reduced circumstances, taking a situation. (6p.)

Note of George W. Mitchell's address for burial certificate, 5 October 1865 (File 6)

George William Mitchell death certificate. (2 copies, 2p.), 4 November 1863 (File 10)

Commercial Banking Company of New South Wales (London) to Manager of Berrima Branch, 30 October 1867 (File 24)

Re money for Catherine Mitchell. (1p.)

Receipt signed by Catherine Mitchell (1p.), 21 January 1868 (File 25)

Visit of Miss Thomson from Hobart, c.1949 (File 3/8/12-14)

Three photographs showing Miss Thomson with children of Bowling Back Lane Infants School.

Photograph showing Bishop of Bradford opening food parcel sent by Home Economics Group, Christchurch, New Zealand, 30 January 1948 (File 3/8/18)

Photograph showing Bishop of Bradford and pile of tins of food sent by people of Awakino-Mokau Taranaki, New Zealand, 30 January 1948 (File 3/8/19)

Photograph 'As I was setting out to Australia in the Spring of 1938.', 1938 (File 4/6/2)

Katharine Bruce Glasier (Newcastle N.S.W.) to Miriam Lord, 7 November 1938 (File 4/7/8)

Speaking on nursery education; delights of Australia. (1p.)

Katharine Bruce Glasier (Earby) to Miriam Lord, 20 April 1940 (File 4/7/11)

Death of son-in-law, Cecil Webb, drowned by a freak wave at Newcastle 'Two of his life savers had themselves to be rescued.' (4p.)

Newspaper cutting, Daily Herald (File)

Article by Keith Scott Watson

Katharine Bruce Glasier (Earby) to Miriam Lord, 16 February 1942 (File 4/7/39)

War news from Singapore and Australia. (4p.)

Katharine Bruce Glasier (Earby) to Miriam Lord, 19 November 1943 (File 4/7/70)

Visit from Australian RAF sergeant 'we all lost our hearts to him'. (2p.)

Katharine Bruce Glasier (Earby) to Miriam Lord, 15 August 1948 (File 4/7/181)

Jeannie arriving from Australia on Antenor after terrible storms have held up the ship. (2p.)

Katharine Bruce Glasier (Earby) to Miriam Lord, 23 February 1949 (File 4/7/191)

Jeannie is returning to Australia on Dardanus. (2p.)

Lizette and Fred Foster (Earby) to Miriam Lord, 25 October 1938 (File 4/7/243)

Katharine Bruce Glasier left for Australia on 16 July. (2p.)

E. Glasier Foster (Earby) to Miriam Lord, 5 January 1939 (File 4/7/244)

Katharine Bruce Glasier's busy schedule in Australia. (2p.)

Jeannie [Webb] (SS Antenor) to mother, 26 July 1948 (File 4/7/280)

Journey from Australia; snow in Sydney 'first time in 78 years'; gales. (2p.)

Five Shillings given to Hannah wife of William Sugden of Great Horton whose husband is at Chatham about to go to N.S.W., 9 January 1826 - 13 January 1826 (File)

£2-2s to Hannah Sugden to go to Chatham to her husband, 13 February 1826 - 18 February 1826 (File)

T.L. Dallas & Co Ltd (Bradford) to Hirsch and Son, 12 June 1929 - 6 December 1937 (File 3/29)

Insurance of wool cargoes from Australia and New Zealand. (10p.)

Insurance for shipment of wool from New Zealand (2p.), 9 November 1936 - 25 November 1936 (File 3/31)

Insurance cover for W.C. Pollard's baggage to New Zealand (2p.), 27 October 1938 (File 3/36)

Insurance cover for ships from Australia (4p.), 18 April 1939 (File 3/38)

Moorhead (152p.), 30 October 1952 - 7 November 1955 (File 4/2)

Deciphered cables from Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart on the state of the wool market and orders placed (some faint carbon copies).

Thomas Coke (Plymouth) to [?] requesting subscriptions to establish foreign missions (1p., printed), 6 January 1784 (File 2/3/5A)

Notes on business trip to Australia and New Zealand (86p.), 3 November 1938 - 16 December 1938 (File 37/5)

Notes on visits to customers in Adelaide, Ballarat, Geelong, Albury, Sydney, Ipswich, Wellington, Dunedin, Wanganui, Auckland; comments on Australian textile trade.

L. Hinks & Co Sydney: Stock account (652p.), 1926 - 1968 (File 52)

Details of parts for looms supplied to L. Hinks.

Young Australia League, 29 November 1954 - 22 June 1955 (File 5/18)

Correspondence, itineraries, list of participants, souvenir programme re visit of Australian boys to Bradford, 11-16 June 1955 organised by Young Australia League. (150p.) Correspondents include: Jack Cotterill (YAL, Perth); S. Hall (Bradford Chamber of Commerce); John Hey (Rotary Club of Bradford); J.H. Nash (Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Leeds); Cecil Baker (YAL, London).

Young Australia League Girls Tour, 4 April 1957 - 12 July 1958 (File 5/27)

Correspondence, itineraries, list of participants, programme re visit of Australian girls to Bradford 3-5 July 1958 organised by Young Australia League. (68p.). Correspondents include: Jack Cotterill (YAL, Perth); Wilfrid Robertshaw (Bradford Art Gallery); K.M. Pitts (Bradford Business and Professional Women's Club); C.R. Gibson (YAL, London); Cecil Baker (YAL, Perth).

Includes report on visit to Bradford by the YAL boys in 1955.

Invitation by Rugby Football League to World Cup Match between Australia and France at Odsal Stadium, Bradford. (1p.), 1 November 1970 (File 6/334)

Programme for Harrison Concerts, St George's Hall Bradford season, 1905 - 1906 (Item p.16)

Featuring Madame Melba to appear on 27 October 1905. (2p.)

Includes 'Opening of Bradford Town Hall 1873'

Journal of voyage to Wellington, New Zealand on Henry Adderley written by Eliza and Annie Wrigley[?], 17 April 1868 - 7 August 1868 (Item)

(24p. pagination erratic, incomplete, starts p.5). Details of weather; fish sighted; Madeira; state of provisions; other ships; Cape Farewell; Cook's Strait; pilot comes on board.

New Zealand, c.1911-1912 (File 1/20)

Press cuttings of articles by Edward R. Hartley in The Common Weal: organ of the New Zealand Socialist Party and reports on meetings addressed by Edward R. Hartley in New Zealand from other newspapers. (c74p. and loose cuttings).

Includes: Reverend C.N. Gray (Helmsley) to 'Dear C' requesting information on state of Waihi Mines. (2p.)

Australia, c.1912 (File 1/21)

Press cuttings re Australia, mostly dated but unidentified (23p., many blank pages).

Includes: The land question: state graduated land tax compared with the Murray-Watt Tax: the farmer and the middleman by P.L. McNamara. Melbourne, Labour Call Print (8p., printed)

Australia, c.1912 (File 1/22)

Press cuttings re Australia, mostly dated but unidentified c1912. (c.27p., many blank pages)

Australia, 30 December 1912 (File 1/23)

Press cuttings of reports on meetings in Australia addressed by Edward R. Hartley, c.1912-1913. (c40p. and loose cuttings).

Items of interest include:

Flyer 'Every Sunday Night at the Gaiety Theatre Alderman Hartley Bradford will lecture on Socialism'

R.J. Powell (Ballarat) to 'Comrade' re contributions to The Evening Echo. (2p.)

Notes for a speech[?] headed 'Mount Lyell'.

Australia and New Zealand, c.1911-1912 (File 2/10)

Press cuttings of reports on meetings addressed by Edward R. Hartley in Australia and New Zealand and of articles by Edward R. Hartley, c.1911-1912. (20 cuttings).

Includes:

Admission ticket for Socialist Party of Victoria 1st lecture by Alderman Edward R. Hartley, 10 October [1912?]

Australia and New Zealand, c.1911-1912 (File 2/11)

Press cuttings of reports on meetings addressed by Edward R. Hartley in Australia and New Zealand and of articles by Edward R. Hartley, c.1911-1912. (c.30 cuttings).

Includes:

Flyer for meeting at Karongahake addressed by E.R. Hartley on 6 December.

11 Mar 1913 J.R. Wilson (Australasian Socialist Party, Melbourne) to E.R. Hartley re postponing meeting. (1p.)

Diary of voyage to New Zealand. (50p., pencil and ink), 7 September 1911 - 9 November 1911 (File 3/4)

Details of: boarding Ionic in London; other passengers; weather; playing cricket; death of child in 3rd class; entertainments - fancy dress ball; Cape Town; concerts - E.R. Hartley as a republican, refuses to stand for 'God Save the King' and antagonises the other passengers; Mrs Hartley insulted by another passenger; wrestling bouts in single men's quarters; Hobart - inspected by Doctor; 'Hobart is a lovely place'; E.R. Hartley visits several socialists; visits Parliament; voyage to Wellington; visit to offices of Maoriland Worker; comments on New Zealand socialists; voyage on Mararow to Lyttleton; Christchurch; meeting in theatre; New Brighton; journey to Dunedin; 'The Canterbury plain is rather monotonous'; meeting in Settlers Hall

Copy also: At back of volume list of prices at Christchurch, November 1911. (1p.)

Photograph of Edward R. and Mrs Hartley on New Zealand tour, 1912 (File 6/9)

(Maoriland Worker Series no 1) (1p.).

'To the Electors of Ohinemuri' P.H. Hickey the workers' candidate, (3p.), 1912 (File 7/9)

Robert T. Miller (Hughesdale Art Group, Murrumbeena) to Bradford Arts Club, 18 July 1960 (File 15/1/1)

Re their group and requesting information on Bradford Arts Club.

Secretary (BAC) to Miller sending information on BAC, 24 September 1960 (File)

Robert Miller (Carnegie) to BAC sending slides of paintings by members; activities, 7 August 1961 (File)

Notes for article[?] on the Robert Miller correspondence (6p.), n.d. (File)

Hughesdale Art Group Tentative Program, 1961 (File)

Cuttings from Bradford Telegraph and Argus re above correspondence, 13 October 1961 (File 15/1/2)

Correspondence with Mrs Padmore (Birmingham) re lending slides sent from Australia (4p.), 30 January 1962 - 23 March 1962 (File 15/1/3)

Matheson Minster Ltd, October 1955 - February 1959 (File 46/1)

Correspondence, invoices, orders from Matheson Minister Ltd (Wellington) (83p.) Subjects include: orders for wool suiting; shipping and packing instructions; import licences; invoicing problems; faulty cloth.

Three notebooks detailing new clothes and other supplies bought for emigrants. (30p., 9p.,7p.), n.d. (File 2b)

Includes: address in Australia of some emigrants.

List of Woolcombers about to emigrate to Australia. (1p.), 19 July 1856 (File 2c)

Report to mayor [of Bradford?] on the operations of the Woolcombers' Emigration Society. (5p., Draft and fair copy), 23 October 1857 (File 2d)

Longley Family History (35p.), 1 May 1909 - 15 August 1911 (File Case 32)

Items of interest include:

Letters from Charles Frederick Lungleye (Melbourne) to H. Speight (Bingley) re research into the Lungleye family.

Miscellaneous notes on Lungleye, Langley, Longley, Lingley and Lengley families.

Ben Simpson. Journal of voyage to Melbourne, 1891 - 1892 (File Case 23)

(79p. in ink and faint pencil, some damaged pages).

Details of: boarding - Fairy[?] a German ship at Humber Dock; Antwerp; Isle of Wight; Gibraltar; food; Germans hold own service on board; Doctor does not speak English; killed bullock; other livestock on board; arrangements on board; Port Said, 'a dirty hole.'; Suez Canal; crossing the line; Kangaroo Island; coaling at Port Adelaide, 24 November; Melbourne, 26 November; Australian fauna; wages; 'you can roam about here anywhere without anyone saying what do you want here and you can take a gun and shoot anything you like except Laughing Jackasses'; fruit; Lizzie's Uncle has been mayor of Melbourne and is building Parliament House.

Documents and photographs re Henry Arnold Atkinson of Adelaide (c.7p.), 20 November 1879 - 15 February 1916 (File Case 5/4)

Includes

Cutting re tablet placed in pavilion of Pudsey St Lawrence Cricket Club, 1938 (File Case 6/14)

Tablet to mark Sir Len Hutton's world record score of 364 runs in an innings at the Oval in the 5th test against Australia. (1p.)

Francis J. Bayldon (Sydney Nautical School, Sydney) to W.P. Baildon, 24 May 1920 - 21 October 1924 (File 4/48)

re Baildon and the Baildons; his career as meteorologist and hydrographer; his son. (12p.)

Edward Oerton (Applethorpe, Qld) to W.P. Baildon, 14 September 1919 - 22 February 1920 (File 4/329)

re other Bayldons in Australia; snow in Queensland 'real flakes - for about 5 minutes'; politics; strikes. (5p.)

Tamate [Reverend J. Chalmers] (New Guinea) to May, 31 December 1896 - 1 January 1897 (File 4/538)

re New Year celebrations; building a house in native style. (7p.)

Elizabeth [Chalmers] (Fly River, BNG) to May, 8 November 1899 - 12 December 1899 (File 4/540)

Tamate has met the Governor in the Straits; Governor recalled East to settle some trouble; her health; lack of supplies. (7p.)

Thomas Paley Reade (Cook Town) to Sarah, his sister, n.d. (File 4/589)

Requesting guns and other items be sent care of Mr Beardmore; proposes setting up in business. (2p.)

Thomas Paley Reade (Cook Town) to Sister [Sarah] his circumstances. (2p.), n.d. (File 4/590)

Dr John Baildon of Sydney, n.d. (File 16/36)

Crown calendar for Yorkshire Spring assizes. (1p.), 8 March 1845 (File 8/236)

Includes: details of transportees.

General Gaol Delivery at York Assizes. (1p.), 8 March 1853 (File 8/237)

Includes: details of transportees.

Papers re estate of William Pennington of South Yarra, Agent for Messrs J.V. Godwin and Co of Bradford, died Melbourne, (21p.), 12 November 1908 - 19 November 1914 (File A/2/13)

Includes:

12 November 1908. Will of William Pennington.

27 March 1912. Messrs Mills and Oakley, solicitors (Melbourne) to vicar of Bradford re death of Pennington, who has left the bulk of his estate to form a trust to benefit poor of Bradford.

9 October 1912. Derham and Derham (Melbourne) to Messrs Gordon Hunter and Duncan (Bradford) re estate of Pennington and their attempts to contact the executor William James Rivers Langton.

19 November 1914. Derham and Derham (Melbourne) to Messrs Gordon, Hunter and Duncan (Bradford) that it appears the executor has used the balance of the proceeds from Pennington's estate for his own purposes.