A Mill on the Soar. A personal and company narrative
Details:
- Author(s) Ellis, Shirley
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1978
- Pages 147pp; illus
- Publisher The author?
- Place Published Leicester
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee memorials
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Includes family trees of Ellis and Donisthorpe families. Narrative history of Friars Mill, Leicester, then the oldest industrial building still in use in Leicester, which is linked to three topics, viz: the industrial history of Leicester; the Donisthorpe firm of worsted spinners who founded the firm which still occupied the mill; the Ellis family [George Ellis & Sons] who were connected with the mill from the 19th century. Has chapters: 'The mill and the city'; 'A family of wool staplers' [George Ellis & Sons]; 'The Donisthorpes and Leicester industry'; 'George Ernest Ellis and his family'; 'Fortunes of the firm'; 'A new era - synthetic fibres'. Includes an illustration of the firm's war memorial, 1914-18