National Association of Powerloom Overlookers
1871-1982
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Minutes, financial records, annual reports and rule books of branches nationwide (see administrative history)
Place:/Manchester/Manchester/Lancashire/England
/Stockport/Stockport/Cheshire/England
/Walkden/Worsley/Eccles/Lancashire/England
/Pendleton/Eccles/Lancashire/England
/Ramsbottom/Tottington Lower End/Bury/Lancashire/England
Title:
National Association of Powerloom Overlookers
Date of work:
1871-1982
Reference number:
GB127.M490
Level of description:
Fonds
Includes:
Custodial history:
The Association began in November 1865 at Pendleton as the Pendleton Powerloom Overlookers' Mutual Assistant Association. The Third Annual Report, 1871, declared 'This Society is not a trades' union, and we do not acknowledge strikes'. However, by 1882 payments were being made to strikers at Bury.
With the opening of more branches the Association was re-named the National Association of Powerloom Overlookers in 1879.
Branches were opened at Manchester, in 1867 (closed 1932), Stockport, 1867 (closed 1967), Swinton, 1867 (closed 1963), Heywood, 1872 (closed 1895), Rochdale, 1872 (closed 1887), Wigan, 1873, Bedford Leigh, 1875 (closed 1894) Bradford, 1876 (closed 1903), Bury, 1877 (closed 1887), Ashton under Lyne, 1878 (closed 1880), Hadfield, 1880 (closed 1887), Rochdale District, 1880 (closed 1885), Littleborough, 1880 (closed 1882), Whitworth Vale, 1880 (closed 1885), Failsworth or Newton Heath, 1881 (closed 1883), Bacup, 1881 (closed 1882), Farnworth, 1882 (closed 1967), Ramsbottom, 1883 (closed 1887), Openshaw and District, 1889, renamed Droylsden and Gorton, 1907 (closed 1973), Walkden, 1895 (closed 1972), Newton Heath, 1896 (closed 1966), Halstead, Essex, 1910, Macclesfield, 1918, East Anglia, 1948, Aston in Makerfield, 1953, Central (Tiverton and Sherbourne), 1965, Manchester, 1966 and Skelmersdale, 1969 (closed 1978)
The Manchester Branch was formed in 1966 from the amalgamation of the original Pendleton Branch and Newton Heath. The Walkden members were transferred to Manchester in 1972, and the Droylsden Branch joined Manchester in 1973.
Source:
The following records were deposited in the Archives Department in August 1984 by Mr. H. Astley, General Secretary of the National Association of Powerloom Overlookers, through Manchester Polytechnic Archive Retrieval Project.
Access restrictions:
UnrestrictedCorrespondence and minute books less than thirty years old may not be issued without written permission of the current General Secretary.
This material is stored off site and we require 2 weeks' notice in order to retrieve it.
Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
General notes:
Arrangement:Arranged by branch. Each branch is then arranged by document functions.
Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7196113
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