Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 171,275 pages of information and 248,155 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

York Confectionery Co

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of Peel Works, Nunthorpe, York

1881 Partnership change. '...the undersigned, William Wilkinson Wilberforce, of the city of York, Merchant, John Bellerby, of the said city of York, Merchant, John Richard Hill, of the said city of York, Merchant, Isaac Francis Taylor, of the said city of York, Merchant, and Henry George Boston, of the said city of York, Commercial Traveller, carrying on business in copartnership at the Nunthorpe Peel Works and at No. 23, Fossgate, both in the city of York, under the style or firm of the York Confectionery Company, as Manufacturing Confectioners, was, on the 16th day of October, 1880, dissolved, by mutual consent, so far as regards the said John Richard Hill, who retires from the firm in favour of Edward Hill, of the said city of York, Merchant, who takes the place of the said John Richard Hill in the said firm; and that the said business will be continued by the said William Wilkinson Wilberforce, John Bellerby, Isaac Francis Taylor, Henry George Boston, and Edward Hill...'[1]

1887 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, William Wilkinson Wilberforce, John Bellerby, Henry George Boston, and Edward Hill, all of the city of York, carrying on business together in copartnership at the Peel Works, Nunthorpe, in the city of York, as Wholesale Manufacturing Confectioners and Merchants, under the style or firm of the York Confectionery Company, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent; and that the businesses as carried on by us will in future be carried on by the York Confectionery Co...'[2]

1910 Manufacturing machinery offered for sale by auction by order of the Receiver.[3]

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