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Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1892-1918 (Création/Production)
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Étendue matérielle et support
1 Envelope
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Nom du producteur
Histoire administrative
The first William Fairbank was a quaker and surveyor who with the help of his son made plans of estates in Derbyshire and Yorkshire. His two sons William and Josiah carried on the business and after that, Josiah and his son took over in 1833. After his son's death in 1848, the company was wound up.
The Fairbanks were involved in the construction of enclosures, railways, canals, roads and waterworks. They operated in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, North Derbyshire and even Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire, Lancashire and Staffordshire.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Contains correspondence relating to the business, with much of it relating to a job building a concrete sea wall at Filey.
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System of arrangement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
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Open
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Language of material
- anglais