Cooper Family Records: Cooper Family History (2)

File contains the following:

'Old Memories Connected with the Firm', a memoir by A Dean, 1937, with covering note by J A Hill

'Notes on the Early History of the Firm', by G R Gomm (2 copies, one annotated and with accompanying note).

Pages from the 'Daily Sketch', 24 Apr 1915, including comment on activity of Sir R A Cooper as MP during wartime [in protective envelope] Envelope 'Late Mr Charles Timson's papers' containing cuttings and notes on Timson's death, 1927

Sundry letters and notes of J A Hill, and to and from him

Note on the history of the Pintor mine, in which R P Cooper had an interest

List of history papers

Cooper-related Census entries for 1841

Notes on the Cooper business in New Zealand / Australia (c 1939)

Notes on Mr C J Gilbert and his career with Coopers, also pension arrangements

Historical memo on Coopers by W R Holloway

Note by W Pinney on the history of the Kelvindale plant (1943), and a note on Pinney

Note on early Coopers history by Mr Wilson, son of William Cooper's 'first assistant'.

'The Cooper Dip Factory: Reminiscences by Mr H Gravestock'

Typescript note 'Cooper Business'

Typescript note on the firm's Royal Warrant

c 1915 - c 1945

1 item

On Wilson see WF/C/P/01/02

Please see main WF collection description (ref. 'WF').