Christy & Co Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Christy, Miller
- Storrs & Christie
- Worsley, T & J
- Christie, W M, & Sons Ltd
- Royal Turkish Towels
- Associated British Hats Ltd
- Cadogan Holdings Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Bermondsey, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
- Frampton Cottrell, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, South West, England
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
- Stockport, Stockport, Greater Manchester, North West, England
Sectors:
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Textile production
Blankets, towels, household furnishings, etc, production
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Wearing apparel & footwear production
Hat making
Notes:
Hat making and retailing business established in 1773 in City of London by Miller Christy, 1748-1820, as Storrs & Christy. Subsequently established a major factory in Bermondsey. c1826 acquired T & J Worsley of Stockport and thereafter developed two groups of very large hat factories at Bermondsey and Stockport. Briefly also had a factory at Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire, which closed in 1864. The family also started a cotton textile business at Stockport and Droylsden which sometime traded as W M Christie & Sons Ltd and became known for its Royal Turkish Towel brand. The hat making business was incorporated in 1887. Production subsequently focused at Stockport. 1966 merged with three other local businesses to form Associated British Hats Ltd. 1980 acquired by Cadogan Holdings Ltd which then adopted the Christy name
Publications:
- 150 Years of Hat Making, 1773-1923 by Unknown
- Christy & Co. Bicentenary of the founder's apprenticeship to the art and mystery of feltmaking by Unknown
- 'Christy's hats' in W H Beable, Romance of Great Businesses, Volume 2 by Beable, William H
- Chronicles of Canal Street from BC (before Christys) to 1868 by Barber, William
- Day at a hat factory by Unknown
- Feltmakers. A record of two feltmaking families and their connection with the Worshipful Company of Feltmakers of London in four centuries by Christie-Miller, John
- First Shop in the Trade. Some aspects of the history of the felt hatting industry in the early nineteenth century from the archives of Christy & Co by Turner, J
- History of Christy's. The history of hats by Beable, William H
- 'John Bull Has a Deal to Learn'. Factories without machines in the nineteenth century felt hatting industry by Turner, James
- 'Messrs Christy & Co, London and Stockport' in Royal Album of Arts and Industries of Great Britain by Unknown
- One Hundred and Seventy Five Years of the House of Christy by Sadler, Arthur
- 'Romance of industry' in W Astle (ed), Stockport Advertiser Centenary. History of Stockport by Astle, William (ed)
- Some Quaker firms of the nineteenth century by Marwick, William H
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Christy, Miller
- Storrs & Christie
- Worsley, T & J
- Christie, W M, & Sons Ltd
- Royal Turkish Towels
- Associated British Hats Ltd
- Cadogan Holdings Ltd
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Bermondsey, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
- Frampton Cottrell, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, South West, England
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
- Stockport, Stockport, Greater Manchester, North West, England
Sectors:
- Textile production Blankets, towels, household furnishings, etc, production
- Wearing apparel & footwear production Hat making
Notes:
Hat making and retailing business established in 1773 in City of London by Miller Christy, 1748-1820, as Storrs & Christy. Subsequently established a major factory in Bermondsey. c1826 acquired T & J Worsley of Stockport and thereafter developed two groups of very large hat factories at Bermondsey and Stockport. Briefly also had a factory at Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire, which closed in 1864. The family also started a cotton textile business at Stockport and Droylsden which sometime traded as W M Christie & Sons Ltd and became known for its Royal Turkish Towel brand. The hat making business was incorporated in 1887. Production subsequently focused at Stockport. 1966 merged with three other local businesses to form Associated British Hats Ltd. 1980 acquired by Cadogan Holdings Ltd which then adopted the Christy namePublications:
- 150 Years of Hat Making, 1773-1923 by Unknown
- Christy & Co. Bicentenary of the founder's apprenticeship to the art and mystery of feltmaking by Unknown
- 'Christy's hats' in W H Beable, Romance of Great Businesses, Volume 2 by Beable, William H
- Chronicles of Canal Street from BC (before Christys) to 1868 by Barber, William
- Day at a hat factory by Unknown
- Feltmakers. A record of two feltmaking families and their connection with the Worshipful Company of Feltmakers of London in four centuries by Christie-Miller, John
- First Shop in the Trade. Some aspects of the history of the felt hatting industry in the early nineteenth century from the archives of Christy & Co by Turner, J
- History of Christy's. The history of hats by Beable, William H
- 'John Bull Has a Deal to Learn'. Factories without machines in the nineteenth century felt hatting industry by Turner, James
- 'Messrs Christy & Co, London and Stockport' in Royal Album of Arts and Industries of Great Britain by Unknown
- One Hundred and Seventy Five Years of the House of Christy by Sadler, Arthur
- 'Romance of industry' in W Astle (ed), Stockport Advertiser Centenary. History of Stockport by Astle, William (ed)
- Some Quaker firms of the nineteenth century by Marwick, William H