Catalogue description WILLIAM JESSOP & SONS LTD., (Brightside Steel Works) SHEFFIELD

This record is held by Sheffield City Archives

Details of SY/678/B
Reference: SY/678/B
Title: WILLIAM JESSOP & SONS LTD., (Brightside Steel Works) SHEFFIELD
Date: 1910-1947
Held by: Sheffield City Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

William Jessop and Sons Ltd, of Sheffield and New York
Physical description: 2 Items
Access conditions:

Records are open for consultation
Immediate source of acquisition:

On abolition of South Yorkshire County Council on 31 March 1986, the records passed from South Yorkshire County Record Office, by agreement of the four South Yorkshire District Councils, to the custody of Sheffield Archives as lead authority
Subjects:
  • Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire
Administrative / biographical background:

The business, known as Brightside Steel Works, and said variously to date from 1774 or 1793, was described in the 1880s as the largest manufacturer of steel in the Sheffield area. At that date it had agencies in Europe and the United States. Thomas Jessop, who died in 1887, took a leading part in public life in Sheffield holding the offices of both Mayor and Master Cutler, and is remembered as the founder of the Jessop Hospital for Women

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