At the National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh:

Numerous papers concerning businesses in Whithorn are to be found in Court of Sesion records and the records of dissolved companies. They can be found by searching the National Records of Scotland catalogue for "Whithorn" and reference starts "CS" or reference starts "BT2".

At the Ewart Library, Dumfries:

• EGD/96
  Papers of a Whithorn Grocer
  Stock book of an unidentified grocer at [ ] Road, Whithorn, 1899.

At the Glasgow City Archives:

• CWS
  Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society
  Records of the Bladenoch and Whithorn Creamery, 1899-1973, .

• Business Archives Council of Scotland.

• TNA provide:
  • A very useful  Research Guide: Companies and business
  • Their National Register of Archives (NRA) ("Discovery") is particularly useful for finding the location of the archived records of named organisations
• The Association of Business Historians creates and disseminates knowledge about business history.
• TNA hold some railway company records. (Ancestry provides subscription access to the TNA's railway employment records 1833-1958, from a number of historic railway companies.)
• Some employers' and trade association archives are held by Warwick University's Modern Record Centre.
• Trade directories can provide some information (including advertisements) about businesses, large and small, through the years.
• Railway Work, Life and Death - records of railway worker accidents in Britain between 1911 and 1915 - "a joint initiative between the University of Portsmouth and the National Railway Museum (NRM)".
• The John Lewis Memory Store: ". . . a living history of John Lewis & Partners. Through the site, people share their memories, photos, maps and information about John Lewis & Partners, past and present."
• United Kingdom Cemetery Records, from Interment.net.