TST: Business & Commerce Records information for Wymondham and places above it in the hierarchy

Business & Commerce Records information for Wymondham and places above it in the hierarchy

Briton Brush Co.: The Briton Brush Co., Ltd., formerly S.D. Page and Sons, established 1746, D. Matthew and Son, established 1773.
[Wymondham, Briton Brush Co, Ltd, 1933]
Clark, Christine: A Brush with Heritage: the history of Hamilton Acorn, Norfolk brushmakers since 1746.
[ISBN 0906219418, UEA Centre of East Anglian Studies, 1996]
Manning, I.M.: The Co-operative Wholesale Society Brushworks, Wymondham.
[Norwich, Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society, in "Journal of the Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society", vol.III, no.5, 1985]

Registration of Companies and Businesses, there are three Research Guides from The National Archives with useful background information.
Companies House has a database of companies and directors

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.