Perth & Kinross Council Archive
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Perth & Kinross Council Archive Collections Business and Industry MS5 PD Malloch, Perth, 1883-1937 Accounting records, including cash books, balance sheets and invoices,1897- 1937; records concerning fishings, managed or owned by PD Malloch in Perthshire, including agreements, plans, 1902-1930; items relating to the maintenance and management of the estate of Bertha, 1902-1912; letters to PD Malloch relating to various aspects of business including the Perthshire Fishing Club, 1883-1910; business correspondence, 1902-1930 MS6 David Gorrie & Son, boilermakers and coppersmiths, Perth, 1894-1955 Catalogues, instruction manuals and advertising material for David Gorrie and other related firms, 1903-1954; correspondence, specifications, estimates and related materials concerning work carried out by the firm, 1893-1954; accounting vouchers, 1914-1952; photographic prints and glass plate negatives showing machinery and plant made by David Gorrie & Son including some interiors of laundries, late 19th to mid 20th century; plans and engineering drawings relating to equipment to be installed by the firm, 1892- 1928 MS7 William and William Wilson, merchants, Perth and Methven, 1754-1785 Bills, accounts, letters, agreements and other legal papers concerning the affairs of William Wilson, senior and William Wilson, junior MS8 Perth Theatre, 1900-1990 Records of Perth Theatre before the ownership of Marjorie Dence, includes scrapbooks and a few posters and programmes. Records from 1935 onwards include administrative and production records including scrapbooks, programmes, posters and production photographs Page 1 of 19 Perth & Kinross Council Archive Collections Business and Industry MS11 William Marshall, agent for the Bank of Scotland, Perth, 1793-1794 Letters by William Marshall, bank agent for the Bank of Scotland in Perth, to William Anderson and Ebeneezer Anderson, Dundee concerning their account MS13 David Crighton papers, 1847-1863 Letters to David Crighton relating mainly to financial affairs MS14 Miscellaneous Gifts and Deposits: 1549-2003 MS14/9 Blairgowrie Gas Light Company, 1847-1859 MS14/10 Soutar & MacLeish, solicitors, Perth, 1861-1867 MS14/11 Retail day book and ledger of unidentified , 1834-1838; 1841- 1844 MS14/24 Robert Marshall, writer, Kinross, legal styles book, late 18th cent MS14/35 Notebook of James Anderson, Huntingtowerfield relating to bleaching operations and the Original Secession Church, Perth, 1868-1904 MS14/36 Anstruther Easter burgess ticket in favour of Alexander Sutherland, 1782 MS14/37 Perth burgess ticket in favour of Daniel McFarlane 1787 MS14/38 Perth burgess ticket in favour of Alexander Lindsay, 1711 Page 2 of 19 Perth & Kinross Council Archive Collections Business and Industry MS14/39 Leslies plan pf Perth, marked with route of from railway station to unidentified range at Craigie woods, nd MS14/43 Perth burgess ticket in favour of Andrew Skene, 1665 MS14/44 Account book, Dr F Rollo, Airlie Place, Alyth with David Reid, Mill Street, Alyth relating to purchases of clothes, c1890-1892 MS14/47 Perth burgess tickets in favour of John Marshall, merchant; David McLeish, dyer, James Sharp, Baxter; Alexander Marshall, merchant. 1677; 1733; 1770; 1762 MS14/53 Perth burgess tickets in favour of Richard Pillans, 1777 MS14/56 Tobacco dealers book, 1801 MS14/71 Account of David Littlejohn, weaver, Auchterarder, to P Hutchison writer for various rendered legal services, 1823 MS14/91 Phoenix Fire Office of London, account book, 1783-1808 MS14/92 Perth Gas Light Company, articles of association, 1822 MS14/96 Advertising handbill of William Thomson, carriage manufactory, Perth illustrating various carriage designs, c1870 MS14/97 Burgess ticket in favour of Ensign Mondeford Allan, 1786 MS14/100 Rules for establishing the Redgorton Parish Bank, 1815 Page 3 of 19 Perth & Kinross Council Archive Collections Business and Industry MS14/101 Discharged account of Samuael Wallace, guild treasurer with Thomas Frisken, tailor, 1750 MS14/102 Programme of proceedings at the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone of the General Railway Station, Perth, 1847 MS14/118 Typescript copies, photocopies of drawings and booklets relating to Perth Railway Station 1847; 1961; 1986; 1990 MS14/125 Perth burgess ticket of Thomas Currie, wine and spirit merchant, 1856 MS14/126 Perth burgess ticket of Robert Bell, apprentice garage hand, 125 Canal Crescent, Perth, 1945 MS14/127 Garage, grocers and hotel accounts of Capt JG Fraser RN for tour in Chevrolet around St Andrews, St Fillans, Pitlochry and Kinnloch Rannoch, c1922-1923 MS14/130 Typescript of ‘Extracts from a Painter & Decorators Diary’, nd MS14/137 Thomas Chalmers, solicitor, papers, 1869-1940 MS14/145 Advertisement relating to the enforcement of the Linlithgow measure of lintseed by the magistrates of Perth, Dundee and Coupar in Fife, c1727 MS14/152 Account of insurance with the [Commercial] Insurance Co., [damaged], 1809 Page 4 of 19 Perth & Kinross Council Archive Collections Business and Industry MS14/174 Various legal papers relating to Margaret Rennie, widow of James Rennie, Innkeeper in Kinross, 1858-1872 MS14/177 North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board Constructional Scheme No 2. Descriptions of Tummel-Garry and Gairloch projects with maps showing proposed sites of work and catchment areas, 1945 MS14/178 Daniel Gow, coal merchant. Invoices, receipts, business letters from various Glasgow, Dunfermline and west coast collieries, 1856-1865 MS14/179 Perth Banking Company, contract of co-partnery, 1829 MS14/181 John Grant, Craigmill. Photocopy of typescript of Grant's reminiscences, 'My Early Life and my Beginning Business', 1832-1928 MS14/182 J Normand & Son, joiners, Perth. Invoices and receipts from a variety of tradesmen and suppliers, 1935-1936 MS14/204 Blacksmith’s ledger of work and clients including Mr Charles Duff, Dunavaird, Mr Alexander Conacher, Aldour, Mr James Ballanton, Cluny, Mr Stewart, Pitlochry and Mr James McGlashan, Dunfallandy, 1842-1850 MS14/205 'A Perthshire Whisky Trail'. Hard copy of electronic ms by Irvine Butterfield. Describes the histories of distilleries in Perthshire, 18th-20th cents, 2007 Page 5 of 19 Perth & Kinross Council Archive Collections Business and Industry MS14/208 William McLaren, Joiner, Pitlochry. Ledger day book, listing work done, cost and for whom, 1851-1863 MS14/213 Hume Ironmongers, Perth. Working drawings of premises at Kew Buildings, Kirkside, Perth and 74-78 South Street, Perth, 1910, 1962 MS14/224 Wm Aldie & Sons, Bakers and Confectioners, Perth. Order book of products and quantities. Includes loose paper bags with logo, notes of orders and notices about bread rationing, c1940-1950 MS14/231 Indenture between Thomas Hill, master bookbinder and glazier in Perth and James Morise, son of James Morise, cabinetmaker in London, outlining the obligations between master and apprentice, signed by particpitants, witnesses and cautioners. Reverse carries the discharge by Hill of Morris who 'has served me honestly and faithfully', 1791, 1797 MS14/234 "The Highland Railway, plans and sections of proposed extention from Murthly near Dunkeld by Bankfoot to Perth with branch at Rohallion and of the proposed doubling of the line from Dunkeld Station to Murthly. J. Mitchel & Co. Engineers.", 1865 MS14/235 Letter and transcript from James (Hamish) Wittet to his brother Robert, describing his life and work as a Customs Officer in Seccondee, Gold Coast; postcard from Hamish to Robert showing photograph of Hamish with two colleagues standing on Page 6 of 19 Perth & Kinross Council Archive Collections Business and Industry a verandah; transcript of letter from EJ Muss at HM Customs, Secondee to[brother?] describing James' sudden death, 1910 MS14/242 Auchterarder chemist prescription and dangerous drugs ledgers, listing customers, drugs and dosage, 1904-1923 MS15 PR Drummond, poet, bookseller and author, Perth, 1838- 1884 Letters to Drummond, relating to the sale and publication of books and articles, 1838-1879; pamphlets, printed letters and notes some by Drummond under the alias of Powdavie relating to farming improvements, 1849-1873; copy manuscript poems by Charles Spence, Carse of Gowrie stonemason and poet, undated MS24 Robert Keay, elder and younger, papers, 1790-1872 Letters to Robert Keay, Perth from his nephew, William Forrester, jeweller, London, 1825-1842, relating to the jewellery trade but also to Joseph Forrester. Letters to Messrs R and R Keay and Robert Keay from customers and business associates including Leonard Urquhart, silversmith, Edinburgh, 1831-1856. Business invoices and receipts, 1831-1855. Letters from James Caw, jeweller, Edinburgh to Robert Keay younger and Messrs R and R Keay relating to the jewellery trade but also to political reform and related concerns, 1831-1853. Letters, volumes and papers relating to the shipping trade carried out by the Eagle and the Rose including letters from the ship.s masters to Keay reporting on the progress of the vessels and problems that have arisen, 1838-1850. Papers relating to the administration of the affairs of various members of the Keay family and related branches, 1790-1857 Page 7 of 19 Perth & Kinross Council Archive Collections Business and Industry MS25 John Shields & Co Ltd, textile manufacturers, Wallace Works, Perth, 1882-1899 Items relating to the firm of John Shields & Co Ltd 1882-1899, including notes of gross earnings, 1886-1893, comparative statement of receipts, 1891-1893, abstract of wages and total cloth produced in the year, nd, specifications for a yarn