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Description: | Isaac Reckitt was born in Wainfleet in 1792 to a large wool farming family. He was an ambitious man and with his older brothers ran a milling business in Boston, Yorkshire. Isaac and his wife then ran a corn business in Nottingham but this collapsed under mounting debts and they were forced to move again.
They took over a small starch making factory in Hull and founded Rickett & Sons. The business prospered: in 1851 they employed 51 people but by 1861 this had increased to 210, of which a large proportion were women. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Domestic Life People And Society Trade And Economics | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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