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Description: | Internal Administratiion:Administrative records 1940-1950
Records of Production:Old Plaids Order Book 1873-1887
Records of Pattern Design:Designers Pattern Books 1894-1960s; Standard Pattern Books 1901 - 1946; Pattern Ticket Books 1919 - 1935.
Sales: Price List no date
Marketing and Public Relations:Sales Brochure no date
Relations with external bodies:Advertisement brochures of other textile companies 1935-1970s; Printed literature related to the textile industry 1944-1960s; fabric samples undated - Peter Anderson was born in Galashiels, was educated locally and at the age of 12 entered into the towns traditional woollen industry. Over the next 21 years, he rose to the position of designer, and in 1892 set up his own small weaving shop behind the West United Free Church in the High Street. In 1896 he moved to larger premises in Roxburgh Street. In 1907 he bought Huddersfield Mill, and renamed it Bridge Mill. This mill had 12 water powered looms, and due to continued success, Anderson could buy new Dobcross looms in 1919. New buildings and a modern water turbine followed. In 1931, he assumed his two sons Lewis and Thomas as partners. Lewis was a former student of the Scottish Woollen Technical College [predecessor to Heriot-Watt University Scottish Borders Campus]. In 1945, Peter Anderson died aged 86, and Lewis and Thomas took over the business. Thomas died in 1960. In 1962, Lewis sold control of the company to John Morris Buchan, of Lochcarron, a business which itself could trace roots back to the 1930s, and from 1984 opened the Woollen Textile Museum in Galashiels. The name of Peter Anderson was maintained as a symbol of quality for goods exported to certain markets in Europe and the Far East. | Subjects: | Tweeds Weaving Woollen and worsted manufacture Tartans | Source: | Heriot-Watt University | Address: | Mary Burton Centre, Level 1 Cameron Smail Librar, Heriot-Watt University,,
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