Description

Admin History:

Hull Hide Skin and Fat Company (HHS&F) sold and supplied hides and skins as well as fats. The hides and skins were purchased from slaughter houses and treated accordingly before being sold on elsewhere.

The company was founded at a meeting of Hull butchers and cattle dealers in February 1867, incorporated on 28 March 1867, and acquired premises at 22 Finkle Street, Hull, a few months afterwards. The first chairman was John Easterby, with John Spinks as the secretary and the first manager Frederick Naylor. In 1882 they changed the name to Hull Hide and Skin Market Company (HH&SM), and obtained an addtional site on Sitwell Street. In 1908 they reverted back to HHS&F.

In 1907 they closed Sitwell Street site, having acquired another base on Maxwell Street. This was in the area of Stoneferry, part of the parish of Sutton in Holderness, which was later absorbed into the City of Hull. This had been the base for another hide company, Sneetons. The site suffered damage during the air raids in World War Two, but continued in use until the 1960s.

In 1930, HHS&F had opened their own vehicle repair business, which they called the H H Garage, also on Finkle Street, numbers 9, 10 and 11, directly opposite the main premesis. This again operated until the 1960s.

In 1941 under Ministry of Food encouragement, HHS&F joined with others in the area to form the North Eastern Hide and Skin Company (NEH&S), which was born out of the North East Committee of the Hide Markets Federation. NEH&S was so successful that it continued until 1962.

In 1949 a subsidiary company, Hull Dripping Company was founded. This was acquired by the Propser de Mulder Group in 1974.

In 1974, HHS&F was taken over by Barrow Hepburn, who hoped to run it in conjunction with a tannery in Beverley. The company moved to Waterhouse Lane from Finkle Street in 1976 (under a compulsory purchase order), when the area was re-developed under the South Orbital Road Scheme. In 1990, HHS&F changed its name when it came incorporated under Julian H. Nicholson Ltd. Members of the Nicholson family had been involved in the company for many years, with J.H. Nicholson joining the Board of Directors in the 1960s.

Description:

Shareholders minute books (1867-1946), registers of membership and transfers (1920-1984), title deeds and agreements (1723-1961), director's volumes (1900-1980), certificates of incorporation, membership and permits, (1867-1990) administrative papers and letters (1952-1961), statement of accounts, (1885-1965), stocks, securieties and bonds (1927-1969), letters and other financial records such as ledgers, expenses and excess sheets (1935-1969), and papers relating to the activities of the company such as the purchase, retailing and preparation of hides and skins (1953-1964), fats (1963-1972) salt (1953-1960), equipment (1954-1973) and the work of the garage (1956-1961). There are some records within the archive which relate to HHS&M with which HHS&F merged.