Records of the Railway Tavern Company Limited, including corporate minutes and correspondence, accounts and property files consisting of title deeds, mortgages and papers relating to stocks and bonds.
Railway Tavern Co Ltd , public house management companyRecords of R White and Sons Limited, soft drinks manufacturers, including a ledger covering profits and sales figures for R White & Sons from 1845 through to 1951 along with obituaries, details on property and wages, and a corporate and financial history of the Company. Also included are examples of bottle labelling and newspaper cuttings of Company adverts.
R White and Sons Ltd , soft drinks manufacturersStaff records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including wages sheets; papers relating to taxation, including income tax; papers relating to the fidelity guarantee policy; correspondence about staff, accounts, remuneration and auditors; papers regarding compensation of staff on the closure of the brewery.
R Halley Limited , brewersSales records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including daily and weekly sales summaries; stock books; Board of Trade census of production; correspondence with suppliers; order delivery schedules and gallonage table.
R Halley Limited , brewersProperty records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including leases; papers relating to development of Slough premises; papers regarding redevelopment of Slough High Street; correspondence; papers regarding insurance; rate demands.
R Halley Limited , brewersFinancial records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including correspondence; paid cheques; bought ledger; purchase ledger; general (expenses) ledger; transfer journal; rough balances and price lists.
R Halley Limited , brewersCorporate records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including Board and annual general meeting minutes; papers relating to the acquisition by Harmans Uxbridge Brewery; general correspondence; papers of the Board; papers of the Company Secretary; and annual reports with accounts.
R Halley Ltd , brewersRecords of Plymouth Breweries Limited, including Directors' minute books; annual general meetings minutes; and letters.
Plymouth Breweries LtdRecords of Pioneer Trading Company Limited, comprising minutes of Board meetings and Directors' meetings, 1914-1961.
Pioneer Trading Co LtdRecords of Phillips and Sons Limited, brewers, including Directors' minutes annual general meeting minutes; Directors' minute book (later called 'Board'); register of directors and secretaries; register of directors' holdings and interests; register of managers or directors; register of mortgages and register of seals.
Phillips and Sons Ltd , brewersRecords of the Ouvah Coffee Company Limited, comprising a cash book and notes on the history of the company and of coffee planting in Ceylon.
Ouvah Coffee Co LtdRecords of Oldham Sign Service, sign makers, 1930-1988. This collection contains corporate and accounts records including minutes of Directors' meetings, documents relating to Annual General Meetings, articles of association, trading agreements, asset transfer documents and some general correspondence.
Oldham Sign Service , sign makersRecords of Octagon Brewery Limited, including Directors' minute book; Board agenda book; Annual and other general meeting minutes, including reports and accounts; register of seals and wages book.
Octagon Brewery LtdRecords of the Oakhill Brewery Company Limited, comprising annual general meeting minute books and agendas.
Oakhill Brewery Co LtdProperty records of Noakes and Company, brewers, including leases and other papers about unlicensed premises; registers of details of public house leases in London and Windsor; and leases and other papers about licensed premises.
Noakes and Co Ltd , brewersProduction records of Noakes and Company, brewers, including preliminary report on the brewery by consulting chemists and brewing book.
Noakes and Co Ltd , brewersPremises records of Noakes and Company, brewers, including inventory of the Black Eagle Brewery and leasehold public houses; deeds and leases.
Noakes and Co Ltd , brewersFinancial records of Noakes and Company, brewers, including analyses of balance sheets; private ledgers and loans ledger.
Noakes and Co Ltd , brewersCorporate records of Noakes and Company, brewers, including minutes of Directors' meetings and annual general meetings; agenda books; managing directors' reports to the Board; register of seals; debenture records; papers relating to shares; papers relating to acquisitions and partnerships; and annual reports with accounts.
Noakes and Co Ltd , brewersPersonnel records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, including papers relating to setting up the pension scheme; Staff Pension Fund Committee minutes; pension fund trust deed; papers relating to membership of the pension fund; financial accounts; and papers relating to the pension fund at the closure of the brewery.
Nicholson and Sons Ltd , brewersSales records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, comprising 'Mr W R N's papers and notes regarding the triangle trade mark 1929 (Bass and Co) 'No 4 Box', pursued in High Court and, in 1951, House of Lords.
Nicholson and Sons Ltd , brewersRecords of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, comprising memorandum about box 'WRN' and key being sent from Maidenhead to Horsleydown. The box contained company documents, now catalogued as ACC/2305/23/001-005, 008-010, 013-015, 017, 021 and 033 and 042.
Nicholson and Sons Ltd , brewersCorporate records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, including Board and general meetings minute books; agenda books; register of members; register of mortgages; register of seals; articles of association; annual reports; and papers relating to the acquisition by Courage.
Nicholson and Sons Ltd , brewersRecords of Newgate Market, City of London, 1671-1878, including administrative papers (petitions, court orders, letters) and financial papers (accounts, rental accounts).
Corporation of LondonPapers of Sir Shirley Foster Murphy, 1890s-1900s, comprise correspondence and both unpublished and published work in the fields of health and medicine and relate to his work as a medical officer. The collection notably comprises correspondence from Dr Ernest Pfeiffer, 1899-1901 (Murphy/01); handwritten extracts and notes from works concerning slaughterhouses and meat inspection, [1890s-1900s] (Murphy/02); manuscript titled 'Alcohol in relation to the Child and to National Health', [1890s-1900s] (Murphy/03); manuscript notes on topics including 'liberty and authority' and 'alcohol and poverty', [1890s-1900s] (Murphy/04); published paper concerning the sale to the public of tuberculous meat (British Congress on Tuberculosis for the Prevention of Consumption, by Shirley Murphy, Medical Officer of Health of the Administrative County of London), [1890s-1900s] (Murphy/05) and an address, perhaps given to his colleagues at County Council of London on the subject of food supplies, with reference to tuberculosis, [1890s-1900s] (Murphy/06).
Murphy , Sir , Shirley Foster , 1848-1923 , Knight , public health officialPapers, 1795-1860, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to the Jamaican estates of Reverend Isaac Robinson and his wife Rebecca Bond, including marriage settlement, deed of trusts and copy of draft general report in Chancery action taken by Abraham Watson Rutherford and others versus Sarah Wilkinson, widow, Revd. Isaac Robinson and Rebecca his wife and others in the matter of estate of William Bond, deceased, executor and residuary legatee of brother Thomas Bond, deceased, both West India merchants, with schedules of accounts relating principally to management of sugar and coffee plantations in Jamaica and sale of produce. Also documents relating to trusteeships held by clerk Thomas Robinson of Milford; and conveyances by lease and release for Bittacy House in Mill Hill.
Moore and Blatch , solicitorsMemorandum and articles of association for Medway Mineral Waters Limited, 1949.
Medway Mineral Waters LtdRecords of McGeorge and Heppenstalls Limited, brewers, including register of probates and transfers; shareholder's dividends and share and stockholders legder.
McGeorge and Heppenstalls Ltd , brewersRecords of the Manor Park Brewing Depot, consisting of letter books of outgoing correspondence from the Manor Park site.
Whitbread and Co Ltd , Manor Park Brewing DepotRecords of Mackeson and Company Limited, brewers, consisting of a series of reports from 1925 to 1959.
Mackeson and Co Ltd , brewersThe collection (with the exception of CLA/017/LC/05/001 which dates from 1630) dates from 1859 onwards and includes:-
Records of the Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market, Smithfield, 1859-1898 (CLA/017/MP) : administrative and financial records.
Records of London Central Markets, Smithfield 1863-2009 (CLA/017/LC) : annual reports submitted to the Court of Common Council by various Markets Committees; annual and monthly reports from the Superintendent to the Central Market's Committee; details of tonnage received at the market; analysis of supplies; monthly and weekly reports; rental and tenancy agreements; account books; average prices; Acts of Parliament relating to the market; porter's licences; reports; brochures, handbooks, photographs and audio-visual material. Also papers relating to the investigation by civil engineers B L Hurst & Peirce into the cause of the movement of cracks which appeared in Entrance 20 of the market building.
Corporation of LondonPapers of Leadenhall Market comprising administrative papers including letters, petitions, superintendent's reports and clerk's books, 1686-1978; and financial papers including rents and returns, 1913-1948, collector's books, 1779-1825, tenancy agreements, 1881-1913, weekly cash receipts, 1934-1966, disbursements, 1927-1947 and various accounts and dues, 1826-1889.
Corporation of LondonRecords of the Kertasarie Tea Company Limited, including board minute book, circulars to shareholders, correspondence, and photograph album of tea and coffee estates.
Kertasarie Tea Co LtdRecords of Jude Hanbury and Company Limited, brewers, including accounts ledgers and financial reports from the 1940s through the the 1960s along with earlier corporate correspondence dating from the 1920s and 1930s which includes the agreement between Jude Hanbury and Mackeson for the purchase of freehold property in 1934.
Jude Hanbury and Co Ltd , brewersRecords of John May and Company Limited, brewers, comprising Directors' minute book; compensation fund ledger including audited balance sheets and compensation fund accounts with bank.
John May and Co Ltd , brewersRecords of John Lovibond and Sons Limited, 1896-1973. This collection comprises corporate records including minutes of Directors' meetings and General meetings, registers of shareholders, articles of association and a register of mortgages and charges.
John Lovibond and Sons Ltd , brewersRecords of James Vickers and Company, wine and spirit merchants, comprising financial records 1867-87 (Mss 24588-91); records drawn up on the transfer of the business to Edward Vickers including trade ledger balances, stock records and lists of fixtures and fittings 1877-87 (Mss 24592-5); deed dissolving the partnership of E and J Vickers with other papers 1863 and 1877 (Ms 24596); family and business papers and correspondence 1869-1912 (Mss 24597-602); and plans, leases and sales particulars relating to various properties 1867-91 (Mss 24603-5).
James Vickers and Co , wine and spirit merchantsRecords of James Hole and Company Limited, brewers, comprising copy report and valuation for Courage, Barclay and Simonds with memorandum about revised valuation.
James Hole and Company Ltd , brewersRecords of J T Hart and Sons Limited, butchers, including financial accounts; purchase books; and illustrated brochures.
J T Hart and Sons Ltd , butchersRecords of J Lyons and Company Limited, food manufacturers and caterers, 1891-1995. The archives reflect all aspects of the company's history. There are some of the usual company records relating to management, shareholding and administration, but the collection is particularly strong in what may be termed ephemera. There are hundreds of photographs, from 1887 up to the present day, a few films and videos, and large collections of press cuttings, advertisements, menus and even a set of lithographs which were commissioned by the company after the Second World War as a way of brightening up Lyons Corner Houses.
J Lyons and Company Limited , food manufacturers and caterersRecords of J and W Nicholson and Company Limited, gin distillers, 1897-1986. This collection contains corporate and premises records. Corporate records comprise a change of name certificate and premises records include documents relating to individual public houses and premises, mortgage information and a plan of The Richmond Hotel, Hammersmith.
J and W Nicholson and Co Ltd , gin distillersRecords of the Institute of Meat, a training body for the UK meat industry, comprising constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, administrative and estate papers.
Institute of Meat , training body for the UK meat industryRecords of the Institute of Masters of Wine, comprising minute book of the Education Committee, correspondence and cartoons depicting wine tastings.
Institute of Masters of WineRecords of Ind Coope Limited, brewers, 1850-1985. This collection contains corporate records including trading and supply agreements with other organisations such as Wembley Stadium, Pleasure Foods Ltd and various public houses; papers relating to loans and papers relating to income bonds.
Also documents relating to individual public houses and off-licences in Kensington, Poplar, Woolwich, Stepney, City of London, Holborn, Islington, Hackney, Lambeth, Westminster and Newham.
Allied Breweries LtdInd Coope Ltd , brewersIncorporated Society of London Meat Trades annual report for 1914.
Incorporated Society of London Meat TradesRecords of the Improved Public House Company Limited, a subsidiary of Whitbread and Company Limited, brewers. The records cover mainly corporate and financial papers including minutes, registers, private ledgers, accounts, and property agreements.
Improved Public House Co Ltd , public house management companyLetter from Quintin Hogg of 5 Richmond Terrace, Whitehall, London [replacing 23 Rood Lane, London which has been struck through] to Mr Parker, 26 Feb 1876. Detailing the final stages of the transfer of an estate called 'Industry' by Parker to Hogg; mentioning the shipping of sugar and rum.
Autograph, with signature.
Hogg , Quintin , 1845-1903 , merchant and philanthropistRecords of Harrisons Ramsay Proprietary Limited, including articles of association; minutes of the board; annual reports; reports on visits to branches; correspondence; memoranda; general reports; financial accounts; summaries of shipments and sales; correspondence regarding arrangements for staff during the Second World War; and papers of various subsidiaries.
Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Harrisons Ramsay Proprietary Ltd , importer of tea and coffeeRecords of Harrisons Nursery Garden in Kensington, 1755-1839. The most interesting are the records of the nursery and seed business begun by Henry Hewitt in 1775 or earlier and carried on by his nephews John and Samuel Harrison. These include account books and stock books which list a wide variety of seeds of vegetables and flowers, bulbs bought from Holland, and seedlings of various ornamental trees, shrubs and fruit trees. Some were grown at the nursery but the majority were grown by country farmers on contract. The business was run with some success and had regular clients in all parts of England including many titled families. It was the practice for one of the partners to travel round the country to collect payment for outstanding accounts and probably orders (for the expenses for these trips include many gratuities to gardeners). In spite of this and an apparent high turnover, however, clients were bad at paying bills and the business was sometimes in difficulties. New partners brought fresh capital from time to time. The last partner was William Bristowe who joined in 1819 with, a fourth share, the firm then being described as Harrison and Bristowe. In 1833, however, Samuel Harrison was described as a bankrupt.
Also included are the records of Lane and Prideaux, solicitors, 1775-1839, concerning the settlement of the estate of Samuel Harrison, a bankrupt, and the estate of his uncle Henry Hewitt, d.1790 and other relatives and friends for whom the Harrison family acted as executors, and the payment of annuities under Henry Hewitt's will.
Harrisons Nursery Garden , KensingtonIlluminated certificate congratulating George John Harmar and Charles Fellows Pearson on 50 years with the company.
Harmar, Pearson and Sons , distillers