Sales records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including papers relating to beer sales; sales summary sheets; sales journals; records of free trade and tied trade; records regarding wines and spirits; customer accounts; sales representatives expenses and sales records; stock and debt books; Building Department stock lists; price lists; papers relating to lager sales.
Harmans Uxbridge Brewery LtdProperty records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including rent books; purchase of property book; estates summary; tenancy records; papers relating to building repairs; rating and valuations records; redemption of land tax certificates; insurance records; deeds; and register of plant and machinery.
Harmans Uxbridge Brewery LtdProduction records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including hop crop summaries; papers relating to testing and repair of plant and machinery; Board of Trade census of production returns; and papers relating to Garland Vaults (wine and spirits department) including stock taking sheets.
Harmans Uxbridge Brewery LtdGeneral records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including family tree of the Harman family; photographs of the visit of a Mayor to the Brewery; and publicity material.
Harmans Uxbridge Brewery LtdFinancial records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including ledgers; journals; estate accounts; cash books; bank passbooks; accounts; bank statements; credit balances; receipts; papers regarding investments; correspondence relating to financial matters including overdraft, stock and the Loan and Slate Club; income tax papers; audit papers; tax demands and brewery accounts.
Harmans Uxbridge Brewery LtdCorporate records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including minutes, agendas and related papers; Directors' papers; papers relating to stocks and shares; trust deeds; debenture records; agreements; papers and diaries of the Company Secretary; agreements; debenture stock records; annual returns; articles of association; certificate of incorporation; register of seals; papers relating to acquisitions; financial correspondence; annual reports with accounts.
Harmans Uxbridge Brewery LtdPapers of the Halifax Dockyard, consisting of sixty-six Commissioners and officers' letterbooks, containing either in- or out-letters, 1783 to 1887. From the Commissioner's office there are in-letters from the Navy Board, 1815 to 1819 (1 vol); out-letters to the Navy Board, 1816 to 1819 (1 vol); letters to the yard officers, 1805 to 1809 and 1814 to 1819 (5 vols). There are Commissioners' letterbooks of both in- and out-letters: Navy Board letters, 1808 to 1816 (3 vols); Victualling Board letters, 1815 to 1819 (1 vol); Transport Board letters, 1815 to 1817 (1 vol); correspondence with the Commander-in-Chief, 1805 to 1806 and 1808 to 1810 (3 vols); and with yard officers, 1801 to 1803, 1807 to 1812, 1814 to 1819 (9 vols); general correspondence, 1783 to 1789 (2 vols). Two further volumes consist entirely of lists and abstracts of Commissioners' correspondence, 1808 to 1848. The remaining letterbooks relate to the yard officers. Fifteen volumes are of in-letters: Navy Board warrants, 1807 to 1819 (1 vol); Navy Board letters, 1805 to 1832 (7 vols); Commissioner's letters, 1806 to 1807 and 1815 to 1824 (2 vols), and those from the Commander-in-Chief, 1819 to 1839 (2 vols). There is one volume of letters to the Master Attendant, 1808 to 1813, and two of letters from the Admiralty to the Storekeeper, 1833 to 1842. Officers' out-letterbooks include letters to the Navy Board, 1810 to 1826 (3 vols); to the Commissioner, 1810 to 1819 (1 vol), and to the Commander-in-Chief, 1819 to 1842 (1 vol). The Storekeeper's letters to the Admiralty are contained in ten volumes, 1834 to 1860, 1871 to 1880, 1882 to 1884 and 1886 to 1887; to the Commander-in-Chief, 1842 to 1863 and 1871 to 1881 (6 vols); local letters from the Storekeeper, 1842 to 1866 and 1873 to 1880 (5 vols). Three letterbooks contain both in- and out- officers' correspondence: one was kept by the Master Attendant, 1809 to 1829; one contains correspondence with the Commander-in-Chief in 1819; and the third contains local correspondence of a general nature, 1820 to 1841. There is also one volume of tenders accepted at the yard, 1823 to 1856.
Halifax DockyardRecords of the Anchor Brewery, Lewisham, owned first by H. and V. Nicholl Limited and subsequently by Whitbread and Company. Records include numerous documents and deeds relating to the Lewisham brewery and other premises, correspondence from H and V Nichols, company accounts, and production figures from the late 1880s.
Whitbread and Co Ltd , The Anchor Brewery, LewishamRecords of H and G Watts (1935) Limited, comprising Directors' and general meeting minutes and Customs certificate.
H and G Watts (1935) LtdStaff records of H and G Simonds Limited, brewers, including Staff Salaries committee minutes; Staff Salaries and Appointments committee minutes; private salaries; list of staff with bank and branch; First aid centre daily attendance registers; retail managers register; Pensions fund ledger; staff pension scheme register, being diary of contribution rises, receipts, etc., with extracts from Board minutes.
H and G Simonds Ltd , brewersSales records of H and G Simonds Limited, brewers, including weekly cellar stock books; annual stock books; financial and sales records; brewing book; beer production records; daily brewing records; and monthly barrels racked.
H and G Simonds Ltd , brewersPremises records of H and G Simonds Limited, brewers, including Estates committee minutes and agenda book; estates ledgers (purchase of property); rough valuations of licensed premises; rent ledger; particulars of freehold, leasehold and copyhold, etc., estates, made up from Nov 1895; register of free properties; schedules of deeds and documents; register of private houses, shops, cottages and other properties and easements; register of fire insurance renewals; and correspondence about deeds.
H and G Simonds Ltd , brewersGeneral records of H and G Simonds Limited, brewers, comprising publication Tables of Simple Interest by William Stenhouse, Edinburgh, 1806, signed by author 'Sydney J. Mills'.
H and G Simonds Ltd , brewersFinancial records of H and G Simonds Limited, brewers, including balance sheets; ledgers; journals; cash book; day book; statements; cheques and correspondence on financial matters.
H and G Simonds Ltd , brewersCorporate records of H and G Simonds Limited, brewers, including Board minutes; letter books; records relating to shares and debentures; registers of agreements, seals, directors, directors' holdings and interests; Directors' reports and accounts; papers relating to financial schemes; papers relating to the acquisition and liquidation of other companies.
H and G Simonds Ltd , brewersRecords relating to the Bell Brewery, Tottenham, consisting of title deeds for property including documents on the Bell Brewery itself, employee name and wages books from the 1880s through to the 1900s, a claims book (1903-1953) and a summary record of sales from 1934 to 1957.
Gripper Brothers Ltd , brewersPapers of Sir George Grey. They consist of logs, 1795 to 1798 and 1800 to 1801, letter and order books, 1795 to 1801, and an order book, 1795 to 1801. There are some loose papers, including an account of the loss of the Boyne and of Grey's court martial In addition there are extracts copied from the journal of Sir George Rooke (1650-1709), 1692 to 1704; a volume of copies of General James Wolfe's (1727-1759) orders issued in 1759; and a volume with copies of correspondence exchanged between Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallowell (q.v.) and General Donkin (1773-1841) concerning a proposed duel, 1813 to 1815.
Papers of Sir Charles Saxton, consisting of a report and notes on settlements in Nova Scotia, 1762, an order book, 1780 to 1783, a book of 'remarks made in the presence of the French' in the Invincible, 1781 to 1782, accounts of Portsmouth Dockyard produced for the 1792 . Visitation and general rules for courts martial using the precedents of 1746, 1763 and 1773.
Grey , Sir , George , 1767-1828 , Knight , Captain Saxton , Sir , Charles , 1732-1808 , Knight , CaptainDay book of clock and watch maker Benjamin Gray.
Gray , Benjamin , fl 1727 , watch and clock makerRecords of predecessors of the Grain and Free Trade Association, as follows:
Cattle Feeding Stuffs Central Advisory Committee;
Edible Oil Association;
London Oil and Tallow Trades Association;
London Cattle Food Trade Association;
London Copra Association;
London Corn Exchange Importers' Association;
London Corn Trade Association;
London Port Area Grain Committee;
National Association of United Kingdom Oil and Oilseed Brokers;
National Federation of Corn Trade Associations;
United Associations Limited;
National Lubricating Oil and Grease Federation.
The records include minutes and agendas, financial accounts, cash books, ledgers, papers relating to arbitration and appeals, registers of members and samples books.
Various.The records of Grahams Trading Company Limited consist of constitutional documents, minutes of the Board, executive committee, and annual general meetings, annual reports and accounts, financial material, register of directors, press cuttings and title deeds. This collection is held offsite and requires 24 hours notice for access.
Grahams Trading Co Ltd , general merchants and manufacturersRecords of Grahams (Lisbon) Limited, general merchants and manufacturers, consisting of Board minutes, annual reports and a register of directors. The records are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.
Grahams (Lisbon) Ltd , general merchants and manufacturersRecords of the Gourepore Company, manufacturers of jute, comprising memorandum and articles of association.
Gourepore Co , manufacturers of jutePapers of Rupert Thomas Gould, consisting of eight working notebooks containing details kept by Gould on the stripping, cleaning, re-assembling and testing of the four Harrison Timekeepers, 1923-39; three monographs (bound together) relating to the No.1 timekeeper; typescript detailed account on the No.2 timekeeper; and a printed lecture delivered to the British Horological Institute in 1931 on the No.3 timekeeper. There are also various files of correspondence relating to his presentation of notebooks and papers to the Royal Observatory, 1945-46.
Gould , Rupert Thomas , 1890-1948 , Lieutenant CommanderThe collection illustrates the history of piracy from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It includes a journal of the voyage of Captain Bartholomew Sharp in the MAYFLOWER, 1680 to 1682, kept by his second-in-command, John Cox; it was on this voyage in the Pacific that Sharp captured a Spanish derrotero and the navigational information in it was used in the atlases of William Hack ([1656]-1708). Two letters from Sir Thomas Lynch (1603-?1684), Governor of Jamaica, give many details about measures taken to suppress piracy; the first, written to Sir Leoline Jenkins (1623-1683), Secretary of State, in 1683 relates principally to the interruption by privateers of the sugar trade of the West Indies; the second letter was written in 1683 to the Secretary of State for Northern Affairs, Lord Sunderland (1640-1702), and gives an account of the attack, led by Vanhorne (d.1683), on Vera Cruz. There is a journal and narrative account of the burning of La Trompeuse and other pirates in port at St Thomas's Island by Captain Charles Carlisle (d 1684) in the FRANCIS, 1683, and a collection of documents received by Sir Evan Nepean with some draft replies while Nepean was Governor of Bombay. These are mainly concerned with the expedition against piracy in the Persian Gulf between 1817 and 1819. There are also personal papers of Dr Gosse, which all relate to his publications on piracy.
Various Gosse , Philip , 1879-1959 , historian and collectorManuscript account book kept by John Goodman of Eversholt for the sales of household goods and groceries, 1786-1800. The accounts are arranged under the names of customers and cancelled as they were settled.
Goodman , John , fl 1786-1800 , grocerRecords of Goodhews Limited, brewers, consisting mainly of minutes from the meetings of the directors of Goodhews Limited and later the subsidiary companies of Goodhews (Holdings), Goodhews (Caterers), Goodhews (Inns), Goodhews (Castle Richmond) and the Cromwell Hotel (Stevenage) Limited. There are also papers relating to the formation of the Goodhews Company and the sale of R.V. Goodhews' shares in the 1930s.
Goodhews Ltd , brewersRecords of Tai Tak Plantations Limited, comprising articles of association, annual reports, and circulars.
Tai Tak Plantations Ltd , rubber plantationRecords of Straits Plantations Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports; prospectuses; and out-letters.
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).
Straits Plantations Ltd , rubber and coconut plantationsRecords of the Selaba Rubber Estates Limited, including annual reports and circulars to the shareholders.
Selaba Rubber Estates LtdRecords of the Prang Besar Rubber Estate Limited, including articles of association; board minutes; annual reports; circulars to shareholders; report of a visit to the estate; register of rubber crop types; and papers regarding rubber yields.
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).
Prang Besar Rubber Estate LtdRecords of the New Crocodile River (Selangor) Rubber Company Limited, including articles of association; board minutes; annual reports; and circulars to shareholders.
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).
New Crocodile River (Selangor) Rubber Co LtdRecords of the Lumut Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, report of a visit to the estates, and circulars to shareholders.
Lumut Rubber Estates LtdPapers of the Dusun Durian Rubber Estate Limited, comprising reports of visits to the Dusun Durian estates and circulars to shareholders.
Dusun Durian Rubber Estate LtdRecords of Bukit Kajang Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association; annual reports and circulars to shareholders.
Bukit Kajang Rubber Estates LtdRecords of Golden Hope Plantations Limited, rubber estates management, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports; circulars to shareholders; financial accounts; and some papers of subsidiary Coconut Plantations of Perak Limited.
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).
Golden Hope Plantations Ltd , rubber estates managementThe collection falls into two parts; papers relating to the dockyards and those salvaged from the German battleship Baden after she was beached in 1919. The former comprise a page from a Progress of Works register kept in Chatham dockyard, 1734; a 'Scheme of Prices for Performing Shipwrights Work by Job', 1815; a 'Scheme of Prices for Performing Shipwrights Work', 1857; two notebooks with engineering diagrams and drawings kept by students at Portsmouth engineering school, 1883, 1886. The Baden documents consist of eleven items and include a folder containing papers and letters relating to the fitting out of the ship at Danzig, 1916; a Chief Engineer's order book, 1916 to 1918, and three copies of German newspapers, 1919.
VariousRecords of the Gibson family, mostly relating to their property and estates, including:
ACC/1045/1-10: Pinner Wood, Shower family property, 1550-1717;
ACC/1045/11-21: Northolt, Islips Manor Farm, Shower family property, 1685-1755;
ACC/1045/22-23: Pinner, Barrowpoint or Berry Pond Hill, 1734;
ACC/1045/24-25: Pinner Street, cottage, 1691;
ACC/1045/26-48: Pinner, Brickwall House, 1664-1762;
ACC/1045/49-105: Pinner, Page family properties, 1664-1723;
ACC/1045/106-111: Pinner, Edlin family properties, 1692-1724.
ACC/1045/112-113: Hendon, Bunns Farm, 1733-1739;
ACC/1045/114: Heston, Upper Grove Meadow, 1750;
ACC/1045/116-117: St. James Westminster, Rupert St., 1736-1743;
ACC/1045/118: St. Paul Covent Garden, Bow St., 1683;
ACC/1045/119-121: Kent, Darenth, 1636-1653;
ACC/1045/122: Kent, West Malling, 1701;
ACC/1045/123-136: Shower and Gibson family wills and settlements, 1701-1797;
ACC/1045/137-140: Stanton family wills and settlements, 1713-1739;
ACC/1045/141-143: Articles of partnership, 1706-1758;
ACC/1045/144-148: Accounts, 1710-1747;
ACC/1045/149-153: Papers of Richard Stanton, 1718-1748;
ACC/1045/154-178: Papers of the Revd. John Gibson, 1740-1762;
ACC/1045/179-181: Miscellaneous items, 1677-1744.
Records of George White and Company, tea and rubber brokers, comprising ledgers.
George White and Co , tea and rubber brokersRecords of George Raggett and Sons Limited, brewers, including Directors' and general meeting minutes; certificate of incorporation; correspondence related to balance sheets, accounts and liquidation and private ledger.
George Raggett and Sons Ltd , brewersLedger of George Nicholas and Son, wine merchants.
George Nicholas and Son , wine merchantsRecords of George Barber and Son Limited, printers, consisting of ledgers and cash books, as well as letterbooks. The records are held offsite, and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.
George Barber and Son Ltd , printersRecords of General Apothecaries Co. Ltd including abstract of the deed of settlement of the Company; minute books, 1860-1942; share certificate books, 1856-1948; annual reports and balance sheets, 1882-1945 and miscellaneous papers, 1889-1951.
General Apothecaries Co. LtdPapers of William Gelder including letters from Gelder to his parents in Wakefield, while a dispensing and visiting assistant to [R Lucie] Reed, surgeon, at Whitechapel Road, London, Mar-Nov 1832, and while in Edinburgh in the employ of Mr Cope, a wholesale, retail and manufacturing chemist and druggist, Mar-Aug 1834. Notebook begun by Gelder in Edinburgh in 1834, and continued on a tour through Lancashire, the Isle of Man, Ireland and Wales in 1835, and in trade in Yorkshire, 1836-1837. Containing verses, commonplaces, orders for medicines and other goods, and miscellaneous notes. Signature inside front cover, 'William Gelder, Apothecaries' Hall, Edinbro, 1834.' On the rear end-papers is a coloured engraving of Apothecaries Hall.
Gelder , William , fl 1832-1837 , chemist and druggistRecords of Garden Reach Spinning and Manufacturing Company Limited, comprising board meeting minutes.
Garden Reach Spinning and Manufacturing Co LtdRecords of the Gan Kee Rubber Estates Limited, comprising circulars to shareholders and annual reports.
Gan Kee Rubber Estates LtdRecords of George Jesse Dawson and his son Percy George Dawson, antique clock case makers and restorers. The records comprise job books and accounts.
Dawson , George Jesse , fl 1906-1959 , antique clock case restorerRecords of R.F. Fuggle Limited consisting of employment agreements, an underlease and correspondence, 1924-1928.
R F Fuggle Ltd , motor engineersManuscript volume containing information relating to the finances of France, [1757]-1766, namely a report on the actual state of affairs concerning the finances of the kingdom of France, 1766, including the revenues and expenditure of the king, the extraordinary transactions in France from 1755 to 1763 due to the war against the English, and annual transactions made in the kingdom in favour of the Court of Rome, bishops, dukes, counts and peers; a report giving particulars of the general and specific financial schemes of France, with political observations, 1766; a report on the actual state of the secret and general finances of France and of the organisation of those finances, [1757]; a printed pamphlet by John Holker, being an instructive memoir on the fabric and other woollen goods of England, published in Paris, 1764.
UnknownRecords of Frederick Leney & Sons, brewers, consisting of printed reports and balance sheets for the period of 1925 to 1959.
Frederick Leney and Sons , brewersThis series contains reports concerning the acquisition of Thomas Tilling Limited's bus undertakings by the Board including details of the operation of bus garages and services, comparisons of operating costs and the valuation of the companies.
Pick , Frank , 1878-1941 , transport administrator