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A. S. DANIELL AND COMPANY
GB 0074 CLC/B/065 · Collection · 1830-1875

This archive relates mainly to the management of the coffee, coconut and cinnamon estates of A. S. Daniell and his son S. W. Daniell in Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. The estates were called Gomera Tennai, New Gomera, Olooambelam, Imbulgaswaddie and Katooloya Tennei. The archive consists mainly of returns and reports from the local managers, Darley Butler and Company of Colombo, Ceylon, and of correspondence, accounts and legal papers. It also includes some family papers, comprising copies of wills and marriage settlements, accounts, bills and receipts, and a letter. Additional records of Daniell and Company, of separate provenance, are catalogued as Mss 11464-11465a.

Daniell and Co , coffee, coconut and cinnamon growers Darley Butler and Co , estate managers
GB 0074 CLC/B/112-017 · Collection · 1913-1956

Records of Abaco (Selangor) Rubber Limited, comprising circulars to shareholders and annual reports.

Abaco (Selangor) Rubber Ltd
GB 0074 CLC/B/036-02 · Collection · 1899-1947

Records of Abelheira Paper Mills Limited, consisting of constitutional documents, Board and general minutes, annual reports, and an inventory of land in Portugal. The records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Abelheira Paper Mills Limited
GB 0074 CLC/B/101-02 · Collection · 1929-1965

Records of Aberdeen, Ceylon and Eastern Trust Limited, comprising minutes and directors' annual reports and accounts.

Aberdeen, Ceylon and Eastern Trust Ltd , investment trust
GB 0064 AAM · Collection · 1825-1914

Papers of Adam and Company Limited covering the period 1825 to 1914. They relate to the sugar trade and import merchanting, including in-letters, bills of lading, charter parties, invoices, account sales and disbursements accounts; to ships' agency work, in particular that of the Clan Line; to insurance matters, consisting of policies and claims; to marine casualties, notes of protest and particular and general average statements and survey reports. There is a great deal of detailed information about the employment of immigrants and the conditions relating to their welfare. There is also a census of slaves employed on the Pipon estates in 1826 ('Greffe de l'Enregistrement des Esclaves'). Note that this collection is uncatalogued and there is no detailed list available.

Adam & Company Limited
GB 0074 ACC/2910 · Collection · 1869-1885

Records of The Aerated Bread Company Limited, 1869-1885, comprising a set of minutes of the Board of Directors, and a register of company premises.

Aerated Bread Company Limited , bakers, confectioners and light refreshment contractors
GB 0074 ACC/2169 · Collection · 1889-1971

Records of the Albion Iron and Wire Works Company Limited, 1889-1971. The majority of the records concern the everyday running of the Company and one of its associated companies, Myerson Kilby Limited, and comprise ledgers, journals, cash books and estimate and invoice books. Unfortunately no minute books have been deposited. There is a substantial run of order books which give a good account of the range of goods manufactured and the variety of customers served by the company. There are also some records relating to property owned by the Company.

Albion Iron and Wire Works Company Myerson Kilby Limited , sheet metal workers
GB 0074 LMA/4435 · Collection · 1884-1988

Records of Meux's Brewery Co, a subsidiary of Allied Breweries Ltd, and records of various companies acquired by Meux before it was acquired by Allied. The collection contains the records of the following companies:
Meux's Brewery Company Limited
Thorne Bros Limited
Burge and Company Limited
J and W Nicholson and Company Limited
John Lovibond and Sons Limited
Claude-General Neon Lights
Oldham Sign Service

Each company collection contains corporate records which can include minutes of meetings, memoranda and articles of association, registers of directors and members and corporate agreements. Meux's Brewery Company Limited has a large collection of premises records including early title deeds, mortgage agreements and schedules of properties. There are numerous items of interest including legal papers relating to a court case between Meux's Brewery and the Marquis of Aylesbury circa 1902 (LMA/4435/A/01/011) and a complete set of end of year accounts 1931-1984 for Claude-General Neon Lights (LMA/4435/F/009).

This collection contains records from several business types, breweries, gin distillers (J and W Nicholson and Company Limited), neon light manufacturers and sign makers illustrating the wide variety of functions carried out by Allied Breweries and it's companies.

Allied Breweries Ltd
GB 0074 CLC/B/112-018 · Collection · 1925-1988

Records of Allied Sumatra Plantations Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports; prospectus and circulars to shareholders.

Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Allied Sumatra Plantations Ltd
GB 0074 LMA/4433/E · Collection · 1949-1961

Records of Alperton Bottling Company Limited, 1949-1961. This collection contains records relating to corporate functions, premises, accounts and miscellaneous items, including minutes of Directors' meetings and Shareholders' meetings, file relating to the proposed erection of an extension to the bottling plant and an album of photographs of the opening of the bottling plant in 1951.

Alperton Bottling Co Ltd
AMEY'S BREWERY LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4453/XF · Collection · 1946

Records of Amey's Brewery, consisting of memorandum and articles of association dated 1946.

Amey's Brewery Ltd
Anderson, New and Co
GB 0096 MS 725 · 1798-1799

Draft minutes of the weekly meetings of the proprietors of Anderson, New and Co., held at the Compting House, Redcross St., Bristol, from 2 Jul 1798 to 11 Mar 1799. The proprietors were James New junior, Samuel New junior, Francis Bull, S. James, William Walker and Charles Anderson. The drafts record their decisions in some detail, concerning the purchase of land at Netham Mill and Blacksworth, the building of warehouses, and the purchase of raw material and machinery. At the foot of each sheet is written 'Ent[ere]d', followed usually by the initials 'J.N.'

Anderson, New and Co , brass manufacturers
GB 0097 ANDREWS-BRUNNER · [1932-1970]

Material collated by Professors Philip Walter Sawford Andrews and Elizabeth Brunner, [1932-1970], during their teaching and research in the field of industrial economics, including records of the Oxford Economists Research Group, [1930s], and of the Oxford Research Group in Economics, [post World War Two]; papers relating to economics teaching at the Universities of Oxford and Lancaster; extensive research materials on microeconomics and the theory of the firm, especially the British steel industry and the international nitrogen cartel; papers relating to Andrews' practice as an economics expert for the Restrictive Practices Court, including description of practice in many manufacturing industries.

Andrews , Philip Walter Sawford , 1914-1971 , Professor of Economics Brunner , Elizabeth , 1920-1983 , Professor of Economics
GB 0074 CLC/B/011 · Collection · 1897-1948

The surviving archives of Anglo-Russian Cotton Factories Limited consist of board and general meetings minutes, and papers relating to the act of association and to dividends.

Anglo-Russian Cotton Factories Ltd
ANGLO-THAI CORPORATION
GB 0074 CLC/B/123-01 · Collection · 1836-1979

Records of the Anglo-Thai Corporation and predecessors; including partnership deeds; agreements; articles of association; Directors' minute books; press cuttings; annual reports; papers relating to shares; financial records; correspondence, tenders; employment contracts; deeds for property and photographs.

Gillanders, Ewart and Co , traders in goods from India x Arbuthnot, Ewart and Co , traders in goods from India Ewart, Lyon and Co , traders in goods from India x Ewart, Latham and Co , traders in goods from India Anglo Siam Corporation x Anglo Thai Corporation
GB 0074 CLC/B/112-019 · Collection · 1911-1957

Records of the Ankola Tea and Rubber Company Limited including articles of association; prospectuses; annual reports; correspondence and reports on the estates.

Ankola Tea and Rubber Co Ltd
GB 0074 CLC/002 · Collection · 1704-1989

RESTRICTED ACCESS: PERMISSION NEEDED FROM THE SOCIETY.

Records of the Antiquarian Horological Society, comprising: AGM notices, 1966-date (Ms 20510); minutes, 1950-70 (Ms 20511, 20512-13, 20575); lists of members, 1957-67 (Ms 20511A); publicity material, 1954-ca. 1974 (Ms 20514-15); Benjamin Gray's daybook, 1704-26 (Ms 23726); Robert Gardner's commonplace book, ca. 1887 (Ms 29842); and miscellaneous papers, ca. 1915-89 (Ms 29186-7A, 29287, 29292, 30794-4A).

Ms 20514 is a series of printed pamphlets recording the history of the Society in a summary form, 1955-ca. 1974.

They were catalogued at various dates from 1983 by members of Guildhall Library staff. Access to records should be sought from the Society (contact details may be obtained from the enquiry desk).

Antiquarian Horological Society
APPRENTICESHIP
GB 0074 ACC/0097 · Collection · 1715-1836

Papers relating to apprentices, comprising conditions of employment of journeymen regarding trade secrets for the printing, colouring and staining of silks, linens and calicos, 1715; and apprenticeship indenture for Moses Kendall to Francis Church, timber merchant, 1736.

Agreements regarding business partnerships, including agreement for draper John Mosden, painter Edward Baugh and grocer Matthew Hewytt to establish business of Mercer, 1729; agreement that John Chaplyn, haberdasher, and George Kent, mercer, will trade jointly as mercers, 1729; agreement of co-partnership between John Purcas and Abraham Purcas, merchants, 1732. Also bond and receipts.

Unknown
GB 0074 CLC/B/013 · Collection · 1623-1639

Papers of trader Richard Archedale, comprising journal of receipts and payments; and business and personal accounts.

Archedale , Richard , 1574-1638 , trader
GB 0074 CLC/B/112-020 · Collection · 1910-1988

Records of Asahan Rubber Estates Limited including articles of association; minute books; annual reports and circulars.

Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from the Manuscripts enquiry desk).

Asahan Rubber Estates Ltd
ASHFORD VALLEY
GB 0074 ACC/2305/49 · Collection · 1948-1964

Records of Ashford Valley Cyders Limited, manufacturers of cider, including Directors' meeting and general meeting minutes; memorandum and articles of association; and certificate of incorporation.

Ashford Valley Cyders Ltd , manufacturers of cider
ASHTON GATE
GB 0074 ACC/2305/74 · Collection · 1866-1932

Records of Ashton Gate Brewery Company Limited, comprising general meeting minute book.

Ashton Gate Brewery Co Ltd Hardwick and Co Ltd , brewers
GB 0074 CLC/L/FC · Collection · 1620-1895

Records of the Association of Fellowship Porters. The records were compiled between 1620 and 1895. However they also include a copy of the ordinances of 1566, and copies of acts from 1619. No membership records are available before 1756. The collection also includes rules and regulations; Court minute books; quarterage books and financial accounts.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.

Association of Fellowship Porters
GB 0074 CLC/027 · Collection · 1943-1974

Minute books of the Association of Fresh Meat Wholesalers.

Association of Fresh Meat Wholesalers
GB 0074 CLC/B/112-023 · Collection · 1911-1988

Records of Bah Lias Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports and circulars.

Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from staff).

Bah Lias Rubber Estates Ltd
GB 0074 CLC/B/112-024 · Collection · 1911-1988

Records of Bajoe Kidoel Rubber and Produce Company Limited, including articles of association; minute books; annual reports; circulars; photograph album showing coffee and rubber estates; and ledgers.

Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Bajoe Kidoel Rubber and Produce Co Ltd
GB 0074 CLC/B/227-014 · Collection · 1628

Deed of co-partnership between William Baldwyn and John Tynte to act as woollen drapers.

Baldwyn , William , d 1661 , merchant taylor and draper Tynte , John , d 1671 , woollen draper
BAMBOO PAPER COMPANY
GB 0074 CLC/B/022 · Collection · 1919-1928

Records of the Bamboo Paper Company Limited, comprising memorandum and articles of association, an agreement with the India Paper Pulp Company, and correspondence.

Permission to gain access to these records should be sought from the depositor (contact details may be obtained from staff).

Bamboo Paper Co Ltd , paper manufacturers
GB 0074 ACC/2305/01-1 · Collection · 1814-1960

Corporate records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, brewers, including legal case papers; papers relating to the organisation of the company; Board meetings minutes, agendas and papers; financial accounts; reports; papers relating to stocks and shares; mortgages and deeds; registers; investment ledger; articles of association and partnership deeds.

Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewers
GB 0074 ACC/2305/01-2 · Collection · 1748-1965

Financial records of Barclay Perkins, brewers, including rest books; balance sheets; ledgers; journals; cash books and cash analysis and audit.

Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewers
GB 0074 ACC/2305/01-4 · Collection · 1801-1964

Production records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including Bottling Department Committee minutes; brewing books; ale brewing books; lager brewing books; summaries of beer gyles (a gyle is the quantity of beer or ale brewed at one time); financial calculations relating to the cost of brewing; sugar and caramel books; stock records; papers relating to the production of lager including laboratory test results and complaint book; plans; and brewers' records.

Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewers
GB 0074 ACC/2305/01-6 · Collection · 1560-1983

Property records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including schedule of property; inventories and valuations of furniture, plant and machinery; deeds and leases; plans; and papers relating to public houses.

Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewers
GB 0074 ACC/2305/01-8 · Collection · 1573-1974

Public relations records for Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including papers from the museum and library relating to the history of the brewery, including press cuttings, plans, drawings, photographs, certificates, pamphlets, beer accounts, maps, publications relating to brewing, and papers relating to the Barclay family.

Also memorabilia relating to author Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), friend of the Thrale family (the latter owned the Brewery before selling it to Barclay and Perkins).

Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewers
GB 0074 ACC/2305/01-7 · Collection · 1620-1957

Papers of individual members of staff at Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including papers of chairman E W Giffard; papers of managing director H L Grimston; papers of Company solicitor R Whitmarsh Gray, including legal papers and press cuttings; papers of head brewer J B Binnie, including photographs, posters, advertisements, invitations, cards and programmes; and papers of head brewer Charles Collard, including brewing books.

Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewers
GB 0074 ACC/2305/01-3 · Collection · 1833-1955

Sales records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including sales books and ledgers; sales comparisons; gains and losses book; trade sales; sales to Bottling Department; registers of customers; papers relating to the duty on beer; and circulars book.

Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewers
GB 0074 ACC/2305/01-5 · Collection · 1885-1974

Staff records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including clerks' salaries books; staff registers and service books; papers relating to brewing staff, cellar staff, cooperage staff and lager staff; pensioners and invalid payments books; correspondence; papers relating to the staff Social and Athletic Club; issues of the staff magazine "The Anchor", and photographs.

Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewers
GB 0120 MSS.5201-5202 · 1744-1799

Ledgers recording accounts for medical treatment and drugs dispensed, 1744-1799. Patients included, as well as private individuals, the Oxfordshire and Herefordshire militias, the poor of various parishes, and the local bridewell. On the front covers are annotations by Dr B E A Batt and his father Dr C D Batt, including the names of Edward Batt (1741-1797), surgeon and apothecary, and Augustine William Batt (1774-1847), MRCS Eng. Both practised in Witney.

Batt Family
BCT GRAY AND SONS
GB 0074 CLC/B/023 · Collection · 1846-1906

The archives consist almost entirely of business and partnership correspondence of A.G. Wentworth Gray between 1856 and 1906. They therefore include some private and family material. The firm dealt in a wide variety of goods and cargoes. The records contain references to, inter alia: beef, pork, cocoa, flour, sugar, limes, molasses, rice and timber.

Access to Mss 21409, 21411, 21412 and 21413 is subject to special conditions: for further information please ask a member of staff.

BCT Gray and Sons , merchants
BELGRAVIA DAIRY COMPANY
GB 0074 ACC/3361 · Collection · 1925-1931

Records of the Belgravia Dairy Company, comprising financial ledgers, 1925-1931.

Belgravia Dairy Company
GB 0097 COLL MISC 0003 · 1863-1905

Pay books of Bell Brothers South Brancepeth Colliery (South Durham, Brockwell seam and Busty seam) and Clarence Iron Works.

Bell Brothers Ltd, iron and steel manufacturers, colliery and quarry owners, Middlesbrough Cleveland
GB 0074 ACC/2951 · Collection · 1877

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deed to receive royalties on manufacture of bricks on land near Southall, Hayes, with plan, 1877.

Belmont and Lowe , solicitors
GB 0074 O/248 · Collection · 1800?-1899?

Advertisement of John Besford, supplier of patterns and drawings for needlework and netting silk, dated to the 19th century.

Besford , John , needlework pattern supplier
GB 0074 ACC/1616 · Collection · 1690-2001

Records of Bevington and Sons, 1690-2001, including: partnership agreements, 1837-1946, minutes, 1859-1930, and partnership negotiations; financial records 1803-1949; records relating to types of stock, products and technical processes and innovations, 1879-1946; staff attendance books and photograph album, 1860-1877; records relating to property, 1792-1967; records relating to stock and finance, 1862-1946. Also family correspondence 1690-1837, and publications and articles on the history of the firm. The family correspondence offers insights into business practice, family relationships and domestic concerns, often in a single letter. Correspondents include women in the family, as wives and daughters of the company partners. Accounts for female family members are also represented.

Bevingtons and Sons Limited , leather merchants and manufacturers
BILA (SUMATRA) RUBBER LANDS
GB 0074 CLC/B/112-025 · Collection · 1934-1938

Articles of association for Bah Lias Rubber Estates Limited.

Bah Lias Rubber Estates Ltd
BINNY AND COMPANY LIMITED
GB 0074 CLC/B/123-10 · Collection · 1903-1972

Records of Binny and Company Limited, steamship agency, traders, textile mill operators and engineers, including articles of association; annual reports; financial accounts; investment ledgers; correspondence; memoranda; papers regarding company history; and photographs of staff, offices and works.

Binny and Co Ltd , steamship agency, traders and mill operators Binny and Co (Madras) Ltd , steamship agency, traders and engineers Buckingham and Carnatic Co Ltd , textile mills
BIRCH AND GAYDON
GB 0074 CLC/B/024 · Collection · 1839-1960

Records of Birch and Gaydon Limited, comprising watch books and job books, ledgers, stock books, repair and sales books, and other financial records, as well as some promotional material.

Birch and Gaydon Ltd , watchmakers
Blackmore Manufacturers
GB 0096 MS 462 · 1783-1831

The collection contains a memoranda book covering the years 1783 to 1785, with additions and annotations. The contents include notes of orders, bills, advertisements, names of customers, tables showing different qualities of worsteds and a 'black list' of employees.

Blackmore Manufacturers
GB 0074 CLC/B/227-028 · Collection · 1808-1826

Account book of Thomas Blossom, coachbuilder, including costs and a detailed list of each stage of his work on repairing and building coaches and carriages of (named) gentry, 1809-14; summary entries of coach work, 1808-9; and Blossom's note of cargoes received at Tahiti and Eimeo (Windward Islands, French Polynesia) from the London Missionary Society, 1821-6.

Blossom , Thomas , fl 1808-1826 , coachbuilder
BLUE NILE: CORPORATE RECORDS
GB 0074 ACC/2305/02-1 · Collection · 1953-1972

Corporate records of the Blue Nile Brewery Limited, including minutes of the directors' board; correspondence; press cuttings; managing director's reports; memorandum and articles of association; papers about political matters; papers regarding Sudan; compensation files; papers regarding the organisation of the brewery and visits file.

Barclay Perkins and Co (Sudan) Ltd , brewers Blue Nile Brewery Ltd
BLUE NILE: FINANCIAL RECORDS
GB 0074 ACC/2305/02-2 · Collection · 1951-1971

Financial records of the Blue Nile Brewery Limited, including balance sheets; correspondence; budgets; cash forecasts; remuneration file; excise duty files and financial accounts.

Barclay Perkins and Co (Sudan) Ltd , brewers Blue Nile Brewery Ltd