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HARMANS UXBRIDGE BREWERY: PRODUCTION RECORDS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2305/30-4

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HARMANS UXBRIDGE BREWERY: PRODUCTION RECORDS

Date(s): 1938-1964

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 12.42 linear metres (extent of all 7 Harmans Uxbridge Brewery subfonds combined).

Name of creator(s): Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Old Brewery, High Street, Uxbridge, was established in the early eighteenth century by George Harman. It was run as "Harman and Company" by Stanislaus Ronayne Conron and Alice Fleetwood Webb until it was incorporated in 1924 as "Harman's Uxbridge Brewery Ltd". It acquired R Halley Ltd in 1954. The company was taken over by Courage, Barclay and Simonds in 1962; the brewery was closed in 1964 and the company went into liquidation in 1967.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Production 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.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery are arranged in 7 sub-fonds:
ACC/2305/30-1: Corporate records;
ACC/2305/30-2: Financial records;
ACC/2305/30-3: Sales records;
ACC/2305/30-4: Production records;
ACC/2305/30-5: Staff records;
ACC/2305/30-6: Property records;
ACC/2305/30-7: General records.

Conditions governing access:

Restricted access: please see staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited as part of an accession of records from Courage Barclay and Simonds, 1969-1988.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Alcoholic beverages | Beverages | Food | Agricultural products
Breweries | Commercial buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Brewers | Food industry personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Brewing industry | Food industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Food production | Cultivation | Agronomy
Production | Economic behaviour | Economic conditions
Beer x Alcoholic beverages
Machinery x Machines
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Ltd

Places
Uxbridge | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hillingdon