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ANCHOR TAVERNS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2305/27

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ANCHOR TAVERNS

Date(s): 1938-1950

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Anchor Taverns Ltd | caterers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Anchor Taverns Limited was set up by Barclay Perkins in the 1920s as a catering arm, in part to improve management of less salubrious public houses. It was incorporated in 1938 as a subsidiary of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Ltd, and integrated with H and G Simonds' Hotel and Catering Department to form Anchor Hotels and Taverns Ltd, 1961.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Anchor Taverns Limited, caterers to public houses, including memorandum and articles of association, with further copies showing amendments and special resolutions.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records are arranged in one series: ACC/2305/27: Corporate 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
Articles of association | Documents | Information sources
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Caterers | Service industries
Catering | Occupations
Public houses | Commercial buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Anchor Taverns Ltd | caterers

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe