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London Metropolitan Archives

WHITBREAD AND COMPANY LIMITED: THEYDON HALL FARM


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4453/W

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WHITBREAD AND COMPANY LIMITED: THEYDON HALL FARM

Date(s): 1920-1937

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.2 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Theydon Hall Farm

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Theydon Hall Farm was the largest farm located within the ancient parish of Theydon Bois near Epping with land totalling 261 acres. The Farm was used by Whitbread and Company Limited for crops and fodder and for raising horses used at the firm's breweries and depots.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records consist of farm accounts (1920-1937) and stud book listing the pedigree of mares from Theydon Hall Farm.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged in one series: LMA/4453/W/01: Accounts and other records.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.

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:

Received in 2001 as a gift.

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
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
Farm accounts | Accounts | Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Farms | Agricultural holdings | Landholding | Land economics | Agricultural economics
Horse breeding | Animal husbandry
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Theydon Hall Farm
Threshers Limited | off-licence chain

Places
Theydon Bois | Essex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe