IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4453/U
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: GOODHEWS LIMITED
Date(s): 1929-1971
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.48 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Goodhews Ltd | brewers
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Goodhews Limited was established in 1929 with R. & F. Goodhew and C.H.J Broadway joint managing directors. Registered Office in 1930: 10 Bridge Street, Westminster. R.V. Goodhew sold out of the company in 1932 and his shares were bought up by Watney, Combe, Reid and Company Limited. Whitbread and Company Plc purchased a majority interest in Goodhews (Holdings) Limited in 1982.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records 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.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged in one series: LMA/4453/U/01: Minutes.
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
Related material:
See also records of Watney Combe Reid (references ACC/1399, ACC/2979, and ACC/0735).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010