IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2305/07-1
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: STYLE AND WINCH: CORPORATE RECORDS
Date(s): 1899-1970
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3.08 linear metres (extent of all 4 Style and Winch subfonds combined).
Name of creator(s): Style and Winch Ltd | brewers
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Medway Brewery, St Peter's Street, Maidstone, Kent was built by William Baldwin in 1806. The company was known as "Baldwin and Holmes" in the 1850s, as "Holmes and Style" during the 1860s and as "A F Style and Company" from 1880. It was amalgamated with E Winch and Sons Limited, of the Chatham Brewery, Chatham, Kent, and incorporated as "Style and Winch Limited" on the 17th March 1899.
Acquired:
- Henry Simmons, Style Place Brewery, Hadlow, Kent, 1905;
- H and O Vallance, The Brewery, Sittingbourne, Kent, 1905;
- Tooting Brewery, 1907;
- Ashford Breweries Limited, Lion Brewery, Ashford, Kent, 1912;
- Woodhams and Co Limited, Rochester Steam Brewery, Rochester, Kent, 1918;
- E Finn and Co Limited, Pale Ale Brewery, Lydd, Kent, 1921.
The Company took a controlling interest in Royal Brewery Brentford Limited in 1922; and jointly with Royal Brewery acquired Dartford Brewery Company Limited in 1924.
Style and Winch Limited was acquired by Barclay Perkins and Company Limited in 1929. It was operated by Courage (Eastern) Limited from 1964; and liquidated by Courage, Barclay and Simonds in 1970.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Corporate records of Style and Winch Limited, brewers, including minutes of Board and general meetings; minutes of joint committee with the Dartford Brewery and the Royal Brewery Brentford; registers of members, shares, mortgages, sealing, and directors; trust deeds; articles of association; directors' reports and accounts; and agreements.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records of Style and Winch Ltd are divided into 4 sub-fonds:
ACC/2305/07-1: Corporate records;
ACC/2305/07-2: Financial records;
ACC/2305/07-3: Staff records;
ACC/2305/07-4: Property 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
Related material:
For the Royal Brewery Brentford see ACC/2305/06; for the Dartford Brewery see ACC/2305/04.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010