IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2305/30-2
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HARMANS UXBRIDGE BREWERY: FINANCIAL RECORDS
Date(s): 1875-1964
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:
Financial records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including ledgers; journals; estate accounts; cash books; bank passbooks; accounts; bank statements; credit balances; receipts; papers regarding investments; correspondence relating to financial matters including overdraft, stock and the Loan and Slate Club; income tax papers; audit papers; tax demands and brewery accounts.
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
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010