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London Metropolitan Archives

WELWYN RESTAURANTS LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

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

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WELWYN RESTAURANTS LIMITED

Date(s): 1920-1958

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.7 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Welwyn Restaurants Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Whitbread and Company was offered a majority sharehold in Welwyn Restaurants Limited in 1937 following the success of Whitbread's Improved Public House Company. This gave the Brewery a monopoly on supply to the Welwyn Garden City's five pubs. Welwyn Garden City is a planned town in Hertfordshire, founded in 1920.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Welwyn Restaurants Limited, mainly corporate and financial records dated from the 1920s through to the 1960s; including minute books from directors' meetings, Company registers, seal books and accounts.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

LMA/4453/L/01: Minutes; LMA/4453/L/02: Registers and ledgers; LMA/4453/L/03: Accounts.

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 administration | Business
Business management | Management
Corporate minutes | Business records | Documents | Information sources
Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Business x Enterprises
Business administration x Business management
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Welwyn Restaurants Ltd

Places
Welwyn Garden City | Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe