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FARNHAM UNITED BREWERIES


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2305/14

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: FARNHAM UNITED BREWERIES

Date(s): 1889-1951

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.75 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Farnham United Breweries Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Robert and John Barrett established the Red Lion Brewery in 1839 and bought two Basingstoke breweries in 1886. They merged with George Timmer's Lion Brewery, Farnham, (est 1859) in 1889; and registered as Farnham United Breweries Limited.

The company acquired Robert Tyler and John Barrett's Wote Street Brewery, Basingstoke, Hants, in 1889. They were acquired by Courage and Company Limited in 1927. They went into liquidation in October 1951.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Farnham United Breweries Limited, including Directors' meeting minute books; press cuttings; agenda book; lists of properties purchased; financial accounts; registers of mortgages and probates; register of sealing.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged in one series: ACC/2305/14/001-013.

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 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
Corporate minutes | Business records | Documents | Information sources
Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Company archives
Property

Personal names

Corporate names
Farnham United Breweries Ltd

Places
Farnham | Surrey | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe