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London Metropolitan Archives

WINE WAYS (SUPERMARKETS) LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4434/Y

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WINE WAYS (SUPERMARKETS) LIMITED

Date(s): 1949-1977

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.36 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Wine Ways (Supermarkets) Ltd | drinks retailer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The London Rubber Company Limited annual report on 1967, printed in The Times newspaper of 29 August 1967, reports that: "we have converted a number of our principal off-licences to a supermarket style of operation trading as Wine Ways (Supermarkets) Ltd., with concentration on a range of nationally advertised wines, spirits and beers offered at reduced prices". Presumably this subsidiary was later sold to the Victoria Wine Company.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Wine Ways (Supermarkets) Limited, drinks retailer, including directors' meetings minute books (including board meetings); register of members, directors and secretaries; papers relating to shares and shareholders; register of uses of the company seal; and financial accounts.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged as one series: LMA/4434/Y/01/001-008: Corporate records.

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 as a gift in 2002 and 2008.

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
Corporate minutes | Business records | Documents | Information sources
Off-licences | Commercial premises
Retail trade | Trade (practice)
Share dealing | Financial markets | Investment | Finance
Supermarkets | Shops | Commercial premises
Wine merchants | Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Allied Breweries Ltd
London Rubber Co Ltd
Wine Ways (Supermarkets) Ltd | drinks retailer

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe