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STYLE AND WINCH: PROPERTY RECORDS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2305/07-4

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: STYLE AND WINCH: PROPERTY RECORDS

Date(s): 1933-1964

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:

Property records for Style and Winch Limited, brewers, including joint diary with the Royal Brewery Brentford and Dartford Brewery recording notes on premises and public houses; register of insurance for public houses; order book for repairs; tenants dilapidation registers; and repairs ledger.

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 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
Building maintenance | Building operations | Construction engineering
Building management | Real estate management | Business management | Management
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Insurance | Finance
Public houses | Commercial buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Rent | Fees | Finance
Tenants | People by roles | People
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Dartford Brewery Co Ltd
Royal Brewery Brentford Ltd
Style and Winch Ltd | brewers

Places
Kent | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe