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CORNEY AND BARROW LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/059-01

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CORNEY AND BARROW LIMITED

Date(s): 1799-1960

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 18 production units.

Name of creator(s): Corney and Barrow Ltd | wine and brandy merchants

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Corney and Barrow Limited, wine and brandy merchants, successively of 65, and 6 Gresham House, Old Broad Street. The company was known in 1799 as Corney and Cowell. It underwent several changes of name until 1838, when the name Corney and Barrow was adopted.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Corney and Barrow Limited, wine and brandy merchants, comprising order books 1805-8, 1850-1 and 1891-3, and financial records.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The archives of Corney and Barrow Limited were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1966 by the company. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

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 2010 to January 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Alcoholic beverages | Beverages | Food | Agricultural products
Brandy merchants | Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Wine industry | Food industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Wine merchants | Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Spirits x Alcoholic beverages
Wine x Alcoholic beverages

Personal names

Corporate names
Corney and Barrow Ltd | wine and brandy merchants

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe