IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-033
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BRASH BROTHERS (TEA) LIMITED
Date(s): 1922-[1960]
Level of description: Collection
Extent: One production unit.
Name of creator(s): Irving | Margaret | fl 1922-1960 | tea taster
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Brash Brothers first appear in a commercial directory in 1892, as a partnership, at 9 and 11 Fenchurch Avenue and 13 St Mary Axe. By 1918, they were at 38 Mincing Lane. From 1923 they were at 23 Rood Lane, and 1935-69 at 13 Rood Lane. They also had various warehouses in the London suburbs at various dates. Brash Brothers appear to have become a limited company, Brash Brothers (Tea) Limited, circa 1940. In 1996 the firm was taken over and no corporate records are known to survive.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Margaret Irving relating to her work as a tea taster at Brash Brothers (Tea) Limited.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One item.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
These personal papers of Margaret Irving were given to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by a relative in October 1997. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
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: January to May 2011.