IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1311
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WATNEY MANN LIMITED {BREWERS}
Date(s): 1874-1938
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Watney Mann Ltd | brewers
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Watney, Combe, Reid and Co Ltd was formed in 1898 when a merger was negotiated between Watney and Co Ltd of the Stag Brewery, Pimlico; Combe and Co Ltd of the Wood Yard Brewery, Long Acre and Reid's Brewery Co Ltd, of the Griffin Brewery, Clerkenwell. Following the merger the company was the largest brewing concern in the United Kingdom, and was based at Watney's Stag Brewery in Pimlico.
In 1953 Watney purchased (jointly with Beecham Group Ltd) the franchise for Coca-Cola in south and northwest England, setting up Coca-Cola Southern Bottlers Ltd in 1956.
In 1956 it was decided that the Stag Brewery offered no further scope for expansion. Mann, Crossman and Paulin Ltd of Whitechapel was acquired to provide a new London brewery, and its name was changed to Watney Mann Ltd.
In 1962 the trading assets of Watney Mann Ltd were transferred to Watney, Combe, Reid and Co Ltd and it became a holding company. In 1972 Watney Mann was acquired by Grand Metropolitan Hotels and was merged with Truman, Hanbury, Buxton and Co Ltd in 1974. In the 1990s it was Watney Mann and Truman (Holdings) Ltd.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Watney Mann Ltd, 1874-1938, comprising deeds and other legal records relating to public houses owned by the company in Hillingdon and West Drayton, including "The Rising Sun", and "The Signal".
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/1311/001 - ACC/1311/017
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright 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:
Received in 1976 (ACC/1311).
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For further records of Watney Mann held at the LMA, see ACC/1320, ACC/1348 and ACC/1290. For records of Watney Combe Reid at the LMA see ACC/2979, ACC/1399 and ACC/0735.
For further records of Watney Combe Reid and Watney Mann Ltd see also Westminster City Archives.
Publication note:
For more information please see Hurford Janes The Red Barrel. A History of Watney Mann (1963) or Walter Pearce Serocold The Story of Watneys (1949). Also Lesley Richmond and Alison Turton The Brewing Industry: a guide to historical records (1990), LMA Library Reference 60.43 RIC.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009