IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4453/XC
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: MACKESON AND COMPANY LIMITED
Date(s): 1925-1959
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Mackeson and Co Ltd | brewers
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Mackeson brewery in Hythe became part of the Whitbread organisation when it was acquired in 1929 along with Jude Hanbury and Company Limited. Both companies were merged with Leney and Sons to form a group refered to collectively by Whitbread as The Kent Breweries.
Although reports vary, the brewery could have been founded as early as 1669 although it didn't begin commercial production of beer until 1907. It was most well known for its Mackeson recipe of milk stout using milk sugar, patented in 1875, which it began to produce in 1910. However, post-war disapproval from the Government of its claims over milk content resulted in the dropping the word "milk" from its labels. By the mid-1960s Mackeson accounted for over half of all Whitbread production however, owing to its low alcohol content of 3%, it fell out of fashion. Following the takeover of Whitbread by Interbrew it was brewed at their Magor brewery in Wales before being contracted to Young's.
The Mackeson line also includes triple (XXX) stout and XXXX stout brewed for both the American and British markets.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Mackeson and Company Limited, brewers, consisting of a series of reports from 1925 to 1959.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged in one series: LMA/4453/XC/01: Accounts.
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.
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 in 2001 as a gift.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See also references LMA/4453/A/09, LMA/4453/XA, and LMA/4453/XB.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010