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DARTFORD BREWERY: PROPERTY RECORDS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2305/04-3

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: DARTFORD BREWERY: PROPERTY RECORDS

Date(s): 1926-1957

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2.5 linear metres (extent of all 3 Dartford Brewery subfonds combined).

Name of creator(s): Dartford Brewery Co Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Dartford Brewery was founded as "Miller and Aldworth", and from 1887 "Miller and Aldworth Limited". It was incorporated in July 1897 as "Dartford Brewery Company Limited".

The brewery was acquired jointly by Style and Winch Limited and the Royal Brewery Brentford Limited in 1924; and was therefore acquired by Barclay Perkins and Company Limited in 1929 when it purchased Style and Winch Limited and the Royal Brewery Brentford Limited.

The Brewery went into voluntary liquidation in 1970.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Property records from the Dartford Brewery Company Limited, comprising insurance register for licensed premises; premises repair order book and tenants' dilapidations ledger.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records of Dartford Brewery are arranged in 3 sub-fonds:
ACC/2305/04-1: Corporate Records;
ACC/2305/04-2: Financial Records;
ACC/2305/04-3: 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

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
Tenants | People by roles | People
Company archives

Personal names

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

Places
Dartford | Kent | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe