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TOP STAR TAVERNS LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4453/XE

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: TOP STAR TAVERNS LIMITED

Date(s): 1970-1975

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.16 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Top Star Taverns Ltd | public house management company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Top Star Taverns Limited was incorporated in 1970. Whitbread Flowers Limited was the major shareholder (51%) with the remaining shares being held by Tuckwell Inns Limited, Leicester. Tuckwell were responsible for the management of the public houses the Company owned.

These houses included: Lemon and Parker, Gloucester Travellers Rest, Ross-on-Wye Lady Godiva, Coventry Bear and Ragged Staff, Kenilworth The Cuty Arms, Earlsden The Anchor Tavern, Stratford-on-Avon Grove House, Swindon The Swinging Plaice, Gloucester and The Kings Head, Hereford.

In February 1973 Whitbread Flowers Limited purchased the remaining shares from Tuckwell Inns Limited as part of the reorganisation of the retail operations of the Western Region of Whitbread and Company Limited. Top Star Taverns Limited ceased trade from this point. The Company entered liquidation in March 1974 (liqudator: Alec E Baldwin of Whitbread Flowers Limited), held its final meeting in December 1974 and was officially dissolved on 18 March 1975.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records relate to the operation and acquisition of Top Star Taverns Limited including articles of association, minutes, accounts, and correspondence from the 1970s.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

These files are arranged in the following series:
LMA/4453/XE/01 Articles of Association and Agreements;
LMA/4453/XE/02 Minutes;
LMA/4453/XE/03 Accounts;
LMA/4453/XE/04 Correspondence;
LMA/4453/XE/05 Operations;
LMA/4453/XE/06 Corporate Stationery;
LMA/4453/XE/07 Whitbread Archivists' Files.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

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:

These files were transferred to Whitbread Archives in October 1986.

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
Articles of association | Documents | Information sources
Breweries | Commercial buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Brewers | Food industry personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Brewing industry | Food industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Business administration | Business
Business management | Management
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Business x Enterprises
Business administration x Business management
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Top Star Taverns Ltd | public house management company
Tuckwell Inns Ltd | Leicester
Whitbread and Co Ltd | brewers

Places
Leicester | Leicestershire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe