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B E BIRD AND COMPANY LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4434/C

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: B E BIRD AND COMPANY LIMITED

Date(s): 1935-1973

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.15 linear metres

Name of creator(s): B E Bird and Co Ltd | off-licences chain

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

B E Bird and Company Limited was incorporated in 1935 with a registered office at 22 St Thomas' Street, London Bridge, SE1. The directors were Edgar Miller and Mrs Beatrice Ellen Bird. The company owned a chain of off-licences, mainly in Surrey. Company number: 302522.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of B E Bird and Company Limited, off-licences chain, comprising Directors' meetings minute books and register of members, including register of directors and share transfers.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Minute books: LMA/4434/C/01/001-002; Register of members: LMA/4434/C/01/003.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

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 as a gift in 2002 and 2008.

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
Corporate minutes | Business records | Documents | Information sources
Off-licences | Commercial premises
Retail trade | Trade (practice)
Share dealing | Financial markets | Investment | Finance
Wine merchants | Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Allied Breweries Ltd
B E Bird and Co Ltd | off-licences chain

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe