IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2305/66
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WHEELER'S WYCOMBE BREWERIES
Date(s): 1844-1950
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1.25 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Wheeler's Wycombe Breweries Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Brewery, Easton Street, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was established in the late eighteenth century by Biddle and King, later Biddle and Wheeler, then Wheeler and Company. Wheeler and Company, together with Leadbetter and Bird, Frogmoor Brewery, High Wycombe, were incorporated in 1898 as Wheeler's Wycombe Breweries Limited. Taken over by Ashby's Staines Brewery in 1929 and acquired with that company by H and G Simonds in 1931. In voluntary liquidation 1950.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Wheeler's Wycombe Breweries Limited, including Directors minute books; Board minute book; papers on expenditure on public houses; appropriation account; annual general meeting shareholders attendance book; register of members; register of mortgages; register of transfers; share transfer certificates; debenture stock ledgers and registers; register of probates and letters of administration; register of directors; register of directors of managers; annual returns under Companies Act 1929 and 1948; Directors' reports and accounts; salary books; schedule and valuation of properties.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Corporate: ACC/2305/66/001-022;
Staff: ACC/2305/66/023-024;
Premises: ACC/2305/66/025-026.
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
Related material:
Other records have been deposited in Buckinghamshire Record Office. For papers about liquidation see H and G Simonds, ACC/2305/60/030.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010