IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4453/L
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WELWYN RESTAURANTS LIMITED
Date(s): 1920-1958
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.7 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Welwyn Restaurants Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Whitbread and Company was offered a majority sharehold in Welwyn Restaurants Limited in 1937 following the success of Whitbread's Improved Public House Company. This gave the Brewery a monopoly on supply to the Welwyn Garden City's five pubs. Welwyn Garden City is a planned town in Hertfordshire, founded in 1920.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Welwyn Restaurants Limited, mainly corporate and financial records dated from the 1920s through to the 1960s; including minute books from directors' meetings, Company registers, seal books and accounts.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
LMA/4453/L/01: Minutes; LMA/4453/L/02: Registers and ledgers; LMA/4453/L/03: Accounts.
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 in 2001 as a gift.
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