IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4453/H
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WHITBREAD PROPERTIES LIMITED
Date(s): 1901-2000
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1.7 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Whitbread and Co Ltd | brewers
Whitbread Properties Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Whitbread Properties Limited was formed out of the Forest Hill Brewery Company in 1929 and was based at the Saracens' Head Hotel, Beaconfield in Buckinghamshire, although later moved to The Brewery, Chiswell Street, EC1 (the main Whitbread offices).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Whitbread Properties Limited, a subsidiary of Whitbread and Company Limited, brewers, including corporate registers, accounts and estate ledgers.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
LMA/4453/H/01: Registers;
LMA/4453/H/02: Accounts;
LMA/4453/H/03: Depreciation ledgers;
LMA/4453/H/04: Estate ledgers;
LMA/4453/H/05: Balance sheets;
LMA/4453/H/06: Annual general meetings.
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
Related material:
See LMA/4453/M for the Forest Hill Brewery Company Limited.
Publication note:
Histories published by Whitbread include: Whitbread's Brewery founded 1742: an illustrated history of the House of Whitbread (1934); Whitbread's Brewery incorporating 'The Brewer's Art' (1951); This is Whitbread (1979) and Monckton, Whitbread's Breweries: a chronological survey of the evolution of one of the oldest groups of breweries in Britain (1984).
See also L Richmond and A Turton, The Brewing Industry: A guide to historical records (1990), LMA Library reference 60.43 RIC.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2009 to February 2010