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JAMES BUDGETT AND SON LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/133

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: JAMES BUDGETT AND SON LIMITED

Date(s): 1857-1976

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 42 production units.

Name of creator(s): H H and S Budgett and Co | wholesale grocers
James Budgett and Son Ltd | wholesale grocers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

James Budgett founded H H and S Budgett and Company, wholesale grocers, at 22 Mincing Lane in 1857. The Company moved to 5 Monument Yard in 1858. In 1875 it moved to 22 Eastcheap as a wholesale tea and coffee dealer, while a new firm was founded to carry on its sugar, rice and fruit business at Monument Yard.

James Budgett and Son moved to 3-4 Lawrence Pountney Lane in 1880, 2-4 Idol Lane in 1915 and 60 Mark Lane in 1972. It became a private limited company in 1886. It changed its name to Kirtlington Holdings Limited in 1980, but the old name and the sugar business were continued under new owners, E D and F Mann Limited.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of H H and S Budgett and Company, wholesale grocers, and successors James Budgett and Son Limited, wholesale grocers. The archives include some pre-1875 items of H H and S Budgett and Company. These records were taken over by James Budgett and Son in 1875 and some were directly continued by the later company, without any perceptible break. The records also include minutes, financial and administrative material, and records of customers and staff.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The archives were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by the Company in 1983. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Grocers | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Grocery trade | Trade (practice)
Wholesale trade | Trade (practice)

Personal names

Corporate names
H H and S Budgett and Co | wholesale grocers
James Budgett and Son Ltd | wholesale grocers

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe