TOP STAR TAVERNS LIMITED

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 LMA/4453/XE
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: TOP STAR TAVERNS LIMITED
Date(s)	: 1970-1975
Level of description	: Collection View parent record
Extent	: 0.16 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Top Star Taverns Ltd | public house management company

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Top Star Taverns Limited was incorporated in 1970. Whitbread Flowers Limited was the major shareholder (51%) with the remaining shares being held by Tuckwell Inns Limited, Leicester. Tuckwell were responsible for the management of the public houses the Company owned.

These houses included: Lemon and Parker, Gloucester Travellers Rest, Ross-on-Wye Lady Godiva, Coventry Bear and Ragged Staff, Kenilworth The Cuty Arms, Earlsden The Anchor Tavern, Stratford-on-Avon Grove House, Swindon The Swinging Plaice, Gloucester and The Kings Head, Hereford.

In February 1973 Whitbread Flowers Limited purchased the remaining shares from Tuckwell Inns Limited as part of the reorganisation of the retail operations of the Western Region of Whitbread and Company Limited. Top Star Taverns Limited ceased trade from this point. The Company entered liquidation in March 1974 (liqudator: Alec E Baldwin of Whitbread Flowers Limited), held its final meeting in December 1974 and was officially dissolved on 18 March 1975.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records relate to the operation and acquisition of Top Star Taverns Limited including articles of association, minutes, accounts, and correspondence from the 1970s.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

These files are arranged in the following series:
LMA/4453/XE/01 Articles of Association and Agreements;
LMA/4453/XE/02 Minutes;
LMA/4453/XE/03 Accounts;
LMA/4453/XE/04 Correspondence;
LMA/4453/XE/05 Operations;
LMA/4453/XE/06 Corporate Stationery;
LMA/4453/XE/07 Whitbread Archivists' Files.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.

Finding aids:

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

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These files were transferred to Whitbread Archives in October 1986.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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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:
November 2009 to February 2010