GRIPPER BROS LIMITED: BELL BREWERY, TOTTENHAM (LATER TOTTENHAM DEPOT)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 LMA/4453/S
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: GRIPPER BROS LIMITED: BELL BREWERY, TOTTENHAM (LATER TOTTENHAM DEPOT)
Date(s)	: 1823-1983
Level of description	: Collection View parent record
Extent	: 0.66 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Gripper Brothers Ltd | brewers

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Gripper Brothers Bell Brewery was established in Tottenham in 1760 and was acquired by Whitbread and Company in 1896. Whitbread turned it into a bottling depot later the same year although some of the older brewery buildings on the east side of the High Road were still in use in 1924.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records relating to the Bell Brewery, Tottenham, consisting of title deeds for property including documents on the Bell Brewery itself, employee name and wages books from the 1880s through to the 1900s, a claims book (1903-1953) and a summary record of sales from 1934 to 1957.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

LMA/4453/S/01: Title deeds; LMA/4453/S/02: Staff; LMA/4453/S/03: Sales.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

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:

Received in 2001 as a gift.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Publications used for admin history: Victoria County History (1976) History of Middlesex. Volume 5.

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