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London Metropolitan Archives

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


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4453/S

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

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

Date(s): 1823-1983

Level of description: Collection

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 AND 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.

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

Publication note:

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

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Breweries | Commercial buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Brewers | Food industry personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Brewing industry | Food industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government
Sales | Trade (practice)
Company archives
Property

Personal names

Corporate names
Godfrey Shewell and Co | brewers
Gripper Brothers Ltd | brewers
Whitbread and Co Ltd | brewers
Whitbread and Company Plc | brewers

Places
Tottenham | Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Haringey