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REFFELLS BEXLEY BREWERY: FINANCIAL RECORDS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2305/24-2

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: REFFELLS BEXLEY BREWERY: FINANCIAL RECORDS

Date(s): 1889-1960

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1.9 linear metres (extent of all 5 Reffells Bexley Brewery subfonds combined).

Name of creator(s): Reffells Bexley Brewery Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Reffells Bexley Brewery at Bourne Road, Bexley, Kent, was founded in 1874 by H Reffell. It was incorporated in 1898, including Showells Brewery Company Limited, of City Road, London. The company took over the free trade of the Hampstead Brewery Company Limited in 1931. It was acquired by Courage and Barclay in 1957 and the Brewery closed. The company was in liquidation in April 1970.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Financial records of Reffells Bexley Brewery Limited, including impersonal ledgers; cash books; bank cash books; correspondence and accounts relating to taxation.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The Reffells Bexley Brewery records are arranged in 5 sub-fonds:
ACC/2305/24-1: Corporate records;
ACC/2305/24-2: Financial records;
ACC/2305/24-3: Sales records;
ACC/2305/24-4: Staff records;
ACC/2305/24-5: Property records.

Conditions governing access:

Restricted access: please see staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

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:

Deposited as part of an accession of records from Courage Barclay and Simonds, 1969-1988.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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
Accounts ledgers | Accounts | Financial records | Documents | Information sources
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
Cash book | Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Reffells Bexley Brewery Ltd

Places
Bexley | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Kent | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe