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