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NICHOLSON AND SONS: CORPORATE RECORDS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2305/23-1

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: NICHOLSON AND SONS: CORPORATE RECORDS

Date(s): 1903-1967

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2.23 linear metres (extent of all 4 Nicholson and Sons subfonds combined).

Name of creator(s): Nicholson and Sons Ltd | brewers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

A brewery at 77 High Street, Maidenhead was founded in 1840 by William Nicholson whose sons joined him in 1877. Nicholson and Sons Limited was incorporated in 1903. The company acquired Langton's Brewery, Market Street, Maidenhead, in 1906, and Fuller, Story and Company Limited, Bell Brewery, King Street, Maidenhead, in 1922.

They were a wholly owned subsidiary of Courage and Barclay by Nov 1959. The brewery closed in February 1961 and the company entered voluntary liquidation in 1967.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Corporate records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, including Board and general meetings minute books; agenda books; register of members; register of mortgages; register of seals; articles of association; annual reports; and papers relating to the acquisition by Courage.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records of Nicholson and Sons have been arranged in 4 sub-fonds:
ACC/2305/23-1: Corporate records
ACC/2305/23-2: Sales records
ACC/2305/23-3: Staff records
ACC/2305/23-4: General 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
Articles of association | Documents | Information sources
Breweries | Commercial buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Brewers | Food industry personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Brewing industry | Food industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Corporate minutes | Business records | Documents | Information sources
Mergers | Industrial policy | Industrial economics
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Nicholson and Sons Ltd | brewers

Places
Maidenhead | Berkshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe