IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4434/Y
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WINE WAYS (SUPERMARKETS) LIMITED
Date(s): 1949-1977
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.36 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Wine Ways (Supermarkets) Ltd | drinks retailer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The London Rubber Company Limited annual report on 1967, printed in The Times newspaper of 29 August 1967, reports that: "we have converted a number of our principal off-licences to a supermarket style of operation trading as Wine Ways (Supermarkets) Ltd., with concentration on a range of nationally advertised wines, spirits and beers offered at reduced prices". Presumably this subsidiary was later sold to the Victoria Wine Company.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Wine Ways (Supermarkets) Limited, drinks retailer, including directors' meetings minute books (including board meetings); register of members, directors and secretaries; papers relating to shares and shareholders; register of uses of the company seal; and financial accounts.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged as one series: LMA/4434/Y/01/001-008: Corporate records.
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 as a gift in 2002 and 2008.
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