IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4453/Y
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: CHELSEA BREWERY
Date(s): 1899
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.1 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Whitbread and Co Ltd | Chelsea Brewery
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Matthews and Cannings brewery in Chelsea was bought by Whitbread in 1899. At that time it was valued at £274,000 which included 100 tied houses taking most of the 60,000 barrels being produced. Unlike the previous Whitbread purchases, Matthews and Cannings was kept open as a brewery with Charles Crawshay, previous manager and one of the old owners, kept on to run it. Charles Crawshay was also made a managing director of Whitbread.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Whitbread and Company's Chelsea Brewery, consisting of sign boards and tablets designs book along with a customer ledger dated 1899.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in one series: LMA/4453/Y/01: Books and ledgers.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
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:
Received in 2001 as a gift.
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