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CHELSEA BREWERY


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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
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
Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Signs and signboards | Non-verbal information transfer | Information transfer | Communication process
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Whitbread and Co Ltd | brewers
Whitbread and Co Ltd | Chelsea Brewery

Places
Chelsea | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Kensington and Chelsea