DARTFORD BREWERY: FINANCIAL RECORDS

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 ACC/2305/04-2
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: DARTFORD BREWERY: FINANCIAL RECORDS
Date(s)	: 1897-1957
Level of description	: Collection View parent record
Extent	: 2.5 linear metres (extent of all 3 Dartford Brewery subfonds combined).
Name of creator(s)	: Dartford Brewery Co Ltd

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Dartford Brewery was founded as "Miller and Aldworth", and from 1887 "Miller and Aldworth Limited". It was incorporated in July 1897 as "Dartford Brewery Company Limited".

The brewery was acquired jointly by Style and Winch Limited and the Royal Brewery Brentford Limited in 1924; and was therefore acquired by Barclay Perkins and Company Limited in 1929 when it purchased Style and Winch Limited and the Royal Brewery Brentford Limited.

The Brewery went into voluntary liquidation in 1970.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Financial records of the Dartford Brewery Company Limited, including private ledgers; bank account books and publicans loan and deposits interest accounts.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The records of Dartford Brewery are arranged in 3 sub-fonds:
ACC/2305/04-1: Corporate Records;
ACC/2305/04-2: Financial Records;
ACC/2305/04-3: Property Records.

Conditions governing access:

Restricted access: please see staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

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

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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