Major accessions to repositories in 2008 relating to Brewing

Local

Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service

• Thomas Sworder & Co, brewers, Luton: business and property records c1850-1900 (X95)

Bury Archives Service

• Woolpack Public House, Bury: wages books 1962-1967 (BWL)

Cornwall Record Office

• Redruth Brewery Co Ltd: additional records 1800-2000 (AD1940)

Cumbria Record Office and Local Studies Library, Whitehaven

• Jennings Brothers plc, brewers and wine merchants, Cockermouth: additional account book, reports and balance sheets 1968-2004 (YDB 28)

Cumbria Record Office, Kendal

• A Bertwistle & Sons, brewers' agents, Appleby: wages books 1937-1955 (WDB 144)

Devon Record Office

• City Brewery Co Ltd, Exeter: plans, deeds and papers collected by the Brewery History Society 1833-1989 (7327)

East Sussex Record Office

• Tamplin's Brewery Ltd, Brighton: records incl subsidiaries Vallance Catt & Co and West Street Brewery 1790-1957 (ACC 10071)

Essex Record Office

• TD Ridley & Sons Ltd, brewers, Chelmsford: further ledgers 1968-1984 (D/F 49)

Manchester Archives and Local Studies

• Walker & Homfrays Ltd, brewers, Salford: directors' meeting minute book 1937-41 (2008/110)

Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester

• Boddingtons Breweries Ltd, Manchester: records from Boddingtons Brewery at Strangeways, incl ledger books, accident report books, brewing books and stock book 1906-2003 (2006.4)

Nottinghamshire Archives

• Nottingham Brewery Ltd: deeds 1815-1863 (7352)
• Warwicks & Richardsons Ltd, brewers, Newark: specifications and bill of quantities for public houses in Newark-on-Trent and Farnsfield, registers of alterations and repairs to public houses, accounts book, and register of proposed alterations and plans submitted for public houses c1880-1964 (7416)

Sheffield Archives

• Crescent Hotel, Sheffield: account book with AH Smith & Co Ltd, Don brewery 1911-21 (X167)