Major accessions to repositories in 2018 relating to Brewing

Local

Cambridgeshire Archives

• Brewers day book, Cutlacks of Littleport? 1834-1841 (R118/061)

City of Westminster Archives Centre

• William Sugg & Co Ltd, gas light and heating appliance manufacturers: company records including minutes, AGM reports, annual reports, press cuttings, member registers, photograph album, product information, and company histories 1881-1967 (2981)

Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven

• Cleator Moor Brewing Co Ltd: shareholder minutes, accounts ledger and wages book 1874-1947 (YDB 100)

Derbyshire Record Office

• William Burkitt (c1799-1873), maltster: day book 1858-1861 (D8135)

Dorset History Centre

• Hall & Woodhouse Ltd, brewers, Blandford Forum, Dorset: deeds to properties no longer owned by the brewery 1555-1905 (D-HAW)

Hackney Archives

• Charrington & Co Ltd, brewers, Mile End: papers relating to redevelopment of premises 1936 (2018/19)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

• Worshipful Company of Brewers, London: manorial overview of Little Ilford, Essex 1597 (B18/136)

Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

• Oakhill Brewery Co Ltd: additional accounts and staff photograph c1895-1925 (A/EOY)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

• Brewing and Farming Ledgers incl farm account book rel to payments to Oakes bank south Norfolk/ north Suffolk 1842-1854 (HD4153)

Surrey History Centre

• Elkins family, brewers of Guildford: family papers and photographs c1820-2016 (9855)
• Friary, Holroyd and Healy's Breweries Ltd, Guildford: papers rel to titles to properties 1895 (9924)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees

• Bentley & Shaw, Lockwood Brewery: records incl postcards 19th-20th cent (WYK1734)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds

• Joshua Tetley & Son Ltd, brewers: Wheelwright's department: collections account rel to employee donations to the Red Cross 1922-1971 (WYL2578)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

• Joyce Watney (fl 1875-1900), diarist and daughter of Norman Watney, director of brewery firm Watney & Co Ltd: ms diary c1875-1900 (Add MS 89361)

Manx National Heritage Library & Archives

• Ewart McArd (fl 1929-1951), dentist: dental practice records 1929-1951 (MS 14499)