Catalogue description GOODENOUGHS OF READING LTD

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Details of TR GOO
Reference: TR GOO
Title: GOODENOUGHS OF READING LTD
Description:

Records of Goodenoughs of Reading Ltd.
Note:

List compiled January 1996

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Date: 1873 - 1965
Arrangement:

TR GOO/AC1/1-9 Ledgers

 

TR GOO/AC2/1 Cash book

 

TR GOO/AC4/1-5 Wages books

 

TR GOO/AC7/1-10 Financial statements

 

TR GOO/AC9/1-2 Accounting papers

 

TR GOO/AD1/1 Minute book

 

TR GOO/AD4/1-2 Administrative premises records

 

TR GOO/CO1/1-2 Company records, partnerships

 

TR GOO/CO2/1-35 Company records, limited companies

 

TR GOO/CO2/36-42 Share certificates

 

TR GOO/CO2/43-46 Share transfer forms

 

TR GOO/CO3/1-3 External agreements

 

TR GOO/CO4/1-6 Company property records

 

TR GOO/CO7/1-2 Records of legal disputes
Held by: Museum of English Rural Life, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Goodenoughs of Reading Ltd, corn merchants
Physical description: 106 Documents
Immediate source of acquisition:

DX10

 

The records were deposited by R.H. Messer, a former Managing Director of the company.
Subjects:
  • Reading, Berkshire
  • Cereals
  • Food production
Administrative / biographical background:

The corn merchants Goodenoughs of Reading Ltd was formed from the amalgamation of two separate companies, both of which were in existence before the turn of the century. F. Goodenough and Co Ltd was trading in 1888, when it acquired premises in Station Road (formerly Beecroft's Steam Printing works- see TR GOO/AD4/1-2), and was registered under the Companies Acts in 1908. In April 1919 it amalgamated to form Goodenoughs Ltd with W.H. Gibbons & Son, which was also trading in Reading at the turn of the century, having premises in Northfield Road and Valpy Street, and which had already joined forces with Palmer and Barlow (agricultural merchants of Oxfordshire). Goodenoughs Ltd was wound up voluntarily in March 1951 in order to carry out a reorganisation of capital, forming Goodenoughs of Reading Ltd, which continued to occupy premises in Northfield Road and Station Hill (see TR GOO/AC4/4-5). Goodenoughs of Reading Ltd was sold 22 May 1962 (see TR GOO/CO2/34).
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