Catalogue description THE GUINNESS BARLEY RESEARCH STATION

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Title: THE GUINNESS BARLEY RESEARCH STATION
Description:

The records relate to the work of E.S. Beaven at Warminster on the development of new barley varieties, and the establishment of the British Seed Corn Association Ltd for the distribution of these varieties; and to subsequent developmental work at the Guinness Barley Research Station Warminster.
Date: 1828-1967
Arrangement:

TR GUI/AD2 General Administrative and Commercial Records

 

TR GUI/AD2/1-135 Correspondence and other papers relating to the British Seed Corn Association

 

TR GUI/AD4 Premises Records

 

TR GUI/AD4/1 File, sites for makings

 

TR GUI/ET1 Records of Experiments and Trials

 

TR GUI/ET1/1-68 Barley Trials Plot Books

 

TR GUI/ET1/69-70 Barley Collections Books

 

TR GUI/ET1/71-78 Miscellaneous material

 

TR GUI/ET3 General Research Records

 

TR GUI/ET3/1-22 Records relating mainly to Beaven's work as maltster

 

TR GUI/ET3/1-16 Papers and reports

 

TR GUI/ET3/17-22 Newspaper Cuttings Books

 

TR GUI/ET3/23-53 Records relating mainly to Beaven's barley research

 

TR GUI/ET3/23-28 Papers

 

TR GUI/ET3/29-33 Notebooks

 

TR GUI/ET3/34-61 Miscellaneous material including research notes, correspondence etc.

 

TR GUI/PH2 Compilations of Photographic Prints

 

TR GUI/PH2/1 Photograph album: the lifestory of a barley plant

 

TR GUI/SP3 Records of Products

 

TR GUI/SP3/1 Handbill

 

TR GUI/SP5 Other Records

 

TR GUI/SP51 Newspaper cuttings
Held by: Museum of English Rural Life, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

The Guinness Barley Research Station
Physical description: 296 Documents
Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited by the Guinness Barley Research Station, Warminster, July 1971 Gift (Plot Books as Indefinite Loan) DX104

 

Records deposited by Arthur Guinness Son and Company (Park Royal) Ltd, London, Sep 1971 Indefinite Loan DX105

 

Although in two separate deposits, the records are closely related, so have been amalgamated in a single catalogue.
Subjects:
  • Warminister, Wiltshire
  • Research and development
  • Cereals
  • Cultivation
Administrative / biographical background:

E.S. Beaven (1857-1941) was one of the leading breeders of barley in the first half of the twentieth century.

 

He was a maltster in Warminster, Wiltshire, and he began to make experimental trials of barley.

 

One outcome of his experiments was a new variety, Plumage-Archer, which was one of the principal types of malting barleys until new hybrids, such as Proctor, were introduced after the Second World War.

 

Much of Beaven's work was published posthumously in the book Barley (1947).

 

Both the maltings and the experimental station were taken over by Arthur Guinness, Son & Company (Park Royal) Ltd.

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