Catalogue description TRUMAN HANBURY BUXTON AND CO LTD
This record is held by London Metropolitan Archives: City of London
Reference: | B/THB |
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Title: | TRUMAN HANBURY BUXTON AND CO LTD |
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This collection consists of Corporate records, financial material, records of production, stall records, property records, trade records, family papers and printed material |
Date: | 1527 - 1977 |
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A: CORPORATE RECORDS COMPANY FORMATION Articles of Partnership and Association Partnership Deeds and Papers Stocks and Shares General COMPANY ADMINISTRATION Board Meetings Monthly Reports Letter Books Memoranda Books Directors Order Books General B: ACCOUNTING RECORDS Rest Books etc Rest Expenses Memoranda Balance Sheets Profits and Expenses Book Annual Stock and Valuation Book Partners Ledgers Malt and Barley Ledgers Trade Ledgers House Cash Books Abroad Cash Books Loan Ledgers and Cash Books Petty Ledger Bond Books Western Ledger Country Ledger and Cash Books Bad Debt Ledger Main Ledger General Ledgers Receiving Books Receipt Books Expenses and Dissection Books Private Ledgers and Cash Books Property Ledgers and Cash Books Rental Tenants and Landlords Ledgers Tenants Accounts B: ACCOUNTING RECORDS Rent Ledgers and Cash Books Repairs Ledger Bottling Cash Books Savings Bank Ledgers and Cash Books Transport Ledgers Insurance Registers Miscellaneous Ledgers General Making Up Books C: PRODUCTION RECORDS BREWING Gyle Books Ale Gyle Books Square Books Letter Books Barley and Hops Used Malt Room Books Suppliers Samples Gravities Valuation BOTTLING General COOPERAGE General STOCK Stock Books Excise Declarations D: PREMISES RECORDS BREWERY SITE, BRICK LANE Title Deeds General LICENSED PREMISES Title Deeds Statement of Inventories Public House Inventories Photograph Albums Register of Holdings, Properties Books Public House Visits Registers Cellar Inspections Surveyors Instructions Books Records of Individual Public Houses BOTTLING STORES Leases and Agreements OTHER PROPERTY Title Deeds General E: TRADE RECORDS SALES Account Sales, Sales Books Consignments, Country Trade Trade in Barrels DELIVERIES Delivery Books Country Deliveries Books RETURNS Returns Books Filtered Beer Replaced GENERAL Central Clubs Cash Books F: STAFF RECORDS CLERKS Salaries and Agreements BREWERS MEN Wages BOTTLING STORES Wages and Presents COOPERAGE Wages Work Carried Out DRAYMEN Wages and Presents CELLARS Wages and Presents ENGINEERS Wages WORKMEN Presents MANAGED HOUSES Register of Employees RECRUITMENT Applications MEDICAL Examinations Accident Reports PENSIONERS General WORLD WAR II General WAGES/SALARIES General G: PERSONAL PAPERS Truman Family Villebois Family James Grant General Henry Read Hanbury Family Tickell Family General H: HISTORY OF FIRM Historical Research Notes J: DIARIES Personal Diaries Area Diaries BUR: BURTON BREWERY Accounting Production Premises, Trade, Staff GW: GEORGE WOOD AND SON LTD Corporate Records, Premises Records RUS: RUSSELLS GRAVESEND BREWERY Corporate Records Production Premises SUB: SWANSEA UNITED BREWERIES Premises WRI: WRITTLE BREWERY Corporate Records Premises PMT: PRINTED MATERIAL Black Eagle Magazine Newspaper Cuttings General Official Publications X: PHOTOGRAPHS Photographs Y: ARTEFACTS Souvenirs |
Related material: |
The GLRO has extensive collections of brewery records including Barclay Perkins and Courage (Acc 2305), Fuller, Smith and Turner (Acc 891), Meux Ltd (Acc 1714), Sich's Isleworth Brewery (Acc 1214, Acc 1309, Acc 1399) and part of Reid's (Ac.75.108 interim list only). Watney Combe Reid and Co. and Watney Man and Co. are listed as Acc 2979. |
Held by: | London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | 17 sub-fonds |
Access conditions: |
The records can mostly be seen without restriction. However, there is a 30 year closure period on board and committee minutes and unpublished corporate and accounting records; a longer closure period on staff records which contain personal and confidential information is currently operated. Such restricted records cannot be consulted without the written permission of the Company Secretary of Courage Ltd. Suitable copies can be made for the purpose of private study only. Permission to publish copies of documents or to quote large quantities of text in published works must be obtained from the Company Secretary. It is the responsibility of the individual researcher to contact Courage Ltd about matters of copyright. |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
The records of Truman Hanbury Buxton and Co. Ltd have been deposited in the Greater London Record Office in nine separate but interrelated sections in a period spanning from 1973-1979. They do not form the complete archive of the company since additional records are held by the Company Archivist of Courage Ltd. The collection has been arranged by three successive archivists, following the pattern set by the Business Archives Council (used in its survey of the records of Barclay Perkins and Courage). |
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Bibliography Trumans the Brewers 1666-1966 (GLHL 35.145 TRU) The Brewing Industry in England 1700-1830, P. Mathias (GLHL 35.145 MAT) The Brewing Industry: A Guide to Historical Records, L. Richmond and A. Turton (GLHL 60.43 RIC) Spitalfields, Survey of London vol 27 (GLHL 78.3 LCC). |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
TRUMAN HANBURY BUXTON AND CO. LTD The precise origin of the Truman family's involvement in brewing is unclear. Although 1666 is often cited as the start date, it is more likely to have been 1679 when Joseph Truman Senior (d. 1721) acquired the Black Eagle Street brewhouse from William Bucknall. The two sons of Joseph Truman Senior, Joseph Truman Junior (d.1733) and Benjamin Truman (d.1780) entered the business in 1716 and 1722 respectively. The former retired in 1730 and the latter developed the business so that in 1760 (the year he was knighted) Truman's brewery was the third biggest in London, brewing 60,000 barrels of beer per annum. After 1780, James Grant (d.1788), Sir Benjamin's assistant and executor, ran the business whilst the property passed to Sir Benjamin Truman's grandsons, General Henry Read and William Truman Read. In 1789 Sampson Hanbury acquired James Grant's share of the business and managed the brewery until 1835. He was joined in 1811 by his nephew Thomas Fowell Buxton. Additional partners joined in 1816: Thomas Marlborough Pryor and Robert Pryor, who had previously run Proctors brewhouse, Shoreditch. During the first half of the Nineteenth Century, production rose from 100,000 barrels per annum in 1800 to 400,000 barrels per annum in 1850, so becoming the largest brewery in London. Truman Hanbury Buxton and Co. Ltd was registered in 1889 as a limited liability company. The company was acquired by Grand Metropolitan Hotels Ltd in 1971 and changed its name to Trumans Ltd. In 1974 it merged with Watney Mann Ltd. Brewing at Burton ceased in 1971 but the Black Eagle Brewery at Brick Lane continued to operate until 1988. In 1991, Grand Metropolitan Hotels Ltd was taken over by Courage Ltd. Acquisitions made by Trumans during its history for which GLRO has records: Phillips' Brewery, Burton on Trent (1873); Swansea United Breweries Ltd, Orange Street Brewery, Swansea (1926); Russells Gravesend Brewery Ltd, West Street Brewery, Gravesend (1930); Other acquisitions for which GLRO does not hold records include: Michell and Aldous Ltd (1920); Gilbert Reeves and Co. Ltd (1951); Daniell and Sons Breweries Ltd, Castle Brewery, Colchester (1958). NOTES ON OTHER COMPANIES Russells Gravesend Brewery Ltd This brewery was originally operated by W.S. Plane and John Heathorn. In 1858 it was sold, with 22 licensed houses, to the Russell family: John Russell ran the brewery from 1858 to 1893. In 1893 Russell's Gravesend Brewery Ltd was registered as a limited liability company. The company took over: Webb and Co., Fort Brewery, Fort Road, Margate, Kent (1896); Wilmington Brewery Co. Ltd, Hythe Street, Dartford, Kent (1899); James Fleet, The Brewery, Ramsgate, Kent (1899; closed 1919); Writtle Brewery Co. Ltd, Writtle Brewery, Chelmsford (1902; closed 1920); George Wood and Son Ltd, The Brewery, East Street, Gravesend (1911; closed 1911). In 1930, the company and its 223 tied outlets were acquired by Truman Hanbury Buxton and Co. Ltd and it ceased brewing. George Wood and Son Ltd Gravesend Brewery, 8 East Street, Gravesend was founded in the late 1770s. It was operated by Charles Becket in 1832 and run by the same family until the 1850s when George Wood took over the brewery business. His son joined him as a partner in the 1870s. In 1899, George Wood and Son Ltd was registered as a limited liability company. In 1911 it was acquired by Russells Gravesend Brewery and ceased brewing. Writtle Brewery Co. Ltd This brewery dates at least from 1803 when Henry Lambirth (d.1835) of Little Stambridge, Essex was recorded as common brewer. He was a partner with John English at the Stambridge Brewery, and also owned Writtle Brewery. The latter was the office of Lambirth and Porter, wine and spirit merchants. In 1835 the business was inherited by the children of Henry Lambirth's granddaughter, Frances Lambirth; Henry Hardcastle and Thomas Osborne acquired a majority interest in their share in 1873. The brewery was operated by Pattison and Co. until 1888 when Writtle Brewery Co. Ltd was registered as a limited liability company. In 1902 it was taken over by Russell's Gravesend Brewery and the brewery closed in 1920. Some records of the company are kept at Essex Record Office. |
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