Major accessions to repositories in 2004 relating to Brewing

Local

Canterbury Cathedral Archives

• Ridgens Brewery, Canterbury: rent accounts and receipts 1803-34 (U457)

Edinburgh City Archives

• Incorporation of Coopers of Leith: records 1550-1862 (Acc 668)

Essex Record Office

• Harry Ruse, innkeeper, Radwinter: ledger, with letters and papers 1897-1910 (D/F 261 addl)

London Metropolitan Archives: Joint Archive Service of the Corporation of London

• Courage, Barclay and Simmonds Ltd, brewers: Courage family letters 1832-1970 (ACC/2305/08 (B04/008))

Nottinghamshire Archives

• British Beer and Pub Association: Midlands counties: minutes 1915-91 (DD 2515)

Powys County Archives Office

• Montgomeryshire Quarter Sessions: notebook of John Prothero and Evan Arthur rel to inspections of beer, spirits, candles, tobacco and licensed premises in Newtown 1815 (M/X/151)

Shropshire Archives

• Southam's Brewery Ltd, Shrewsbury: additional records 19th -20th cent (Acc 7171)