Major accessions to repositories in 2011 relating to Brewing

Local

Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service

• Charles Wells Ltd, brewers, Bedford: papers rel to various public houses 1764-1909 (WL1000)

Dorset History Centre

• JA Devenish plc, brewers, Weymouth: additional records incl cask books, ledgers, receipt books, cash books, and files rel to property 1800-1999 (D/DEV)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

• George Gale & Co Ltd, brewers, Horndean: image and historical material rel to pubs and advertisements c1875-2007 (29A11)

Nottinghamshire Archives

• James Hole & Co Ltd, brewers, Newark: day and wages books 1896-1955 (8003)

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Lichfield Record Office

• Allied Breweries Ltd, Burton: research records 1950s-1997 (522)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

• Oxborrow, Son & Morgan, auctioneers and surveyors, Ipswich: corresp rel to Orwell Hotel, Felixstowe and Tollemache Brewery site, indexed registers rel to valuations for probate, war damage, and dilapidations and other records 1911-1967 (HE403)
• Pauls Malt Ltd, brewers, Ipswich: ledger 1927-1940 (HC461)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

• Wadley & Co, brewers, Highworth: accounts 1898-1918 (3986)
• Wadworth & Co Ltd, brewers, Devizes: deeds to inns in Bath (Somerset) and Nether Wallop (Hampshire) 1849-1969 (2816)

National

English Heritage Archive

• Brewery History Society: photographs (10,000) 20th cent (BHS01)

University

London University: Senate House Library

• Beer Trade Protection Society: committee minutes, financial statements, reports of select committees into the licensing system and corresp 1854-1866 (MS1183)