Records of John Young & Co Ltd, brewers, Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland

• Directors' minute books 1953-1971;
• Shareholding records 1890-1969;
• Financial records 1916-1971;
• Trade marks 1966;
• Sales records 1949-1958;
• Property records 1968-1971;
• Promotional material 1950s;
• Photographs 1980-1990.

John Young established the Ladywell Brewery, North High Street, Fisherrow, Musselburgh, Scotland, in about 1830. John Young & Co Ltd was registered in 1891 as a limited liability company to acquire the business. The company was taken over, along with 11 licensed houses, by Whitbread & Co Ltd, London, England, in 1968 and ceased to brew in January 1969.

Source: Richmond, Lesley and Turton, Alison (eds). "The Brewing Industry. A Guide to Historical Records" (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1990)

The material is arranged according to the Scottish Brewing Archive classification scheme used within all SBA collections.

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Whitbread Group plc

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Reproduction subject to usual conditions: educational use and condition of documents. Applications for permission to quote should be sent to Archives and Special Collections, please email: library-asc@glasgow.ac.uk

This material has been appraised in line with standard GB 248 procedures

The collection was previously housed with the rest of the Scottish Brewing Archive at Heriot-Watt University. It moved to the University of Glasgow in 1991. More material came from the Whitbread Archive, London, in 2001. Custody of the Scottish Brewing Archive was transferred to Glasgow University Archive Services in 2008.

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• GB 802302: Records of John Young & Co Ltd (private collection, see Richmond & Turton, 'The brewing industry', 1990);
• GB 248 ARTEFACTS: Scottish Brewing Archive Artefacts Collection

This material is original