Records of Charrington United Breweries Ltd, London, England

• Memorandum and articles of association 1965;
• Amalgamation and liquidation papers 1963 -1966;
• Board minutes 1965;
• Annual reports and accounts 1962-1964;
• Debenture records 1967;
• Trust deeds 1963-1966;
• Manual of output and loss recording 1964;
• Pensions explanatory booklets 1960s.

Charrington United Breweries Ltd was registered as a limited liability company in 1962 at 34 Davies Street, London, England to undertake the merger of Charrington & Co Ltd, London, and United Breweries Ltd, London, by an exchange of shares. In 1964 some 5,300 licensed properties were owned by the group. The company acquired Offilers' Brewery Ltd, Vine Brewery, Ambrose Street, Derby, Derbyshire, England, and Dunmow Brewery Ltd, Dunmow Brewery, North Street, Dunmow, Essex, England, in 1965; and Massey's Burnley Brewery Ltd, Bridge End Brewery, Westgate, Burnley, Lancashire, England, in 1966. In 1967 the company merged with Bass, Mitchells & Butlers Ltd, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England to form Bass Charrington Ltd (later Bass plc).

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.

Access to records within this collection is open, however an appointment may be required. Please email Archives and Special Collections for advice: library-asc@glasgow.ac.uk

Tennent Caledonian Breweries

See also University of Glasgow Collections

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Copies of Board meeting papers 1965 at Bass plc, Burton-on-Trent, England

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. Custody of the Scottish Brewing Archive was transferred to Glasgow University Archive Services in 2008.

None expected

• GB 248 T: Records of Tennent Caledonian Breweries;
• GB 248 BHW: Records of Bay Hotel (Whitburn) Ltd;
• GB 248 CBL: Records of Caledonian Breweries Ltd;
• GB 248 AJ: Records of Aitchison Jeffrey Ltd;
• GB 248 AIT: Records of James Aitken & Co (Falkirk) Ltd;
• GB 248 JF: Records of John Fowler & Co Ltd;
• GB 248 JGT: Records of J G Thomson & Co Ltd;
• GB 248 UCB: Records of United Caledonian Breweries;
• GB 248 WMC: Records of William Murray & Co Ltd;
• GB 802302: Records of Charrington United Breweries Ltd (private collection, see Richmond & Turton, 'The brewing industry', 1990);
• GB 802302 BAC: Records of Charrington & Co Ltd, brewers (private collection, see Richmond & Turton, 'The brewing industry', 1990);
• GB 802302 no 619: Records of United Breweries Ltd (private collection, see Richmond & Turton, 'The brewing industry', 1990);
• GB 802302 no 619: Records of Offilers' Brewery Ltd (private collection, see Richmond & Turton, 'The brewing industry', 1990);
• GB 0037 D/F 117: Records of Dunmow Brewery Ltd (Essex Record Office);
• GB 802302 BAC: Records of Dunmow Brewery Ltd (private collection, see Richmond & Turton, 'The brewing industry', 1990);
• GB 0494: Records of Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd (Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Burton upon Trent Archives).

This material is original