Ansells Brewery Limited

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A Records of Ansells Brewery Ltd

A 1/ Corporate Records
A 1/1/ Registers of Directors
A 1/2/ Directors' Meetings
A 1/2/1/ Minutes
A 1/2/2/ Agendas
A 1/2/3/ Secretary's Reports
A 1/2/4/ Directors' Attendance Books
A 1/2/5/ Directors' Log Books
A 1/3/ Executive Directors' Minutes
A 1/4/ Committees
A 1/4/1/ Directors' Committee Minutes
A 1/4/2/ Management Committee Minutes
A 1/4/3/ Finance, Management and General Committee Minutes
A 1/4/4/ Sub-Committee Minutes
A 1/5/ Divisions
A 1/5/1/ Catering Division
A 1/6/ Shareholders' Meetings
A 1/6/1/ Minutes
A 1/6/2/ Agendas (Ansells)
A 1/6/3/ Agendas (Subsidiaries)
A 1/7/ Annual Reports
A 1/8/ Seal Books
A 1/9/ Company Reorganisation Papers
A 1/10/ Amalgamation Papers
A 1/11/ Subsidiary Company Papers

A 2/ Share Records
A 2/1/ Registers of Members
A 2/2/ Share Registers
A 2/3/ Debenture Registers
A 2/4/ Allotments
A 2/5/ Transfer Registers
A 2/6/ Transfer Forms
A 2/7/ Combined Registers
A 2/8/ Share Ledgers
A 2/9/ Debenture Ledgers
A 2/10/ Summaries
A 2/11/ Papers
A 2/12/ Miscellaneous

A 3/ Accounting and Financial Records
A 3/1/ Ledgers and Account Books
A 3/2/ Edward Ansell's Settlement
A 3/3/ Income Tax
A 3/4/ Land Tax

A 4/ Staff and Employment Records
A 4/1/ Personnel Records
A 4/2/ Salaries and Wages Books
A 4/3/ Miscellaneous

A 5/ Property Records
A 5/1/ Title Deeds
A 5/2/ Registers
A 5/3/ Registers of leases and properties
A 5/4/ Property Valuations
A 5/5/ Plans
A 5/6/ Miscellaneous

A 6/ Legal Records
A 6/1/ Contracts and Agreements
A 6/2/ Architectural and Engineering Drawings

A 7/ Operational Records
A 7/1/ Price Lists
A 7/2/ Sales Figures
A 7/3/ Reports

A 8/ Marketing and Public Relations Records
A 8/1/ Publicity Material
A 8/2/ Photographs
A 8/3/ Miscellaneous
A 9/ Miscellaneous

B RECORDS OF ACQUIRED COMPANIES

B 1/ E Brittain & Company Ltd
B 2/ Coopalls Ltd
B 3/ Charles Delavigne Ltd
B 4/ George Firkins & Sons Ltd
B 5/ Joseph Forrest Ltd
B 6/ Fulton Dunlop & Company Ltd
B 7/ Grigg & Brettell Ltd
B 8/ Charles Heeley Ltd
B 9/ Holt Brewery Company Ltd
B 10/ Ind Coope (South Midlands) Ltd
B 11/ Innes Smith & Company Ltd
B 12/ William Jones & Son (Maltsters) Ltd
B 13/ The Leamington Brewery Pension & Benevolent Fund
B 14/ The Leicester Brewing & Malting Company Ltd
B 15/ Lloyds (Newport) Ltd
B 16/ Lloyd & Yorath Ltd
B 17/ Lucas & Company Ltd
B 18/ Market Taverns Ltd
B 19/ Frank Myatt Ltd
B 20/ The Newport & South Wales Wine & Spirit Company Ltd
B 21/ W A Norton (Aston) Ltd
B 22/ Parker (Maindee) Ltd
B 23/ Rumsey Catering Company Ltd
B 24/ Samson Elwell (Brierley Hill) Ltd
B 25/ Showells Brewery Co Ltd
B 26/ Suffields Ltd
B 27/ Worcester Indoor Bowling Club Ltd

In 1881, Joseph Ansell, a maltster since 1857, and his sons began brewing at their Aston Cross brewery. In 1889 Ansells became a limited company with a share capital of £200,000 and by 1901 the company was worth £750,000. Over this period the brewery at Aston was gradually enlarged, and by amalgamating with, and acquiring other brewing companies the business grew steadily, and in 1934, with the acquisition of the Holt Brewery Company Limited, it became one of the largest brewing groups in the country. The Ansell family link to the company ceased in 1929, with the death of Edward Ansell at the age of 80. In 1961 Ansells joined with Ind Coope and Tetley Walker to form Allied Breweries, which became Allied Domecq, and is now called Punch Retail Ltd.