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F. KENDALL AND SON, BREWERS' CHEMISTS OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Catalogue reference: DR 197
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This record is about the F. KENDALL AND SON, BREWERS' CHEMISTS OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON dating from 1845-1966.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- DR 197
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Title (The name of the record)
- F. KENDALL AND SON, BREWERS' CHEMISTS OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1845-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the firm of F. Kendall and Son, their subsidiaries and agencies, with some personal papers.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The main divisions of the collection are:
DR 197/1-82: Accounts
DR 197/83-103: Staff
DR 197/104-137: Property
DR 197/138-145: Correspondence
DR 197/146: Minute book
DR 197/147-154: Shares
DR 197/155-167: Production
DR 197/168-208: Technical
DR 197/209-231: Company documents
DR 197/232-238: Printed matter
DR 197/239-242: Photographs
DR 197/243-285: Subsidiaries and agencies
DR 197/286-315: Personal papers
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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<p>DR 315/1: Records from the offices of F. Kendall and Son, 1775-1974, rescued on closure of the firm by Frederick Morris, Company Secretary.</p>
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <corpname>F Kendall and Son, c1836-1873, of Stratford-Upon-Avon, brewers' chemists</corpname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 315 items
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Frederic Kendall (1809-1883) moved to Stratford, taking over, in 1836 the chemist's shop at 36 High Street, formerly run by S.C. Price. The business prospered and in 1838 he moved to more spacious premises at no. 33 High Street where he could more easily manufacture his preparations. In 1841 he was one of the founding members of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Always interested in the preservation of foodstuffs, by 1866 Kendall was manufacturing bisulphite of lime, used largely in the brewing industry. After complaints about the 'noxious effluvia', this part of the business was moved to the old lime-works near the canal. The chemist's shop in High Street was handed over to his assistant Richard Hawkes in 1873 and Kendall carried on his pioneering work in the application of science to brewing, with increased manufacture of sulphites, bisulphites of lime and other alkalines. After his death in 1883 the brewing chemicals business, allied to the analysis of water for brewers, was carried on by his son George Frederic as F. Kendall & Son and continued to trade until the 1970s, being registered as a limited liability company in 1902. Not all the firm's customers were brewers, but they formed the bulk of the trade, the principal local customer being Flower and Sons, whose old brewery site Kendalls took over in 1910. The business also had offices in France and agents in Australia.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/b51a9b6a-13e6-4aad-868a-f23694e68408/
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F. KENDALL AND SON, BREWERS' CHEMISTS OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON