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Bedfordshire Business Records
A partial list of the Bedfordshire Business Records held by the Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service. Ref | Firm | Types of Archive | Places included |
AQ | W.H.ALLEN of Queen's Park, Bedford (manufacturers of steam, diesel and gas turbines) | Designs for steam, diesel and gas turbine engines; Board of Directors minute books; Works Joint Production Consultative Committee minute books; publicity material; photographs; Company Magazines; staff records; material from Gwynnes Ltd and from J.P.White (Pyghtle Works) before their respective take-overs by Allens; Company History | |
BG | BAGSHAWE of Dunstable (Engineers and ironfounders 1891-1972) | Historical details; general business records; catalogues; advertising literature; maps and plans of works and offices; photographs of works and founder; photographs of social activities; files on associated companies | |
BR | BRITANNIA IRONWORKS of Bedford (J & F Howard (1818-1932) then Britannia Ironworks Ltd. (part of George Fischer Steel & Iron Works Ltd.) | Business records; photographs; works plans; press reports | |
WL | CHARLES WELLS of Bedford (Brewery) | Business records; staff records; architectural drawings; photographs; company magazine; deeds to brewery site; deeds to and sale particulars of public houses | Bedfordshire: Ampthill; Arlesey; Aspley Guise; Barton-le-Clay; Bedford; Biggleswade; Blunham; Bromham; Campton; Cardington; Carlton; Chellington; Clapham; Cople; Cranfield; Dunstable; Eastcotts; Eaton Socon; Everton; Felmersham; Flitton; Flitwick; Goldington; Great Barford; Greenfield; Harrold; Harrowden; Haynes; Henlow; Houghton Conquest; Husborne Crawley; Ickwell; Kempston; Kempston Hardwick; Keysoe; Leighton Buzzard; Lidlington; Little Staughton; Lower Stondon; Luton; Marston Moretaine; Meppershall; Millbrook; Milton Ernest; Mogerhanger; Oakley; Old Warden; Podington; Potsgrove; Potton; Pulloxhill; Radwell; Ridgmont; Riseley; Roxton; Salford;Sharnbrook; Shefford; Stagsden; Steppingley; Stevington; Sundon; Swineshead; Tebworth; Tempsford; Thurleigh; Toddington; Westoning; Wilden; Wilstead; Wootton; Buckinghamshire: Bletchley; Bow Brickhill; Bradwell; Cheddington; Fenny Stratford; Gayhurst; Great Brickhill; Haddenham; Lavendon; Long Crendon; Mentmore; Milton Keynes; New Bradwell; Newport Pagnell; North Crawley; Olney; Padbury; Pitstone; Poundon; Sherington; Simpson; Stoke Goldington; Wavendon; Wendover; Woburn Sands; Wolverton; Cambridgeshire: Bassingbourn; Cambridge; Coates; Eye; Gamlingay; Great Eversden; Great Gransden; Harlton; Hartford; Haslingfield; Little Gransden; Stony Stratford; Thriplow; Hertfordshire: Bushey; Harpenden; Hemel Hempstead; Hitchin; Pirton; St.Albans; Huntingdonshire: Alconbury; Brampton; Buckden; Eynesbury; Fen Stanton; Glinton; Great Staughton; Hail Weston; Hemingford Grey; Huntingdon; Kimbolton; Offord Cluny; St.Ives; St.Neots; Southoe; Stilton; Stonely; Lincolnshire: Stamford; London: various parishes; Middlesex: Euston; Marylebone; Northamptonshire: Achurch Thorpe; Brackley; Brixworth; Chelveston; Clipston; Daventry; Deanshanger; Denton; Earls Barton; East Haddon; Farthinghoe; Great Addington; Great Houghton; Hargrave; Helmdon; Higham Ferrers; Kettering; Little Harrowden; Mears Ashby; Northampton; Rothwell; Rushden; Thrapston; Towcester; Wansford; Weedon; Wellingborough; Wollaston; Yardley Hastings; Suffolk: Aldburgh |
CDE | CHARTER DESIGN PARTNERSHIP (Successors of Usher & Anthony - see ST/U - an architects firm) | Plans of buildings | Bedfordshire: Ampthill; Arlesey; Aspley Guise; Aspley Heath; Bedford; Beeston; Biddenham; Biggleswade; Bletsoe; Blunham; Bolnhurst; Bromham; Caldecote; Cardington; Carlton; Clapham; Colmworth; Cople; Cranfield; Dean; Dunstable; Eaton Socon; Elstow; Everton; Felmersham; Flitton; Flitwick; Girtford; Goldington; Gravenhurst; Great Barford; Harrold; Henlow; Houghton Conquest; Houghton Regis; Ickwell; Leighton Buzzard; Lidlington; Luton; Maulden; Milton Ernest; Mogerhanger; Northill; Oakley; Odell; Pavenham; Pertenhall; Potton; Pulloxhill; Ravensden; Renhold; Riseley; Roxton; Sandy; Sharnbrook; Shefford; Shelton; Silsoe; Souldrop; Southill; Steppingley; Stevington; Studham; Tempsford; Thurleigh; Toddington; Totternhoe; Turvey; Wilden; Willington; Wilstead; Wootton; Buckinghamshire: Chicheley; Emberton; Lavendon; Little Woolstone; Newport Pagnell; Olney; Ravenstone; Sherington; Stony Stratford; Tingewick; Water Eaton; Woburn Sands; Cambridgeshire: Cambridge; Caxton; Gamlingay; Cornwall: Portreath; Derbyshire: Belper; Devon: Torquay; Essex: Wendens Ambo; Hampshire: Farnham; Hertfordshire: Great Gaddesden; Hemel Hempstead; Hitchin; Ludgrove; Welwyn; Huntingdonshire: Hemingford Abbots; St.Neots; Kent: Ashford; Ramsgate; Middlesex: Wembley; Northamptonshire: Brackley; Chelveston; Kettering; Northampton; Peterborough; Rushden; Wellingborough; Oxfordshire: Islip; Kidlington; Tiddington; Surrey: Claygate; Warwickshire: Coventry; Worcestershire: Malvern; Canada: Egremont; USA: Pennsylvania |
GK | GREENE KING (Brewery and including the following firms taken over by Greene King: Wells & Co., Wells & Winch, Newland & Nash, Higgins & Co., Henlow Brewery, Baldock Brewery, Page of Ashwell, Day of St.Neots, Barclay Perkins & Co., Hudson's Cambridge & Pampisford Brewery and Wickham's Brewery of Hertford) | Business records; administration of brewery lands; Brewery and public house deeds to land | Bedfordshire: Ampthill; Arlesey; Aspley Guise; Bedford; Beeston; Biggleswade; Blunham; Bolnhurst; Bromham; Campton; Cardington; Clapham; Clifton; Clophill; Colmworth; Cople; Cranfield; Duloe; Eaton Socon; Elstow; Felmersham; Girtford; Goldington; Gravenhurst; Great Barford; Harrold; Henlow; Houghton Conquest; Kempston; Langford; Lidlington; Luton; Marston Moretaine; Maulden; Melchbourne; Meppershall; Milton Ernest; Northill; Odell; Pavenham; Potton; Pulloxhill; Ravensden; Renhold; Ridgmont; Riseley; Roxton; Sandy; Shefford; Shillington; Silsoe; Southill; Stevington; Stondon; Stotfold; Toddington; Turvey; Wilden; Wilstead; Woburn; Wootton; Wrestlingworth; Wyboston; Wymington; Buckinghamshire: North Crawley; Woburn Sands; Cambridgeshire: Balsham; Barrington; Barton; Bassingbourn; Cambridge; Gamlingay; Grantchester; Great Shelford; Guilden Morden; Hardwick; Harston; Ickleton; Little Shelford; Melbourn; Pampisford; Sawston; Shepreth; Steeple Morden; Trumpington; Essex: Duxford; Great Chesterford; Saffron Walden; Hertfordshire: Baldock; Bengeo; Buntingford; Hertford; Hitchin; Ickleford; Ippollitts; Norton; Pirton; St.Albans; Stevenage; Weston; Huntingdonshire: Abbotsley; Eaton Ford; Eynesbury; Great Paxton; Offord Darcy; St.Ives; St.Neots; Toseland; Surrey: Battersea; Southwark |
SP | HAYWARD TYLER of Luton (pump manufacturers, taken over by Stone Platt Industries then by Indian Head Corporation) | Minute books; financial records; production records; sales records; correspondence; staff records; patents; relationship with other firms; deeds to property in Luton | |
IG | IGRANIC Works of Bedford (founded as Igranic Electric Company, then becoming Brookhirst Igranic, then Cutler Hammer Europa) | Patents; contracts and agreements; trade marks; advertising; employee handbooks; catalogues | |
RGH | RICHARDSON, GILL & HOUFE of London and Ampthill (an architect's firm) | Business records; plans | The archive is largely non-Bedfordshire and due to this and the great bulk of records has not been catalogued, rudimentary finding aids exist, however |
ST/U | USHER & ANTHONY of Bedford (architect's firm) | Architects' and surveyors' notebooks; practice records |
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