Catalogue description BRITISH VINEGARS LIMITED

This record is held by London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

Details of B/BFY
Reference: B/BFY
Title: BRITISH VINEGARS LIMITED
Description:

This collection includes legal papers, property records, staff records, vinegar production records, financial records and printed material
Date: 1757-1960
Arrangement:

This collection includes records of:

 

BEAUFOY AND COMPANY :

 

Legal Documents

 

Property

 

Vinegar Production

 

Employees

 

Trade Correspondence and Sales

 

Accounts

 

Printed Matter and Photographs

 

BEAUFOY, GRIMBLE AND COMPANY, LONDON

 

PANTER, WOODWARD AND COMPANY, BRISTOL

 

CAMBRIAN VINEGAR COMPANY, LEEDS

 

CHAMPION AND SLEE LIMITED, LONDON

 

SARSONS LIMITED, LONDON

 

DUFRAIS AND COMPANY, LONDON

 

BRITISH VINEGARS LIMITED

 

BRITISH VINEGARS LIMITED : COLLECTIONS
Related material:

The Minet Library holds correspondence of Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy (1786-1851) dating from 1847 to 1851. This mainly concerns the establishment of the Lambeth Ragged School built by Henry circa 1847 as a memorial to his wife Eliza. Records of the school itself are held in the Greater London Record Office (ref: A/BFY).
Held by: London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

British Vinegars Limited, 1932-
Physical description: 120 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited on 21 April 1972 and 3 March 1977, Accession Nos. Ac72.30 and Ac77.29
Subjects:
  • Food industry
Administrative / biographical background:

This collection contains records of various British vinegar producing companies that united to form British Vinegars Limited (BVL). Dates of amalgamation of the various companies with BVL are given in the development chart at the end of this introduction.

 

Records date from 1747 to 1960. The earlier and greater bulk of records concern Beaufoy and Company of South Lambeth which became part of BVL at its formation in 1932.

 

BEAUFOY AND COMPANY

 

Mark Beaufoy (1718-1782) established a manufactory of vinegar and 'mimicked wines' in the early 1740s at Cuper's Garden, south of the River Thames (see B/BFY/18-19). In 1810 the company moved to South Lambeth, between Vauxhall and Stockwell, on part of Noel Caron's estate. The Beaufoy family's connection with vinegar production ended in 1941 when George Maurice Beaufoy (1893-1941) was killed by enemy action in the yard.

 

The above and further information concerning Beaufoy and Company may be obtained from an article by Barbara Kerr, published in History Today July 1973, entitled 'The Beaufoys of Lambeth'.
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