Suttons Seeds Ltd, seed merchants

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Date:	1832-2010
Places:	Reading, Berkshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Agriculture, forestry and fisheries > Nurserymen and market gardeners \| Shops, merchants and distributors > Agricultural merchants
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C117900 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B5341 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	c1832-1970: partnership records, sales agreements, patent records, accounts, stock summaries, salaries and wages books, corresp	Museum of English Rural Life	T76/28	NRA 20993 Suttons
2	20th cent: misc papers	Royal Berkshire Archives	D/EX 555	NRA 3501 Berks RO misc
3	c1960-69: additional photographs	Museum of English Rural Life	P DX1730, 1731	See Annual Return 2007
4	c1873-1899: trial books	Museum of English Rural Life	TR DX 1815
5	1927-63: trial books	Museum of English Rural Life	TR DX 1816	See Annual Return 2009
6	c1873-1989: additional business records incl corresp, publicity and material rel to pension scheme	Museum of English Rural Life	TR DX 1887	See Annual Return 2009
7	1904-1939: visitors books and press cuttings	Museum of English Rural Life	TR DX2006
8	1942: scrapbook of typescript travel commentary, photographs and cuttings entitled 'Notes on Fifty Years of Foreign Travel amongst Vegetable Seed Crops in France, Italy, Holland, Algeria, Morocco and New Zealand 1887-1939', compiled by Walter F Giles, employee of Suttons Seeds Ltd	Museum of English Rural Life	D DX2043
9	1861-2010: Gerry Westall collection of material rel to Suttons Seeds incl business records and ephemera	Museum of English Rural Life	DX 2102	See Annual Return 2014
10	1878-2014: trade catalogues and manuals for Sutton's Seeds collected by Ron Butler, long term employee at Suttons Seeds and volunteer at the Museum of English Rural Life	Museum of English Rural Life	Acc.DX2434	See Annual Return 2022