Head office

SA/BL
Blackfriars
45 linear metres & 4 outsize items

Head office buildings, area and functions:

  • Specific buildings
    Includes accounts, staff records, correspondence, building records, architectural plans and drawings, photographs and objects (e.g. directors’ name plates, ceramic tiles), relating to Blackfriars factory, Paris Gardens kitchens, Rennie House, Running Horse Yard, Stamford House and Tress House. 1903 – present.
    [see also SA/LEG - Legal]
  • General Blackfriars area
    Includes archaeological finds, local history research material, street signs, post-medieval -2000.
  • Head office functions
    Records relating to Head Office functions such as buying, data management and property management.  Includes branch takings and returns, product sales figures and price changes, customer figures, Head Office and Branch Management department memorandum, bulletins and instructions, records relating to reviews and restructuring, rent and rates ledgers, accounting records for farms, depots and departments, staff pension scheme and National Insurance accounts.  Also includes office machinery and stationery (e.g. rubber stamps, ink pots). 1916 – 2002.
    [see also SA/FIN - Finance]
  • Laboratories and sampling kitchens
    Papers relating to the Food Centre, analytical methods,  Health and Safety and procedural manuals, lab machinery and apparatus (e.g. thermometers, scales). 1950s – 2001.
    [see also SA/FT- Food technology - Food Production]
  • Staff facilities
    (e.g. gym, health centre, restaurant), 1980s – 1990s
    [see also SA/EMP - Staff]
  • Food production
    Recipe books and glass plate negatives depicting food preparation, 1930s – 1970s.
  • Deeds
    Relating to acquisition of Blackfriars site, 1890
  • Image files
    1940s – 1990s

SA/HOL
Holborn Business Centre
0.5 linear metres

Colleague guide, digital images and colour negatives, 2000 – 2001.

SA/OFF
Offices
1.25 linear metres

Includes company branded pens and stationery, papers relating to office procedures and images of office buildings, 1930 – 1980s.



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