Records of Archibald Campbell, Hope and King Ltd, brewers, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Memorandum and articles of association 1964 ;
• Diagram of company management hierarchy 1967 ;
• Directors' minute books 1896-1963 ;
• Other minute books 1905-1975 ;
• Agreement books 1897-1937 ;
• Registers 1902-1967 ;
• Agenda books 1941-1956 ;
• Shareholding records 1896-1972 ;
• Financial records 1888-1969 ;
• Patents and trademarks 1901-1969 ;
• Production records 1852-1970 ;
• Sales records 1851-1967 ;
• Employee registers 1960-1965 ;
• Recreation records 1885 ;
• Salaries books 1918-1940 ;
• Licensed premises records 1960s ;
• Property records 1886-1980s ;
• Promotional material 1860s-1980s ;
• Public records 1964 ;
• Photographs 1940s-1994 ;
• Historical notes 1969-1996.

The Argyle Brewery, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, is reputed to have been established in 1710. Archibald Campbell, snr and jnr, ran the brewery during the nineteenth century. Archibald Campbell, Hope and King Ltd was registered as a limited liability company, firstly in August 1896, in order to acquire the business of brewers and maltsters at the Argyle Brewery; and then again in November 1896, to acquire the businesses of Messrs Hope & King, Glasgow, Scotland, wholesale wine and spirit merchants, exporters and whisky blenders, at a purchase price of GBP 214,092. The company acquired South Western Brewery Co Ltd, Newton Stewart, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, and 6 tied houses in 1925. It was acquired by Whitbread & Co Ltd, London, England, in 1967 and the Argyle Brewery ceased to brew in 1970.

Source: Richmond, Lesley and Turton, Alison (eds). "The brewing industry. A guide to historical records" (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1990)

"The Manual of British and Foreign Brewery Companies 1924. A Compendium of Joint-Stock Brewery Enterprise" (London, 1924)

The material is arranged according to the Scottish Brewing Archive classification scheme used within all SBA collections.

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From several sources including Tom Ferguson and Whitbread

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This material has been appraised in line with standard GB 248 procedures

The collection was previously stored with the rest of the Scottish Brewing Archive at Heriot-Watt University. It moved to the University of Glasgow in 1991. In September 2001 records were transferred to the SBA at Glasgow from Whitbread. Custody of the Scottish Brewing Archive was transferred to Glasgow University Archive Services in 2008.

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• GB 248 D: Records of Drybrough & Co Ltd;
• GB 248 W: Records of Whitbread & Co plc (Whitbread & Co plc);
• GB 248 ARTEFACTS: Scottish Brewing Archive Artefacts Collection;
• GB 0234 GD 241: Records of Archibald Campbell, Hope & King Ltd (National Archives of Scotland).

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