Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    HF40/1/3/39
  • Title
    Original Bundle of correspondence regarding sale of Biggleswade Brewery
  • Date free text
    2 Mar 1898 - 5 May 1898
  • Production date
    From: 1898 To: 1898
  • Scope and Content
    property in hand £10,000 i.e. leave £55,000 “The business has not been pushed at all, in fact it would be more correct to say it has been neglected” beer sales at 8,600 barrels at 12s a barrel profit would give £5000 5000 gallons of spirits sold at 4s a gallon i.e. £1000 profit Aerated water £500 i.e. show 10% profit on business known the business for 40 years 21 Apr 1898 With G S Howell of Lombard Street, London and T R Ollerenshaw, John Dalton Street, Manchester including a number of Hooper’s flimsies in reply Letter, T R Ollerenshaw Client – gentleman of considerable means and who has recently been paid out of a large brewery concern and wishes to purchase up to £100,000 a brewery for his son, who has been trained as a practical brewer tries for 2% commission 2 Mar 1898 Year Barrelage Spirits Aerated Waters Net Income in gallons in Dozen 1895 8748 5033 30,158 £8342..17s..3d 1896 8531 5061 32,853 £8011..12s..0d 1897 8590 4981 28,735 £8114.. 6s..4d £14,000 bottom price 8 Mar 1898 Letter, Hooper to Ollerenshaw rents grossly inadequate “the business has for some years been carried on with a great lack of energy and might be largely increased” 5 Mar 1898 Ollerenshaw unhappy about only getting 1% if sells for £140,000 18 Mar 1898 (Client T (?John) Hamlyn Borrer esquire J.P. of Angeston Grange, Dursley, Gloucester) now in negotiation for another brewery in Yorkshire Ollerenshaw got option for £140,000 but make client pay £8,000 extra to pay Ollerenshaw i.e. equivalent to resale Hooper not impressed 18 Apr 1898 Letter, from T J Hooper real estate at present absurdly low rentals “amount to £2500” (30 years purchase £75,000)
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