Somerfield supermarket and related organisations: papers The collection dates from the 19th century when the company was named J H Mills to the 1960s, prior to the renaming of the company as Somerfield. The collection includes ledgers of accounts, minutes for AGMs and directors' meetings, share certificates etc and other official records for Somerfield. The Canadian entrepreneur Garfield Weston bought into UK supermarket outlets in the 1950s and 1960s and the collection also contains records from these related companies including Fine Fare, ABC, Melias, and Sheen and Sons. Material related to: A.B.C. AE Baker Albert Hanson Allcock Allied Merchandising Services Arthur Hollis Barrow Stores Ltd Bat Stores Blower Bros Boyce Adams Ltd British Meat Packing Co. Buy Well Calvert and Co Carlines CC Barrow and Sons Cee N Cee Supermarket Central Gas Appliances Chamberlains Chas H Sheen City Grocers Ltd Coleman Meat Co Cussons David Greig Delbert Ltd Fine Fare First Commercial Land Ford and Lock Forrest Stores Frank Dee Fred Brown G.F. Ray Gardeners George Spurr Green and Dyson H and C Foods H.L.J. Investment Co. Headway Construction Hodgson and Hepworth Ltd Howardsgate Holdings I.T.S. Properties Development International Stores Intervention Stores Isosceles plc J and F Wholesale Jarman and Flint John Bull John Shentall Joseph Burton Key Markets Key Markets Key Pharmacies Kwik Save L and N Stores Leisuretime Developments Lennons Supermarkets Lewingtons Linfood Madora Foods Market Land Meat Markets Melias Merlin Supermarkets Norfolk Stores Nottingham and Midland Property Co. O.P. Nice and Sons Payless Personal Assurance Ltd Promoplan Redman Property Rowart Sandyford Savon Foods Saxon Farm Shopper's Paradise Star Branches Stringers Stores Suffirage Supa K Stores Ltd Westons Wheatsheaf EUL MS 362/add.1 Additional material from the Somerfield Collection, includes: - ELMO Stores Minute Book 1937-1964 - ELMO Stores Minute Book 1964-1967 - ELMO Stores Minute Book 1965-1985 - Fine Fare (South) Managers Minute Book 1968-1970 - Fine Fare Press Cuttings related to Bath 1976-1978 - One folder labelled 'Bexhill-on-Sea' 1974-1980 - One large album of press cuttings - One folder of minutes for Charter Restaurants Ltd, Allied Merchandising Services Ltd, ELMO Stores Ltd, Fine Fare Ltd. - One folder containing copies of photographs of shop fronts and interiors c.1800s-1900s, photocopies of articles and newspaper clippings related to supermarkets 19th century-1960s