Title
THE GUINNESS BARLEY RESEARCH STATION
Reference
TR GUI
Production date
1828-1967
Creator
Creator History
E.S. Beaven (1857-1941) was one of the leading breeders of barley in the first half of the twentieth century.
He was a maltster in Warminster, Wiltshire, and he began to make experimental trials of barley.
One outcome of his experiments was a new variety, Plumage-Archer, which was one of the principal types of malting barleys until new hybrids, such as Proctor, were introduced after the Second World War.
Much of Beaven's work was published posthumously in the book Barley (1947).
Both the maltings and the experimental station were taken over by Arthur Guinness, Son & Company (Park Royal) Ltd.
Scope and Content
The records relate to the work of E.S. Beaven at Warminster on the development of new barley varieties, and the establishment of the British Seed Corn Association Ltd for the distribution of these varieties; and to subsequent developmental work at the Guinness Barley Research Station Warminster.
Extent
296 Documents
Level of description
fonds
Content Subject
System of arrangment
TR GUI/AD2 General Administrative and Commercial Records
TR GUI/AD2/1-135 Correspondence and other papers relating to the British Seed Corn Association
TR GUI/AD4 Premises Records
TR GUI/AD4/1 File, sites for makings
TR GUI/ET1 Records of Experiments and Trials
TR GUI/ET1/1-68 Barley Trials Plot Books
TR GUI/ET1/69-70 Barley Collections Books
TR GUI/ET1/71-78 Miscellaneous material
TR GUI/ET3 General Research Records
TR GUI/ET3/1-22 Records relating mainly to Beaven's work as maltster
TR GUI/ET3/1-16 Papers and reports
TR GUI/ET3/17-22 Newspaper Cuttings Books
TR GUI/ET3/23-53 Records relating mainly to Beaven's barley research
TR GUI/ET3/23-28 Papers
TR GUI/ET3/29-33 Notebooks
TR GUI/ET3/34-61 Miscellaneous material including research notes, correspondence etc.
TR GUI/PH2 Compilations of Photographic Prints
TR GUI/PH2/1 Photograph album: the lifestory of a barley plant
TR GUI/SP3 Records of Products
TR GUI/SP3/1 Handbill
TR GUI/SP5 Other Records
TR GUI/SP51 Newspaper cuttings