Bennett's of Ballinacurra Descriptive List (Ref. B609)

B609/

AGS Pamphlet, ‘Guinness and Barley growing’. A four-page pamphlet, with pictures, containing a brief historical sketch which focuses on work at Ballinacurra and Warminster. [c1960] Also present is a pamphlet on the experimental plots in 1906, and pages from a pamphlet for 1907. The file also includes ms copies of AGS reports: Extract from Report of Experimental Maltings, 1903; and Extracts from A McMullen’s Report on Danish Experimental Barley Plots, August 1905. B609/7/D/8 Papers regarding scientific barley cultivation in Ireland. Present are the following: Barley Growing in Ireland, draft of HC Sheringham’s pamphlet on his five years’ experience, February 1904; Barley Cultivation in Ireland, typescript draft of a paper dated 14 November 1957, by an AGS official [Sir Richard Levinge]; Story of malting barley breeding in Ireland, lecture paper by ROV Lloyd, AGS, 1976; Contribution of Guinness to the Advancement of Science and Technology in Ireland, lecture by Dr Alan Forage to the Royal Irish Academy, 9 July 1985

B609/7/D/9 Irish Maltsters’ Technical Meetings, printed reports, 1954- 63 [gaps]. Reports of training and instruction meetings of maltsters, organised by AGS. Seven volumes

B609/8

PHOTOGRAPHS AND VISUAL RECORDS

Photographs and visual records, John H Bennett and Company, Limited. This section consists mainly of photographs of JHB premises and property at Ballinacurra, and of JHB officers and staff, with print outs of OS maps, a few charts and other visual items also present. Most of the photographs seem to have been created as records of the business, but some may have been created as family records, for instance, some of Charleston house and of Ballinacurra Quay (see B609/9/G/5 below). Other family photographs, more readily identified as such, occur in the next section, B609/9. The present section is comprised of three parts, the first consisting of photographs and representations of property and premises, and of Ballinacurra, the second of JHB officers and staff, and the third of other visual matter.

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