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Alan Whitiker's book Brewers in Hertfordshire says that when the Archer family gave up their brewery in Whitwell (a hamlet in St Pauls Walden) the licensed houses passed to the Hope Brewery in Wheathampsted.
I have just found a short letter suggesting that for a time the Whitwell licensed houses were managed by Harpenden Brewery - and may only have been passed to the Hope Brewery when Harpenden Brewery, which had been leased to Bennett's Brewery of Dunstable, was sold to Mrs Martha Mardall (nee Long - see Who was related to Who?).
The Harpenden Brewery Letter, 1891, shows how an apparently simple letter, which could easily have ended up in the waste paper basket, can provide important in reconstructing the past.
