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London Metropolitan Archives

MARKETS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): CLA/009

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: MARKETS

Date(s): 1666-1999

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 9.2 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Corporation of London

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The City of London was first granted the sole right of establishing markets in 1327 by Edward III, rights which were reaffirmed in 1663 by Charles II. Laws existed to ensure that markets were properly run and that traders were not able to sell products of inferior workmanship or bad food. Market tolls, lettings and regulation were handled by the Courts of Aldermen and Common Council. Supervision then passed to the City Lands Committee, before a Markets Committee was finally established. In 1875 the Committee was divided into sub-committees responsible for individual markets. The committees kept accounts and maintained buildings.

The City of London markets included Stocks Market, Honey Lane Market, Fleet Market, Newgate Market, Smithfield Market, Deptford Market, Farringdon Market, Billingsgate Market, London Central Meat and Poultry and Provision Markets and the Metropolitan Cattle Market at Islington. Several of these markets have been closed or amalgamated.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the Markets Committee, City of London, 1666-1999, concerning the administration and regulation of markets in the City of London area. Papers include financial records, reports, petitions, committee papers and papers relating to individual markets including Brookfield Market, Columbia Market, Covent Garden Market, Cutler Street Market, Dowgate Market, Farringdon Market, Fleet Market, Hay Market, Honey Lane Market, Shadwell Market, Stocks Market, Southwark Market and Tylor's Market.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

In sections according to the catalogue.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: City of London

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Corporation of London Records Office.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

For Corporation of London records relating to Markets see: CLA/009: Markets, CLA/010: Billingsgate Market, CLA/011: Leadenhall Market, CLA/012: Foreign Cattle Market, Deptford, CLA/013: Spitalfields market, CLA/014: Newgate Market, CLA/015: Metropolitan Cattle Market, CLA/016: Smithfield Market, CLA/017: London Central Markets, Smithfield, CLA/073: Coal Exchange and Market, COL/CC/BLM: Court of Common Council Billingsgate and Leadenhall Markets Committee, COL/CC/CEM: Court of Common Council Central Markets Committee, COL/CC/CTM: Court of Common Council Cattle Markets Committee, COL/CC/MKC: Court of Common Council Markets Committee, COL/CC/MRI: Court of Common Council Markets Improvement Committee, COL/CC/MRJ: Court of Common Council Joint Markets Advisory Committee, COL/CC/MRK: Markets Committee, COL/CC/MRS: Select Markets Committee (Smithfield Fruit and Vegetable Market), COL/CC/SMC: Special Markets Committee, COL/CC/SPM: Spitalfields Market Committee, COL/CCS: Comptroller and City Solicitor, COL/CCS/CO: Comptroller, COL/CH: Charters, COL/CHD/RN: Chamberlain's Department: Rents and Rentals, COL/PL: Plans, COL/PLD/PL: Planning Department Plans, COL/SVD/PL: Surveyor's Department Plans, COL/TSD/PL: Technical Services Department Plans.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Administrative history | Administration | Organisation and management
Covered markets | Retail Trade | Trade (practice)
Fishmarkets | Commercial premises
Livestock markets | Commercial premises
Street trading | Retail trade | Trade (practice)

Personal names

Corporate names
Brookfield Market
Columbia Market
Covent Garden Market
Cutler Street Market
Dowgate Market
Farringdon Market
Fleet Market
Hay Market
Honey Lane Market
Markets Committee | Corporation of London
Shadwell Market
Southwark Market
Stocks Market
Tylor's Market

Places
Barnet | Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe