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PATON AND CHARLES {SOAP MANUFACTURERS}


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/094

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: PATON AND CHARLES {SOAP MANUFACTURERS}

Date(s): 1867-1880

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Paton and Charles | soap manufacturers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Paton and Charles, soap manufacturers, were based at 148 High Street, Bow Common. The company was purchased by D. and W. Gibbs, Ltd, a soap manufacturer established in 1712.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Paton and Charles, soap manufacturers, comprising dissolution of partnership of Robert Charles the elder, Robert Charles the younger and Andrew Paton Charles in the business of Paton and Charles, soap manufacturers and the business of candle manufacturers at Paulsworks, 1867; licence to underlet manufactory premises in Bow Common, 1869; and mortgage for manufactory known as Pauls Works in St. Paul's Road, Bow Common, 1876-1880.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Three documents in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated to the Archive in 1949.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business partnerships | Business enterprises | Enterprises
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Mortgages (documents) | Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Soap making | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Soap trade | Trade (practice)

Personal names

Corporate names
Paton and Charles | soap manufacturers

Places