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PECKHAM BUILDING INVESTMENT COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 B/PBI

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: PECKHAM BUILDING INVESTMENT COMPANY

Date(s): 1846

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Peckham Building Investment Company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Peckham Building Investment Company worked to erect houses not worth more than £300 each on freehold land between Old Kent Rd and Queen's Rd, late Deptford Lane, ie Peckham Rd, [now Meeting House Lane and Culmore Road], Bath Road [now Asylum Road], Clifton Grove [now Clifton Crescent], Clifton Road [now Clifton Way], and Bath Grove.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Record of the Peckham Building Investment Company comprising deed of settlement, 4 May 1846, for John Tricker Conquest of Finsbury Square and Henry England of New Cross, to form joint stock company 'The Peckham Building Investment Company'. The deed records the name and business of company, names of subscribers, and of directors and officers, duration of company and mode of dissolution; with signatures and addresses of shareholders, and note of number of shares held by each.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the depositor.

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:

Deposited in 1977.

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
Building construction | Building operations | Construction engineering
Business partnerships | Business enterprises | Enterprises
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Deed of Settlement | Charity records | Documents | Information sources
Housing provision | Housing | Accommodation | Building standards | Building design | Construction engineering
Housing policy

Personal names

Corporate names
Peckham Building Investment Company

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