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ALBION IRON AND WIRE WORKS COMPANY, CLERKENWELL


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2169

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: ALBION IRON AND WIRE WORKS COMPANY, CLERKENWELL

Date(s): 1889-1971

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 5.4 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Albion Iron and Wire Works Company
Myerson Kilby Limited | sheet metal workers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Albion Iron and Wire Works Company was founded on 21 January 1885 in Ironmonger Row, Clerkenwell, and later moved to Britton Street. In 1970 the firm took over Myerson Kilby Limited, sheet metal workers (est.1820) and J.W. Shale Limited, constructional engineers (est.1880s). Subsidiary companies in 1982 included Sebry Staircase and Ironworks Limited, fire escape staircase manufacturers (incorporated 1930), Lift Cars and Components Company Limited (incorporated 1957) and Albion (Norfolk) Limited (incorporated 1970). Items manufactured included wire work, staircase lifts, machine guards, and metal sheeting and ducting. In 1985 the London company went into liquidation, although work continued at Albion (Norfolk) Limited.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Albion Iron and Wire Works Company Limited, 1889-1971. The majority of the records concern the everyday running of the Company and one of its associated companies, Myerson Kilby Limited, and comprise ledgers, journals, cash books and estimate and invoice books. Unfortunately no minute books have been deposited. There is a substantial run of order books which give a good account of the range of goods manufactured and the variety of customers served by the company. There are also some records relating to property owned by the Company.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Albion Iron and Wire Works Company: ACC/2169/01-114 Myerson Kilby Limited: ACC/2169/115-129.

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:

Gifted in 1985. (ACC/2169)

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 records | Documents | Information sources
Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Ironworks | Industrial facilities | Facilities
Manufacturers | Industrial personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Metal trades | Trade (practice)
Sheet metalwork | Metal industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Company archives

Personal names

Corporate names
Albion Iron and Wire Works Company
Myerson Kilby Limited | sheet metal workers

Places