IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/032
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BISHOPSGATE WARD CLUB
Date(s): 1886-1895;1948-1956
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2 production units.
Name of creator(s): Bishopsgate Ward Club
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Bishopsgate Ward Club was instituted in 1790. The City of London was divided into wards for the purpose of government as early as Norman times. The wards had responsibility to keep the peace, supervise trade and oversee sanitation, and each ward has the right to elect an Alderman and Commoners to sit in the Court of Common Council. The Bishopsgate ward is divided into two portions Within and Without of the City wall, the gate through which gives the ward its name. Bishopsgate Ward Within contained three City parish churches: St Helen Bishopsgate, St Ethelburga, and St Botolph Bishopsgate, while the whole of Bishopsgate Without Ward is co-extensive with St Botolph Bishopsgate.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Bishopsgate Ward Club, comprising: minute book, 1886-95 (Ms 5127); and papers of a member of the Club, 1948-56, including annual reports and accounts, 1948-54 (Ms 24199).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records have been sorted into an order which reflects divisions between the different functions and operations of the organisation and its administration.
Conditions governing access:
Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Ms 5127 was donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1948. Ms 24199 was deposited by Greycoat Estates in 1984. They were catalogued in 1948 and 1990 respectively by members of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For records of Bishopsgate Ward see CLC/W/GC.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.