IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/006
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: FISHMONGERS' AND POULTERERS' INSTITUTION
Date(s): 1835-1999
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 82 production units comprising 59 volumes, 15 envelopes, 5 files and 3 bundles.
Name of creator(s): Fishmongers' and Poulterers' Institution
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Institution was established in 1835. It provided, and continues to provide, pensions and assistance to people connected with the processing, wholesale and retail onshore fish and poultry trades in reduced circumstances. To this end it maintained almshouses at Wood Green, Middlesex from 1850 until after World War II. Part of the grounds of the almshouses were purchased in the 1890s by the Tottenham School Board. From 1869 the Institution also provided Home Pensions (i.e. pensions to those not resident in the almshouses) at £15 per annum.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Fishmongers' and Poulterers' Institution, including annual reports; Committee minutes; papers relating to property; historical notes; photographs; posters; papers relating to social events; correspondence and financial records.
SOME MATERIAL IS SUBJECT TO A 30 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records have been arranged in order reflecting the record type.
Conditions governing access:
Restricted access: please see staff.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The records were deposited by the Institution in 1973 and 1976, and further deposits were made by the Butchers' and Drovers' Charitable Institution in 2005.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
The charity is currently administered by staff at Butchers' Hall, where more recent records are retained.
Publication note:
The history of the Institution is given in A H Eason The story of the Fishmongers and Poulterers Institution (Guildhall Library reference: SL41.14).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.