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HORNSEY HOUSING TRUST


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1523

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HORNSEY HOUSING TRUST

Date(s): 1933-1978

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1.29 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Hornsey Housing Trust

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Hornsey Housing Trust was founded in 1933 by Margaret Hill, C.B.E. Its object was to convert houses for occupation by more than one family and to let them at low rents to help those on low incomes to find improved accommodation. Increasingly the trust provided homes for elderly persons. Hornsey Borough Council provided loans to assist in the purchase of property for conversion. After the Second World War, the trust joined with other charitable organisations to build homes, mainly for the elderly. It still continues to acquire properties for rehabilitation.

The trust is administered by a Committee of Management. A full time housing manager was first appointed in about 1945. Previously, this work and that of collecting rents was carried out by unpaid volunteers.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Hornsey Housing Trust, including minutes of the Committee of Management; shares prospectuses; rules of the Trust; annual reports; and financial accounts.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Minute books ACC/1523/01-04;
Annual reports: ACC/1523/05-06;
Miscellaneous printed material: ACC/1523/07-15;
Account books and other financial records: ACC/1523/16-38;
Illustration blocks: ACC/1523/39-40.

Conditions governing access:

These records are open to public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to closure periods.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records 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:

Records deposited in April 1980.

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: June to August 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Affordable housing | Housing | Accommodation | Building standards | Building design | Construction engineering
Housing associations | Associations | Organizations
Housing maintenance | Housing | Accommodation | Building standards | Building design | Construction engineering
Housing needs | Housing | Accommodation | Building standards | Building design | Construction engineering
Housing provision | Housing | Accommodation | Building standards | Building design | Construction engineering
Right to housing | Social and economic rights
Housing policy
Social welfare

Personal names

Corporate names
Hornsey Housing Trust

Places