IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/147
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: MINING AND METALLURGICAL CLUB
Date(s): 1910-1916
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.05 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Mining and Metallurgical Club
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Mining Club was established under the name of the Mining and Metallurgical Club in 1910, to provide a meeting place for engineers and individuals from companies engaged in the mining industry. The founding members were closely linked to the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (IMM). Amongst the 74 original members of the Club was Herbert Clark Hoover (later President of the United States of America), who at that time had a consulting mining engineering practice in London.
Based at 3 London Wall, City of London, the Club provided members dining, music, games and space for other social functions. In the later 20th century mining companies moved away from the City of London. The Club ceased to be financially viable and was closed in 1992. The Club's residual funds of £32,000 were handed over to the IMM (later the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining) to establish an annual award, the Mining Club Award, to fund an annual travel scholarship for young persons in the industry.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Minute book of the Mining and Metallurgical Club, 1910-1916, with a note dated 2010.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One volume.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
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:
No other records are thought to survive; the last members having had minimum notice for the Club premises to be cleared at the time it was redecorated and sold in 1992.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records deposited in 2010.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.