IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/110
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: VINTRY AND DOWGATE WARDS CLUB
Date(s): 1968-1990
Level of description: Collection
Extent: One production unit.
Name of creator(s): Vintry and Dowgate Wards Club
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Vintry Ward Club was established in 1877 and in 1957 became Vintry and Dowgate Wards Club.
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.
Vintry Ward lies to the west of the Walbrook on the bank of the River Thames and extends north to Cordwainer Ward and is bounded on the east by Dowgate Ward and on the west by Queenhithe Ward. The ward contained four City parish churches: St Martin Vintry, St James Garlickhithe, St Michael Paternoster Royal and St Thomas the Apostle.
Dowgate Ward lies between Walbrook Ward north, Candlewick and Bridge Within wards east and Vintry Ward west, and extends south to the River Thames. The ward contained two City parish churches: All Hallows the Great and All Hallows the Less.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Income and expenditure accounts for the Vintry and Dowgate Wards Club.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One item.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
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 of Vintry Ward Club and Vintry and Dowgate Wards Club were deposited by the latter in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in May 1997. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See CLC/111 for the Vintry Ward Club, CLC/W/OA for the records of Vintry Ward and CLC/W/IA for the records of Dowgate Ward.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.