IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/060
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: CRIPPLEGATE WARD CLUB
Date(s): 1882
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2 production units.
Name of creator(s): Cripplegate Ward Club
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
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 Cripplegate ward lies at the north of the City and is both within and without the City wall. The ward contained seven City parish churches: St Mary Aldermanbury, St Alban Wood Street, St Olave Silver Street, St Alphage London Wall, St Michael Wood Street, St Giles Cripplegate and St Mary Magdalen Milk Street.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Cripplegate Ward Club records comprising: illuminated address, 1882 (Ms 8313) and correspondence, 1967 (Ms 30669).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Two items in chronological order.
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:
Ms 8313 was purchased by Guildhall Library in 1953 and was catalogued in the same year by a member of Guildhall Library staff. Ms 30669 was deposited in 1996 by Barbican Estate Office and catalogued shortly afterwards, also by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See also records of Cripplegate Ward, CLC/W/HG; Cripplegate Within Ward, CLC/W/HH; and Cripplegate Without Ward, CLC/W/HI.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.