IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/106-02
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BROAD STREET ESTATES LIMITED
Date(s): 1913-1958
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 20 production units.
Name of creator(s): Broad Street Estates Ltd
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
In 1921 Broad Street Estates Limited (incorporated 1913), which owned a freehold building in Old Broad Street opposite Gresham House, was acquired by the Gresham House Estate Company Limited (CLC/B/106-01). This property was sold in 1953. Since the late 1950's, the Gresham House Estate Company Limited and its subsidiary, Broad Street Estates Limited, have been concerned mainly with investment business.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Broad Street Estates Limited, including minutes of director's meetings; statements of account; financial records such as ledgers and cash books; rent rolls; and building plans.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection 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:
Deposited at Guildhall Library in 1981. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
CLC/B/106-01: Gresham House Estate Company Limited; CLC/B/106-02: Broad Street Estates Limited; CLC/B/106-03: Great Winchester Street Estates Limited.
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: November 2010 to January 2011.