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DEBENTURE CORPORATION LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/067

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: DEBENTURE CORPORATION LIMITED

Date(s): 1885-1959

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 21 production units.

Name of creator(s): Debenture Corporation Ltd | investment company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Debenture Corporation Limited was set up as an investment company in 1885 to offer shareholders a return on investments spread over a number of industrial and manufacturing companies. It traded from 75 Lombard Street (1885-9); Worcester House, Walbrook (1889-1948); 24 Gresham House, 27 Old Broad Street (1949-63); 1 Union Court (1964-6) and Winchester House, 77 London Wall.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minutes of the Debenture Corporation Limited, investment company.

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:

Its surviving archives were presented to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by a director of the company in 1990. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

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: November 2010 to January 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Financial institutions | Finance
Financial markets | Investment | Finance
Investment companies | Companies | Enterprises

Personal names

Corporate names
Debenture Corporation Ltd | investment company

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe