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.