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London Metropolitan Archives

BILLINGSGATE COLD STORES LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/151-02

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BILLINGSGATE COLD STORES LIMITED

Date(s): 1975-1976

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 production unit.

Name of creator(s): Billingsgate Cold Stores Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Billingsgate Cold Stores Limited was formed in 1975 to take over the operation of the market cold stores from the London Ice and Cold Storage Company Limited.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Billingsgate Cold Stores Limited, comprising financial accounts.

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 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:

The records were deposited by the London Fish Merchants' Association (Billingsgate) Ltd in 1982 and were catalogued 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 CLA/010 and COL/CC/BLM for papers of Billingsgate Market.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Fish | Aquatic animals | Animals | Zoology
Fish trade | Trade (practice)
Fishmarkets | Commercial premises
Fishmongers | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People

Personal names

Corporate names
Billingsgate Cold Stores Ltd
Billingsgate Market | Corporation of London

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