IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/216
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: TRAFALGAR HOUSE DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED PREDECESSORS
Date(s): 1897-1964
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 143 production units.
Name of creator(s): Various.
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Of the five companies, three are subsidiaries of the depositing company. City and West End Properties Limited, property company, was established in 1897 and based at 101 Leadenhall Street. In 1907 it moved to Bush Lane House where it remained until it was acquired by Trafalgar House Development Limited in 1964.
Corbett and Newson Limited, property company, was acquired by Trafalgar House Development Limited in 1966.
Woodgate Investment Trust Limited, property company, was incorporated in 1932 and shared offices with Corbett and Newson Limited at 17 Gracechurch Street (to 1933) and 34 Great St Helen's (1934-66). It too was acquired by Trafalgar House Development Limited in 1966.
Two of the five companies have no connection with the depositing company. Metropolitan Properties Company Limited and Consolidated London Properties Limited (which was acquired by Capital and Counties Properties Limited in 1964). The inclusion of these two companies derives from their previous association with City and West End Properties Limited, with which they shared both offices and directors before 1964: in some cases their records are intermingled.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of various property companies, all associated with Trafalgar House Developments Limited. The records include constitutional documents; annual reports and accounts; financial material; minutes; correspondence; registers of leases and rents; lists of shareholders; deeds and papers relating to property.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
CLC/B/216-01: City and West End Properties Ltd;
CLC/B/216-02: Consolidated London Properties Ltd;
CLC/B/216-03: Corbett and Newson Ltd;
CLC/B/216-04: Metropolitan Properties Company Ltd;
CLC/B/216-05: Woodgate Investment Trust Ltd.
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 of City and West End Properties Limited, along with those of Consolidated London Properties Limited, Corbett and Newson Limited, Metropolitan Properties Company Limited and Woodgate Investment Trust, were presented to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in July 1972 by Trafalgar House Developments Limited from the strongroom in the basement of Bush Lane House, Bush Lane EC4 (demolished August 1972). The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: January to May 2011.