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BATH SUN FIRE OFFICE


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/192-06

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BATH SUN FIRE OFFICE

Date(s): 1836-1903

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): Bath Sun Fire Office

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Bath Sun Fire Office was established in 1776 and acquired by the Sun Insurance Office in 1838.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Bath Sun Fire Office comprising Directors' meeting minute book, also used as an out-letter book.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item.

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:

This single surviving volume was deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by Sun Alliance in 1979 and catalogued shortly afterwards 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 also CLC/B/192/B/018/MS11935 for papers relating to the takeover of the Bath Sun Fire Office in 1838.

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
Assurance companies | Companies | Enterprises
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Fire insurance | Insurance | Finance
Insurance records | Documents | Information sources
Insurance services | Financial service industries | Service industries

Personal names

Corporate names
Bath Sun Fire Office

Places
Bath | Somerset | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe