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.