IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/484
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: NOBLE, Mark (fl 1809)
Date(s): 1809
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2 production units.
Name of creator(s): Noble | Mark | fl 1809 | pump and fire engine manufacturer
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Mark Noble, of Battersea, was a pump and fire engine manufacturer and a supplier to the Ordnance Board.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Mark Noble, pump and fire engine manufacturer, comprising a diary and the donor's transcript and notes. The diary is unsigned, but the donor has identified the author from a patent mentioned in the text and from records at The National Archives relating to the activities described. The entries are mostly accounts of travel and meetings in London, Kent and Berkshire to arrange finance, materials and trials of a pump, with little technical or personal content.
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 City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by D.T. Rodger in 1999. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Records prepared May to September 2011.