IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4654
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HUGH STEVENSON AND SONS LIMITED
Date(s): 1920-197-
Level of description: collection
Extent: 0.21 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Hugh Stevenson and Sons Limited
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Hugh Stevenson and Sons Ltd was a paper box-making business started in 1859 by Mr Hugh Stevenson at Great Marlborough Street, Manchester. For twenty-eight years it traded locally until, in 1887, it expanded to incorporate more staff and a more accomplished method of production. This expansion also saw the enlargement of the Manchester premises quickly followed by the opening of branches in London (with works at Summerstown, Wandsworth), Perth and Birmingham, and of Agencies in most of the large Colonial centres. In 1898, the business was incorporated as a private limited company and in 1900 became the proprietors of the Corruganza Manufacturing Co.
In the 1914 edition of Whitaker's Red Book of Commerce or Who's Who in Business it was listed as "Box manufacturers and machinists. Specialities: every kind of cardboard box, metal-edged boxes, cylindrical boxes etc., celluloid boxes, plain and decorated tin boxes, show-cards of tin and cardboard, corrugated paper and boxes made of tin and cardboard, embossing and gold blocking, box-making machinery of every description, printing and lithographing, mounts and frames for photographs, leatherboards, strawboards and general box-making supplies. Employees 2,610".
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Hugh Stevenson and Sons Limited including papers, correspondence, photographs and film from the personal collection of Joseph Burton, employee of Hugh Stevenson and Sons Ltd in the Sales Department, London. Contemporary newsletters included detailing staff outings and upcoming news about the business, also original film footage depicting the factory buildings at Summerstown Works, staff outings, staff sports day and staff football match.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
LMA/4654/A: Marketing and Advertising
LMA/4654/B: Staff and employment
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright is held by 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:
Deposited in March 2014.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: Added June 2014