Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters and Decorators

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1924 Painters
Held at	: Trades Union Congress (TUC) Library Collections at London Metropolitan University   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://student.londonmet.ac.uk/library/using-the-library/special-collections/trades-union-congress-library-collections/ ›
Full title	: Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters and Decorators
Date(s)	: 1856-1912
Level of description	: Collection (Fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters and Decorators

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters was founded in Manchester in 1856. It became the National Union of Painters in 1941, and the Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators in 1961. The Society's engagements were transferred to the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers in 1970, (now part of the Union of Construction and Allied Trade Technicians).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Register of members of the Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters and Decorators: Ashton Under Lyne Branch, 1856-1912, giving details of names, age and marital status on entry.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Single volume

Conditions governing access:

Open to bona fide researchers at the discretion of the TUC Librarian.

Conditions governing reproduction:

At the discretion of the TUC Librarian and subject to copyright conditions.

Finding aids:

None

Archival Information

Archival history:

The volume was given to the TUC Library by the National Society of Painters and Decorators, March 1960.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The papers were transferred to the TUC Library Collections in the University of North London by the TUC in 1998

Allied Materials

Related material:

The TUC Library also holds the records of the Painting Brush Makers Provident Society, 1842-1952.

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council onArchives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Mar 2002