IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0372 LONDON COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS/299
Held at: Bishopsgate Institute
Title: Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company: Stepney Green Court/Mocatto House rent books
Date(s): 1921-1947
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3 Volumes
Name of creator(s): Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company was a philanthropic model dwellings company, formed in London in 1885, during the Victorian era. In 1952, it was renamed the Industrial Dwellings Society (1885) Ltd. and is today known as IDS. The IDS manages over 1,400 properties in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Southwark, Redbridge and Barnet. Its president is Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, a descendent of the banker Nathan Mayer Rothschild, who founded the Society.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Three rent books, suspected to be from Stepney Green Court, Stepney Green, and Mocatto House, Whitechapel, owned by the Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company, listing occupier, occupation and rent paid (1921-1947).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English.
System of arrangement:
No further arrangement.
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying and scanning facilities are available for a charge and will be completed by archival staff if condition and copyright permits. Digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.
Finding aids:
Fonds level description.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited with Bishopsgate Institute by Irving Finkel via Jenny Kallin, November 2011.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Stefan Dickers.
Date(s) of descriptions: 7 December 2011.