IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): ACC/0717
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HENDON
Date(s): 1837-1899
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 5.85 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Hendon Parish
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Poor rates were administered by parishes, and were levied to assist the poor of that parish. The duty of relieving the poor was given to parish overseers. The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act established Boards of Guardians which were responsible for the care of poor persons in a group of parishes, known as Poor Law Unions. Hendon Poor Law Union was formed in 1835, and comprised the parishes of Hendon, Harrow, Pinner, Edgware, Kingsbury, Great and Little Stanmore, and Willesden. A red-brick workhouse was built at Redhill, Edgware Road, in 1835 to hold 350 inmates; a union school for 150 children was erected near by in 1859 and the workhouse itself was extended in 1889.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Poor Rate books for Hendon, 1837-1899.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Volumes arranged chronologically.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: City of London
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received from Hendon Central Library between 1960 and 1965 (Acc/0717)
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2009