IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 B/SCT
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SCOTT, G.W. {BASKETMAKERS}
Date(s): 1703-1930
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 linear metre
Name of creator(s): G W Scott | basket makers x Scott of London
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Scott of London, basket weavers, were founded in 1661 in the City of London. After the Great Fire of London in 1666 trades identified as a fire risk were ordered to move out of the City and so the company went to Soho, which was then a rural area. The products manufactured by the company varied over time but included bug traps (bed bugs are attracted to the bitter taste of willow), picnic baskets (the company claimed to have invented the modern picnic basket), cane furniture, cradles, dog baskets, and stage props such as effigies of Gog and Magog for the Lord Mayor's Parade or the frame of Falstaff's belly.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of G W Scott, basket makers, 1703-1930. The surviving records date from June 1703. They cover not only the infinite variety of baskets, cradles and wooden goods made and repaired but also items such as bugtraps, and the figures of elephants, camels, horses, giants and ghosts made for Drury Lane, Covent Garden and Astley's Circus. Records include day books; bill books; register of accounts; goods received book; wages books and newspaper cuttings and booklet summarizing the history of the firm.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
B/SCT/1-17 Day books (2 series); B/SCT/18-26 Bill books; B/SCT/27 Register of accounts; B/SCT/28 Goods received book; B/SCT/29, 30 Miscellaneous account books; B/SCT/31-33 Wages books; B/SCT/34, 35 Newspaper cutting, etc.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
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 1964, through the British Records Association (B.R.A.1400) in the London County Record Office [now LMA], County Hall, London, S.E.1
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009