IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1712
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: THAMES IRON WORKS
Date(s): 1681-1916
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 linear metre
Name of creator(s): Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding and Engineering Co Ltd x Ditchburn and Mare Shipbuilding Co x C J Mare and Co
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited was founded in 1837 by shipbuilder Thomas Ditchburn and naval architect Charles Mare as the Ditchburn and Mare Shipbuilding Company, then C.J. Mare and Company. The shipyards were first at Deptford, then moved to Orchard Creek. They were one of the first builders of iron ships. They built several warships for the Admiralty including HMS Warrior. Their employee football club, Thames Ironworks FC, later became West Ham United FC. The Ironworks closed in 1912, unable to compete with northern shipyards.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records relating to property owned by the Thames Iron Works in Greenwich, Deptford and West Ham.
Also papers of the Ellis family concerning premises at Hornsey, Stoke Newington and Hackney, London, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire and Nelson and Wellington, New Zealand.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
In two sections: ACC/1712/1-116: Deeds and documents relating to the titles of freehold and leasehold properties at Greenwich, Deptford and West Ham; ACC/1712/117-153: Deeds relating to the Ellis family.
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:
Received in 1981
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See O/045 for a minute book of the Company.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009