IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1267
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SOUTHALL LABOUR PARTY
Date(s): 1923-1971
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1.21 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Southall Constituency Labour Party
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Until 1945 Southall fell within the Uxbridge parliamentary division. In that year the new parliamentary borough of Southall was formed out of Southall municipal borough and Hayes and Harlington Urban district. Changes in 1948 excluded Hayes and Harlington and brought in the Hanwell North and Hanwell South Wards. After the London local government changes of 1965 Southall municipal borough became part of the London borough of Ealing. This did not affect the constituency which remained unchanged until 1971 when the new Ealing, Southall constituency was created.
Local Labour Parties: It has not been possible to establish exactly when the local Labour movement in the old Uxbridge division took on formal shape. The Southall and Norwood Trades Council and Labour Party were in existence by 1923 and were affiliated to the larger Uxbridge Divisional Labour Party - so much can be seen from the surviving records. In 1945 the Southall Constituency Labour Party was formed after the creation of the new Southall Constituency. Between 1948 and 1958 it was generally known as the Southall and Hanwell constituency.
Local party structure: This consisted basically of a general management committee and an executive committee formed from individual members of the local party and delegates representing affiliated bodies such as trades unions and co-operative societies. Day to day administration was in the hands of a secretary/agent who was at certain periods a paid officer.
The constituency was broken down into wards and committees created for each one, i.e., Hambrough, Waxlow Manor, Dormers Wells, Norwood Green, Hanwell North and Hanwell South.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Southall Labour Party, comprising minutes, financial accounts and membership records for the Uxbridge Divisional Labour Party, the Southall and Norwood Trades Council and Labour Party, and the Southall Divisional/Constituency Labour Party.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/1267-1: Uxbridge Divisional Labour Party;
ACC/1267-2: Southall and Norwood Trades Council and Labour Party;
ACC/1267-3: Southall Divisional/Constituency Labour Party.
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records 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
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
With the consent of the depositor, extensive weeding has been carried out on the files and certain routine letters and duplicated material have been destroyed. So, unless otherwise stated the files described are weeded ones.
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records deposited in November 1978.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.