IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/065
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: FARRINGDON WARD CLUB
Date(s): 1894-1977
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 7 production units.
Name of creator(s): Farringdon Ward Club
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The City of London was divided into wards for the purpose of government as early as Norman times. The wards had responsibility to keep the peace, supervise trade and oversee sanitation, and each ward has the right to elect an Alderman and Commoners to sit in the Court of Common Council.
In 1394 the Ward of Farringdon was divided into Farringdon Within and Farringdon Without (without [outside] the London wall) because it was too hard to manage as one unit.
Many London wards have social clubs for residents.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Farringdon Ward Club records comprising: minute books, 1894-1977 (Ms 14274); and loose papers, 1947-1962 (Ms 14274A).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Minute books in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The records were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library between 1971 and 1989 and were catalogued at various dates by members of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For the records of the ward of Farringdon Within see CLC/W/JA, for the ward of Farringdon Without see CLC/W/JB.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.