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London Metropolitan Archives

CARPENTER COLLECTION


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/530

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CARPENTER COLLECTION

Date(s): 1695-1947

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.15 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Various.

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

These papers were collected for their general or antiquarian interest rather than having a united provenance (that is, being produced by the same institution or business).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Legal, administrative and financial records, some relating to the Carpenter family, including letters; accounts; papers regarding various companies including the London Life Association and the Liberation Building Society; legal papers and court proceedings; deeds for premises at Hampstead, Ealing, Kentish Town and Wood Green; advertisements and handbills; papers regarding the police forces; job applications; sales particulars for the Globe public house in Shoreditch; deeds for the George public house in Finchley; copies of wills; and pamphlets.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Documents arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

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:

Records donated in November 1961 by W.H. Carpenter.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Advertisements | Advertising | Communication process
Court papers | Court records | Records (documents) | Records and correspondence | Information sources
Legal documents | Law
Police | Law enforcement | Social control, formal | Sociology
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Sales particulars | Documents | Information sources
Title deeds | Deeds | Documents | Information sources
Property law x Right to property

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Ealing (district) | Ealing | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Finchley | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hampstead | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Kentish Town | Camden | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Shoreditch | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Wood Green | Haringey | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Barnet
Hackney