IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0410
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BANKS COLLECTION
Date(s): 1486-1949
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 linear metre
Name of creator(s): Banks | C O | fl 1925-1939 | local historian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
C. O. Banks was a local historian, author of Romances of the Finchley Manor and Early Days of Whetstone, Friern Barnet, North End and East End, Finchley, Barnet and The Story of Finchley, Friern Barnet and Whetstone. He founded Finchley Record Society in 1925.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Collection of research into the local history of Friern Barnet and environs, carried out by C.O. Banks. The papers include copies of court rolls, research notes, lectures, statistics, extracts from parish records, copies and extracts of wills, legal proceedings, notes on important buildings and people, newspaper cuttings, licences, geneaological notes, sales particulars, estate agents plans, reports, photographs, articles, books and pamphlets on the local history, and maps of Friern Barnet and surrounding areas.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/0410-1: Friern Barnet;
ACC/0410-2: Copies of maps and sketch plans;
ACC/0410-3: Sales particulars and estate agents' plans;
ACC/0410-4: Printed county and district maps;
ACC/0410-5: Original documents;
ACC/0410-6: Photograph negatives and plates: Friern Barnet;
ACC/0410-7: Newspaper Cuttings.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection 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:
Documents deposited August 1949.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: August to October 2010.