IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0938
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: PETINGALE
Date(s): 1769-1964
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 9.96 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Various.
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
There is no unifying factor to these papers (e.g. that they relate to property owned by one estate or family or the legal work of one office), they were simply collected for their antiquarian interest before being passed to the archive.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
This collection consists mainly of property records (such as assignments, probates, leases and mortgages) relating to premises in Middlesex and London. It also contains twentieth-century sales catalogues and advertising brochures for properties.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Property records: ACC/0938/A;
Surveys: ACC/0938/D;
Sales catalogue and particulars: ACC/0938/G;
Miscellanea and newspaper cuttings: ACC/0938/J.
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:
The papers were part of the Petingale Collection and were donated to the Archive in January 1967. The Petingale Collection of topographical material (mainly on Middlesex) was collected by the late John Lawson Petingale.
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.