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London Metropolitan Archives

FURNITURE AND FIRES


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0415

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: FURNITURE AND FIRES

Date(s): 1778

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.04 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:

Memorandum on fires in London and other places, 1778; with inventory and valuation of furniture for Bydorp House, Hanwell, undated (late 18th century).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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 gifted to the Archive in May 1951.

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
Fire damage | Damage | Disasters
Fires | Accidents | Disasters
Furniture | Decorative arts
Household inventories | Inventories | Secondary documents
Valuation | Accounting | Financial administration | Finance

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Hanwell | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Ealing
London