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BRITISH FUNERAL WORKERS ASSOCIATION


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/030

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BRITISH FUNERAL WORKERS ASSOCIATION

Date(s): 1917-1949

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 7 production units comprising 7 volumes.

Name of creator(s): British Funeral Workers' Association

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The British Funeral Workers' Association was based at 23 Bride Lane (1917-1925), 7 Milford Lane (1925-1938) and St Bride's Institute (1939-1940). In 1920, the Association had seven branches in London, as well as branches in Portsmouth, Kingston and Southampton. From evidence inside the minute books, the Association may have become the National Union of Funeral and Cemetery Workers by 1963 (based in Wembley).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the British Funeral Workers' Association, comprising minute books of the Executive Committee and the Cemetery Committee; and minutes of the Southampton Branch.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These records of the Association were donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1995.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

The whereabouts of other records are not known.

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: November 2010 to January 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Cemeteries | Burial grounds | Public utilities | Public enterprises | Enterprises
Funeral directors | People by occupation | People
Funerals | Civil ceremonies | Ceremonies
Professional associations | Associations | Organizations
Trade associations | Associations | Organizations
Undertakers | People by occupation | People

Personal names

Corporate names
British Funeral Workers' Association

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Southampton | Hampshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe