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London Metropolitan Archives

C LEARY AND COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/112-028

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: C LEARY AND COMPANY

Date(s): 1962

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): C Leary and Co Ltd | timber agents

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

C Leary and Company Limited was established in 1841 as timber agents selling on behalf of overseas shippers to importers in the UK and Europe. In 1962 Leary's Boxboard Agencies purchased C Leary and Company Limited, and was in turn purchased by Harrisons and Crosfield Securities Limited (CLC/B/112-075).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of C Leary and Company Limited relating to the purchase of the Company by Harrisons and Crosfields Securities Limited.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One file.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

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 records of Harrisons and Crosfield and its subsidiary and secretarial companies were transferred to Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section between 1990 and 1998. The records were presented as a gift to the Library, except the minute books of some subsidiary companies which are held as a deposit. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

The Harrisons and Crosfield Ltd collection has been divided into 167 sub-fonds; CLC/B/112-001 to CLC/B/112-167. 001 to 016 are records relating to Harrisons and Crosfield (such as operational records, staff records, property records and so on), and 017 to 167 are the records of subsidiaries, plantations and associated organisations.

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
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Timber industry | Industry
Timber merchants | Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People

Personal names

Corporate names
C Leary and Co Ltd | timber agents

Places
England | UK | Western Europe | Europe