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GREAT WINCHESTER STREET ESTATES LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/106-03

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: GREAT WINCHESTER STREET ESTATES LIMITED

Date(s): 1929-1966

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 5 production units.

Name of creator(s): Great Winchester Street Estates Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Great Winchester Street Estates Limited was established in 1928 as a subsidiary of Gresham House Estate Company Limited (CLC/B/106-03) to hold an 'island' site between London Wall and Great Winchester Street, comprising approximately one acre. The company went into voluntary liquidation in 1958 and the site was sold in 1960. The company's offices were in Gresham House, Old Broad Street.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Great Winchester Street Estates Limited records comprise annual reports, accounts, plans, and tenancy agreements.

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 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:

Deposited by Gresham House Estate Company Limited at Guildhall Library in 1981. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

CLC/B/106-01: Gresham House Estate Company Limited; CLC/B/106-02: Broad Street Estates Limited; CLC/B/106-03: Great Winchester Street Estates Limited.

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
Building construction | Building operations | Construction engineering
Building management | Real estate management | Business management | Management
Building plans | Plans | Visual materials
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Property companies | Companies | Enterprises
Rent | Fees | Finance
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Tenancy | Housing tenure | Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Tenants | People by roles | People
Property law x Right to property

Personal names

Corporate names
Great Winchester Street Estates Ltd

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe