IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/059-04
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WILLIAMS AND DAY
Date(s): 1818-1912
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 15 production units.
Name of creator(s): Williams and Day | wine and spirits merchants
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
This firm of wine and spirit merchants traded as Williams and Day until 1826 when it became John Day, and then successively J. Day, Watson and Son (c.1845), Day, Watson, Son and Watney (1898), and Lister and Beck and Day, Watson, Son and Watney (1914). The firm was taken over c.1933 by Messrs Corney and Barrow. Williams and Day and its successors had premises in Fowkes Buildings, Tower Street (1814-18); Water Lane, Tower Street (1819-1912); 25 Laurence Pountney Lane (1913-21), 22 Tower Hill (1922-32) and 6 Gresham House, Old Broad Street (from 1933).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Williams and Day, wine and spirits merchants, comprising bills, orders, receipts, accounts of customs paid, goods transfer notices and other financial papers 1818-28 (Mss 15553, 15555-61 and 15563); letters and miscellaneous papers 1818-1903 (Mss 15554 and 15562); price lists 1896-1912 (Ms 155564) and photographs (Ms 15565).
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:
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 Williams and Day were deposited by Corney and Barrow at the Vintners' Company, and transferred from Vintners' Hall to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1974. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011.