SCOTT, G.W. {BASKETMAKERS}

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 B/SCT
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: SCOTT, G.W. {BASKETMAKERS}
Date(s)	: 1703-1930
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1 linear metre
Name of creator(s)	: G W Scott | basket makers x Scott of London

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Scott of London, basket weavers, were founded in 1661 in the City of London. After the Great Fire of London in 1666 trades identified as a fire risk were ordered to move out of the City and so the company went to Soho, which was then a rural area. The products manufactured by the company varied over time but included bug traps (bed bugs are attracted to the bitter taste of willow), picnic baskets (the company claimed to have invented the modern picnic basket), cane furniture, cradles, dog baskets, and stage props such as effigies of Gog and Magog for the Lord Mayor's Parade or the frame of Falstaff's belly.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of G W Scott, basket makers, 1703-1930. The surviving records date from June 1703. They cover not only the infinite variety of baskets, cradles and wooden goods made and repaired but also items such as bugtraps, and the figures of elephants, camels, horses, giants and ghosts made for Drury Lane, Covent Garden and Astley's Circus. Records include day books; bill books; register of accounts; goods received book; wages books and newspaper cuttings and booklet summarizing the history of the firm.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

B/SCT/1-17 Day books (2 series); B/SCT/18-26 Bill books; B/SCT/27 Register of accounts; B/SCT/28 Goods received book; B/SCT/29, 30 Miscellaneous account books; B/SCT/31-33 Wages books; B/SCT/34, 35 Newspaper cutting, etc.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright 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 in 1964, through the British Records Association (B.R.A.1400) in the London County Record Office [now LMA], County Hall, London, S.E.1

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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:
July to October 2009