ALDERSGATE WARD CLUB

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/020
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: ALDERSGATE WARD CLUB
Date(s)	: 1909-2004
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 9 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Aldersgate Ward Club

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Aldersgate Ward Club was founded in 1860 as the Aldersgate Ward Past Officers' Club, and was revived in 1909 as Aldersgate Ward Club. In 1972 it instigated an Annual Luncheon for the Lord Mayor. Lady members were first accepted in 1975.

The City of London was divided into wards for the purpose of government as early as Norman times. The wards had responsibility to keep the peace, supervise trade and oversee sanitation, and each ward has the right to elect an Alderman and Commoners to sit in the Court of Common Council. The Aldersgate ward is bounded by Aldersgate Street, Beech Street, Noble Street, Angel Street, King Edward Street and Montague Street, and includes the Barbican Estate.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Aldersgate Ward Club records comprising: minute books, 1909-75 (Ms 18738); attendance books, 1948-2001 (Ms 35004-5); account book, 1912-24 (Ms 18739); rules and lists of members, 1995-2004 (Ms 35006); menus, 1996-2004 (Ms 35007-35007A), and text of a guided tour of Aldersgate Ward, 1971 (Ms 33834).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The records have been sorted into an order which reflects divisions between the different functions and operations of the organisation and its administration.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records 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 were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1979, 1995, 2002 and 2004. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff from 1979 to 2004. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See CLC/021 for the Aldersgate Ward Past Officers' Club. For the records of the Aldersgate Ward see CLC/W/FA.

Publication note:

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:
June to August 2010.