CHEAP WARD CLUB

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/044
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: CHEAP WARD CLUB
Date(s)	: 1863-2007
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 9 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Cheap Ward Club

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Cheap Ward Club was established in 1863.

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 Cheap Ward is bounded on the north by Bassishaw Ward, on the south by Cordwainer Ward, on the west by Cripplegate Ward and on the east by Coleman Street Ward. The ward contained seven City parish churches: St Lawrence Jewry; St Pancras Soper Lane; St Benet Sherehog; St Mildred Poultry; St Martin Pomeroy; St Mary Colechurch; and All Hallows, Honey Lane.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Cheap Ward Club, comprising: minute books, 1863-1987 and 1990-2007 (Ms 31625) and miscellaneous loose items, 1863-1938 (Ms 31625A).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Minute books arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

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 between 1999 and 2009. They were catalogued at various dates from 1999 by members of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See CLC/W/HC for the records of Cheap Ward.

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.