LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 LMA/4222
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Date(s)	: 1911-1985
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.15 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Local Government Association Association of County Councils

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Local Government Association (LGA) was formed on 1 April 1997 as a merger of the Association of County Councils (ACC), the Association of District Councils (ADC), and the Association of Metropolitan Authorities (AMA). Its aim was to represent the interests of principal local authorities in England and Wales.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Loal Government Association, comprising annual balances of the County Councils Association 1911-1985 and a group of records relating to Belgravia Holdings Limited.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

LMA/4222/A/01: Balance Sheets; LMA/4222/A/02: Belgravia Holdings.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This short series of records was gifted to the London Metropolitan Archives in 1999.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The LGA hold signed minutes of the Association of County Councils, the Association of District Councils and the Association of Metropolitan Authorities as well as ACC publications.

The University of Birmingham Library holds the spare copies of the ACC minutes and some records of the AMA.

The London Metropolitan Archives holds published minutes of the ACC (1973-1997), the County Council Association (1967-1974), the Association of Municipal Corporations (1912-1929) and also the year books for the ACC (1974-1983) and the County Councils Association (1954-1972). Along with the minutes LMA holds subject files from the Association of County Councils LMA/4243 and the Association of District Councils LMA/4244.

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.