BANKS COLLECTION

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 ACC/0410
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: BANKS COLLECTION
Date(s)	: 1486-1949
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 1 linear metre
Name of creator(s)	: Banks | C O | fl 1925-1939 | local historian

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

C. O. Banks was a local historian, author of Romances of the Finchley Manor and Early Days of Whetstone, Friern Barnet, North End and East End, Finchley, Barnet and The Story of Finchley, Friern Barnet and Whetstone. He founded Finchley Record Society in 1925.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Collection of research into the local history of Friern Barnet and environs, carried out by C.O. Banks. The papers include copies of court rolls, research notes, lectures, statistics, extracts from parish records, copies and extracts of wills, legal proceedings, notes on important buildings and people, newspaper cuttings, licences, geneaological notes, sales particulars, estate agents plans, reports, photographs, articles, books and pamphlets on the local history, and maps of Friern Barnet and surrounding areas.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

ACC/0410-1: Friern Barnet;
ACC/0410-2: Copies of maps and sketch plans;
ACC/0410-3: Sales particulars and estate agents' plans;
ACC/0410-4: Printed county and district maps;
ACC/0410-5: Original documents;
ACC/0410-6: Photograph negatives and plates: Friern Barnet;
ACC/0410-7: Newspaper Cuttings.

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:

Documents deposited August 1949.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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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:
August to October 2010.