DE CASTRO, John Paul (fl 1926-1940)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/245
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: DE CASTRO, John Paul (fl 1926-1940)
Date(s)	: 1930
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 4 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: de Castro | John Paul | fl 1926-1940 | historian

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

John Paul de Castro wrote The Gordon Riots (1926) and The law and practice of hall-marking gold and silver wares (1935).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

A Dictionary of the Principal London Taverns since the Restoration, manuscript by John Paul de Castro, containing the names, sites and some of the recorded activities of taverns, chocolate houses and coffee houses; with some maps and prints.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Four volumes in alphabetical order.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection 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:

These volumes were purchased by Guildhall Library in 1933, and were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in the same year. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Bishopsgate Institute holds handwritten notebooks by del Castro, entitled The London and Surburban Coffee-Houses, Taverns and Inns of the Eighteenth Century, 1932-36, reference LONDON COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS/2.

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:
August to October 2010.