DEBENTURE CORPORATION LIMITED

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/067
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: DEBENTURE CORPORATION LIMITED
Date(s)	: 1885-1959
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 21 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Debenture Corporation Ltd | investment company

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Debenture Corporation Limited was set up as an investment company in 1885 to offer shareholders a return on investments spread over a number of industrial and manufacturing companies. It traded from 75 Lombard Street (1885-9); Worcester House, Walbrook (1889-1948); 24 Gresham House, 27 Old Broad Street (1949-63); 1 Union Court (1964-6) and Winchester House, 77 London Wall.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Minutes of the Debenture Corporation Limited, investment company.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

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:

Its surviving archives were presented to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by a director of the company in 1990. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

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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:
November 2010 to January 2011.