JOSEPH PRESTON AND SONS

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/138
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: JOSEPH PRESTON AND SONS
Date(s)	: [1890]-1914
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 4 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Joseph Preston and Sons | watch, clock and chronometer movement makers

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Joseph Preston and Sons were watch, clock and chronometer movement makers of Prescot, Lancashire.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

The records of Joseph Preston and Sons, watch, clock and chronometer movement makers, comprise two volumes containing descriptions of parts c 1890-5 and 1892-1914 (Mss 14558, 14560), a cash book 1893-1904 (Ms 14545) and a bank pass book 1907-12 (Ms 14559).

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:

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:

Purchased by the Clockmakers' Company at an auction of the library of Professor David Torrens of Dublin. The Clockmakers' Company deposited these records in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1973, together with the business archives of Victor Kullberg (watch and chronometer maker of Islington) and E. Sills (watch and chronometer finisher of Tottenham), and lecture notes of Heinrich Otto concerning watchmaking. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Further records of Joseph Preston and Sons, chiefly financial records 1895-1942, were known in 1973 to be held by Merseyside County Museums, William Brown Street, Liverpool, L3 8EN.

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:
January to May 2011.