LONGTON AND FENTON PERMANENT BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/155
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: LONGTON AND FENTON PERMANENT BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY
Date(s)	: 1852-1883
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 7 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Longton and Fenton Permanent Benefit Building Society

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Longton and Fenton Permanent Benefit Building Society can probably be identified as the Longton Mutual Permanent Building Society listed in the trade directories of Staffordshire from 1872. It was based successively in Boardman's Buildings, Anchor Chambers (Market Street) and Commerce Street in Longton.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Longton and Fenton Permanent Benefit Building Society including ledger; journal; summaries of investors; summaries of borrowers; and financial accounts.

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:

The records of the building society were donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1998 as part of the archives of Hill Vellacott, chartered accountants. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See CLC/B/117 for the papers of Hill Vellacott.

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.