GRESHAM FIRE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE SOCIETY

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/144-09
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: GRESHAM FIRE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE SOCIETY
Date(s)	: 1910-1982
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 112 production units.
Name of creator(s)	: Gresham Fire and Accident Insurance Society

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Gresham Fire and Accident Insurance Society was founded in 1910 as a sister company to Gresham Life Assurance Society. It was taken over by Legal and General Assurance Society in 1934. The Society was based at St Mildred's House, Poultry (1910-24) and 188-90 Fleet Street (from 1924).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Gresham Fire and Accident Insurance Society, including memorandum and articles of association; minutes and agendas; annual reports and accounts; registers; financial records; papers regarding foreign and overseas business; specimens of forms and policies; and staff registers.

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:

Records covering the life assurance business only, consisting primarily of policy registers, were deposited by Legal and General Assurance in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library on 22 September 1977. These records were withdrawn by the depositor on 31 August 1990 and returned to the Manuscripts Section, as a gift, on 19 January 1996, along with the main archive of the Company, (except the board minutes, which were a deposit rather than a gift), at which point it was decided that a sample of only two volumes of building society policy registers would be kept out of an original series of 106 volumes (Ms 18478). The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See CLC/B/144-10 for the Gresham Life Assurance Society. See also CLC/B/144-01: Legal and General Assurance Society Limited.

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.