BATH SUN FIRE OFFICE

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/192-06
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: BATH SUN FIRE OFFICE
Date(s)	: 1836-1903
Level of description	: Collection View parent record
Extent	: One production unit.
Name of creator(s)	: Bath Sun Fire Office

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Bath Sun Fire Office was established in 1776 and acquired by the Sun Insurance Office in 1838.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Bath Sun Fire Office comprising Directors' meeting minute book, also used as an out-letter book.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One item.

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:

This single surviving volume was deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by Sun Alliance in 1979 and catalogued shortly afterwards by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See also CLC/B/192/B/018/MS11935 for papers relating to the takeover of the Bath Sun Fire Office in 1838.

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.