Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company: Stepney Green Court/Mocatto House rent books

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0372 LONDON COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS/299
Held at	: Bishopsgate Institute   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/library ›
Full title	: Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company: Stepney Green Court/Mocatto House rent books
Date(s)	: 1921-1947
Level of description	: Fonds
Extent	: 3 Volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company was a philanthropic model dwellings company, formed in London in 1885, during the Victorian era. In 1952, it was renamed the Industrial Dwellings Society (1885) Ltd. and is today known as IDS. The IDS manages over 1,400 properties in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Southwark, Redbridge and Barnet. Its president is Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, a descendent of the banker Nathan Mayer Rothschild, who founded the Society.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Three rent books, suspected to be from Stepney Green Court, Stepney Green, and Mocatto House, Whitechapel, owned by the Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company, listing occupier, occupation and rent paid (1921-1947).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English.

System of arrangement:

No further arrangement.

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying and scanning facilities are available for a charge and will be completed by archival staff if condition and copyright permits. Digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.

Finding aids:

Fonds level description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited with Bishopsgate Institute by Irving Finkel via Jenny Kallin, November 2011.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Stefan Dickers.

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:
7 December 2011.