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WALTONS, BRIGHT AND COMPANY {SOLICITORS}


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/0952

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: WALTONS, BRIGHT AND COMPANY {SOLICITORS}

Date(s): 1812-1897

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Waltons, Bright and Company | solicitors

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Green Lanes is a main road in North London which runs through several postcodes. The section of road which runs through Harringay and Hornsey includes late Victorian terraced mansion houses and shops such as that owned by the Seckers. 555 Green Lanes is now an estate agent.

The roads alongside Tottenham Green were a popular location for building large houses and saw increased growth from the 1700s onwards.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a lease for a dwelling house with coach-house, stable and outbuildings with garden and adjoining parcel of land at north west corner of Tottenham Green, 1812, and articles of partnership between Stanley James Secker and Thomas Percy Secker to remain partners in the business of pawnbrokers, jewellers and general salesmen at 555 Green Lanes, Haringay, 1897.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

2 items.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the City of London.

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received in 1967 (ACC/0952)

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Articles of partnership | Documents | Information sources
Legal documents | Law
Pawnbrokers | Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Property owners | People by roles | People
Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Solicitors | Legal profession personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Property law x Right to property
Property

Personal names

Corporate names
Waltons | Bright and Company | solicitors

Places