IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/033
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BISHOPSGATE WARD RATEPAYERS ASSOCIATION
Date(s): 1859-1874
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3 production units.
Name of creator(s): Bishopsgate Ward Ratepayers Association
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Founded in 1857 as the St Botolph Bishopsgate Ratepayers' Association; the name changed in 1860-2. The objects of the association were "To correct abuses ... in the local government of the ward ... to watch over the expenditure and proceedings of the same ... to diffuse ward and parochial information ... and to carry out the principles of a mutual improvement society".
The City of London was divided into wards for the purpose of government as early as Norman times. The wards had responsibility to keep the peace, supervise trade and oversee sanitation, and each ward has the right to elect an Alderman and Commoners to sit in the Court of Common Council.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Bishopsgate Ward Ratepayers Association, comprising: minute books, 1862-74 (Ms 21144); and rough minute book, 1859-62 (Ms 21145).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Minute books in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records 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:
They were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1984 and were catalogued in the same year by a member of Guildhall Library staff. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For records of Bishopsgate Ward see CLC/W/GC; and for the Ward social club see CLC/032.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.