IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/145
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM
Date(s): 1842 - [1890]
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3 production units.
Name of creator(s): Licensed Victuallers' Asylum x Licensed Victuallers' Benevolent Institution
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
In 1826, a group of members of the licensed victualling trade formed a society, named the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, to relieve decayed and aged members of their trade, and their wives or widows. The following year, they acquired land in the Old Kent Road, Camberwell, on which they subsequently erected 103 separate dwellings to serve as almshouses. The asylum was incorporated by royal charter in 1842. In 1921, the asylum was renamed the Licensed Victuallers' Benevolent Institution, which last appears in the London Post Office directories in 1960. Its subsequent history is unknown.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, later the Licensed Victuallers' Benevolent Institution, comprising: abstract of the charter of incorporation and of rules, ordinances and by-laws, 1851 (Ms 21458); extracts from the charter of incorporation, [1860] (Ms 21459); and copy opinions concerning property, [1890] (Ms 21460). They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1985.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Three items.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
These records were bought by Guildhall Library with those of the Society of Licensed Victuallers. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See ACC/3122 for the National Licenced Victuallers Association.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.