IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/137
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: CUMBERLAND BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION
Date(s): 1812-1927
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 5 production units.
Name of creator(s): Cumberland Benevolent Institution
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Institution assisted old and needy Cumbrians resident in London. Meetings were held at the Albion Hotel, Aldersgate Street.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Minute books of the Cumberland Benevolent Institution.
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 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 volumes were donated to Guildhall Library in 1935. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1936. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
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: June to August 2010.