IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4045
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LONDON SCHOOLS FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
Date(s): 1892-1990
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3.5 linear metres
Name of creator(s): London Schools Football Association
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The London Schools Football Association is a voluntary body with no paid officials. It was founded in October 1892 at a meeting of officials from football associations from Tower Hamlets, Greenwich, Finsbury, West Ham, Marylebone and South London. The first president was Lord Kinnaird (1892-1920).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the London Schools Football Association. The records show the day to day running of the Association through minutes dating from its foundation in 1892 and finance records spanning 1957-1973. Results and match files are also included along with a series of publications containing handbooks and programmes, and a series of photographs showing many of the London versus Glasgow Representative matches from the earliest in 1905.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records have been arranged in the following order:
Minutes - LMA/4045/01;
Accounts - LMA/4045/02;
Results - LMA/4045/03;
Files - LMA/4045/04;
Pamphlets - LMA/4045/05;
Photographs - LMA/4045/06.
Conditions governing access:
The records are open and available for consultation.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.
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:
Records gifted to the Archive in April 1998.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.