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London Metropolitan Archives

BROAD STREET WARD


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/W/GF

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BROAD STREET WARD

Date(s): 1670-1995

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 25 production units.

Name of creator(s): Broad Street Ward | Corporation of London

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

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.

One of the twenty-six wards of the City of London, bounded on the north and east by Bishopsgate Ward, on the north and west by Coleman Street and Cheap wards and on the South by Walbrook and Cornhill wards. The ward contained six City parish churches: All Hallows London Wall, St Benet Fink, St Peter le Poer, St Bartholomew by the Exchange, St Christopher le Stocks and St Martin Outwich.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Broad Street Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise wardmote minutes, accounts, rate assessments, presentments at inquests and details of officers, and other administrative papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records have been sorted into an order which reflects divisions between the different functions and operations of the organisation and its administration.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection 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:

The archives of the ward have been deposited with the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library at various dates. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Publication note:

There is a short printed history of the Ward in J.C. Thornley's The Wards of the City of London, being a series of articles reprinted from the "Architect (1919-20) pp 245-8. Other works available in the Printed Books Section of Guildhall Library and which may be useful include William Chancellor, Account of the several wards, precincts and parishes in the City of London (1787) and A.B. Beaven, Aldermen of the City of London temp. Henry III-1912 (1908-13, 2 vols).

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: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Community charge | Taxation | Fiscal policy | Finance
Inquests | Judicial review | Legal procedure | Administration of justice
Local government archives | Government archives | Archives
Local government personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Local government wards | Local government | Public administration | Government
Local taxation | Taxation | Fiscal policy | Finance

Personal names

Corporate names
Broad Street Ward | Corporation of London

Places
Broad Street | City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe