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LUXTON AND COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-126

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: LUXTON AND COMPANY

Date(s): 1908-1912

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): Luxton and Co | fishmongers

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

John Hawkins Luxton came to London from Plymouth to establish his fish trading business in 1883. By 1895 he held a tenancy of a stand in Billingsgate Market. J. H. Luxton transferred the stand to his son Horace Russell Luxton in 1941. The business was incorporated as Luxton and Company (Billingsgate) Limited in 1951, having previously traded as Luxton and Company. J. H. Luxton died in 1961.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Luxton and Company, fishmongers, mostly letters to John Hawkins Luxton relating to trading and family matters.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One file containing fifty items.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

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:

These papers were donated to Guildhall Library on 9 June 1998 by the London Fish Merchants Association (Billingsgate) Ltd via the Business Archives Council. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

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: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Fish trade | Trade (practice)
Fishmarkets | Commercial premises
Fishmongers | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People

Personal names

Corporate names
Luxton and Co | fishmongers

Places
Billingsgate | City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe