IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/155
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LONGTON AND FENTON PERMANENT BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY
Date(s): 1852-1883
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 7 production units.
Name of creator(s): Longton and Fenton Permanent Benefit Building Society
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Longton and Fenton Permanent Benefit Building Society can probably be identified as the Longton Mutual Permanent Building Society listed in the trade directories of Staffordshire from 1872. It was based successively in Boardman's Buildings, Anchor Chambers (Market Street) and Commerce Street in Longton.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Longton and Fenton Permanent Benefit Building Society including ledger; journal; summaries of investors; summaries of borrowers; and financial accounts.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
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 records of the building society were donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1998 as part of the archives of Hill Vellacott, chartered accountants. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See CLC/B/117 for the papers of Hill Vellacott.
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.