IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0347 D150
Held at: Wandsworth Heritage Service
Title: T H Adamson & Sons, Builders
Date(s): 1861-1973
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 5 boxes
Name of creator(s): Please contact the Archive for further information
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
T H Adamson and Sons was founded around 1790 in Chiswick, by Thomas Adamson, and was re-named T H Adamson and Sons in 1852, by the original founder's son, Thomas Henry Adamson, with works at Putney, Chiswick and Ealing. The Putney works were at 129 Putney High Street, the site of Essex House, which was demolished in 1872. As well as general building works, the firm also carried out decorative works, and had a showroom at 145 Putney High Street. They were responsible for the stonework on the Cromwell Statue in Westminster Hall Gardens and the Gladstone Memorial on the Strand, as well as repairs to the Clerestorys and the construction of a new Rose Window in Westminster Abbey. The firm worked on several churches, including All Saints, Putney and Trinity Church, Streatham, as well as the Regal Cinema in Putney and Westminster School.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Includes: accounts; letter books; photographs of work done by the firm; articles and publications about the firm or containing subject matter of interest, including news-sheets on the General Strike; family material such as apprenticeship indentures and correspondence.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
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Conditions governing access:
This material is only available in the Wandsworth Heritage Service search room at Battersea Library. Please contact Heritage Service staff for more information.
Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Donated to Wandsworth Museum by Colin Adamson in February 1990 and subsequently transferred to the Local History Service.
Immediate source of acquisition:
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ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Finding aid created by export from CALM v8.0.2.40 Archives Hub EAD2002. Entry amended by Barbara Ball
Date(s) of descriptions: April 2011