LONDON LOCAL AUTHORITIES: SMALL COLLECTIONS
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0074 CLC/163 |
Held at | : London Metropolitan Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma › |
Full title | : LONDON LOCAL AUTHORITIES: SMALL COLLECTIONS |
Date(s) | : 1615-1998 |
Level of description | : Collection |
Extent | : 10 production units. |
Name of creator(s) | : School Board for London Marlborough Street Workhouse Southwark Poor Law Union x Southwark Board of Guardians x Saint Saviour's Poor Law Union x Saint Saviour's Board of Guardians Whitechapel Poor Law Union x Whitechapel Board of Guardians |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Rolls Liberty constituted the Middlesex part of the parish of Saint Dunstan in the West (P69/DUN2), situated around Chancery Lane. A chapel is first recorded here in 1232, known as the Rolls Chapel from 1377. It was constituted as a separate ecclesiastical parish, known as Saint Thomas in the Liberty of the Rolls, in 1842; and as a civil parish, in 1866. The chapel became part of the Public Record Office building, now the library of King's College London. The chapel survives and includes some monuments.
Saint Martin's le Grand was a monastery and college, founded in 1068. The monks were granted the right to hold their own court by Henry II. The monastery was supressed in 1540. Nothing remains of the building.
Saint Saviour's Poor Law Union was formed in February, 1836. Its constituent parishes were Saint Saviour's and Christchurch, both in Southwark. Saint Saviour's Workhouse was situated on Marlborough Street.
The School Board for London was set up under the Public Elementary Education Act of 1870 for the whole of the 'metropolis', the latter being defined as the area coming within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The School Board was closed in 1903 and its powers passed to the London County Council.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Collection of documents relating to local government, including:
- Court book of the Liberty of St Martin le Grand;
- Papers of Saint Saviour's Workhouse and the Whitechapel Union;
- Resolution of thanks from the London School Board to the Corporation of London;
- Tax assessments for the civil parish of Staple Inn and the Liberty of the Rolls;
- Papers relating to the repair of roads in the parish of Saint Margaret Westminster;
- Papers of the Tower Hamlets Libraries Department.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Documents in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
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:
Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Liberty of the Rolls: P69/TMS2;
Saint Saviour's Workhouse: SOBG;
Whitechapel Union: STBG/WH;
London School Board: SBL.
Records of Saint Margaret Westminster are held at Westminster Archives Centre.
Publication note:
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:
August to October 2010.
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