'London Coffee Houses, Taverns and Inns'

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0372 LONDON COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS/2
Held at	: Bishopsgate Institute   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/library ›
Full title	: 'London Coffee Houses, Taverns and Inns'
Date(s)	: 1932-1936
Level of description	: Fonds
Extent	: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Various

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

No further information available at present.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Three volumes of handwritten notebooks entitled, The London and Surburban Coffee-Houses, Taverns and Inns of the Eighteenth Century by J.Paul de Castro, listing the names of coffee-houses, taverns and inns with the book or newspaper in which they were referenced (n.d.); typescript list, Inns mentioned in the Journal of Martin Bere, from an article by Martin A.S.Hume in the Gentleman's Magazine, November 1891 (1p) (n.d.); typescript list, List of Taverns held by Members of the Company of Vintners, 1641 to Ambrose Head from C.W.F.Goss (10pp) (31 October 1932); letter from G.A.Tomlin regarding a letter in The Times about the signs for inns and shops (2pp) (28 August 1936).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

No further arrangement required.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Documents cannot be photocopied at present. Digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Collected by C.W.F.Goss as part of the Institute's London Collection.

Allied Materials

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Stefan Dickers.

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:
15 August 2005.