Coleção GB 0074 LMA/4512 - CHUNG, Wong Ying (Ying Ku) (fl 1920-1985)

0.05 linear metres.

GB 0074 LMA/4512 1932-200- Collection 0.05 linear metres. Chung , Ying Wong , fl 1920-1985 , launderette owner and caterer

Ying Wong Chung was born in Guangdong province, China in the late 1920s. (Her husband was born in the same province in 1893 and was sent to England in 1911 - the year the Qing Dynasty fell - by his father.) She emigrated to the UK in the 1953, to join her husband, who was living in a small town in North Wales. After running a laundrette for 15 years (from 1953-1968) the Chungs entered the catering trade. The business was later closed shortly after her husband's death. Ying Wong Chung moved to London in 1985.

This collection was acquired in 2008 as part of the 'Footprints of the Dragon' Heritage Lottery Fund project led by the Chinese National Healthy Living Centre.

Personal papers of Wong Ying Chung including Chinese passport; oral history transcript entitled Life in the Laundrette, and family photographs.

Listed in accordance with LMA Listing guidelines and classification scheme introduced October 2007. Arranged by series then into subseries; thereafter files are listed in chronological order by creation date.

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Chinese and English.

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

The following Chinese community collections were acquired as part of 'Footprints of the Dragon' Heritage Lottery Fund project led by Chinese National Healthy Living Centre: LMA/4497-4515, 4518, 4520

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.

Records prepared May to September 2011. Primary documents Documents Information sources Laundrettes Passports Travel documents Commercial premises Personal papers Cultural identity Cultural nationalism National identity Chinese (cultural identity) Migrants Immigrants Migration Immigration Archives Personal archives Official documents

This collection was acquired in 2008 as part of the 'Footprints of the Dragon' Heritage Lottery Fund project led by the Chinese National Healthy Living Centre.

Personal papers of Wong Ying Chung including Chinese passport; oral history transcript entitled Life in the Laundrette, and family photographs.

Listed in accordance with LMA Listing guidelines and classification scheme introduced October 2007. Arranged by series then into subseries; thereafter files are listed in chronological order by creation date.

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

• inglês

• latim

Chinese and English.

The following Chinese community collections were acquired as part of 'Footprints of the Dragon' Heritage Lottery Fund project led by Chinese National Healthy Living Centre: LMA/4497-4515, 4518, 4520

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

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.

• inglês