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- 1930 (Creation)
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4 production units.
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John Paul de Castro wrote The Gordon Riots (1926) and The law and practice of hall-marking gold and silver wares (1935).
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GB 0074 CLC/245 1930 Collection 4 production units. de Castro , John Paul , fl 1926-1940 , historian
John Paul de Castro wrote The Gordon Riots (1926) and The law and practice of hall-marking gold and silver wares (1935).
These volumes were purchased by Guildhall Library in 1933, and were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in the same year. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
A Dictionary of the Principal London Taverns since the Restoration, manuscript by John Paul de Castro, containing the names, sites and some of the recorded activities of taverns, chocolate houses and coffee houses; with some maps and prints.
Four volumes in alphabetical order.
Available for general access.
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
English
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
The Bishopsgate Institute holds handwritten notebooks by del Castro, entitled The London and Surburban Coffee-Houses, Taverns and Inns of the Eighteenth Century, 1932-36, reference LONDON COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS/2.
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.
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These volumes were purchased by Guildhall Library in 1933, and were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in the same year. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
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A Dictionary of the Principal London Taverns since the Restoration, manuscript by John Paul de Castro, containing the names, sites and some of the recorded activities of taverns, chocolate houses and coffee houses; with some maps and prints.
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Four volumes in alphabetical order.
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Available for general access.
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Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
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- English
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- Latin
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English
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The Bishopsgate Institute holds handwritten notebooks by del Castro, entitled The London and Surburban Coffee-Houses, Taverns and Inns of the Eighteenth Century, 1932-36, reference LONDON COLLECTION MANUSCRIPTS/2.
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Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
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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.
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- English