Collection GB 0074 CLC/B/144-09 - GRESHAM FIRE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE SOCIETY

Identity area

Reference code

GB 0074 CLC/B/144-09

Title

GRESHAM FIRE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE SOCIETY

Date(s)

  • 1910-1982 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

112 production units.

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Gresham Fire and Accident Insurance Society was founded in 1910 as a sister company to Gresham Life Assurance Society. It was taken over by Legal and General Assurance Society in 1934. The Society was based at St Mildred's House, Poultry (1910-24) and 188-90 Fleet Street (from 1924).

Archival history

GB 0074 CLC/B/144-09 1910-1982 Collection 112 production units. Gresham Fire and Accident Insurance Society

Gresham Fire and Accident Insurance Society was founded in 1910 as a sister company to Gresham Life Assurance Society. It was taken over by Legal and General Assurance Society in 1934. The Society was based at St Mildred's House, Poultry (1910-24) and 188-90 Fleet Street (from 1924).

Records covering the life assurance business only, consisting primarily of policy registers, were deposited by Legal and General Assurance in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library on 22 September 1977. These records were withdrawn by the depositor on 31 August 1990 and returned to the Manuscripts Section, as a gift, on 19 January 1996, along with the main archive of the Company, (except the board minutes, which were a deposit rather than a gift), at which point it was decided that a sample of only two volumes of building society policy registers would be kept out of an original series of 106 volumes (Ms 18478). The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Records of the Gresham Fire and Accident Insurance Society, including memorandum and articles of association; minutes and agendas; annual reports and accounts; registers; financial records; papers regarding foreign and overseas business; specimens of forms and policies; and staff registers.

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

English

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

See CLC/B/144-10 for the Gresham Life Assurance Society. See also CLC/B/144-01: Legal and General Assurance Society Limited.

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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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Records covering the life assurance business only, consisting primarily of policy registers, were deposited by Legal and General Assurance in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library on 22 September 1977. These records were withdrawn by the depositor on 31 August 1990 and returned to the Manuscripts Section, as a gift, on 19 January 1996, along with the main archive of the Company, (except the board minutes, which were a deposit rather than a gift), at which point it was decided that a sample of only two volumes of building society policy registers would be kept out of an original series of 106 volumes (Ms 18478). The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Records of the Gresham Fire and Accident Insurance Society, including memorandum and articles of association; minutes and agendas; annual reports and accounts; registers; financial records; papers regarding foreign and overseas business; specimens of forms and policies; and staff registers.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

See CLC/B/144-10 for the Gresham Life Assurance Society. See also CLC/B/144-01: Legal and General Assurance Society Limited.

Finding aids

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

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Existence and location of originals

Existence and location of copies

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Description control area

Description identifier

Institution identifier

London Metropolitan Archives

Rules and/or conventions used

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.

Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

  • English

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    Sources

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