Collection GB 0074 B/SCT - SCOTT, G.W. {BASKETMAKERS}

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GB 0074 B/SCT 1703-1930 Collection 1 linear metre G W Scott , basket makers x Scott of London

Scott of London, basket weavers, were founded in 1661 in the City of London. After the Great Fire of London in 1666 trades identified as a fire risk were ordered to move out of the City and so the company went to Soho, which was then a rural area. The products manufactured by the company varied over time but included bug traps (bed bugs are attracted to the bitter taste of willow), picnic baskets (the company claimed to have invented the modern picnic basket), cane furniture, cradles, dog baskets, and stage props such as effigies of Gog and Magog for the Lord Mayor's Parade or the frame of Falstaff's belly.

Deposited in 1964, through the British Records Association (B.R.A.1400) in the London County Record Office [now LMA], County Hall, London, S.E.1

Records of G W Scott, basket makers, 1703-1930. The surviving records date from June 1703. They cover not only the infinite variety of baskets, cradles and wooden goods made and repaired but also items such as bugtraps, and the figures of elephants, camels, horses, giants and ghosts made for Drury Lane, Covent Garden and Astley's Circus. Records include day books; bill books; register of accounts; goods received book; wages books and newspaper cuttings and booklet summarizing the history of the firm.

B/SCT/1-17 Day books (2 series); B/SCT/18-26 Bill books; B/SCT/27 Register of accounts; B/SCT/28 Goods received book; B/SCT/29, 30 Miscellaneous account books; B/SCT/31-33 Wages books; B/SCT/34, 35 Newspaper cutting, etc.

Available for general access.

Copyright rests with the depositor.

English

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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.

July to October 2009 Basket making Business records People People by occupation Personnel Workers Skilled workers Craft workers Basket makers Information sources Documents Financial records Handicrafts Financial accounts G W Scott , basket makers x Scott of London

Deposited in 1964, through the British Records Association (B.R.A.1400) in the London County Record Office [now LMA], County Hall, London, S.E.1

Records of G W Scott, basket makers, 1703-1930. The surviving records date from June 1703. They cover not only the infinite variety of baskets, cradles and wooden goods made and repaired but also items such as bugtraps, and the figures of elephants, camels, horses, giants and ghosts made for Drury Lane, Covent Garden and Astley's Circus. Records include day books; bill books; register of accounts; goods received book; wages books and newspaper cuttings and booklet summarizing the history of the firm.

B/SCT/1-17 Day books (2 series); B/SCT/18-26 Bill books; B/SCT/27 Register of accounts; B/SCT/28 Goods received book; B/SCT/29, 30 Miscellaneous account books; B/SCT/31-33 Wages books; B/SCT/34, 35 Newspaper cutting, etc.

Available for general access.

Copyright rests with the depositor.

• English

• Latin

English

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.

• English