Collection GB 0074 CLC/B/227-191 - W. H. TOMSETT AND COMPANY

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Reference code

GB 0074 CLC/B/227-191

Title

W. H. TOMSETT AND COMPANY

Date(s)

  • 1862 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

One production unit.

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

WH Tomsett and Company succeeded Pound and Tomsett, listed in the London trade directories at 42 Trinity Square and 331 Edgeware Road (1872-6), and 12-14 Coopers' Row, Crutched Friars (1877-1879). WH Tomsett and Company are listed at 3 Savage Gardens, Crutched Friars (1880-1911) and 25 Savage Gardens (1912-1927).

Sinclair, Birch and Company are listed in the London trade directories at 8 Catherine Court (1900-1904), 26 Crutched Friars (1905-11), 27 Crutched Friars (1912-1913), 7 and 8 Idol Lane (1914-36), 33 St Mary at Hill (1937-71) and 8 St Mary at Hill (1972-3). Despite references in the directories of the 1930s onwards that Sinclair Birch was founded in 1871 there are no separate entries from WH Tomsett and Company before 1900.

Archival history

GB 0074 CLC/B/227-191 1862 Collection One production unit. W.H. Tomsett and Co , wine and spirit merchants
Sinclair, Birch and Co , wine and spirit merchants

WH Tomsett and Company succeeded Pound and Tomsett, listed in the London trade directories at 42 Trinity Square and 331 Edgeware Road (1872-6), and 12-14 Coopers' Row, Crutched Friars (1877-1879). WH Tomsett and Company are listed at 3 Savage Gardens, Crutched Friars (1880-1911) and 25 Savage Gardens (1912-1927).

Sinclair, Birch and Company are listed in the London trade directories at 8 Catherine Court (1900-1904), 26 Crutched Friars (1905-11), 27 Crutched Friars (1912-1913), 7 and 8 Idol Lane (1914-36), 33 St Mary at Hill (1937-71) and 8 St Mary at Hill (1972-3). Despite references in the directories of the 1930s onwards that Sinclair Birch was founded in 1871 there are no separate entries from WH Tomsett and Company before 1900.

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Copy deeds of the sale, in 1903, of the wine and spirit merchant businesses of WH Tomsett and Company and Sinclair, Birch and Company, which were both owned by William Henry Tomsett (died 1903).

One bundle.

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

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.

January to May 2011. Alcoholic beverages Information sources Documents Business records People People by occupation Personnel Mercantile personnel Merchants Wine merchants Spirits Sinclair , Birch and Co , wine and spirit merchants W.H. Tomsett and Co , wine and spirit merchants City of London London England UK Western Europe Europe Beverages Food Agricultural products

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Copy deeds of the sale, in 1903, of the wine and spirit merchant businesses of WH Tomsett and Company and Sinclair, Birch and Company, which were both owned by William Henry Tomsett (died 1903).

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

One bundle.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

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Finding aids

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

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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.

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  • English

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