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LEWISHAM LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY

Catalogue reference: A93/8 and A94/14

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This record is about the LEWISHAM LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY dating from 1961-1991.

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Reference
A93/8 and A94/14
Title
LEWISHAM LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY
Date
1961-1991
Description

Minutes, constitution, finance and membership, newsletters and secretary's papers

Related material

<p>See also A96/14, a later deposit.</p>

Held by
Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre
Language
English
Creator(s)
<corpname>Lewisham Local History Society, 1961 -</corpname>
Physical description
43 files
Immediate source of acquisition

The following items were deposited by Mr John King, Chairman, Lewisham Local History Society, on behalf of the Society.

Date of accession: 23 July 1993 and 30 December 1993

Accession number: A93/8/1-42, A93/14

Selection and destruction information

The following items have not been preserved:

Receipt books, paying-in books, cheque books; duplicate minutes, newsletters and programmes; artwork and original typescripts for the Transactions and other publications.

Administrative / biographical background

Lewisham Local History Society was founded in 1961 on the initiative of the then Borough Librarian, Roy Rates. Since 1965 it has also covered the former Metropolitan Borough of Deptford.

In the late 1960s the Society began collecting museum objects, with the intention that they should form a basic collection for a future Borough Museum. Since 1971 the museum collection has been stored in Lewisham Libraries premises - originally in the flat above New Cross Library, which was shared with Lewisham Natural History Society.

The Society has published various pamphlets and booklets on local history since 1975, and annual Transactions from 1963 to 1988; the Transactions were replaced by the Lewisham History Journal from 1993. All the Society's publications are in the book collection at the Local History Centre.

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