Manuscript minute book of board meetings of the London Commercial Deposit Permanent Building Society and Deposit Bank, 1882 to 1888. With signatures of the various directors.

More information about this Society (founded in 1863 and incorporated in 1875) is to be found in the report in The Times, 20 September 1892 ('Suspension Of Another Building Society'), of the announcement of its dissolution 'in consequence of the commercial panic'. See also 'The Stoppage Of Building Societies', Times, 21 September 1892, which reports the reversal of the decision to wind up the Society. Folio, 248 pp. Disbound. Text clear and complete. Foxing and slight wear to first and last few leaves of volume, otherwise in good condition on lightly-aged paper. Entries headed 'Board Meeting' and 'Minute of Common Seal Committee', with most signed by the Chairman, W. Hurran, sometimes with another director. (The first of the two Times reports cited gives the names and addresses of most of the directors mentioned.) Entries regularly include the secretary's report 'on the Balances at the Bankers and Depositors Balances'. Other topics include 'applications for advances', 'properties on hand' and 'special arrears'. Tipped in is a printed announcement (12mo, 2 pp) of proposal to be made by J. J. Haskell at meeting on 17 April 1882. The Society was renamed London Commercial in 1962, and its engagements transferred to Nottingham in 1983.