Reference number
  • ABS
Date
  • 1919-1928
Level
  • Collection
Description
  • Minutes, 1919-28; annual report and financial statement, 1920.
Extent
  • 1 box (2 items)
Admin history
  • The Ashton-under-Lyne and District Society of Braziers and Sheet Metal Workers was formed in 1825. It joined the National Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers in 1912 and amalgamated with other affiliated societies in 1920 to form the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers, of which it remained a branch. Reference: Ted Brake, Men of Good Character: A history of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers( Lawrence and Wishart: London, 1985).
Appraisal
  • This collection has been weeded for duplicates.
Arrangement
  • The records form part of the archive of Manufacturing, Science, Finance (MSS.101) and within that are a constitutent of the archive of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers (MSS.101/SM).
Access status
  • Open
Related material
  • The records of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, Heating and Domestic Engineers and many of its other predecessors are also held at the Modern Records Centre (MSS.101/SM).