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Catalogue description BRISTOL SAILORS' HOME
This record is held by Bristol Archives
| Reference: | 40311 |
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| Title: | BRISTOL SAILORS' HOME |
| Description: |
Administrative Records Property Minutes Annual Reports; Monthly Reports Entry books Registration forms Financial Records Ledgers Cash books Board journals Expenses books Receipts and Payments accounts Vouchers and bills Miscellaneous |
| Date: | 1851-1988 |
| Arrangement: |
To list the documents they were split into two categories, Administrative and Financial. The former include the commitee minutes from the initial meeting noted above to 1975, whilst amongst the latter can be found the ledgers and cash books of the home from 1853. |
| Held by: | Bristol Archives, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
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| Physical description: | 144 Files |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
On 16th September 1851 a group of shipping and commercial men held a meeting at the office of the Mercantile Marine Board. They resolved to found a sailors' home in Bristol "an institution for raising the character and promoting the comfort of seamen", (Latimer, The Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century). Property was obtained in March 1852 and the home itself opened in January 1853. |
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