Catalogue description Incorporated Company of Plumbers, Glaziers Pewterers and Painters, Newcastle

GU.GP/1/1-7 Ordinary [and copies of the original], 1536 (5 parchments, 7 papers, 1 card, 2 photographs)

GU.GP/2/1-2 Company Books, 1598 - 1821 (2 volumes)

GU.GP/3 Order Book, n.d. [c.1755 - 1772] (1 volume)

GU.GP/4-5 Company rules and oath pro-forma, 1838 (2 papers)

GU.GP/6-9 Accounts and receipts, c1695 - 1945 (5 volumes, 1 file, 8 papers)

GU.GP/10-12 Membership and Admission, 1696 - 1967 (1 volume, 1 file, 273 papers)

GU.GP/13-14 Correspondence, 1923 - 1966 (465 papers, 3 receipt books)

GU.GP/15 Legal documents re trustees, 1918 and 1983 (2 parchments)

GU.GP/16-17 Freemen (Correspondence and rules), 1896 - 1970 (3 papers, 4 booklets)

GU.GP/18 Accounts and evidences of disputes re letting of Ballast Quay, 1831 (1 volume)

Incorporated Company of Plumbers, Glaziers, Pewterers and Painters, Newcastle

Accession 861 and 940

The Company was initially known as the Goldsmiths, Plumbers, Glaziers, Pewterers and Painters and was established by an ordinary of 1536. Various meeting places were used but from 1619, they met at Morden Tower, west walls. In 1717, the Goldsmiths left to form their own company and of late, the company has been referred to as the Plumbers Company.

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