[UMA-SRE-20150084] Client legal documents of Blake & Riggall

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IdentifierUMA-SRE-20150084Extent331 boxesLinear Meterage39.87Scope and ContentThis series consists of client legal documents from the firm of Blake & Riggall.ArrangementThis series has been arranged alphabetically by client name. It is likely that the series was originally ordered by a registration number, controlled by a register or index. The existing arrangement was created by project volunteers working on these records soon after acquisition.
The volunteer index for this series was initially produced as handwritten notes, some of which were subsequently converted into typescript. In 2015-2016, the typescript portion and the remaining handwritten notes were consolidated into a single electronic file that could act as an inventory for the contents of the 331 boxes in this series. However, an audit surveying the contents of the boxes after the creation of this consolidated inventory revealed a number of problems with the data. Some boxes contain more documents than appear in the inventory and some contain less. Due to these inaccuracies, the inventory should be treated as an indicative guide only.
Strategies for finding documents could be to request a box by name and number, but also to request adjacent boxes as some of the missing documents may be located within them. In some cases, items listed in the inventory will not be found.
Additionally, two separate sub-collections of client legal documents, one relating to the Chaffey Brothers (9 boxes), the other to the Armytage family (2 boxes), have been consolidated into this alphabetic series. These two sub-collections had also been described by volunteers to item level, and were originally part of a larger series of documents organised by register number. These two groups of records have been consolidated into this series because of the apparent similarity of the original system of arrangement.Collection CategoryBusinessAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest Access to RecordsRequest records from this SeriesSearch within this Series

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CreatorBlake & Riggall

Dates

Date1889-1947

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Previous System ID2015.0084

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[UMA-SRE-20150084] Client legal documents of Blake & Riggall