Catalogue description The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and Merseyside Chamber of Commerce

The collection contains numerous minute books of the Chamber of Commerce and its committees, such as those for foreign trade and industry. There are also annual reports, registers of members, accounts, and a copy of the certificate of incorporation 1874.

The collection is arranged as follows:

380 COM 1 Minute Books of the Chamber, including those of the general purposes committee

380 COM 2 Minute Books of the committees of the chamber

380 COM 3 Minute Books of Foreign Trade section

380 COM 4 Minute Books of the industry section

380 COM 5 Index to council and committee minutes

380 COM 6 Register of members

380 COM 7 Register of Directors

380 COM 8 Accounts and Subscriptions

380 COM 9 Liverpool Merchants Mobile Hospital

380 COM 10 Minutes of the Union of Tobacco Manufacturers of Great Britain and Ireland

380 COM 11 Minutes of the Liverpool and Manchester Districts Coal exporters associations

380 COM 12 Minutes of the Liverpool Master Ship Painters

380 COM 13 Minutes and correspondence of the Dock Board Representation

380 COM 14 Minutes of the Manchester Storage and Transport Company

380 COM 15 Minutes of the Institute of Shipping and Forwarding Agents

380 COM 16 Minutes of the local joint committee of Traders, panel

380 COM 17 Minutes accounts and Newspaper cuttings of the School of Tropical Medicine

380 COM 18 Incorporated Chamber of Commerce, report on light railways

380 COM 19 Miscellaneous notes, papers, and pamphlets

380 COM 20 Miscellaneous reports, book of receipts and copy of certificate of incorporation

380 COM 21 Photograph album

380 COM 22 Correspondence

380 COM 23 Newspaper cuttings

380 COM 24 Chamber of commerce Annual Reports

380 COM 25 Chamber of Commerce magazine! Journal, The Liverpool Trade Review

380 COM 26 Liverpool Chamber of Commerce/Merseyside Chamber of Commerce Membership lists and directories of industry

380 COM 27 Miscellaneous reports

380 COM 28 Proposal by Leone Levi to establish a Liverpool Chamber of Commerce

A history of the Chamber of Commerce is contained in A Century of Liverpool's Commerce, by W.A. Gibson Martin, 1950. (H 380.609 MAR)

Liverpool Chamber of Commerce

Merseyside Chamber of Commerce

Access is granted to any accredited reader.

The material was kept by the Chamber of Commerce until some was deposited in the record office in 1964 and again in 1989 and 1996

The Liverpool chamber of Commerce was established in 1850 by Liverpool traders as a central organisation through which commercial opinion could be expressed collectively and action taken to further or safeguard local commercial interests. The chamber was incorporated in 1874, and from this point is seen to have been of increasing importance in business and local government. From 1902 the chamber published a monthly magazine known from 1927 as Liverpool Trade Review. This ceased publication in 1963. With the growth of Merseyside as a region the chamber became the Merseyside Chamber of Commerce in 1968.

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