Reference code(s): GB 0214 DX366
Held at:
Title: T. R. Evans, house furnishers, Pentre, records
Short title: Evans, T. R., house furnishers, Pentre, records
Dates of creation: 1925-1976
Level of description: Fonds
Extent and medium: 0.5 cubic metres (34 volumes)
Name of creator(s): T. R. Evans
Administrative and biographical history: The firm of T. R. Evans, house furnishers, occupied premises at 12 and 200 Ystrad Road, Pentre, Rhondda, Glamorgan, in 1914, and 204 and 205 Ystrad Road in the 1920s. It remained active into the 1970s.
Scope and content: T. R. Evans, ledgers, day books, cash books, 1925-1976; index of customers, [c. 1940]; and staff records, 1938-1955.
Language/script: English
Conditions governing access: No restrictions on access to most of the records. However, the debt recovery ledgers are closed for 75 years from the date of the last entry.
Conditions governing reproduction: Normal Glamorgan Record Office conditions apply
Finding aids: A handlist is available at the Glamorgan Record Office
Detailed catalogue
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: All records offered were originally accepted and listed. However, the records were re-appraised in March 2000 and a decision made to sample the day-books and cashbooks rather than retain the entire series. Day-books for 1934-1956 and 1956-1964, and cashbooks for 1937-1957 and 1957-1973, have been destroyed. A postage book (1942-1953) has also been destroyed.
Accruals: Accruals are not expected
Immediate source of acquisition: Deposited at the Glamorgan Record Office by a private depositor, 1983
Archivist's note: Compiled by David Morris for the ANW project. The following source was used for compilation: Glamorgan Record Office finding aids.
Rules or conventions: Description follows Archives Network Wales guidelines based on ISAD(G) second edition; AACR2 and LCSH.
Date(s) of description: November 2004
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