| Description | The documents were originally kept in their original bundles, with bundles and volumes arranged by subject matter as follows:
Styleman's Almhouses - INBUC/2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 30
Smoults Charity- INBUC 9, 10, 11
Fitchett's Charity - High Street House - INBUC 12
Hodgson's Charity - INBUC 13
Cottage Hospital - INBUC 14
Working Men's Club - INBUC 15
Boy's and Girls' Hall - INBUC 16
Bexleyheath Allotments -INBUC 17
Other Benefactions - INBUC 18, 19, 20, 21
Charity Commission - INBUC 22, 23
Records of BUC, 1879-1956 - INBUC 24, 25, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
Other parochial charities are referred to in some of these records, especially in INBUC18, 19, 20 and in the list at INBUC/27. The wills of Mary Mason and Jane Chapman, two local benefactorsd are cited at INBUC/22.
This arrangement was renumbered in 2004 as follows:-
Styleman's Almhouses - INBUC/A
Smoults Charity- INBUC/B
Fitchett's Charity - High Street House - INBUC/C
Hodgson's Charity - INBUC/D
Cottage Hospital - INBUC/E
Working Men's Club - INBUC/F
Boy's and Girls' Hall - INBUC/G
Records of BUC, INBUC/H
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| Administrative History | In 1879, the various charities administered by the vicar and churchwardens of Bexley were brought together into a trust formed with the advice and approval of the Charity Commission. Trustees were appointed, who took over the records of the separate charities and began to keep records of their own transactions.
For the period before 1879, there are inevitably large gaps. Several of the ancient charities are represented by no more than a mention in lists of charities compiled from time to time and some of these have penciled against the word 'lost'. But others are quite well documented and in case of the Styleman's Almshouses, we have evidence from such sources as the Danson collection from which to supplement the records in the Bexley United Charities archives. |