What records can I find in The Mitchell: Glasgow City Archives?
There are many collections from a wide range of private clubs and societies that were based in and around the city held at the City Archives.
Membership records are the most obvious source of information for family historians, but sometimes records such as minute books, annual reports, brochures and programmes, correspondence and photographs may refer to members and their dealings in the daily activities of the organisation.
The following are just a very small sample of the club and societies records that are held at the Archives.
Some of these organisations relate to trades, crafts or unions. As well as a social function, some were established to help promote and protect their members’ employment, financial interests, or trading interests such as:
Chamber of Commerce
East Indian Association
Govan Weavers
Journeymen Bakers' Society of Glasgow
Kincaids' Employees and Clyde Foundry Employees Masonic Associations
Scottish Master Wrights’ and Builders’ Association
Second Society of Journeymen Weavers of Calton by Glasgow
Weavers Society of Anderston
West Indian Association
Other bodies relate to sporting, performing or artistic interests:
Cartha Athletic Club
Clydesdale Cricket Club Records
Die Deutsch sprechenden Wanderer (German-speaking Ramblers’ Club of Glasgow)
Glasgow Literary Club
Glasgow Orpheus Choir
Glasgow Society of Organists
Nomads Club
Royal Scottish Automobile Club
Glasgow City Archives also hold records from various charitable and philanthropic clubs, which sometimes include records about the individuals or groups that they assisted, such as: