Series 1: annual reports and quarterly returns, 1867-1960
Series 2: minutes of the National Executive Council, 1920-1965
Series 3: conference reports, 1923-1968
Series 4: rule books and Rules Revision Committee reports
Series 5: circulars, 1919-1968
Series 6: other papers including a letter book and proposition forms
Series 7: branch records including Bacup, Blackpool, Preston, Ramsbottom, Haslingden and Rawtenstall and Rossendale.
The United Operative Plumbers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland was formed in 1865. In 1911 the title was changed to the United Operative Plumbers' and Domestic Engineers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland. It became the Plumber, Glaziers and Domestic Engineers Union in 1931 and the Plumbing Trades union in 1946. In 1968 it merged with the Electrical Trades Union to form the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union.
Source: Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, Volume 3, Gower Publishing Company Limited (Aldershot, Hants) 1987, page 75.
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These records were catalogued by Kate Hart, Apr 2009, as part of 'The past meets the present', HLF project. Description compiled by Kate Hart, Mar 2010 and updated by Jane Taylor, May 2020.
