Papers of the Alexandra Rose Charities, including minutes, correspondence, membership details, advertising and publicity material, photographs of patrons, staff and flag day events, artefacts such as collecting tins and an early 1912 artificial rose. Related charity records include a minute book of 'Their Day' charity and a set of printed reports for 'Our Day' charity.

Armitage Dispensing Chemist prescription registers 1899-1943, a total of 30 items, 1-27: registers, 1899-1940; 28-30: Records of Prescriptions Dispensed for Particular Doctors, 1919-1925, 1928-1943.

Drug registers, 1945-1955, and cash books, 1951-1957.

Two volumes of notes, on medical and chemical books, and on diseases and their treatment, c 1800-1823.

Notes from Pierre Chirac's lectures, 1696-1734.

Papers of Helen Faulkner, 1938-1979, 20 water colour sketchbooks, 3 folders of notes relating to the sketchbooks, 3 boxes of index cards and 1 folder of preparatory notes for index and lists of determinations.

Photographs collected by Gunner Peter Strang during tour of India, 1916-1918. Images include portrait photograph of soldier in uniform, possibly Strang; views of the Club, Military Accounts Office and Soldiers Home in Rawalpindi; views of camps, forts and bridges including Camp Subhan Khwar, North West Frontier Province, Peshawar Fort, Gamrood (Jamrud) Fort, Shab Khadar Fort and Attock Bridge; views of Murree town and the Murree Hills including Bagnotar village and camp; views of the Baljee Hills and a group photograph of a unit at Baljee; view of a village destroyed for harbouring snipers; four photographs showing a mill on the Kabul River shelled where a band of Afridi raiders had taken cover, including photograph of one of the men killed; photograph labelled at the larder' showing the heads of ten deer lined up outside a building; scenes of village life including ploughing, a barber at work, shoeing cattle, making pots, buffalo loaded with cotton, construction workers sawing beams and making bricks, an ox turning a water wheel, elephants pulling heavy equipment, and a baggage camel convoy; Tibetan methods for disposal of the dead including feeding to dogs and birds, skinning and exposing in remote areas; equipment including a 2.75 inch mountain gun; and Mountain Battery Royal Garrison Artillery mules pictured with their loads, including pioneer mule, wheel and axle mule, ammunition mule, trail mule, carriage mule, cradle mule, breech mule, chase mule, 1 ammunition mule and 2 ammunition mule. Also cutting of pictures from article entitledOur "Far-Flung Battle Line": Breaking up Indian Frontier Raids' showing convoys of troops moving through the Shahur Tangi Valley.

Papers of the Department of Zoology comprising: DF200 Keeper of Zoology's correspondence and files;
DF201 Keeper of Zoology's out-letters;
DF202 Department of Zoology: Keeper's miscellaneous documents;
DF203 Keeper of Zoology's wartime papers and memoranda;
DF204 Registers and indexes of Zoology departmental correspondence;
DF205 Zoology Reports to Trustees and other official documents;
DF206 Keeper of Zoology's subject files;
DF207 Zoology Departmental finance and accounts;
DF208 Keeper of Zoology's staff files and official diaries;
DF209 Zoology reports of progress, monthly and annual;
DF210 Keeper of Zoology's building and accommodation files;
DF211 Keeper of Zoology's publication files;
DF212 Keeper of Zoology's confidential files;
DF213 Keeper of Zoology's expedition files;
DF214 Keeper of Zoology's Great Barrier Reef Expedition files;
DF215 Keeper of Zoology's John Murray Expeditions files;
DF216 Zoology Acquisition, loan and exchange records;
DF217 Artwork for publication;
DF218 Zoology Accessions Registers;
DF219 Collection Catalogues;
DF220 Zoology Departmental Visitors Books;
DF230 Bird Section correspondence;
DF231 Vertebrate Section reports to Trustees and other official documents;
DF232 Mammal Section correspondence;
DF233 Fish Section correspondence;
DF234 Osteology Section subject files;
DF235 Reptile Section correspondence;
DF250 Invertebrate Section correspondence and papers;
DF251 Invertebrate Section reports to Trustees and other official documents;
DF252 Crustacea Section correspondence;
DF253 Coelenterata Section correspondence;
DF254 Mollusca Section correspondence;
DF255 Arachnida Section correspondence;
DF256 Crustacea Section research papers;
DF257 Coelenterata Section research papers;
DF258 Coelenterata Section collection records;
DF259 Parasitic Worms Section correspondence;
DF260 Sponge Section correspondence;
DF261 Bryozoa Section correspondence;
DF262 Invertebrate sections visitors books;
DF263 Sponge Section, photographs and artwork for publication;
DF264 Echinodermata and Protochordata Section correspondence;
DF265 Annelida Section Correspondence and Papers;
DF266 Echinodermata and Protochordata Section research papers;
DF270 Zoology Library accession records;
DF271 Zoology Library correspondence and memoranda;
DF272 Zoology Library catalogues and related material.

Records of the Spitalfields Market Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1937-2001 (closed from 1976 onwards) and committee papers, 1937-1957.

Records of the Belgravia Dairy Company, comprising financial ledgers, 1925-1931.

Records of the British Tyre and Rubber Company, and associated merged or subsidiary companies, 1864-1978. This substantial collection consists mainly of statutory business records of associated companies with very little relating to production: meeting minutes of the board 1864-1937, directors minutes, 1868-1871, general meeting minutes, 1864-1918, shareholders committee minutes, 1875, debenture trustee minutes, 1887-97, 1901-02, finance and executive committee minutes 1864-1866; share ledgers, c 1917-38; balance sheets and accounts, 1920-1936; ledgers, c 1931-1934, private ledgers, 1934-61; journals, 1939-1942, private journals, 1934-1960; private cash books, 1926-62, petty cash books, 1938-8; cheque account books, 1933-8; bills receivable books, 1935-64; nominal accounts for Calcutta, 1889-1954, and Christchurch, 1920-44; and Durban private ledger, 1900-1922.

Records of Trollope and Colls Ltd, builders, and predecessors including Messrs Trollope and Sons (London) Ltd, decorators; Joseph Trollope and Sons, wall paper hangers; Joseph Amos Trollope and George Trollope, decorators; Colls and Sons, builders; George Trollope and Sons and Colls and Sons Ltd, builders.

The records consist mainly of financial records such as customer account books, ledgers, journals and cost books. The letter book of 1797-1808 (B/TRL/9) is of special interest to students of wall paper and interior decoration history. The detailed account books for Trollope and Colls Ltd illustrate the work of a major building firm with a great influence on the London skyline.

Incorporated Society of London Meat Trades annual report for 1914.

Records of Felix Calvert and Company, brewers, comprising accounts of beer supplied to customers.

Letter book of Stringer and Richardson, merchants and tea and spice dealers.

Records of Worshipful Company of Fruiterers, 1606-2000. The records include registers of freedom admissions; apprentice bindings from 1749; charters; Court minute books; papers of Richard Sherwin Gothard (Master 1982-3), the Company's Hon. Archivist; quarterage books; papers concerning the Company's Ridley Medal, awarded every three years, for outstanding services to fruit culture; financial accounts; letter books and photographs. No membership records are available before 1748.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.

Records of the Worshipful Company of Skinners, dating from the 14th century, with deeds dating from the 13th. IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.

Records include charters; ordinances; Court books; Committee papers and minutes; livery rolls; apprenticeship registers; freedom admissions; financial accounts and papers relating to properties. The archive includes the records of schools established and run by the Company:

• Tonbridge School: The records comprise minutes, accounts, reports, registers of pupils, 1817-1948, and of examinations, estate and other administrative papers.

  • Sir Andrew Judd's Commercial School, later the Judd School, at Tonbridge: The records comprise minutes, accounts and registers of pupils, 1888-1943, only. See also Ms 30715 and 30949.
  • Tunbridge Wells Middle School for Boys, later Skinners' School for Boys, Tunbridge Wells: The records comprise minutes, accounts and registers of boys, 1887-1949, only.
  • The Middle School for Girls at Stamford Hill, North London, later known as Skinners' School for Girls: The records comprise minutes, accounts and a register of girls, 1917-28.

  As well as education, the archive includes records of other charitable activity by the company, and of several named charities ie Lawrence Atwell's Charity, Hunt's Charity, John Meredith's Charity and Sir Thomas Smythe's Charity. The Charity Commissioners' reports (1819-40) held in the Printed Books Section contain background information about these charities.

  Skinners' Company almshouses: The records of these almshouses comprise regulations, ca. 1800-9 (Ms 30818); plans [1700?] and 1864 (Ms 30961 and Ms 30995), and schedule of plaques, undated (Ms 31313). Further references may be found in other Skinners' Company records such as minutes and accounts.

  The archive also includes extensive records of the Skinners' estates, not only in the City of London, but also particularly in Clerkenwell (Clarke's Close estate) and St Pancras (Sandhill's estate) in London, to a lesser extent in Kent and Surrey, and in Londonderry in Ireland.

Records of the Pudney family of Sunbury including notes on notes on crops, yields, dates of work done on Manor Farm, Sunbury; valuations; leases of farmland at Ashford and Hersham; receipts; poor rate assessment book for the parish of Sunbury, 1857 and copy of accounts of surveyors of highways, 1875-1876, for the parish of Sunbury, 1876.

Archives of Alto Parana Development, comprising constitutional documents, minutes and financial material.

Records of various tea or rubber companies, all later purchased by the Caparo Group. There are no records of Caparo Group Limited itself. The archives are catalogued under the names of the individual companies within the group. The companies are:
Assam Frontier Tea Company;
Budla Beta Tea Company;
Dooars Tea Company;
Empire of India and Ceylon Tea Company;
Empire of India Holdings Limited;
Lanka Plantation Company;
Oriental Rubber Company;
Singlo Tea Company;
Singlo Holdings Limited.

All the records are held offsite and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of the Dooars Tea Company, comprising papers relating to the foundation and constitution of the company.

Records of the Singlo Tea Company Limited, comprising constitutional documents and minutes of the Board of Directors and annual general meetings. The records are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of wood brokers Churchill and Sim Limited, primarily diaires kept by Charles Churchill senior (1785-1844), and Charles Churchill junior (1823-1905), but also a letter book. The entries in the diaries relate to the timber trade, City politics and private affairs.

Ledger of George Nicholas and Son, wine merchants.

Records of Williams and Day, wine and spirits merchants, comprising bills, orders, receipts, accounts of customs paid, goods transfer notices and other financial papers 1818-28 (Mss 15553, 15555-61 and 15563); letters and miscellaneous papers 1818-1903 (Mss 15554 and 15562); price lists 1896-1912 (Ms 155564) and photographs (Ms 15565).

Archives of the Madeira wine merchants Cossart, Gordon and Company. They relate both to its domestic business in Madeira and to its international operations, including its relations with customers and agents in the British Isles, continental Europe, the United States, the West Indies and (from c 1780) India and the Far East.

The documents are chiefly unbound business papers (in bundles, some original) and mostly dated between 1754 and 1898, together with a few family papers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and photocopies of items removed for sale in the late 20th century.

NB SPECIAL CONDITIONS APPLY TO ALMOST ALL OF THE ARCHIVE; READERS REQUIRE PROOF OF IDENTITY INCLUDING NAME, ADDRESS AND SIGNATURE.

Records of Dixon, Morgan and Company, wine and spirits traders, including incoming letters, vouchers, balance sheet and accounts.

London Oil and Tallow Trades Association records comprise: minutes, 1910-22 (Ms 23230-3); scrapbook of notices and letters etc, 1910-16 (Ms 23234); ledgers, 1921-67 (Ms 23235); and cash books, 1935-60 (Ms 23236).

London Copra Association records comprising minutes of committees, general meetings and the board of appeal; and financial accounts.

The records of the London Corn Trade Association comprise minutes of the executive committee, minutes of annual general meetings, minutes of the American grain committee, the Argentina committee, the African and South American Pulse committee, the South African committee, the North African committee, the Persian Gulf committee, the Black Sea grain committee, the Mediterranean and Adriatic committee, the China and Manchurian feeding stuffs committee, the East India grain committee, registers of members, financial material including cash books and ledgers, and papers relating to arbitrations.

Also papers of the London Grain Futures Association, including minutes of the Council, minutes of the annual general meetings, annual reports and registers of members.

Records of Braddan Fishing Company Limited including articles of association, profit and loss accounts and cash book.

Records of the Ankola Tea and Rubber Company Limited including articles of association; prospectuses; annual reports; correspondence and reports on the estates.

Records of Non Such Tea Estates Limited, comprising correspondence relating to the sale of shareholdings.

Records of Phillips, Harrisons and Crosfield Limited, traders in tea, including minutes of meetings, papers concerning the formation of a branch in Kenya, and papers concerning the formation of a distribution company in Africa.

Records of Sumatra Tea Estates Limited, comprising articles of association, annual reports and accounts, and circulars.

Records of the Bhooteachang Tea Company Limited, comprising annual reports with accounts.

Records of Duncan Macneill and Company, including partnership deeds; correspondence; financial accounts; annual reports; agreements; and valuations of tea companies managed by the company.

Records of J. B. Barry and Son, including partnership deeds, correspondence and financial accounts.

Records of both companies including articles of association; annual reports; financial accounts; maps of tea gardens; goods ledger; produce ledger; tea companies' ledger; correspondence and legal papers.

Also records of John Mackinnon's trusts and Duncan Macneill's trusts.

Records of the Greenwood Tea Company Limited, including articles of association and financial records including details of tea sold and seasonal expenses at the tea gardens.

Kalline Tea Company Limited records comprise: memorandum and articles of association, 1926-48 (Ms 27771); and accounts, 1927-71 (Ms 27772-4).

Records of the Mjagram Tea Company, comprising memorandum and articles of association.

Salonah Tea Company Limited records comprise: directors' and shareholders' minute books, 1885-1956 (Ms 28106); and financial accounts, 1885-1978 (Ms 28107-11).

Records of the Institute of Meat, a training body for the UK meat industry, comprising constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, administrative and estate papers.

Records of the Pandan Tea Company comprising: board minute books, 1933-69; and annual general meetings minutes, 1934-71.

Records of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including minutes and papers of the Group Brewing Committee; minutes of the Production Planning Committee; brewing book; papers relating to the production of Harp Lager; and promotional leaflets for brewing and storage apparatus.

Production records of Charles Beasley Limited, brewers, including purchase ledger for malt and stout; record of malt, sugar and hops used; malt, beer, wine and spirits stock books; malt review and subsequent memorandum; list of breakages; and draught beer daily returns book.

Records of Lawn and Alder Limited, wine merchants, including Board and general meeting minutes; register of members, directors, etc, annual returns under Companies Acts, and including register of seals; share transfer certificates; memorandum and articles of association and papers in liquidation with returns to Registrar of Companies and accounts.

Records of Wolton and Attwood Limited, wholesalers in beer and spirits, including papers relating to the acquisition of the Company; memorandum and articles of association; balance sheet; copy board and extraordinary general meeting minutes; draft service agreements; stock transfer forms and financial accounts.

Records of Ashford Valley Cyders Limited, manufacturers of cider, including Directors' meeting and general meeting minutes; memorandum and articles of association; and certificate of incorporation.

Corporate records of Camwal Limited, soft drinks manufacturers, including share records; articles of association and reports.

Financial records of Camwal Limited, soft drinks manufacturers, comprising balance sheets and profit and loss accounts.