Blind

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      Blind

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        Blind

        • UF Visually impaired
        • UF Déficient visuel
        • UF Malvoyant
        • UF Deficiente visual
        • UF Invidente

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        10 Archival description results for Blind

        LCC/WE/BP · Collection · 1930-1956
        Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

        Case papers of the London County Council Welfare Department relating to blind and partially sighted persons, 1930-1956. Please note that files may be closed for Data Protection purposes.

        LCC , London County Council x London County Council
        LCC/PH/PHS · Collection · 1902-1963
        Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

        Records of the London County Council Public Health Department relating to personal health services, 1902-1963, including papers on Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics and Health Centres, including papers of individual clinics and brochure "Health Services and How to Obtain Them" (1958); papers relating to Domiciliary Midwifery Services including notices, rules, lists of certified Midwives, training, historical sketch of the service and the Midwives Bill, 1902; papers relating to day nurseries and home helps, including sample of applications for home helps and report on LCC Home Help Service by the National Institute of Houseworkers; papers regarding chest clinics for the treatment of tuberculosis, including sample of case papers for the boarding out of child tuberculosis patients, papers and case notes of tuberculosis patients, reports relating to tuberculosis and papers of individual chest clinics; papers relating to blind persons, including papers of the Departmental Committee on Welfare of the Blind, reports and schemes undertaken under the Blind Persons Act, 1920, papers on the prevention of blindness and investigation into myopia, the number and general classification of blind persons in London and ophthalmological research.

        LCC , London County Council x London County Council
        LCC/PC/CHA · Collection · 1897-1965
        Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

        Records of the London County Council Public Control Department relating to the registration of charities, 1897-1965, including general files on the War Charities Act, 1916; charities for the blind; the Blind Persons Act, 1920; the Departmental Committee on Collecting Charities, 1925 and Collecting Charities (Regulation) Bill, 1929; charities previously administered by Boards of Guardians and Metropolitan Asylums Board; War Charities Act, 1940 and the National Assistance Act, 1948.

        Schemes for the administration of charities approved by the Charity Commissioners, including reports made to the Charity Commissioners; 'A Digest of Endowed Charities in the Administrative County of London made by the Charity Commission', printed by order of the House of Commons, and copies of Sealed Schemes made by the Charity Commissioners.

        Registers of charities under the War Charities Act, 1916; Blind Persons Act, 1920 and War Charities Act, 1940. Also files of correspondence between the LCC and the Charity Commissioners relating to non-educational endowed charities.

        LCC , London County Council x London County Council
        MCC/WE/BL · Collection · 1930-1965
        Part of MIDDLESEX COUNTY COUNCIL

        Records of the Middlesex County Council Public Assistance and Welfare Department relating to blind and partially sighted people, 1930-1965, including papers relating to home teaching; papers relating to use of the wireless (radio); case files and index cards. Please note that access to the case files may be restricted under the Data Protection Act.

        MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
        MCC/HS/SH · Collection · 1944-1965
        Part of MIDDLESEX COUNTY COUNCIL

        Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to school health, 1944-1965, including general files relating to: juvenile delinquency, physically disabled pupils, special schools, blind and partially sighted pupils, education of the deaf, residential schools, epilepsy, mentally deficient pupils, medical inspections, ear, nose and throat clinics, dermatological survey of schoolchildren, provision of medicines and vitamins, child guidance centres, holiday camps for diabetic and epileptic children, speech therapy, first aid equipment, accidents, employment of children, 'latch-key' children, school canteens, head lice, ophthalmic treatment, colour vision testing, orthopaedic treatment, physiotherapy, surveys of the health and development of children, precautions against tuberculosis, vaccination, maladjusted children, dyslexia, control of infectious diseases and school meals.

        MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
        GWB · Collection · 1875-1960

        Minutes, 1875-1958; Chairman's papers, 1928-1929; Committee papers, 1926-1938; rule book, 1936; annual reports, 1878-1957; correspondence with the Ministry of Health, 1920-1957; correspondence with the Board of Education, 1921-1947; correspondence with Kent County Education Committee, 1920-1937; case papers, 1929-1946; orders for goods placed by the Army Ordnance Department, the Blind Employment Factory, the Port of London Authority and the Office of Works, 1915-1928; correspondence with Banstead, Holborn and Hackney Poor Law Unions, 1926-1928; advertising handout, 1930; legal papers, 1890-1892; sales particulars, including catalogues, inventories and agreements, 1891-1935; papers regarding the centralization of collections for the blind in London, 1923; correspondence with the Charity Commissioners, 1900s; financial accounts, 1925-1960.

        Greenwich Workshop for the Blind x Workshop for the Blind of Kent
        LCC/MIN-1 · Subfonds · 1889-1965
        Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

        Minutes and presented papers of meetings of the London County Council, 1889-1965. Also minutes and presented papers of London County Council Committees and Sub-Committees, as follows:

        Air Raid Precautions Committee

        Appeals Committee

        Asylums Committee

        Bridges Committee

        Building Acts Committee

        Central Public Health and Medical Services Committee

        Children's Committee

        Civil Defence Committee

        Contagious Diseases Committee

        Corporate Property and Endowments Committee

        Education Committee

        Emergency Committee

        Entertainments Committee

        Establishments Committee

        Evacuation Committee

        Finance Committee

        Fire Brigade Committee

        General Purposes Committee

        Health Committee

        Highways Committee

        Historical Buildings and Records Committee

        Housing Committee

        Improvements Committee

        Industrial Schools Committee

        Inebriates Committee

        Local Government Committee

        Main Drainage Committee

        Midwives Committee

        New and Expanding Towns Committee

        Parks and Open Spaces Committee

        Parks (special entertainments) Committee

        Parliamentary Committee

        Public Assistance Committee

        Public Control Committee

        Public Health Committee

        Restaurants and Catering Committee

        Rivers Committee

        Roads Committee

        Smallholdings Committee

        Stores Committee

        Theatres Committee

        Town Planning Committee

        Water Supply Committee

        Welfare Committee

        Welfare of the Blind Committee

        Works Committee

        Please note that copies of these minutes and papers are on open access in the Information Area.

        LCC , London County Council x London County Council
        GB 2805 Barclay · 1893-1943

        Archives of the Barclay institutions comprising minutes of the Committee of the Barclay Institutions for the Blind, 1919-1931; Barclay Workshop reference book, [1905-1943]; minutes of Barclay Workshops (for Blind Women), 1905-1912; 1912-1926; 1926-1942; Barclay Home Reports, 1893-1942; Barclay Workshop Reports, 1906-1943.

        Barclay Workshop for Blind Women, , London , 1905-1941 Barclay Home and School for Blind , Brighton , 1893-1970s
        Action for Blind People
        GB 2805 · Collection · 1876-2003

        Archives of the Action for Blind People / London Association for the Blind (LAB), comprising:

        minutes of LAB Directors' and Annual General Meetings, 1944-1972;

        minutes of LAB Homes and Hostels / Buildings Sub-committee, 1928-1932; Buildings and Estates / General Purposes and Buildings Committee, 1932-1942; General Purposes and Trading subcommittee 1942-1946 and Building and Estates Sub committee, 1946-1948;

        minutes of LAB Finance sub-committee, 1928-1930; 1930-1938; Finance and general purposes subcommittee, 1938-1952;

        minutes of the LAB Ladies Committee of the Association, 1911-1917; and Sales sub-committee of the Ladies Committee, 1920;

        LAB Memoranda and Articles of Association, 1910, 1962, 1978, 1985; List of officers and patrons of the Association, 1857-1965;

        LAB Analysis of Balance sheets, 1857-1956; Audit notebook, 1924-1926; Annual statements of accounts 1931, 1934-1939; Account book (of donations?) 1961-1981; Bought ledger and Blind average books, 1928-1945; Managers (weekly) reports, 1886-1887;

        scrap book containing press cuttings relating to the Association, 1937-1965; Scrap book containing Association publicity material including flyers for events and fundraising circulars, 1928-1954;

        LAB Visitors Book, 1954-1978;

        printed matter including Annual Reports 1876-77; 1879-1987; The Blind Record, 1914-1924, 1937-1938; News for LAB, Numbers 5, 7, 8 [1960s-1970s]; Re:Action 2001-2003;

        printed catalogues [1920s-1930s]; 'Plastic mouldings by the Blind'; Brochures and leaflets relating to LAB Hostels, Cooper Lodge postcards; opening of Swail House, Epsom, 1952;

        files relating to moulding shop development Reports and notes, 1954-1955; Welding lesson notes, 1988; correspondence relating to bequests, 1972-1983; papers and letters relating to the opening of the Russell Hotel, Bognor Regis, by Princes Alexandra, Jul 1968;

        photographs 1920s-2003;

        Hearth and Home, 1936, (renamed Alphega (Sportswear) Ltd, then Lafega) Hearth and Home share certificates, 1910-1926; Lafega Register of members, directors, managers, transfers and mortgages and charges, 1910-1971; Minutes of H& Board of directors of the Company, including register of shareholders, 1910-1926; minutes of H&H/ Lafega annual meetings and directors' meetings, 1925-1944; Lafega Annual statements of accounts, 1936-1972 (incomplete);

        Wheyo Tool Company Ltd
        minutes of Directors, 1964-1970; Register of shares, and company directors etc, 1949-1971; minutes of AGM 1971; Annual statement of accounts, 1964-1971;

        Surrey Association for the General Welfare of the Blind , 1857-1910 London Association for the Blind , 1910-1999 Action for Blind People , 1990-