Papers of the London County Council Architect's Department relating to Council Buildings: standard specifications, tenders and quotations, 1922-1940; materials, 1930-1937; air raid precautions at Council premises, 1937-1947; salvage of waste metals and other materials, 1925-1942; lists of Council premises damaged by enemy action, 1940-1945; papers relating to the construction of hospitals and other institutions, 1929-1947, including standard planning and points of construction, fire prevention arrangements and transfer of property under the National Health Service Act 1946; papers relating to the construction of museums, 1914-1938; papers relating to the construction of housing estates, 1898-1934; papers relating to the construction of schools, 1910-1939; papers of the Board of Education Departmental Committee on the Construction of School Buildings, 1925-1927; papers relating to the construction of playgrounds, 1911-1928; programmes of building work for the Children's Department, 1950-1960; standards for car parks, 1955-1959; papers of Housing Layout Committee, 1952-1958; papers of Architects' Housing Conferences, 1950-1959; development work on Housing type plans, 1951-1962; papers relating to homes for the elderly, 1934-1961; papers relating to halfway houses and hostels, 1952-1959; design of school furniture, 1949-1959; investigations leading to selection of the Hook, Hampshire, for site of new town, 1955-1959; papers relating to Basingstoke, 1952-1963; Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Committee on Official Architecture, 1913-1929; papers relating to work done by non-LCC architects and criticism of the official Architect, 1905-1920; papers relating to town development, including Bracknell, Corby, Hemel Hempstead, Letchworth, Welwyn and Hatfield, 1952-1964; papers relating to the development of the Royal Festival Hall, South Bank.

Sample files relating to individual premises, comprising subject and policy files retained when a large number of similar files were destroyed, to illustrate the construction and maintenance works carried out at typical LCC developments. Examples include housing estates, schools and colleges, a workhouse, a hospital, a historic building, bridges and County Hall.

Reports, including surveys by the Architect of properties transferred to the LCC, including hospitals, institutions, schools, children's homes, and ambulance stations, 1929-1930; surveys of general and special hospitals, 1934-1937; minutes and reports of Departmental Committee on Hospital Standards, 1930-1934; schedule of prices for repair to buildings, 1915-1919; register of construction works, 1892-1912.

Visitor's Books for historic building Prince Henry's Room, 17 Fleet Street, 1906-1925; publication The Architectural Work of the London County Council by WE Riley, Architect to the Council, 1909; plans of demolished or disused buildings including Clerkenwell Sessions House, India Office Store, Chandos Street Fire Station, Tooley Street Fire Station, Clapham Fire Station, Bayswater Fire Station and Dulwich Fire Station.

Records of the London County Council Works Department, 1889-1911, including historical account of the Works Department, 1892-1909, together with statements presented to the Council of the results of works executed by the Works Department; suggestions by the Deputy Chairman of the Council as to the organisation necessary to enable the Council to execute its own work; draft statement of works ordered to be carried out under the superintendence of the Parks Department; analysis of the prices submitted at tender for each of 70 contracts between 1891 and 1896; printed reports, accounts and inquiries into the working of the Works Department; booklets of orders and instructions for foremen; posters and catalogues of sale relating to the disposal of plant and materials on the discontinuance of the Works Department and the steamships and other equipment to be sold after the discontinuance of the passenger steamboat service.

A collection of material put together for an exhibition about the Battersea MP John Burns. Includes: correspondence; photographs; publications by and about John Burns; correspondence, annual reports and other material relating to the Battersea Labour Party and Trades Council; bulletins relating to the 1926 General Strike.

Papers, 1874-1894, mainly relating to the foundation and early life of Royal Holloway College, notably Thomas Holloway's original address announcing his intention to found the College, given at a meeting of pioneers in women's education held at his Oxford Street offices, London, 10 Feb 1875; copies of deeds dating from 1711-1756 and concerning the sale of land on the Mount Lee Estate, [1874], and a copy of Thomas Holloway's conveyance of the Mount Lee Estate to chosen Trustees in May 1876; letters from William Henry Crossland to Thomas Holloway, 1874-1885, comprising receipts [for expenses to do with the building of the College], and correspondence between John Thompson, George Martin-Holloway and Crossland, 1882-1887, concerning works subsidiary to the main building; estimates for electrical and engineering work on the College, 1883-1886; financial statements, 1883-1889, relating to the Trustee's Investments, a rough account of money spent on Royal Holloway College and the Holloway Sanatorium, and Trustees' balance sheets; correspondence between Thomas Holloway, the Rt Hon David Chadwick, the Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Henry Stafford Northcote, John Watts, the Rt Hon Samuel Morley, Walpole Lloyd Greenwell and Professor Thorold Rogers MP mainly relating to the drawing up of the Declaration of Trust and the Deed of Foundation for the College, and the appointment of Trustees, 1876-1883; a draft manuscript account of Thomas Holloway's life and work [by George Martin-Holloway], [1883]; papers, 1884-1894, relating to the Governors of the College, mainly material relating to the legal aspects of their appointment, and correspondence relating to Governors' meetings and the constitution of the Board; letters from Sir Henry Ponsonby, (Albert) Edward (Wilfred), Count Gleichen and D W Welch relating to the opening of Royal Holloway College, 1885; papers relating to the appointment of Matilda Ellen Bishop as Principal of the College, 1886-1887; letters, 1887-1889, relating to entrance requirements, scholarships and prizes, notably from Prince Christian, Randall Davidson, David Chadwick and Edward Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury; letters to George Martin-Holloway from Most Rev Randall Davidson, Dean of Windsor, Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring, and Fleetwood L Edwards (Sec to Prince Christian), 1887, concerning the unveiling of the statues of Queen Victoria and Thomas and Jane Holloway at Royal Holloway College. Letters to George Martin-Holloway relating to the opening of the Holloway Sanatorium, 1885.

Records relating to buildings, services and maintenance of property of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1936-2001.

The records are arranged in the following series:

G1, Sale of 58 Queen Anne Street and purchase of 27 Sussex Place, 1953-1972;

G2, Sussex Place: miscellaneous material relating to electrical & audio-visual systems, rating, car parking etc, 1959-1971;

G3, Sussex Place: material relating to the proposed library extension, 1966-1972;

G4, Sussex Place: material relating to projection and other communication equipment for the Nuffield Hall, 1968-1969;

G5, Sample material relating to furnishing and heating of RCOG premises, Queen Anne Street; to plaques and other inscriptions relating to bequests; and to redecoration and cleaning, RCOG Sussex Place, 1952-1970;

G6, 27 Sussex Place: records relating to proposed extensions and developments, 1979-1984;

G7, 27 Sussex Place: material concerning the redesign of the garden, 1983-1984;

G8, 8 Kent Terrace and 27 Sussex Place: College Surveyor's reports and associated correspondence, 1985-1998;

G9, 27 Sussex Place: records relating to second floor extension, 1986-1990;

G10, 27 Sussex Place: correspondence and papers concerning installation of the College stained glass dome, 1989-1991;

G11, 27 Sussex Place: College Secretary's general correspondence and papers relating to accommodation needs and alterations, 1989-1993;

G12, 27 Sussex Place: records relating to construction of the Education Centre, 2000-2001.

Various papers relating to education and educational establishments, 1759-1995, including papers regarding educational committees; reports, bills and acts of parliament regarding education; papers relating to charitable schemes to provide education to the poor; financial papers and deeds from the City of London Corporation School, 1759-1850; publications regarding the history of Morden College; papers relating to Reformatory Schools, 1867-1896; brochures and leaflets and general administrative papers relating to various schools and colleges.

Records of the Blackfriars Bridge (Building) Committee, comprising minutes, 1768-1788; rough minutes, 1778-1783 and committee papers, 1770-1771, 1782-1788 and 1835.

Please note - earlier minute books were destroyed in 1780 when the Toll Houses on the Bridge were destroyed during the Gordon Riots.

Records of Bridge House Committee, Court of Common Council, 1599-1968, including journals, 1622-1866; minute books, 1667-1968; minute books relating to Bridge House Committee Excursions, 1861-1894; committee papers, 1599-1957; Bridge Masters' report book, 1881-1914; surveyor's reports to the Bridge House Committee, 1941-1965; orders and resolutions, 1611-1741, 1789-1802 and 1813-1853; warrant books, 1797-1824 and 1885-1913; standing orders, 1867 and 1938; Bridge House rentals, 1897-1950; Tower Bridge Buildings rentals, 1889-1914; advertisements for proposals for leasing land and for tenders for contracts, 1878-1902; bills, accounts and sundry papers, 1629-1826 and papers regarding the never built St Paul's bridge, 1905-1930.

Records of the Barbican Centre Committee, Court of Common Council, comprising minutes, 1978-2006.

The Committee's minute books from 1978 contain policy and executive decisions necessary for the administration of the Barbican Centre, whilst the files of the same dates contain the reports and correspondence material to those decisions. Because of the special nature of the Barbican Centre as an arts venue, outwith the more usual experience of Local Authories, it was always seen as different to other Corporation Committees, comprising Members with particular commercial experience and of high calibre, and with higher expenditure and a slightly different ethos. The Committee supervised the residency at the Barbican Centre of the Royal Shakespeare Company (1982-2002) and the London Symphony Orchestra, although both bodies had been involved in the planning stages of the construction of the Barbican Centre since the 1960s with the Barbican Development Committee (COL/CC/BRD) and the Barbican Arts Centre Joint Working Party (COL/CC/BRA).

From 1978 to 1984, the Committee's Executive Sub Committee tended increasingly to take all the executive decisions respecting the Centre, and the Grand Committee met only to ratify its decisions, which led to reform of the Committee of 1985.

In common with all Corporation of London Committees, the minute books contain records only of decisions taken, and not details of arguments or debates which led to those decisions.

Minutes of the Coal, Corn and Rates Finance Committee, 1968-1990. Some records are closed.

Records of the City Lands and Bridge House Estates Committee, comprising minutes, 1969-2008 and minutes of the hospitality working party, 1990-1997. Please note some of these records are closed.

Minute book of the City of London School Building Committee, 1983-1991. Please note that this volume is closed until 2022.

Records of the Joint Bridge House Estates and Improvement Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes regarding opening of Blackfriars Bridge and Holborn Viaduct by Queen Victoria, 8 Oct 1869 - 5 Dec 1872; committee papers, 1869-1870; tickets for opening, including pass tickets for Bridge and Viaduct, admission card to ceremony of opening, and programme of ceremony, 1869; plans of platforms etc. at Blackfriars Bridge, 1869; correspondence regarding the organisation of the opening ceremony and applications for tickets, 1869 and correspondence regarding the creation and provision of commemorative medals.

Records of the London Bridge Committee, Court of Common Council, including journals, 1823-1859; minutes, 1823-1840; rough minutes, 1823-1846; committee papers with indexes, 1823-1847; extracts from proceedings of Common Council regarding the rebuilding of London Bridge, 1821-1823; report by Thomas Telford on the effect of the rebuilding on the Thames, 1823; specification of the mode of executing the proposed new London Bridge as designed by the late John Rennie, 1823; list of Acts of Parliament regarding London Bridge with another list showing the streets affected by each Act, 1823-1842; minutes of evidence before the New London Bridge Committee, 1828; letter books, 1823-1846; order books, 1829-1834; warrant book, 1824-1847; administrative papers, financial accounts and papers relating to the opening ceremony, 1824-1847.

Records of the London Bridge Improvements Committee, Court of Common Council, including journals, 1822-1838; minute books, 1756-1767 and committee papers, 1754-1765, including the original signed reports and estimates of George Dance and Robert Taylor, architects.

Records of the Prisons Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1848-1853; committee papers, 1842-1853 and Parliamentary reports, 1845-1847.

Plans used by the City Architect, Planning Department, 1752-1979, including plans, diagrams, maps and photographs of City of London and Greater London housing estates, offices, warehouses, wharves, churches, railway stations and tunnels, police stations, public houses, schools and colleges, the Guildhall complex, Mansion House, markets (including the Metropolitan Cattle Market, Spitalfields, Billingsgate, Leadenhall and London Central Market), streets, squares, bridge approach roads, City of London Cemetery, courts, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, open spaces, parks and gardens, the Monument and sewer systems, 1752-1979.

Also plans of Tower Pier, 1827-1828; Victoria Embankment, 1910, including proposals for a miniature rifle range; plans of the proposed site for Fairlop Airport, Essex, 1938-1950; War Department plans of Burnham Beeches, 1940-1946; anti tank ditches in Epping Forest, 1945; tracings of sites of Temple Bar and Temple Bar Memorial, with tracings of elevations and detail of Memorial, and notes on history, sculptors etc, also includes tracings of Queen Anne's Statue in front of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1960.

Papers relating to railways, 1839-1983, including reports, evidence and petitions relating to the construction of new lines and stations; papers relating to fires, 1522-1974, including papers on the provision of fire fighting equipment, the introduction of fire insurance policies and the establishment of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade; papers relating to the Great Fire of London, 1667-1966, including acts, orders and financial accounts relating to the rebuilding of the City of London including receipts from Christopher Wren, papers relating to the investigation into the cause of the Fire, financial accounts of funds to relieve those affected, descriptions and accounts of the Fire; papers relating to Royal and Municipal Commissions, 1816-1969; papers relating to war 1692-1995, including papers relating to the Corporation's activities during World War One; air raid precautions and casualties, Roll of Honour of Civilian War Dead in the City of London and papers relating to the bombing of Guildhall, World War Two and City of London salute to the task force, Falklands Campaign, 1982.

Papers relating to transport, 1663-1985, including hackney coaches and hackney carriages, carts and carmen, stage coaches, river traffic, tramways, omnibuses and buses, subways, Heathrow and Fairlop Airports, the London Underground and the Channel Tunnel terminal in London; papers relating to shipping, 1610-1989; papers relating to trades and crafts, 1510-1991, including bills, wages, regulations, acts and petitions regarding bricklayers, carpenters, carters, founders, glaziers, masons, painters, paviors, plasterers, plumbers, smiths, wireworkers, button makers, butchers, chimney sweeps, hairdressers, ironmongers, spoon makers, paper makers, tanners, tailors, rakers, midwives, engravers, clock makers and printers; papers relating to the Honourable Artillery Company, 1503-1967.

Papers relating to the history of London, 1565-1994, including "An exposicion of the Kinges prerogative collected out of the great abridgement of Justice Fitz-Herbert and other olde writers of the lawes of England" by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, 1565, "Londinopolis: An Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, The Imperial Chamber, and chief Emporium of Great Britain: Whereunto is added another of the City of Westminster, with the Courts of Justice, Antiquities, and new Buildings thereunto belonging" by James Havel, 1657, and various other antiquarian and modern books, articles and pamphlets on the history of London; papers relating to health and medicine, 1657-1994, including bills of mortality, papers relating to the outbreak of plague in London, 1665-1666, letters, reports and conference papers relating to the control of cholera; papers regarding provisions, 1607-1990, including warrant authorising the Mayor to receive venison out of the Royal Parks, 1607 and papers of committees investigating the high price of provisions, 1767-1822; papers relating to the government of the City of London and Greater London, 1849-1993; papers relating to the provision and price of gas, 1828-1918; papers relating to the supply of water to the City, 1538-1992; papers relating to the placing, erection and upkeep of statues and monuments in London, 1680-1995; papers relating to weights and measures, 1678-1997, including records of action taken against those using false weights and measures and registers of weighed goods; papers relating to seals and medals, 1285-1995, including examples of medieval seals and register of documents sealed; papers relating to insignia and plate, 1650-1993, including information on the Collar of SS, Diamond Badge or Jewel, Mace, Crystal Mace, Swords, City Purse, Mayoralty Seal, Robes and Sceptre and inventories of City plate; papers relating to the population of the City of London, 1719-1982, including "A compu tation of the increase of London and parts adjacent; with some causes thereof, and remarks thereon", 1719, population returns, 1821-1897 and population studies and articles; papers regarding tolls, 1605-1833, including Acts, bonds, exemptions and leases; papers relating to the postal service, 1741-1938, including examples of early stamps and papers relating to the Penny Post; papers relating to the carrying out of writs, 1460-1965, including writs of habeas corpus, certiorari, subpoenas and jury summons; papers relating to the textile trade, 1674-1995, including orders, rates, inventories, petitions relating to the production of textiles including cloth, lace and wool, bonds of searches and sealers of tanned leather, 1699-1804, and articles on the history of textiles.

Papers relating to probate, 1693-1786, including estate inventories, letters of administration and notes on legal customs; papers relating to the regulation of fireworks and bonfires within the City, 1673-1857; papers relating to archaeological investigations in the City of London, 1972-1989; extracts relating to archery in Finsbury Fields, 1521; reports and articles relating to the armorial bearings of the City, 1216-1973; bullion certificates, 1696-1819; licences issued for the right to use calcium carbide, 1897-1919; papers relating to convex lights, 1692-1694; papers relating to conveyancing, 1770-1948 and various other papers relating to aspects of the administration of the City of London including common soil, conservation, criminal prosecutions, city customs and liberties, the Customs House, erection of hoardings, gifts and presentations, regulation of gunpowder, income tax, the London Building Acts, licensing, lotteries, regulation and licensing of petroleum, precedent books, precepts issued by the Mayor or Common Council, bills for printing and stationery, the Olympic Games, pageantry, proclamations, brewers and public houses, the Shops Act, smoke abatement and clean air, street cleaning, theatres, the unemployed, Viewer's reports, wharves, woods and forests, newspapers and cuttings, fishing, the Festival of the City of London, coffee houses, coinage, the Bank of England and other financial institutions.

Technical Services Department building project files created to manage individual construction projects undertaken by the Corporation of London. Files for the City of London School rebuilding, 1983-1986, including project background file giving information about the historical evolution of the project, 1968-1982, and the project manual which provides general information on the running of the project, as well as progress reports, technical information, architectural sketches, correspondence, plans, archaeological details and legal papers, 1973-1991. Also files for the Craft, Design and Technology (CDT) block, constructed 1990-1993, including design notes and sketches, reports, correspondence, certificates, bills, tenders and technical information, 1984-1995.

Also files for the conversion of the National Safe Deposit into the City of London Magistrate's Court, 1988-1991, including plans, reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence, diagrams, technical information and the project manual, 1986-1997.

Records of the Grover family, builders, undertakers and window blind makers, 1828-1904, including ledgers of work done (both building work and funerals), arranged chronologically by client name; estimates book recording clients' names, work to be done, materials and cost; a late 19th century photograph of the Grover family, with parrot, and two trade cards for "J and F. Grover, Builders, Undertakers and Window Blind Makers, near the Old Church, Ealing" and "J. and F. Grover. Undertakers, near the Old Church, Ealing".

Papers, 1638-1890, collected by Myers in the course of their work, comprising wills and a bond relating to Palgrave, Suffolk; Hampstead; Kensington (Old Brompton); West Twyford and Bloomsbury.

London County Council register of tramway track lengths, recording description and lengths of route, street length, track length and remarks, such as "conversion to trolleybus", "abandoned" and so on, [1912-1952], with enclosures: photocopy of map of tramways in the London County Council area, revised to 1931; and diagrams of track lengths in Leyton and Hammersmith.

District Surveyors Returns, 1844-1855, providing lists of notices, information and complaints, the results of notices and fees paid for works. The Districts covered were City of London; Tower Division (Tower Hamlets and the East End); Edmonton Hundred Division (Tottenham); Finsbury Division (Islington, Stoke Newington, Hornsey, Clerkenwell); Holborn Division (Bloomsbury, Saint Pancras, Paddington, Marylebone, Hampstead); Kensington Division (Chelsea, Fulham, Hammersmith); City of Westminster Division; County of Surrey (Lambeth, Camberwell, Bermondsey, Rotherhithe) and County of Kent (Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, Lewisham).

Building plans of a variety of buildings and features including houses, offices, embankments, hospitals, chapels and churches, chimney shafts, warehouses, taverns, dockyards, public rooms, lecture halls, colleges and schools, factories, workhouses and asylums, stables, gardens and shop fronts.

General office papers including registers of approvals; approvals of buildings; cases of Special Supervision; cases of ruinous buildings; registers of awards; registers of reports; enquiries about fires and fire reports; lists of Surveyors; papers on drains and sewers; staff records; circulars and notices; correspondence; parish and ordnance maps; press cuttings; forms and instructions; financial accounts and copies of Acts and Bills relating to building and construction regulations.

Records of J W Falkner and Sons Limited, 1893-1982. This collection consists of administrative material including office files and correspondence (1902-1963); financial records including ledgers, cash books and accounts (1893-1964); and plans and files relating to the various commissions the company undertook (1893-1968).

Records of Alperton Bottling Company Limited, 1949-1961. This collection contains records relating to corporate functions, premises, accounts and miscellaneous items, including minutes of Directors' meetings and Shareholders' meetings, file relating to the proposed erection of an extension to the bottling plant and an album of photographs of the opening of the bottling plant in 1951.

Records of Broad Street Estates Limited, including minutes of director's meetings; statements of account; financial records such as ledgers and cash books; rent rolls; and building plans.

Records of Ferris Brothers Limited, 1900-1955, including letter books containing mainly estimates and related correspondence; work day books recording brief details of work being done, job by job, together with costs; wages books; and plans including Acton High Street, 1919; Acton Hospital, 1935 and Upper Street, Islington, 1935.

Records of Franklin and Deacon, architects and surveyors, 1922-1938, consisting of correspondence, tenders, estimates, specifications, plans and photographs of building work carried out at various public houses and other properties in Harrow Weald, East Sheen, Wembley, Regent's Park and Edgware.

Property records of Royal Brewery Brentford Limited, including quarterly rent journal; insurance register for licensed premises; premises repair order book; tenants' dilapidations ledger and tenancy agreement.

Property records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including rent books; purchase of property book; estates summary; tenancy records; papers relating to building repairs; rating and valuations records; redemption of land tax certificates; insurance records; deeds; and register of plant and machinery.

Records of Harry Neal Limited, building and engineering contractor, 1937-1957, including files relating to building projects worked on by the company including:

• 1/3 Princes Gate

  • 160 Shaftsbury Avenue
  • 5 Portland Place
  • 16 Berkeley Square
  • Grosvenor Square
  • Saint Pancras Way Housing Scheme
  • Oxford Street
  • 117 Baker Street
  • 31 Montagu Square
  • Brompton Road
  • BBC building at 1 Portland Place
  • BBC telephones
  • 11 and 12 Mount Street
  • Dunster House.

  Also office files, financial accounts and file relating to builders accidents.

Records of the Central Synagogue, Great Portland Street, consisting of minute books of the sub-committee for Building the Central Synagogue, 1866-1871; architect's report to the Building Committee, 1856; seat book; financial records and photograph of the synagogue interior, 1928.

Material added in 2010 included Board of Management minute books; seatholders minute books; book of Laws of the Synagogue; marriage authorizations; registers of members; press cuttings, brochures, circulars, orders of service, reports, flyers, appeals, correspondence and death notices; a history of the congregation; photographs of Second World War bomb damage; designs for fittings; blank certificates; a seating plan; and photographs of notable members of the Synagogue.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

Records of John Mowlem and Company Ltd, and subsidiary companies, 1830-1985; including articles of association; minutes; reports; prospectuses; financial ledgers and accounts; records of work done; works order books; inventories; letter books; staff records including wage books; property registers; photographs; awards; shareholder registers and seal registers. Also copy of The History of John Mowlem and Company, volumes 1 and 2, by F Baines.

Subsidiary companies whose records are found in this collection:
John Mowlem and Company Limited U.K. Construction Division
John Mowlem and Company Limited, Guernsey
John Mowlem and Company Limited, Southampton
Mowlem (Africa) Limited
Mowlem (Building) Limited
Mowlem (Scotland) Limited
Mowlem Computer Grid Limited
Mowlem International Division
The Artistic Blind Company Limited
The Cement Supply Company Limited (later called Constructional Services Limited)
Glasgow Stockholders Trust Limited
Grosvenor Engineering Services Limited
Edmund Nuttall, Sons And Company and John Mowlem And Company (Joint) Limited
Nuttall Mowlem Brand and Abboud (Near East) Limited
E. Thomas and Company Limited
Webber and Corben Limited
Improved Wood Pavement and Company Limited (now called Mowlem Construction (Plant Hire) Limited)
Alfred Booth and Co Limited
Booth Concrete Limited
C Evans and Sons Limited
Dixon Building Equipment Limited
Eatons Ladders Limited
Edendal Properties Limited
Ellis Richards Limited
F Parker and Co Limited
Freehold Improvements Limited
Glasgow Stockholders Trust Plc
Gravity Ladders and Randall Limited
Grosvenor Structures Limited
Hire Shops Limited
Johnsons Ladders (Woodworks) Limited
Lomount Construction Limited
Mining and Geophysical Limited
Parcar Utilities Limited
Pierhead Limited
Property Investments Cambridge Limited
Redhill Bodybuilding Industries Limited
Scaffolding (Great Britain) Limited
Sgb Building Equipment Limited
Sgb Canada Limited
Sgb Group Limited
Showex Limited
Soil Mechanics Foundations Limited
Tickner and Emmerton Limited
Thrasyllus Unit Construction Company Limited
Wc Youngman Limited
Welham Plant Limited
Youngman Forktrucks Limited

Records of Thomas and Edge Limited, 1930-1970, comprising Board and general meeting minutes, share register, and private ledgers.

Records of Higgs and Hill Limited, builders, and of subsidiary or merged companies, 1868-1978. The records are largely of financial nature, but do include other administrative material and contract information. There is a particularly good run of tender books for the period 1906-1965, detailing all the jobs for which Higgs and Hill tendered, regardless of whether or not they won the contract.

Plans made by the Engineer's Department, West Ham Borough Council, 1894-1966. The collection includes building plans, site plans, proposals for projects and Ordnance Survey maps. The maps have been amended by the engineers to show proposals or extent of works. The proposals include swimming pools, recreation grounds, public baths, sewers, new roads and unemployment relief works. There is a large amount of material relating to Whipps Cross Hospital, including contract plans. A detailed index of the plans can be found in hard copy at the LMA Information Area.

Records of the Phoenix Assurance Company including single assurance policy, deeds and deed of covenant and premises plans.

Note, account and estimate book of Thomas Wood, carpenter. He worked on the almshouses and school of the Drapers' Company in Mile End left to them by Francis Bancroft in 1728: a substantial portion of the volume contains detailed notes and calculations on the erection and fittings of the buildings to the design of Henry Barratt, architect.

A descriptive account of the Holborn Valley Viaduct, opened by the Queen on the 6th November 1869, and carried out under the direction of the Corporation of London by the Improvements Committee.

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.

Papers of John Sebastian Helmcken, comprising manuscript volume of notes taken on anatomy and surgery lectures, November 1847, in the back of the volume. 85 folios; Notebook inscribed 'Helmcken, Guy's Hospital' attributed to John Sebastian Helmcken, student at Guy's 1845-1847, containing manuscript notes on lectures and medical subjects, 134 ff, with loose notes in same hand, with titles: rheumatic gout, pericarditis, and senses, 8ff; Notebook inscribed This book was done by W Helmcken at Mr [Strauss] academy, Charles Strs, London, Oct 5, 1842', containing manuscript notes and examples of mathematical rules for the measurement of flooring, partitioning, roofing and tiling, bricklaying, timber measure, boards and planks, square measure, round timber and Bricklaying. In the back of the volume are manuscript case notes for patients in Guy's Hospital wards, containing description of symptoms, treatment and progress of the case, [1845]; Newspaper cutting of articleHistoric home bought by government', the Daily Colonist, Victoria, British Colombia, 23 Jul 1939, reporting the purchase by the Province of a house built in 1852, by Dr John Sebastian Helmcken (1834-1920), surgeon, and statesman.

Miscellaneous collection of deeds, bonds, indentures, correspondence and legal papers relating to London and the surrounding area, 1597-1774. Includes accounts for the building of 'Icknam Bridge' and for royal gardens, possibly St James's Park, [1650]; a fragmentary list of pictures in the house of Sir Godfrey Copley (d 1709), giving names of painters and dimensions of each work; valuations for work in Enfield Chase, Middlesex, 1728-1729; a rental for Southampton Row, 1731; various manorial documents for Enfield, 1718-1760, Hendon, 1623, Isleworth and Syon, 1662-1716, South Mimms, 1731, and Stanwell, 1670-1774.

Main financial registers of Bedford College, 1849-1965, including accounts ledgers, 1865-1964; records of student fees, 1849-1963; summary of student fees, 1965-1966; Journals, 1921-1963; Transfer Journals, 1965-1970; Grants Ledgers, 1900-1909; Cash Account Books, 1888-1963; Principal's Cash Book, 1894-1909; Petty Cash Books, 1904-1961; Cash Books and receipts, 1922-1969; Council Cheque Schedule Books, 1889-1965; College Account Book, 1891-1911. Early accounts of Bedford College (kept by the Lady Resident), including student fees, 1856-1866 and household bills, 1856-1866. Annual accounts, 1894-1977, notably balance sheets, 1894-1931; annual accounts and working papers, 1920-1983; estimates of receipts, 1899-1940; working papers and final figures for University Grants Council Returns, 1928-1977, with Quinquennial accounts, correspondence, and estimates, 1936-1972. Material relating to students' accounts and scholarships, 1861-[1965], including Students' Maintenance Grant Accounts, 1925-1956; Registration Fees Account Book, 1948-1958; Account Books for the Old Pupil's Scholarship Fund, 1861-1911; Accounts for various scholarships and funds, 1877-[1965]. Papers relating to Staff salaries and revisions, 1894-1976, including material on salary scales of and payments to teaching and administrative staff, research fellows and visiting lecturers, 1894-1973; wage and wage analysis books, 1945-1972, for Student Demonstrators, Visiting Lecturers, Laboratory Technicians, Household Staff and Junior Administrative Staff; letters of appointment to temporary and part-time staff, 1954-1957; monthly payroll computer printout, 1975-1976; wages signature books, 1912-1963, for Bedford College Household, Maintenance, Domestic, Laboratory and Administrative staff; papers relating to salary scales of lecturers, 1901-1906; Personnel Accounts, 1922-1949; material relating to the Bedford College Pension Scheme, 1907-1976, including ledgers, financial papers, Forms of Agreement, and tax sheets. Account books and legal papers for Capital Buildings Projects, 1903-1970, including a Day Book for the Building and Endowment Fund, 1904-1916; Accounts of the Extension fund, 1926-1932; and papers relating to war damage to the College buildings, 1945-1954. Household Accounts, 1910-1969, including Household Accounts, 1910-1938; Bursar's bills for payment by the Household Committee, 1941-1947, and Finance Committee, 1941-1955; Household Cash and Analysis Books, 1941; Wages Analysis Book for Household and Garden, 1941; Accounts of the Stationery Shop, 1959-1969; Account books for the Athletics ground, 1932-1944. Accounts for special funds, 1894-1968, including the Principal's Loan Fund, 1894-1955, the Geraldine Jebb Memorial Fund, 1961, and the Paterson Memorial Fund, 1943-1948.

Papers relating to Standing Committees of Bedford College, including Minutes, correspondence and papers of the Finance Committee, 1889-1985; Minutes of the Financial Management and Investment Sub-Committee, 1982-1985; Minutes of the Policy and Estimates Committee, 1972-1979; Minutes, correspondence and papers of the Standing Committee on Laboratory Expenditure, 1944-1985; Minutes of the Committee of Education, 1868-1909; Minutes, 1903-1907, and reports, 1937, of the Physical Education Committee; Minutes of the Professors' Meetings, 1881-1909; Minutes of the Loan Fund Committee for the Training of Teachers, 1892-1896.

Papers relating to the Building Committees of Bedford College, including Minutes and papers of the Premises Committee, 1908-1915; Minutes and papers of the South Villa Demolition Committee, 1919-1921; Minutes of the Building Fund Committee, 1908-1914; Minutes of the Building Committee, 1926-1932; Minutes of the Committee for Alterations to the Library, 1931-1932; Minutes and papers of the Reconstruction Committee, 1943-1967, and its Sub-Committee, 1947-1949; Minutes of the Buildings Committee, 1954-1978; Minutes of the House Committee, 1876-1975; Minutes and reports of the Household Management Committee, 1972-1978; Minutes of the Estate Management Committee, 1978-1983.

Papers relating to Special and Ad Hoc Committees of Bedford College, including papers of a Special Committee, 1878; papers of a Special (Treasury Grant) Committee, 1905-1906; papers of a Special Joint Committee (Acland Committee), 1901; papers of a Special Committee on Organisation and Finance, 1901-1919; and papers of a Special Committee on the Admission of Men, 1963-1964; papers of a Joint Committee of Governors and Council to Review the Charter and Statutes, 1966; papers relating to the Mallaby Report on machinery of government and the Ward-Jackson Review of Committee Structure, 1968-1969; papers of a joint Committee of the Councils of Bedford and Westfield Colleges, 1979-1982; papers of a Joint Planning Committee of King's College London and Bedford College, 1981; papers of a Joint Planning Committee of Royal Holloway and Bedford Colleges, 1982; papers of Joint Meetings of the Councils of Bedford and Royal Holloway Colleges, 1983-1985; papers and correspondence relating to the merger of Royal Holloway and Bedford Colleges, 1982-1983.

Records, 1891-1970, of Regent Street Polytechnic, comprising:
Governing Body minutes, 1891-1970, attendance books, 1954-1970, and related papers; Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes, 1891-1932, 1951-1960, and attendance books, 1949-1958.

Deeds, leases, agreements, schedules, licences and correspondence, 1891-1970, concerning Polytechnic affairs and premises, including Langham Place, Riding House Street, Great Portland Street, and other sites, and use of the Polytechnic Theatre (Marlborough Hall), Regent Street, as a cinema;
papers, 1889-1970, relating to the Charity Commissioners' Scheme for the Polytechnic.

Financial records, some relating to Trusts and prizes, 1891-1970, including balance sheets, accounts and financial statements, 1891-1895, 1899-1904, balance sheets and accounts, 1939-41, ledgers, 1892, 1902-1970, journals, 1939-1956, various cash books, 1905-1970, invoices, 1905-1911, 1959-1965, correspondence and papers concerning overdrafts, 1927-1954, record books, perhaps recording payments to government-sponsored students, 1919-1923, applications for and papers relating to grants from the City Parochial Foundation and London County Council, 1891-1960, and other papers relating to funding and regulatory bodies, including the Board of Education, papers relating to the Quintin Hogg estate and investments, 1903-1970, and the Kynaston Studd memorial fund, 1940s, and Polytechnic Benevolent Fund minute book, 1938-1965.

Administrative papers and correspondence of the Polytechnic and its officers, 1902-1964, relating to premises, finance, staff and salaries, library, enrolments, fees and examinations; correspondence and papers on fundraising and rebuilding, 1909-1916, including Building Committee minutes, 1908-1911, and plans, agreements and press cuttings; correspondence and papers on fundraising and extension, 1926-1929; correspondence, plans and other papers, 1911-1946, relating to premises including Cavendish Place and Langham Place; correspondence and papers relating to administration and facilities of the Quintin Hogg Recreation Ground, Chiswick, 1904-1960s, including the Trustees' minute book, 1932-1959; papers relating to proposed re-organisation, 1959-1969.

Records of the Education Department, including prospectuses, 1892-1970, and records relating to examinations, results, certificates, and medals awarded to students, 1891-1970;
papers of the Teaching Staff Association, 1963-1970;
records of the Polytechnic Institute, comprising membership records for men, 1891-1958, and women, 1904-1960, and subscription ledgers for men, 1891-1937, 1952-1963, and women, 1904-1937, 1952-1960; papers relating to World War One, 1914-1915, including three volumes on members on active service.

Papers, including ephemera, on Polytechnic jubilees, public and social occasions, and official visits, 1904-1964, including the royal visit, 1912, the opening of the stadium at Chiswick, 1938, coronations, 1937, 1953, and Hogg centenary celebrations, 1964.

Rules, 1913; printed annual reports, 1931-1938, 1952-1970, and typescripts, 1938-1941; staff handbooks [1954], 1964 and undated; student handbooks, 1961-1970; lecture notes and exam papers for the P.O. Workman's course, 1929-1933; class notebook for Electro-Technology, 1930s; lecturer's notebook detailing classroom allocation, staff teaching hours and student enrolment numbers, 1930-1945; The Polytechnic Magazine, 1891-1971, which includes detailed information on Polytechnic business and activities; miscellaneous other publications, including The Polytechnic: its genesis and present status (1892), The Polytechnic Portrait Gallery (1894), comprising portraits of staff and members, an honorary membership ticket, 1895, student magazines, 1936-1969, and miscellaneous articles, typescripts and cuttings on the Polytechnic, 1892-1968; volumes of press cuttings and scrapbooks of ephemera, 1893-1947, including Polytechnic activities, rebuilding, and J E K Studd.

Textbooks written by members of the Polytechnic teaching staff, including
Theory and Analysis of Ornament - Applied to the Work of the Elementary and Technical Schools by Francois Louis Schauermann, 1892; The Polytechnic Coat System by Dr Thomas Darwin Humphreys, 3rd edition, n.d. [1900]; A Manual of Boot and Shoe Manufacture designed for the use of technical students by Herbert Hill and Henry Yeoman, 3rd edition, 1900; Building Construction and Drawing - first stage (or elementary course) by Charles F Mitchell, assisted by George Mitchell, 6th edition, 1902; Engineering Drawing : Principles and Practice of Draughtmanship by W. Weeks, n.d.; Polytechnic Technical Scales by C F Mitchell, n.d.; Hasluck's Recitations volume II: Hasluck's Recitations for Ladies compiled and adapted by Mr and Mrs S L Hasluck, 1903; Indiarubber and Gutta Percha - A Complete Practical Treatise by T Seeligmann, G Lamy Torrilhon and H Falconnet. Translated from the French by John Geddes McIntosh, 1903; Carpentry Workshop Practice by C F and G A Mitchell, 1904; Brickwork and Masonry: A Practical Textbook for students by Charles F Mitchell, 1904; The Polytechnic Cookery Book by M. M. Mitchell, 1907; Pumps - Their Principles and Construction - a series of lectures delivered at the Polytechnic Institute, Regent Street, London by J Wright Clarke, 2nd edition, 1919; Speech Training in the School by Marjorie Gullan, 1929; A Modern French Course for Beginners by A C Clark, 1930; General Electrical Engineering edited by Philip Kemp, 1943; A Modern German Course - Part 1 and Part 2 (2 volumes) by A C Clark and W O Williams, 1947; Fitness for All by Joseph Edmundson, 1953; The Pan Book of Swimming and Water Sports by Joseph Edmundson, 1965.

Photograph album, c1899, including photographs of activities and buildings; other negatives, prints, and plates, comprising buildings and premises (exterior and interior shots), including Langham Place, Regent Street, Little Titchfield Street, and the Quintin Hogg Recreation Ground, Chiswick; educational aspects, including Polytechnic Schools, libraries and laboratories, and window displays and exhibitions; events, including the royal visit, 1912, Lord Mayor's Show, 1922, 1928, annual fetes, 1927-1932, and Coronation concert and dance, 1953; personalities, including members of the Hogg family, Robert Mitchell, and J E K Studd; photography students' work, 1960-1970. Some earlier photographs were taken by the Polytechnic School of Photography.

Material relating to the Hogg family, 1855-[1970], includes articles about Quintin Hogg, 1888-1949; miscellaneous of Hogg's letters, mainly copies (originals dated 1882-1903), some relating to the Polytechnic; books by or associated with Hogg, 1855-1900; papers relating to his death, funeral and monument, 1903-1907, including printed material and a volume of press cuttings on his achievements; and information on other family members. Material relating to other Polytechnic notables comprises T H W Pelham's Recollections of the pre-historic days of the Polytechnic (1914); miscellaneous papers relating to Robert Mitchell, comprising a letter to E J Painter, 1929, a cutting on his death and orders of service for memorial services, 1933, and Ethel M Wood's Robert Mitchell (1934); miscellaneous correspondence and papers relating to John Edward Kynaston Studd, including programmes for social events, 1922-1935, his The origin, history, and present work of the Polytechnic [1932], papers relating to his death, 1944-1945, and A L D Hamilton's Kynaston Studd (1953); printed material on other members of the Studd family, 1914-1962.