Papers of Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1826-1846, comprising letters to William Newton, his landlord, 1830-1845, relating to house repairs, his debts, requests for loans, death of his daughter, 1831; legal papers relating to Haydon's imprisonment for debt in the King's Bench, 1830, namely inventory of his goods for debt, authorisation to distrain goods, notice of court hearing; letter from Sir George Philips, 1836, concerning his picture 'Christ's Agony'; receipts for Haydon's life insurance policy payments, 1833-1845; Newton's marked copy of the catalogue of the sale of Haydon's effects, 1846.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to financial accounts, 1950-1965, including the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation Fund; car allowance policy; tuberculosis settlements; recuperative holidays and loan of nursing equipment.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to care and after care, 1944-1965, including papers relating to the care of tuberculosis patients; papers relating to chiropody clinics; papers relating to mother and baby homes; papers regarding the provision of nursing equipment; papers relating to the provision of invalid kitchens and laundry services.

Papers relating to the Health Education Scheme including lecture notes; public information film '52 Small Bones' on the care of children's feet; papers of the Smoking and Lung Cancer Committee; papers of the Fluoridation Information Service; policy relating to accidents in the home; papers relating to diabetes; papers regarding Well Women's Clinics, and papers regarding venereal diseases. Also papers relating to recuperative holidays including registers of cases; sample of case papers of those sent on recuperative holidays, and registers of recuperative holidays for children.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to local health services, 1934-1965, including papers regarding co-operation between local health authorities, hospital authorities and general practitioners; policy on day nurseries and crèches; policy relating to the care of mothers and babies; policy relating to birth control; papers relating to the midwifery service and general childbirth; papers of the Family Help Service relating to problem families; policy on homeless families; policy relating to welfare foods; policy on health visiting and home nursing; papers regarding vaccination and immunisation; policy relating to the care of the aged; policy on nursing homes; papers relating to research, investigations and trials.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to mental health services, 1915-1965, including papers regarding staff training; papers relating to psychiatric hospitals; papers relating to residential homes for the mentally ill; policy on after care for mental patients and alcoholics; investigation into autism; survey of children with Down's Syndrome; papers relating to guardianship cases; papers regarding the care of mentally ill or disturbed children; papers relating to training centres, education, occupational therapy and workshops for the mentally ill or disabled; photographs of Enfield Adult Training Centre and papers relating to individual institutions. Also sample case files for mentally defective persons and mentally ill persons: please note that access to case files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Holmhurst Home, comprising Managers' minutes, 1951-1969.

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Bethnal Green, including register of marriages, register of baptisms, and minutes of the Committee for the Holy Trinity Hostel for Austrian Refugees.

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Trinity Road, Upper Tooting, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; papers relating to the maintenance of the church; papers relating to the vicarage; financial records; and papers relating to parish societies.

Records of the Hornsey Housing Trust, including minutes of the Committee of Management; shares prospectuses; rules of the Trust; annual reports; and financial accounts.

Records of the London County Council Housing Department relating to finance, 1908-1934, including estimates for the Becontree Estate and Old Oak Estate; loan sanctions for local housing operations by Bermondsey Borough Council, Poplar Borough Council, Wandsworth Borough Council and Woolwich Borough Council; subsidy registers, containing copies of reports and Council minutes fixing rents and giving estimated financial results, lists of houses subject to special conditions and copies of completion certificates, for the Becontree Estate, Castelnau Estate, Wormholt Estate, White Hart Lane Estate and Downham Estate.

Records of the London County Council Housing Department, 1845-1971, including subject and policy files regarding the Becontree Estate; Old Oak Estate; National Housing and Town Planning Council; visits to estates and to the Housing Department Chart Room; correspondence; rents; Norbury Estate; Roehampton Estate Tenants Association; Watling Estate; White Hart Lane Estate, Tottenham and the Bellingham Estate.

Selection of reports relating to the Housing of the Working Classes, bound into volumes; annual reports of the Housing Committee; Housing Manager's annual reports and statistical tables; Workmen's Trains: report of the case of LCC and others versus Great Eastern Railway Company and others before the Railway and Canal Commission of the High Court; evidence from the Inquiry into the Whitecross Street Scheme; Housing notebook containing particulars of the Council's Estates and Dwellings; lecture "Working Class Dwellings - the Rebuilding of the Boundary Street Estate" by Owen Fleming, assistant architect to LCC; lecture "Overcrowded London" by R.M Beachcroft, LCC alderman; speech "A Remedy for Overcrowding in London" by Henry Jephson; lecture "Slum Areas in London" by Cecil B Levita, chairman of the LCC Housing Committee; LCC Housing Progress Handbook.

Plans and details of Standard Types of LCC Housing Accommodation; Acts of Parliament relating to housing functions and lodging houses; plans referred to in schemes made under the Housing of the Working Classes Act; map and guide to LCC housing estates; samples of tenant's handbooks; Code of Instructions for the Guidance of Superintendents of Estates; rent books and tenancy file of a model tenant on the Downham Estate; large poster inviting applications for tenancy of LCC dwellings, listing all estates with details of accommodation and rents; samples of completed application forms for tenancy of Council houses and flats.

Housing Estate Plans from the London County Council Housing Department, 1950-1965, for the following estates:

Ainsworth Estate, Hampstead

Albion Street Areas, Bermondsey

Ashburton Estate, Chartfield Avenue, Wandsworth

Avebury Estate, Turin Street Site, Bethnal Green

Avery Hill, Woolwich

Barn Elms Park Site, Wandsworth

Baxter Grove Areas, Islington

Baylis Road, Lambeth

Beckenham Hill Road, Lewisham

Bellingham Estate Extension, Lewisham

Besson Street Area, Deptford

Blessington Road Site, Lewisham

Boreham Wood Estate, Hertfordshire

Regal Cinema Site, Bromley High Street and Bow Road, Poplar

Bricknall Place areas, Lambeth

Broadway Site, Hackney

Bromley Road Extension, Lewisham

Brook Lane Site, Greenwich

Browning Estate, Townley Street Site, Southwark

Burdett Estate Extension, Stepney

Burlington Road Site, Fulham

Butterswick Cottages, Hammersmith

Campbell House Site, Woolwich

Carnbrook Road Site, Greenwich

Caroline Estate Extension, Hammersmith

Castle House, Woolwich

Cherry Garden Site, Bermondsey

Church Crescent, Hackney

Colebrook Row Area, Islington

Cordelia Street, Poplar

Creek Road Site, Lewisham

Dartmouth Road Site, Lewisham

Dodson Street Site, Southwark

Dove Row Extension, Shoreditch

East Dulwich Estate Extension, Camberwell

East India Dock Road Site

Eastman Street Site, Bethnal Green

Elmington Estate

Ember Street Site, Bermondsey

Fayland Estate, Wandsworth

Finchley Road Development, Hampstead

Flamstead Estate Extension, Greenwich

Frampton Park, Hackney

Gauden Road Site, Wandsworth

Giffrin Street Site Extension Reginald Road site, Deptford

Glamis Road Site, Stepney

Grove Street site, Deptford

Hawgood Street site, Poplar

Heathside Estate, Greenwich

Hedgers Grove, Hackney

Heston Street Area, Deptford

Hilgrove Estate, Finchley Road, Hampstead

Hilldrop Estate, Islington

Hillside Gardens Estate Extension, Wandsworth

Hobson's Place, Stepney

Jackman Street site, Hackney

Jamaica Road site, Bermondsey

Kender Street Area, Deptford

Kidbrooke Park Estate Extension, Greenwich

King Henry Street, Islington

Lancaster Street site, Southwark

Lansbury Estate, Stepney and Poplar

Lant Street site, Southwark

Lawson Street Development, Southwark

Lindley Estate, Camberwell

Loampit Vale site, Lewisham

Long Lane Areas, Bermondsey

Longstaff Estate, Wandsworth

Loughborough Street, Lambeth

Lurgan Avenue Area, Fulham

Malay Street Area, Stepney

Maple Court, Acacia Grove, New Malden

Mardyke Street Area, Southwark

Maxey Road site, Woolwich

Mill Gardens Area, Lewisham

Milne Estate Extension, Woolwich

Ocean Street site, Skidmore Street, Stepney

Patmore Street site, Battersea

Pearscroft Road, Fulham

Pennyfields, Poplar

Pitsea Street site, Stepney

Polthorne Street Area, Woolwich

Poplar High Street, Poplar

Priory site, Wandsworth

Prospect Estate, Farnborough, Hampshire

Raglan Street Area, Saint Pancras

Rapley Place, Bethnal Green

Ravensbourne Estate, Lewisham

Roehampton High Street site, Wandsworth

Rowlett Street, Poplar

Ruskin Park Estate Extension, Camberwell

Saint George-in-the-East Hospital site, Stepney

Saint Katherine's Way (Matilda House), Stepney

Saint Luke's Housing Development, Old Street, Finsbury

Saint Martin's Estate, Upper Tulse Hill Lambeth

Saint Peter's Hospital site, Stepney

Samuda's Wharf Site, Poplar

Southend Lane Site, Lewisham

Stockwell Gardens, Lambeth

Stockwell Lane, Lambeth

Stockwell Road Development, Lambeth

Streatham Hill, Wandsworth

Sydenham Hill Site, Lewisham

Tabard Garden Extension, Southwark

Teesdale estate, Bethnal Green

Trafalgar Road Site, Greenwich

Tyers Street Site, Lambeth

Tyson Road Site, Lewisham

Vauxhall Gardens Extension, Tate Street Site, Lambeth

Wager Street Site, Stepney

Wapping Estate Extension, Stepney

Watermead Estate Extension, Lewisham

Watson's Street, Deptford

Welshpool Street Site, Hackney

Weston Rise Site, Finsbury

Whetstone Road Site, Greenwich

White City Estate, Hammersmith

Woodberry Down Estate, Stoke Newington

York Hill Site, Lambeth

Zangwill Road Sites, Greenwich

Records of Howard de Walden Estates Limited (and its predecessors) comprising:

minutes of General Real Estates Investment and Trust Limited (GREIT), 1919-1953; minutes of the Advisory Board, 1913-1919; Directors' attendance books, 1919-1953; minutes of Howard de Walden Estates Limited (HDWEL) 1953-1965; minutes of the Advisory Board, 1960-1966; attendance books, 1952-1955;

financial records of GREIT including ledgers, 1920-1949; financial journals, 1919-1952; cash books, 1919-1943; petty cash books, 1920-1951; fees book 1913-1950; Register of members and share ledger, with details of mortgages and debentures, 1916-1953; share certificates, 1919-1955; correspondence relating to shares; Register of directors' holding interests, 1948;
financial records of HDWEL including balance sheets and accounts 1953-1963; ledger, 1953-1963; financial journal 1953-1963; cash books, 1953-1963;

records relating to leases including lease book, 1799; registers of leases, 1921-1961; register of settled property, 1922-1951; particulars of assignment of lease 1912-1990; lease receipt book, 1941;

lease plan books and reference plans, c.1800-1960; block plans, c.1920-1940;

Terms of Contract series, 1812-1962; Ground Plan series, 1812-1967; indexes to terms of contract and ground plans, c 1900;

Particulars of licences granted, 1864-1967; Contract books, 1907-1947; GREIT Settled Estate contract books, 1912-1963; Contract register, 1909-1962; Register of seals, 1933-1946; Plans approved, 1924-1958;

maps and plans of the Estate including Survey of Marybone and Barrow Hills in the County of Middlesex, 1708; plan of estate in the parish of St Marylebone belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland, also of an estate held by lease under the Crown of England situate in the parishes of St Marylebone and St Pancras, 1789; sheets from first editions of Richard Horwood's Survey of London and its environs, 1793-1794; copies of 36 block plans (now deposited at Westminster City archive), c.1805-1870 covering the current estate; manuscript plan of two plots of land in Wigmore St, c.1840; manuscript plan of Estate in Portland Town, the 'Primrose Hill Estate', 1843; plan and elevation of 2-24 Mansfield St, c1850; elevation of 12-19 Devonshire St, 1870; section and elevation of the Oxford Market by Charles Fowler, 106 Gower St, c.1880; Ordnance Survey maps of the Estate, 1894-1896; plan showing extent of the Estate south of Marylebone Rd, c.1910; plan of extent of Estate in Portland Town, c.1910; plans entitled 'Howard de Walden Estate Land Duties' showing different categories of leases, 'Howard de Walden Estate Land Duties' showing 999 year leases, 'Howard de Walden Estate' showing mortgaged properties, 'Howard de Walden Settlement' showing central portion of Estate, c1915; plan of estate in Portland Town, c.1912; plan of Estate, c.1920;
and collection of 13,000 drawings relating to the estate c1890-present;

Title deeds including deeds relating to: Four pieces of ground north of Cavendish Square, 1724, 1749; Devonshire Place and adjoining area, 1791, [1810], 1866; 23 Aybrook Street and adjoining area, 1939, 1916; 7 Devonshire Place, 1789-1870; Great Portland Street and adjoining area, 1919; 11 (formerly 8) Mansfield Street, 1860-1900; 278-288 Oxford Street, 16-28 Holles Street and 6 Cavendish Buildings, 1921; 17 Upper Harley Street, 1865; 14 Westmoreland Street and 49 Little Woodstock Mews, 1905-1929; [7] George Street, York Buildings, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1764-1788;

other Estate records including Survey of the Marylebone Estate, 1737; Local Acts of Parliament 1770-1831; Certificates for redemption of Land Tax on the Estate, 1851; Marriage settlement, 1912; Index to deeds and other Estate documents, c.1920;
news cuttings relating to the Estate, 1922-1925; news cuttings mainly on leasehold enfranchisement, c1929-1939;
memos, accounts and reports relating to the reorganisation of the Estate, c 1920-1964; correspondence and reports on the reorganisation of the Howard de Walden Estates Ltd, 1963-1964; papers relating to the Cavendish Square car park, c.1960-1966; Scottish Life Assurance Co: Group Policies for Pension Fund, 1969, 1975; weekly rent collection books, 1984-1988, 1990-1995;

photographs including images of 23 Queen Anne Street, c.1880, 1935, 1937, 1965 (31 photographs); Bedford Lemere photographs of the Estate and properties no longer on the estate, 1908-1917, and related correspondence, 2002; miscellaneous photographs, including the Oxford Market, 1875, 16-17 Holles Street, c.1903, Cavendish Square car park, 1968-1973, and Survey of the Howard de Walden Estate, c1981-1986 (3000 negatives and contact prints).

Records of South Kensington Development Schemes, 1936-1948, and Imperial College Expansion Scheme, including proposed schemes for South Kensington, 1936-1945; minutes of the Sites Committee, 1945-1950; plans and correspondence relating to the South Kensington site, 1944-1947; notes and plan of the Chemical Technology extension, 1949; new biochemistry building, 1950; purchase of various properties on Queen's Gate, 1937-1969, including war damage compensation; papers relating to the development of Silwood Park Field Station, Sunninghill, Berkshire, 1954-1957; minutes of the Dean's Committee, later Development Committee, 1953-1970, with correspondence (IA);
papers relating to academic posts, 1953-1962, including new chairs, 1953; postgraduate bursaries, 1955-1957 (IB);

papers relating to Imperial College Expansion Scheme, including press cuttings, 1946-1970; early history, 1950-1955; reports and plans for the expansion scheme, 1958; correspondence concerning the proposed demolition of the City and Guilds College building, 1955-1956; notes concerning future Student Union facilities, 1955;
papers of Sir Patrick Linstead, Rector, including correspondence concerning the expansion scheme, 1944-1966, notably the retention of the Imperial Institute building, 1955; the Collcutt (now Queen's) Tower, 1956-1957; 170, Queen's Gate, 1957-1963; accommodation for departments, 1959-1965; new hall of residence (Linstead Hall), 1963-1969;
papers relating to the demolition programme and architects, including correspondence with the architects, 1951-1963; plans and finance, 1953-1967; demolition programme, 1954-1957; Imperial Institute, 1955-1956; building programme, 1957-1958; use, restoration and occupation of Queen's Gate and Prince's Gardens, 1957-1962; Royal College of Science adaptations, 1957-1962; correspondence relating to the Roderic Hill Building, 1949-1962; Biochemistry building, 1964-1967; adaptations to the Royal School of Mines, 1958-1970; papers relating to the Falmouth Gates, including the Memorial fund, 1962-1965; design of the gates, 1964-1969; report and correspondence relating to landscaping, 1958-1967; souvenirs from the demolished Royal College of Science building, 1956-1977;
papers relating to halls of residence, including Prince's Gardens, development scheme, 1957-1962; acquisition, 1954-1960; architects, 1956-1976; occupiers of the site, 1860-1959; correspondence relating to Linstead Hall benefactions, 1963-1975, extension, 1976-1980 and building specification, 1964; correspondence concerning Southside Halls opening and maintenance, 1963-1966; papers concerning Weeks Hall, 1956-1975, including the opening, 1958-1959, structural failures, 1973-1975;
papers relating to the Mechanical Engineering Building, 1956-1960, including contract documents, 1956-1957; papers relating to the Physics Building, 1953-1975, including planning, 1953-1964, opening of the Blackett Laboratory, 1975; correspondence and opening programme relating to the Huxley building 1966-1976; correspondence relating to the College Block, 1958-1969; papers relating to the Science Museum Library, 1953-1962; college estates development plan, 1992 (IC).

Records of Improved Industrial Dwellings Company Limited, housing developer, 1863-1984. The records relate to company administration and to a much lesser extent, the tenants. The earliest registers in the collection, a register of Estates 1863-1896 is of particular interest as it includes estate accounts, block plans, mortality rates and coloured plans of dwelling type (c.1870). The records relating to Greencoat Properties Ltd and The Soho, Clerkenwell and General Industrial Dwellings Company Ltd include Directors Annual Reports and Accounts 1885-1976. The only register to name tenants is the Deposit Account Register, 1935-1970.

Records of the Child and Jersey families, including property transactions relating to properties in Norwood, Southall, Hanwell, Heston, Isleworth, and Saint George Hanover Square; sales particulars; tithe records; public utility undertakings; legal papers; estate papers; plans and rentals.

Records of J G Abraham and Company, property developers, 1880-1978. The records deposited include only a small proportion of the total bulk of records, but enough to represent the geographical location of the estates and the types of housing provided. The records consist of three deed books, a property register, ledgers and several plans. The plans particularly relate to developments in Leyton and Canning Town.

Housing survey, 1978, comprising completed questionnaires on households in Kaduna province, Nigeria.

Records of Kensington and Chelsea School District, 1876-1934, including minutes and agendas of the Board; Superintendent's reports; Education Committee, Finance Committee, Garden Committee and Visiting Committee minutes; papers concerning schools at Banstead and Hammersmith; financial accounts; inspection reports; annual reports; regulations, standing orders and instructions; general correspondence; correspondence with and orders of the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health; inventories of furniture at Marlesford Lodge; admission and discharge registers and creed registers for Marlesford Lodge and Banstead Schools; Superintendent's weekly returns and journals; registers of staff; buildings plans of Banstead School and Marlesford Lodge.

Records of the Kensington Welfare Association and other related welfare associations, 1936-1977.

Minute book of the Kensington Welfare Association, 1955-1966. Annual reports of the Kensington Association for Rescue and Preventative Work, 1936-1945. Annual reports of the Kensington Association for Moral Welfare, 1946-1966. Annual reports of the Kensington and Chelsea Deaneries Welcare Association, 1969-1977. Annual report of the Fulham Ruri-Decanal Council for Moral Welfare Work, 1949-1950.

Circular of the Deanery Association for Moral Welfare Work, 1955. Annual reports of the London Diocesan Council for Moral Welfare, 1959-1963. Annual reports of the London Diocesan Council for Wel-care, 1972-1977. Annual report of the London Council for Welfare of Women and Girls, 1965-1966.

Lansbury's personal and political correspondence; correspondence between Lansbury's biographer, Raymond Postgate, and others after his death; correspondence and papers on subjects of interest to Lansbury, including schools, the Labour Party, unemployment, agriculture, India, the 1931 Cabinet Crisis, and the Metropolitan Police; photographs, personal and official, and caricatures from the press; press reviews of Lansbury's published works; printed matter, including articles, pamphlets, speeches and leaflets by or concerning Lansbury, election addresses, and personal ephemera. Volumes 1 - 26 consist of the personal and political correspondence and papers used by Lansbury's son-in-law, Raymond Postgate, in researching The Life of George Lansbury, published in 1951. These papers were presented to the British Library of Political and Economic Science by Professor Postgate in 1950. Volumes 27 - 30 were added to the collection some time later, and volume 31 consists of three files of personal correspondence which were added to the collection in 1994 and one file found in 1999.

The archive consists of a typescript autobiography, written in 1976, entitled 'Auntie Gertrude's Life', 1889-1976.

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.

Records of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare, 1889-1968, including Council minutes; Executive Committee minutes; Finance Committee minutes; Ladies' Committee minutes; Men's Committee minutes; annual reports of the Church of England Moral Welfare Council; press cuttings; scrapbook and history "The Wel-care Story: 75 years of Christian Social Service in London".

Records of local branches of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare, including Ruri-decanal associations, Moral Welfare Councils, Associations for Moral Welfare, hostels, refuges and homes, and Preventative and Rescue Associations. Papers include financial accounts, annual reports and committee minutes. Also indoor case histories for Saint Agnes' Home, Hammersmith.

Records of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare, 1962-1993, comprising annual reports of the London Diocesan Council for Moral Welfare, annual reports of the London Diocesan Council for Welcare and annual reports of local branch associations in Westminster, Willesden, Brent, Camden, Hampstead and Hounslow.

Records of the London Homoeopathic Convalescent Home, 1899-1927, which comprise annual reports 1889-1900 and 1906-1927.

Papers of Tony Lynes, 1957-1997, including research papers, correspondence and publications concerning various fields of social policy and administration collected by Lynes in his own research and as advisor to various organisations and individuals. Includes: material relating to research conducted as an assistant to Richard Titmuss and as an advisor to the Labour Party on social security policy; notes and papers concerning Lynes' involvement with the formulation of social security legislation; research material concerning pension schemes and policy (both domestic and international), housing, immigrants, asylum seekers, taxation, unemployment and work undertaken with his wife, Sally; papers, correspondence, reports and publications from and relating to Lynes campaigning and research into the functioning and operation of the Social Fund, 1988-1991.

Papers of James Eugene MacColl MP, comprising files on subjects such as Africa, the Church, crime and delinquency, education, housing and planning, local government in theory and practice, and race relations; papers relating to the Labour Party and parliamentary matters; personal papers; writings; and correspondence with constituents.

Margaret MacDonald's correspondence, papers and lectures, on subjects including factory and shop legislation, the employment of women, housing, the Licensing Bills of 1901-1902, Sunday School teaching, vagrant children, women's organizations and women's suffrage, and the Franco-British Exhibition at Hammersmith in 1908. James Ramsay MacDonald's papers, correspondence and press cuttings on subjects including the financing and aftermath of World War I, Labour Party policy and his leadership of the party, working conditions, and women's education.

Administrative records, financial records, photographs.

Papers of Max Lock, 1936-1988, produced and collected by Max Lock and the Max Lock Group, relate to Lock's career as a planner and architect and to wider issues in planning, particularly after World War Two, and comprise working papers (including survey papers) and finished material.

They include correspondence; notes and card indexes; photographs (some aerial), slides, drawings, maps and plans; Bills, Acts, white papers and other official publications; books, articles, reports and other publications (some annotated); typescripts; press cuttings; and conference papers. The bulk of the material dates from the 1940s to the early 1970s. Material relating to Lock's career and projects within the UK includes papers on his time as a Watford councillor and his architectural practice in the 1930s, including a timber house he designed at Stanmore, Middlesex; Hull, 1939-1957, including conflicts between Lock and his superiors; Scalby, 1940-1941; Middlesborough, 1943-1970; Hartlepool, 1946-1970; Portsmouth, 1948-1973; Salisbury, 1949-1969; Sutton Coldfield, 1950-1967; Bedford, 1950-1971; Sevenoaks, 1954-1965; Aberdare, 1957-1959; Stratford (West Ham), 1957-1962; Hackney and Shoreditch, 1960-1971; Woodley, 1962-1969; Oldham, 1962-1971; Covent Garden, 1963-1971; Battle, 1964; Brentford and Chiswick, 1964-1970; Torbay, 1968-1969; Dunstable, 1968-1972; Greater London Development Plan Inquiry, 1969-1971, and other material on GLC planning and transport; Beverley, 1969-1972. Material on projects and visits overseas includes papers on Scandinavia, 1937-1939, 1946-1949; India, Pakistan and Ceylon, 1946-1955; the Netherlands, including the Town Planning Institute Tour (1946), 1946-1957; the Americas, including Brazil, the West Indies and the USA, 1952-1969; Italy, 1952-1970; the Middle East, including Iraq and Jordan, 1954-1958; Australia, 1959-1960; Aden, 1960-1961; Kuwait, 1961; Nigeria, including Kaduna and Maiduguri, 1962-1975.

The collection includes a large volume of accumulated material, 1944-1987, largely printed material by other authors, including other planners, planning bodies and architects, some from architectural and planning journals and from the national and regional press, on planning and related issues both in the UK and overseas, such as planning law and procedures; central and local government and administration; public inquiries; housing; historic buildings; urban development; industry and retail; transport infrastructure, including roads and ports; traffic, noise, and the environment; social and economic issues including employment, labour, and social class; population levels and density; public amenities and utilities; land use and open space; and statistical data. Some papers relate to the affairs, including legal and financial matters, of the Max Lock Group; the architectural work of Max Lock and Partners; premises in Victoria Square, London; and the Max Lock Group Nigeria. Papers of or concerning Lock himself include his notebooks and other papers reflecting the development of his ideas; papers relating to publications and broadcasts; papers relating to professional bodies, including the TPI, RIBA, TCPA and UDAG; personal correspondence; photographs of him and his friends; papers on music and architecture, including lecture notes; articles about Lock, and his obituary in the Independent, 3 May 1988.

Papers of the Mental After Care Association (MACA), c 1886-1994, comprising the constitution and background, c 1886-1992; annual reports, 1887-1993; minutes, 1921-1982; financial records, c1880-1987; administrative records, 1891-c1990; records relating to homes and hostels administered by MACA, including property documents and registers of individual residential homes in the South of England, 1910-1992; case records, 1888-1986; publicity material, publications including Journal of Mental Science containing papers by Henry Hawkins, and ephemera including scrapbooks, c1880-1994; and photographs and audio-visual material, 1927-1989.

Records of the London Mission (West) Circuit, 1927-1987, including administrative files consisting of material relating to Grove House Hostel for ex-borstal boys, Gilbert Goodliffe House for retired men and women, Saint Luke's and Saint Mary's House for men and women, Emerson Bainbridge House and Hopedene House for Mother and Babies; legal papers concerning legacies; material relating to Kingsway Hall Church including press cuttings and 10 volumes of Orders of Service; slides and photographs; and 106 exhibition boards of photographs and a brief history of the West London Mission created for the centenary exhibition in 1987 along with location maps from 1832 and 1987 showing activities of West London Mission.

Baptism registers, 1948-1967; photographs of events, staff, buildings and residents of the Mother and Baby Home, [1940-1980]; and the text of a presentation written to accompany a slide presentation, providing details of the work of the Women's Fellowship with young mothers, 1971-1972.

Plans and elevations of Metropolitan Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Association buildings at Battersea Park, designed by architect Charles Barry Junior.

Records of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes. The minutes (LMA/4025/01) describe in detail the foundation of the Association, its aims and objectives. They document its development from a well-intentioned philanthropic organisation to a major provider of housing (12 substantial blocks by 1873). The activities recorded range from fund-raising to land acquisition and from collections of mortality statistics to estate management.

The visitors book (LMA/4025/03) records the important visitors to Old Pancras Road including Prince Albert, Lord Shaftesbury, Mr Gladstone, Charles Kingsley and Dr Southwood Smith.

These manuscripts have not been accessible to researchers before and are an exciting discovery. They were purchased with assistance from the Purchase Grant Fund administered by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Records of the Metropolitan Benefit Societies Asylum, later known as the Metropolitan Benefit Societies Almshouses, including:

Administrative Records include minutes of the General Committee 1828 to 1965, Donors and Subscribers half yearly meetings 1844 to 1861, Monthly meetings 1883 to 1902, the Management Committee 1959 to 1984, House Committee 1839 to 1973, and Building committees 1853 to 1866 and 1953 to 1955.

Finance Records consist of Annual Statements 1963 to 1981, Accounts both income and expenditure 1831 to 1983, Registers of Donors and Subscribers 1835 to 1981, Annual returns 1975, 1979, 1980, and a rent book for Balls Pond Road 1905 to 1930.

Printed Material contains publications such as rules of the Almshouses 1855, 1926 and 1955, The Almshouse Gazette 1965 to 1990, and typescript notes about the history of the MBSA, plans of the Almshouse 1956 to 1980's and some ephemeral items which include a Warden's Diary from 1945 and a schedule of deeds and documents handed to trustees on 17th December 1878.

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.

Papers of the Middlesex Memorial to King Edward VII Trust, including the trust deed of the Children's Fund; minutes, correspondence and administrative files relating to the Memorial Fund; and papers relating to Collington Manor, including plans of the house, Committee reports, budgets, and files relating to supplies, builders, equipment, doctors, staffing, and superannuation.

Records of the Area Probation Service, 1946-1984, including minutes and files of the Probation and After Care Committee relating to probation officers, staff appointments and personnel management, Home Office circulars, Court building programme, after-care hostels, approved probation hostels, bail hostels and community service. Also papers of the Petty Sessional Division, 1932-1982.

Records of the County Probation Committee, 1939-1969, including minute books, Staff Sub-Committee minute books, and Committee papers.

Please note that access to these files may be restricted.

Personal papers of Millie Miller, Member of Parliament. The collection consists mostly of official parliamentary incoming and outgoing correspondence when Miller held office as MP for Ilford North. There are also maps, plans, brochures, and newspaper cuttings relating to housing in Stoke Newington from the 1930s, and during the late 1950s when Miller chaired the Housing Committee. The correspondence files are varied. Letters include those from; interest groups, including the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the Socialist Medical Association, the Married Women's Association, the Association of Jewish Women's Organisations in the UK, and National Council of Women of Great Britain; local authorities, including Camden and Redbridge Borough Councils and Waltham Forest Area Health Authority; businesses local to the Ilford North constituency, including Thorn Electrical Industries Limited; Ilford North constituents; and letters from other MPs and Ministers.

The material reflects Millie Miller's keen interest in the promotion of women's rights, her membership on various committees and councils, delivery of speeches to women's associations, and her campaigns against girl slavery in the sex industry, battered wives, and sex discrimination. The material also details Miller's involvement in the World Conference of International Women's Year 1975. The correspondence touches on the Government's relations with Israel and the difficulties facing ethnic minorities, particularly Jewish communities. A large proportion of letters relate to Miller's constituency in Ilford North, Redbridge LB, with particular reference to housing, immigrants, and the views of constituents on local and national issues.

Notes compiled by RMG Moneypenny, on his retirement as Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, Housing and Social Services in Ceylon, for his successor, C B Kumarasinha, 24 Nov 1958; including copies of official papers relating to the Department; details of aid received under the Colombo Plan, and from the United Nations and its agencies, (International Labour Office, World Health Organisation, Food and Agriculture Organization, and UNESCO); papers on Labour Exchanges; notes on Industrial courts and Labour tribunals; papers on technical training; papers on trade unions; papers on communal disturbances and compensation and assistance to those in distress as a result of riots and papers on the National Housing Department.

Records of Morden College, Blackheath, including correspondence, financial statements, and papers relating to a dispute with the Charity Commissioners.

The archive consists of minutes, agendas, constitutions, circulars, working papers, publications, reports, correspondence, newsletters, and source material for publications including press cuttings and printed works from other organisations.

The archive was transferred to The Women's Library by two members of the group, both active in the late 1960s to mid 1970s. As a result, survival of records is not uniform and reflects their interests, rather than being representative of MIA as a whole. Some non-MIA material was also present: this has been catalogued as 5MIA/13.

This collection consists of the working papers of Muriel Smith. They cover the period of the 1950's to the late 1970's when Muriel Smith was working at the London Voluntary Service Council and the Home Office before her retirement in 1979.

The papers include Registry Files consisting of a series of subject files relating to the early work of Muriel Smith from 1952 to 1967 and include files on the Central Housing Committee, the Kenilworth Study Group, Housing, Playgrounds and the Association of London Housing Estates; Community Development Project Files which cover the period 1959-1974 and are mainly concerned with Muriel Smith's work at the Home Office; Voluntary Service Unit papers; correspondence including letters to Ilys Booker (a friend and fellow community development worker); papers relating to The North Kensington Project, Association of London Housing Estates, Tower Hamlets, and the Danilo Dolci Fund; and material produced by Ilys Booker relating to projects that Muriel Smith was also involved in.

Records of The Home for Aged Jews (later called Nightingale House and later Nightingale). This collection contains a wide range of records of the Home including minutes, a good set of annual reports, accounts, property and building records, printed material, photographs, film and videos. The archive gives detailed coverage of changes in care work and the life of residents and staff working at Nightingale. Of particular interest are the residents' admission book (1914-1933) and official 'diary' of events (1916) which are a good resource for tracing residents admitted to the Home, and the annual reports (1896-1997) which cover all aspects of the work of the Home including the early introduction of Occupational Therapy and other facilties for residents.

The majority of the archive relates to the later half of the 20th century, although there is a small survival of records from the early period of the Home and its former Charities (from 1879) before its move to Wandsworth in 1907. The minutes include a minute book of the Wandsworth Hospital Group's Jewish Home of Rest, Birchlands Avenue, Wandsworth. The property deeds include deeds of the Farmiloe family, lead and glass merchants of Rochester Row, Westminster.

Cassette copies and transcripts of recordings of unedited interviews assembled, 1972-1974, for the radio series 'Plain Tales from the Raj', including material not included in the broadcast programmes, and comprising c200 hours of material. The 82 subjects interviewed, including men, women, adults and children, lived and worked in India from the late 19th century to Independence (1947) and the interviews cover a wide range of civilian and military experience between 1876 and 1949. Military personnel range from the Commander in Chief of the Army in India to Army privates. Civil servants of various ranks and members of the business and commercial world, for example tea planters, are also included. Women mainly comprise wives and daughters, but also include a few nurses and governesses. The project covered the lives of the British in India and, although the material touches upon the effect of the Raj on India and its indigenous inhabitants, only a small number of Indians and Eurasians were interviewed. Subjects covered include accommodation and living conditions; daily routine; social life and recreation; health and sanitation; the effects of India postings on family life; relations between the British, other Europeans, Indians and Eurasians in social and work environments; events such as riots and earthquakes; the fauna and landscape of India; and political events. Full typescript transcripts (including inaccuracies in some cases) exist for most, but not all, of the recordings.

Records of the Parkwood Convalescent Home, including Trustees' minutes, 1913-1950; House Committee agendas and minutes, 1950-1963; annual reports and accounts, 1926-1946; general administrative papers, 1962-1966; plans of the home, 1891; deeds, 1890-1954; scheme of regulation, 1946; registers of nurses, 1949-1963; photograph albums, 1890-1944; certificate of thanks from the Red Cross and St John War Organisation for loan of premises during World War Two, [1945] and an extract from The Quiver: 'Refitting for the Struggle - A visit to the hospital convalescent home at Parkwood', 1895.

Records of the Peabody Trust, including corporate records, financial accounts, personnel records, property records, estate management, plans, photographs, publications, artefacts, seal books, clasp books and legal papers.

Records of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, including corporate records; financial records; correspondence; property records; tenants' records; plans; photographs; publications and artefacts.

Records of the Westminster Housing Trust including corporate records; financial accounts; administrative records; legal records; personnel papers; estate management papers; tenants' records; plans; photographs and publications.

Record of the Peckham Building Investment Company comprising deed of settlement, 4 May 1846, for John Tricker Conquest of Finsbury Square and Henry England of New Cross, to form joint stock company 'The Peckham Building Investment Company'. The deed records the name and business of company, names of subscribers, and of directors and officers, duration of company and mode of dissolution; with signatures and addresses of shareholders, and note of number of shares held by each.