Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Cloudesley Square, Islington, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and confirmations; Church services registers; records relating to staff; papers relating to parish boundaries and pastoral reorganisation; papers relating to the benefice; papers regarding the maintenance of the Church fabric and the Parish hall; financial records; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; papers relating to Holy Trinity School; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Jude, South Kensington, including baptism registers (1870 - 1982), marriage registers (1872 - 1964), banns of marriage registers (1873 - 2005), confirmations registers (1892 - 2006), marriage notice books (1946 - 1971), service registers/ preachers' books, annual vestry and parochial church meeting minutes, parochial church council minutes, finance committee minutes, electoral roll, annual accounts and balance sheets, ledgers, cash books, pew rent account books, pew rent registers, parish magazines, and a visitors' book.

Records of the parish of Saint Michael and All Angels, Ladbroke Grove, including baptism, marriage, banns and confirmation registers; church services registers; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; correspondence; electoral rolls; financial records and accounts; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Philip, Earl's Court Road, Kensington, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and confirmations; church services registers; inventories of church fixtures; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; papers of the Christian Stewardship society; photographs; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Michael, Lambeth, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and confirmations; registers of church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minute books; financial records; papers relating to parish schools, societies and charities; papers relating to the maintenance of church buildings including faculties and citations; maps of the parish and inventory of church plate and furniture.

Covering dates of parish registers: C 1912-2004 M 1936-1971 B 1931-1969.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary at Lambeth, Lambeth Road, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; church services registers; legal documents relating to property ownership; papers relating to parish boundaries and the creation of new parishes and tithes.

Records of the Overseers of the Poor; minutes of the Workhouse Committee and other papers relating to the Workhouse; minutes of the Select Vestry; poor rate books; records of poor relief payments; settlement examinations; removal orders (to and from Lambeth); bastardy examinations; register of poor-law apprentices; minutes of the Surveyors of the Highways.

Records of the parish of Saint Saviour, Brixton Hill, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and church services; papers relating to incumbents and other church staff; minutes of the Vestry and Parochial Church Council; administrative papers including correspondence; financial accounts; maps of the parish; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Augustine, Honor Oak Park, Forest Hill, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minute books; electoral rolls; financial accounts; papers of the Mothers Union; parish magazines; orders of service; photographs; papers relating to parish boundaries including maps; administrative papers including correspondence; and historical notes.

Records of the parish of Saint Paul, Forest Hill, including registers of baptisms, banns, confirmations and church services; papers relating to changes to parish boundaries; papers relating to the church building including faculties and architects' reports; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minute books; annual reports; financial records; and photographs.

Records of the parish of All Saints, Norfolk Street, Paddington, including registers of baptisms and marriages; Vestry meeting minutes and Parochial Schools Committee minute book.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, Paddington, including register of baptisms, marriages and church services; financial records; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; general correspondence; papers relating to personnel; papers relating to the benefice; correspondence and other papers regarding the maintenance of the church fabric; photographs; and parish magazines and newsletters.

Records of the parish of Saint James, Sussex Gardens, Paddington, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; minutes of the Council of Parochial Association; financial accounts; papers of church societies; records relating to parish schools and charities; photographs; parish magazines; papers relating to parish boundary changes including plans; and papers relating to the maintenance of the church fabric.

Records of the parish of Saint Saviour, Warwick Avenue, Paddington, including registers of baptisms, banns, marriages and confirmations; registers of church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; papers relating to the maintenance of the church fabric including committee minutes, faculties and plans; papers relating to Saint Saviour's School.

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Bishop's Bridge Road, Paddington, including registers of baptisms and marriages; preacher's books; registers of church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; parish magazines; press cuttings; papers relating to the parish schools; and faculties for alterations to the church building.

Records of the parish of Saint Mark, Cadogan Terrace, Victoria Park, including parish magazines; registers of baptisms, banns and marriages; registers of church services; lists of parishioners; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts and electoral roll.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, Bromley High Street, Bromley Saint Leonard, including regsiters of baptisms, marriages and burials; church services registers; Churchwardens' accounts; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; and minutes of the Managers of the parish school.

Records of the parish of All Souls, Langham Place, including registers of baptisms and marriages; preachers' books; financial accounts; plans, sketches and designs relating to changes to the church building; annual reports; parish magazines; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; orders of service; booklets; photographs; papers relating to the organ including music; papers relating to church social activities; and historical notes.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Cosway Street, St Marylebone, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns; church services registers; alms books; financial records; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; papers relating to parish charities and the parish school; legal documents relating to parish properties.

Records of the parish of Saint Luke, Oseney Crescent, Kentish Town, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; papers relating to the benefice; faculties, citations, architect's reports, plans and correspondence relating to the maintenance of the church fabric; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; papers of church societies and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Andrew, Hoxton, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns, church services and preachers; papers relating to the benefice; faculties and plans for alterations to the church fabric; financial accounts; and Easter Vestry and Church Meeting minute book.

Records of the parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; preachers' books; Churchwardens' records; land tax surveys; papers relating to church charities; Vestry minute books; Trustee minute books; correspondence; poor rate books; churchyard rate books; police rate books; highways rate books; settlement examinations; bastardy examinations; orders of removal from and to the parish; registers of apprentices; and papers relating to the workhouse including admissions.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, Haggerston Road, Haggerston, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; registers of church services; papers relating to the parish boundaries; minutes of the Vestry and the Parochial Church Council; log book of the parish school; photographs, and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Blackfriars Road, Southwark, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; papers relating to the burial ground; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; church services registers; maps of the parish; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; prints of the church interior and exterior; financial records; papers relating to parish charities and schools; and historical notes.

Also records relating to local taxation including poor rate books; church rate books; minister's rate books; church yard/burial ground rate books, highways rate books, watching and lighting rate books, sewers and draingage rate books.

Papers of Lady Margaret Church, Chatham Street, Walworth including registers of baptisms, banns and marriages; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial records; church services registers; papers of church clubs and societies; faculties; a history of the church; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalene, Messinger Street, Southwark; including registers of baptisms and marriages; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; papers relating to the maintenance of the church fabric including faculties; legal documents relating to parish properties; papers relating to the parish schools; photographs of vicars.

Records relating to the parish of Saint Saviour, Borough High Street, Southwark; also known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Saviour and Saint Mary Overy. This is a large and extensive collection and it is recommended that researchers consult the detailed catalogue. Summary of some of the major holdings:

• papers relating to the maintenance of the church building including bills for work and repairs done in the church, contracts, and faculties;
• token books;
• marriage licences and registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials;
• financial records;
• records of the Vestry including minute books and papers of the clerks;
• minutes of other committees;
• legal documents relating to parish properties including leases, agreements, conveyances and deeds;
• papers relating to legal cases;
• papers relating to poor relief including petitions to the wardens from the poor and sick asking for assistance;
• plans and drawings of parish properties;
• records of constables and other parish officers;
• records relating to local taxation including poor rates and church rates;
• papers of parochial charities;
• papers relating to Saint Saviour's Free Grammar School;
• registers of apprenticeship indentures;
• papers relating to Parliamentary elections for the Borough of Southwark, including lists of persons entitled to vote;
• papers relating to Borough Market;
• records of the parish of Saint Margaret, Southwark, including financial accounts and depositions.

Records of the parish of Saint Matthew, Salmon Lane, Limehouse Fields, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; registers of church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council meetings; financial accounts; electoral registers; papers of church societies; correspondence; papers relating to parish events; photographs and faculties.

Records of the parish of Saint Michael and All Angels, Northwold Road, Stoke Newington, including registers of baptisms and marriages; registers of church services, Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes, records of other councils and committees, and finance records.

Records of the parish of All Saints, Lyham Road, Clapham Park, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; church services registers; Parochial Church Council and Vestry minutes; papers of parish societies and clubs; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Ascension, Malwood Road, Balham Hill, including registers of baptisms, marriages and banns; registers of church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; Churchwarden's financial accounts and other financial accounts.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Union Grove, Clapham, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; registers of church services; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Immanuel, Streatham Common, including baptisms (1854-1965); marriages (1855-1966); banns of marriage (1854-1968); confirmations (1899-1900); church service registers (1859-1960); Vestry minutes (1860-1913); Parochial Church Council minutes (1913-1961); accounts (1931-1968); Immanuel Church School manager's minutes (1937-1961); cash books (1919-1943); correspondence, memoranda, plans and photographs.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, High Street, Putney, including registers of baptisms, marriage, burials and banns; registers of church services; curates' licences; Churchwardens' accounts and vouchers; papers of parish charities, church societies and the parish school; certificates of redemption of tithe rent charges; Parochial Church Council and other committee minutes; parish magazines; photographs; administrative papers; and papers relating to the restoration of the church and hall.

Also church rate books; church building rate books; Overseers of the Poor accounts and vouchers; Vestry Clerk's correspondence relating to poor relief.

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, West Hill, Wandsworth, including baptisms 1874-1950; marriages 1886-1952; banns of marriage 1891-1984; service registers 1877-1986; building committee minutes and fund book; faculties and licences for church; accounts, ledgers, cash books, churchwarden accounts and pew rent books; vestry minutes 1909-1921; Parochial Church Council minutes 1914-1982; standing committee minutes; plans. photographs and correspondence and memoranda.

Records of the parish of Saint John the Evangelist, Drury Lane, Westminster; comprising registers of baptisms and marriages; Parochial Church Council and Vestry minute books; and Churchwardens' financial accounts.

Records of several generations of the Whitehouse family of Islington. The bulk of the collection comprises a range of family correspondence, including letters from family living or travelling abroad in Pennsylvania and New York, USA; Calcutta, India; Wellington, New Zealand; and France. There are also letters from members of the family serving during the Boer War and the First World War; and letters detailing everyday civilian life in London during the Second World War. Other papers include school reports of Henry Whitehouse junior; papers relating to prizes for artwork; Dramatic Society papers; papers relating to Henry Whitehouse junior acting as Special Constable in Islington; papers relating to property in Hornsey and Islington; financial records and family trees.

Records of Stephen Green Limited, patent medicine manufacturer, 1780-1930. The records relate to proprietorship of the recipe for "Doctor Johnson's Golden Ointment" including legal documents and legal case papers; and records relating to the manufacture and sale of the ointment including financial accounts, order books, correspondence, sales summaries, testimonials, advertising, legislation involving patent medicines and history of the ointment. Also various family and estate records.

Minute book of the Amicable Debating Society, 1843-45.

Minute book of the City Clerical Society.

Papers accumulated by the late George Hammond mostly relating to the parish of Saint Sepulchre Holborn. The papers mainly comprise notices, correspondence, accounts and apprenticeship indentures.

Extracts from the vestry books of St Bride Fleet Street, 1653-1662, compiled late 19th century.

Records of G Street and Company Limited, bookseller, newsagent and stationer. The earliest records of the firm date from 1865. There are some earlier share certificates, 1825-54, but these appear to have belonged to John Leathwait, presumably a predecessor of Leathwait and Simmons, an advertising agency and newspaper supply firm, which Streets took over in 1918.

There are also a few records of subsidiary companies : EC Advertising Company Limited/G. Street and Co. (Provinces) Limited (Ms 33953); Streets Public Relations Limited (Ms 33954); Lionel Jackson and Partners (Ms 33955) and W Hopwood and Company (Ms 33956).

Papers of William Budd, 1829-1869, notably include publications by Budd on various diseases including cholera, typhoid and cattle-plague, 1852-1866; correspondence on cholera and typhoid, 1854-1869; certificates from medical institutions, 1829-1837; posters and public information on vaccination, [1829-1869] and an original lithograph portrait of Budd, published by A B Black, 1862.

The earliest material in this series consists of artwork commissioned by the Public Relations Department and its predecessors to be printed and distributed as posters and greetings telegram forms.

It includes designs for posters that were subsequently published under the publication references IRP and PRD and a number of adopted greetings telegram designs, it also contains many designs for both posters and greetings telegrams that were rejected.

The Public Relations Department approached many artists to produce designs for posters and greetings telegram forms and the series includes work from noted artists such as: Tom Eckersley, Frank Newbould, Edward McKnight Kauffer, John Nash, Jan Lewitt and George Him, Pat Keely, Barnett Freedman, Claudia Freedman, Rex Whistler, Margaret Calkin James, Edward Bawden and John Farleigh.

Later material includes artwork produced for a variety of purposes, such as publicity leaflets, press advertisements and designs for logos, vehicle livery, postal equipment and letter boxes.

Material consists of paintings and pencil and ink drawings, it also incorporates various techniques such as lithography and computer aided design. The series also contains a number of photographs and transparencies as well as annotated printed proofs for designs.

There are also a number of items relating to logo and logotype design and branding of the Post Office and its services, including artwork for the redesign of the GPO logo by MacDonald Gill in 1934.

Also included are a number of original illustrations produced by artist, Ben Maile in 1990 for inclusion in a Post Office commissioned book: 'First Post: From Penny Black to Present Day'.

Records of the parish of Saint Thomas, Maryon Road, Charlton, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; papers of church societies; papers relating to parish boundaries; faculties; and papers relating to parish schools.

Records of the Greater London Council, 1810-1988. Papers of the Architect's Department including the Building Regulations Division, Street Naming Section, District Surveyors, Education Division, Maintenance Division, Engineering Division, Structural Engineer, Historic Buildings Division, Housing and Town Development Branch, Technical Publications, Photograph Library, Plan Registry, Special Works Branch and Technical Policy Division; and papers of the GLC London Community Builders.

Papers of the Director-General's Department, including papers of the Administration Division, Finance Division, Personnel Division, Registry and Dispatch Division, Record Office and Library, Director-General's Board, Public Health and Safety Programme Board, Ceremonial Office, Entertainments Licensing Group, Ethnic Minorities Unit, Housing and Technical Services Committees, Industry and Employment Branch, Intelligence Unit and Policy Study Groups, Judicial Services Section, Majority Party Secretariat, Member's Support Unit, Minority Party Secretariat, Police Committee Support Unit, Professional and General Services Committee, Programme Office, Policy and Resources Group, Public Relations Branch, Public Services and Fire Brigade Department, Planning Transport and Industry Group, Scrutiny Committee, Secretariat, Scientific Services Branch, Town Development Committee and Women's Committee Support Unit. Also Committee agendas, minutes and papers, periodicals, and publications of the Council.

Papers of the London Fire Brigade administrative branch. Papers of the Public Health Engineering Department, including the Rivers Branch and the Solid Waste Management Branch. Papers of the Housing Department, including the Controller of Housing and Technical Services, the Directors of Housing, the Development Branch, Management Branch, Professional Services Branch, Renewals Branch and Thamesmead Branch. Papers of the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department including the Design and Technical Policy Branch and the Maintenance Branch.

Papers of the Medical Adviser's Department including the School Health Division, Health and Housing Division, Inspectorate, Mental Deficiency case files and Slum Clearance case files. Papers of the Recreation and Arts Department including papers of the Director of Development and Controller of Operational Services, papers of the General Landscaping Division, Housing Landscaping Division, Thamesmead Landscaping Division, Planning and Strategy Division, Architectural Design and Construction Division, General Practice Surveying Division, Entertainments and Fairs Division, Information and Publicity Division, Sports Division, Grants Branch, Open Space and Recreation Branch, Horticulture Division, Open Air Entertainments Division and Parks Department.

Papers of the Supply Department. Papers of the Transportation and Development Department, including papers of the Controller of Transportation and Development, papers of the Construction Branch, Statutory Division, Local Plans Division, Land Use Section, Programme Management and Resources Branch, Cycling Project Team, Chief Traffic Engineer, Traffic Control Division, Plan Registry, Traffic Management Section, Transport Planning Branch, Environmental Management Division, and Policy and Projects Division. Also Greater London Development Plan files, photographs, technical publications, and Greater London traffic surveys.

Also papers of individual members of the GLC including Ken Livingstone, GLC Leader 1981-1986; Paul Boateng, Chairman of GLC Police Committee, 1981-1986; Sir Horace Cutler, GLC Leader, 1977-1981; papers of staff clubs and societies and non-GLC publications concerning the Council and its work.

Records of the Harrow Local Board of Health, 1853-1894, comprising rate books and financial accounts.

Records of Harrow Parish, 1684-1927, including rate books; financial accounts of the Overseers of the Poor; valuation lists; minutes of Parish Officer's meetings; rules and orders for the Harrow Parish Workhouse; correspondence and minutes of the Vestry and sub-committees; papers relating to charities and papers relating to highways including rate books and financial accounts.

Records of Harrow Urban District Council, 1895-1934, including financial accounts; poor rate books and general rate books.

Records of Hendon Rural Sanitary Authority for Harrow Parish rural area, 1873-1894, comprising rate books.

Records of Hendon Rural Sanitary Authority for Harrow Parish, 1891-1894, comprising rate books.

Papers of Ralph Thrale, 1916-1984, mainly relating to the Royal Observer Corps, including: memoir 'Seaborne', co-authored by Thrale, detailing experiences of Thrale and a colleague while Royal Observer Corps 'Seaborne' volunteers posted to merchant shipping as aircraft identifiers, 1944; Thrale's Royal Navy certificate of service, 1944, and Royal Observer Corps certificate of war service, 1946.

The collection also includes publications collected by Thrale on related topics, including books: Aircraft of the fighting powers by H J Cooper and O G Thetford (Harborough Publishing Company, Leicester, 1941); Britain's wonderful Air Force edited by Air Cdre Peregrine Forbes Morant Fellowes (Odhams Press, London, 1942); Forewarned is forearmed: the authorized history of the Royal Observer Corps by T E Winslow (William Hodge & Co, London, 1948) and Observers' tale: the story of Group 17 of the ROC edited by H Ramsden Whitty, Commandant, 17 Group, Royal Observer Corps (London, 1950). Journals: The Journal of the Royal Observer Corps Club, Oct 1941-Nov 1942 and an incomplete run of Aircraft recognition Sep 1942-Sep 1984. Ministry of Information publications: The Battle of Britain, August-October 1940 (HMSO, 1941); Coastal Command (HMSO, 1943) and Combined Operations, 1940-1942 (HMSO, 1943). Also The Bystander's Fragments from France, volumes of cartoons by Bruce Bairnsfather detailing life in the trenches (numbers 1-6, c 1916-1918) and article, 'The reply to English propaganda' by Joseph Paul Goebbels, translated from German and reprinted from Völkischer Beobachter, 14 Jul 1939.

Papers relating to the property of the Pulsford family, copyhold of the Manor of Twickenham, including copies of vestry minutes and court rolls; surveyor's reports; and abstracts of title.

Advertisement label, pasted on cloth, for Nathaniel Gladman, trunkmaker, 17--.