Records of the Parish of St John the Evangelist, Stanmore, including registers of baptisms, confirmations, banns of marriage, marriages, and burials; papers relating to the consecration of the new church; papers relating to tithes; Churchwardens' records including accounts, endowments and papers relating to the maintenance of the church, church fabric and churchyard; Vestry meeting orders and minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes, reports and accounts; minutes and papers of various church committees; papers of the Overseers of the Poor including accounts, settlement orders, and apprenticeship orders; accounts of the Surveyors of the Highways; papers of church societies including the choir, Cricket Clubs, Church Lad's Brigade, Knitting Guild, Mother's Union, Friends of the Parish Church of St John and Saint John's Fellowship, Women's Fellowship and Junior Church; papers of various parish charities; papers relating to the National School; Great Stanmore Enclosure award and map; drawings, prints and photographs; parish magazines; and printed items including history and orders of service.

Covering dates of parish registers: Christenings 1559-1911; Marriages 1599-1989; Burials 1599-1934.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Crouch End, including registers of baptisms, marriages and church services; financial accounts of the Churchwardens; Vestry minutes; and Parochial Church Council minutes.

Also records of St Andrew's Mission Chapel, comprising register of baptisms and register of services.

Records of the parish of Saint Giles, Ickenham, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns of marriage.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, West Green, near Tottenham, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services; Churchwardens' financial accounts; Parochial Church Council minute books and financial accounts; papers of the Sunday School; parish magazines and published history of the church.

Records of Saint Mary, Finchley, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services.

Records of the parish of Saint Peter, Staines, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services.

Records of the parish of Saint Hugh, Northolt, comprising one register of church services.

Records of the parish of All Saints, South Acton, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; annual reports and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Martin, Lower Edmonton, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; papers relating to the consecration of the church; papers relating to the maintenance of church buildings and fittings; correspondence; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint James, Upper Edmonton, comprising registers of baptisms and registers of marriages.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Turnham Green, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns of marriage, and church services; Parochial Church Council minutes; Vestry minutes; Committee minutes; electoral rolls; financial accounts; and appeal brochure.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin, Harefield, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, burials, preachers and church services; financial accounts; Churchwardens' accounts, reports, and papers relating to the maintenance of the church buildings and the churchyard; Vestry minutes; financial accounts of the Parish Constable and the Surveyors of Highways; papers of the Overseers of the Poor including settlement, bastardy and apprenticeship orders, and papers relating to pauper lunatics; papers of parish charities and schools.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin, Bedfont, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, and church services; financial accounts; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; papers of the Overseers of the Poor; tax assessments; and papers regarding parish charities.

Records of the parish of Saint Alban the Martyr, Golders Green, comprising registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and banns of marriage.

Records of Saint Michael, Golders Green, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services.

Minute book, 1917-1920, and letter book, 1941-1955, of the Local Food Control Committee, Court of Common Council, City of London.

Records of the City Solicitor, Corporation of London, including briefs for cases at the Old Bailey, Guildhall Sessions, Mayor's Court and other courts, 1802-1851; papers relating to various suits regarding the Metropolitan railway, police regulations, Holborn Valley Improvement, oyster metage, Thames Navigation, the Coal Exchange, London Bridge approach roads and other subjects, 1800-1870; papers regarding the Corporation decision to demolish All Hallows Church, Lombard Street, including photographs, maps, plans, petitions, reports, parliamentary debates, press cuttings and journals, correspondence and information on the proposed merger with St Edmund the King, 1926-1937; papers regarding William Ward's bequest including his will and documents relating to the creation of the City of London School for Girls, 1881-1892; papers regarding the case of the Mayor vs Lyons Son and Company, 1929-1939; papers regarding the case of Potter Oyler vs the Mayor, 1937; report books, 1797-1798 and 1863-1945; order books, 1764-1778, 1797-1803 and 1834-1837; bills, fees, payments and receipts, 1671-1862; notes on crown prosecutions, 1791-1797 and 1835-1847 and extracts regarding the office of solicitor, 1755-1776 and 1803.

Records of the Housing Department, Corporation of London, including leaflets produced by the Department; reports on housing in the City of London, 1933 and 1965; Housing Department quarterly performance review, 1992-1995; notes on the history of the Corporation's housing activities, 1980; papers regarding artisan's dwellings built by the Corporation under the Artisan's and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875, including developments at Petticoat Square, 1884; papers regarding war damage repairs at Avondale Square, 1940-1945; papers regarding the Cosser Street redevelopment, 1970s; competition to design new housing at Golden Lane, EC, 1951-1952; illustrated brochure describing the Golden Lane development; papers regarding the William Blake estate, 1985 and 1994; notes taken during a case in arbitration between the Corporation of London and contractors, Ilford Housing Scheme, 1923-1924; report on housing for the aged poor at Isledon House, 1951-1953; papers regarding visit of Russian Housing Mission to the City of London, 1955; papers on the public enquiry regarding Shepherdess Walk, 1924-1925; lists of the numbers of houses in each ward, 1772, 1784 and 1858; demolition orders made under the Housing Acts, 1936-1949 and notices and orders regarding curious houses, 1761-1828.

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.

Records of Archbishop Tenison's Secondary School for Boys, including deeds of title; leases; minutes; financial accounts; reports; vouchers mainly for repairs and taxes; correspondence; property management; records of boys admitted, school work and functions; the will of Archbishop Tenison and notes on his life; and records relating to the parish of Saint Martin in the Fields.

Records of Christ Church Parochial Schools, Southwark, including deeds, leases, agreements and other documents relating to school property and the trustees; minute books of the Trustees and the Managers; financial accounts; letter books; school log books; and plans of the school buildings.

Records of Archishop Temple's Boys School, Lambeth, including deeds relating to the school; minute books; financial accounts; plans of the school; Headmasters' reports; registers of admissions; log books; staff meeting minute books; and list of headmasters.

School reports for Hetty Lee, 1887-1892 and Margery Lee, 1894-1896, pupils at the North London Collegiate School. Some reports bear the signature of Frances M Buss, Headmistress.

Records of the Spitalfields Great Synagogue, 1714-1922. The collection consists of deeds which trace the ownership and tenancies of the former synagogue from 1714 to the early twentieth century.

Records of the Society for the Relief of Distress, including minutes; reports; annual reports; financial accounts including papers relating to appeals, subscribers and donors; correspondence; and a scrapbook.

Records relating to the manor of Honeylands and Pentriches and the manor of Worcesters, Enfield; including court books and rolls for the Court Baron, Court Leet and Court of Survey; rentals and surveys; plans; and quit rents.

Legal documents, acquired by the solicitor's office in the course of their work, relating to the Manor of Stanwell, including: abstract of title for the Manor of Stanwell, parties: Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland and John, Earl of Dunmore, 1576-1725; abstract of title for lands in the parish of Stanwell, parties: Richard Willshaw and Lord Dunmore, 1677-1726; abstract of title for arable lands in the common fields of Stanmore, parties: Richard Blunt and the Earl of Dunmore, 1714-1737; abstract of tithe for copyhold lands in Stanwell, some belonging to the Earl of Dunmore, 1712-1780; and memorial of release for lands in the parish of Stanwell, 1736.

Also deed of company to establish a bank, to be called the 'Middlesex and Surrey Bank' at Staines, 1810; marriage settlement for lands in Staines, Highgate, Hornsey and Shenley Bury (Hertfordshire), 1844; copy of probate of will, regarding a house at Stamford Hill belonging to Thomas Gudgeon and copy of information at the Exchequer relating to a prosecution for evasion of stamp duty on bottles of soda water, 1813.

Papers of Lord Morris Rokeby, including mortgage for property in Edmonton, statement of debts and letters.

Records of the Drax Charity of Little Stanmore, comprising minute book of the trustees of the charity and account books.

Papers of the Manor of Hampton Court, including extracts from court rolls; leases; and legal documents relating to property ownership. Also extracts from court rolls for the Manor of Isleworth Syon.

Legal documents acquired by the solicitors in the course of their work; comprising a right hand indenture of a fine relating to land in the parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green, 1790; lease for premises on High Street, Tottenham, 1803 and exemplification of a common recovery relating to land in the parishes of Saint John at Hackney, Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green and Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, 1829.

Records of Saint Lawrence Church, Little Stanmore, mostly relating to glebe land including conveyances by bargain and sale and plan of Kate Field, Edgware. Glebe land was assigned to a clergyman as part of his benefice.

Papers relating to the Twickenham property of George Pocock; including plans; extracts from title deeds; and extracts from histories showing the descent of the estate.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including bond for £120 from Nathaniel Fox of Hoxton, starch maker, to Robert Jenner, citizen and goldsmith, of Foster Lane, London, 1629; copy of Court Roll, Manor of Ealing, relating to cottage with orchard called "The Rose", 1668; copy of will, dated 9 Oct 1694, and codicil, dated 28 Nov 1694, of John, Lord Ossulstone; indenture of fine for the manor of Durants alias Gartons in Enfield, 1723; indenture of fine for land in London field, Hackney, 1739; indenture of fine for land in Finchley, 1790.

Papers relating to property owned by the Bacon family, including copy of Act of Parliament to partition real estate devised by will of John Bacon of Friern Barnet containing an inventory of lands in question; notes of judgements in cases of debt brought against member of the Bacon family and accounts of debts and insolvency of Bacon family; legal opinion of liability of estates to creditors; agreement and conveyance for land in Muswell Hill.

Records of the Hawley family recording property transactions in Isleworth, Brentford, Ealing, Hanwell, Stanwell, Harrow Weald, Whitechapel and the City of London as well as outside London in Cambridgeshire, Kent, Shropshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire. The records include leases, fines, deeds, marriage settlements, releases and conveyances.

Papers relating to the Breakspears Estate in Harefield and the families who lived there, particuarly the Ashby family and Joseph Partridge. The papers include legal documents relating to property transactions in Harefield and maps and photographs of the Breakspears estate.

There are also papers relating to property transactions in other parts of Middlesex including Edmonton, Enfield, Ickenham, Ruislip and Teddington; and other counties including Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Bedfordshire and Berkshire.

Inspeximus by King Edward VI of a grant made by King Edward I in 1296 to the Prioress and Nuns of Saint Elena [Saint Helen's] of London and their successors, allowing a market to be held within the manor of Brentford every Tuesday and an annual fair to be held for six days from the eve of Saint Lawrence's day. 1553. Includes a portrait of the King in the initial E and a decorated heading.

An 'inspeximus' is a charter in which the person granting the charter avouches to have inspected an earlier charter which he repeats and confirms.

Records of the Combrune family, including extracts from the court rolls of Ealing Manor relating to premises in Brentford; agreements relating to the business of Blackwell Hall, factors and merchants; agreements relating to property in Ealing, Brentford and the City of London, and wills.

Records of the Dewell family of Brentford, relating to property in Old Brentford, New Brentford, Hanwell, Chiswick and Isleworth, including wills, leases, extracts from court rolls and legal opinion.

Papers, 1575-1841, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including deeds, leases and releases, conveyances, wills and probate, fines, bonds, particulars of sale, letters and extracts from parish registers; most relating to land in Edmonton, Standon and the City of London.

Records of the Mills family of Hillingdon, including court rolls for the Manors of Hayes, Northolt, and Northwood; documents relating to property transactions in Middlesex, Westminster and the City of London; maps; sales particulars; marriage settlements; wills; extracts from parish registers and insurance policies.

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.

Collection of research into the local history of Friern Barnet and environs, carried out by C.O. Banks. The papers include copies of court rolls, research notes, lectures, statistics, extracts from parish records, copies and extracts of wills, legal proceedings, notes on important buildings and people, newspaper cuttings, licences, geneaological notes, sales particulars, estate agents plans, reports, photographs, articles, books and pamphlets on the local history, and maps of Friern Barnet and surrounding areas.

Records of the Shorediche family of Ickenham, including historical research on the family covering the years 1324-1740 (compiled 1800?); and letters home from G D Shorediche, a sailor and gold miner, describing his adventures in India and Australia; 1845-1852.

One ledger, including index of clients, details of clients, orders and payment, 1763-1772.

Bond discharging the parish of Clerkenwell to provide for the maintenance and upbringing of a child, 1596. Also letter explaining how documents in the parish chest of Saint James Church, Clerkenwell, were being given away ca.1898 to make room when church was being repaired.

Records relating to property ownership, including lease of the Goldsmith's estates in East Acton and leases of premises in Chiswick, Enfield, Heston, Highgate, Sunbury, and Kilburn. Also marriage settlements and lease and release of plantations in Antigua and St Christopher's [St Kitts] with lists of slaves.

Papers relating to the Belmont Farm estate in Mill Hill, including deeds and other property ownership documents from various owners of the estate: Peter Hammond, his son-in-law Somerset Davies, and Sir Charles Flower. Also papers relating to Sir Charles Flower's expansion of the estates.

Plan of Dovecote Estate in Hornsey, 1882, with one sheet from the Ordnance Survey map of London, 1869-1872.