Records of the Committee of London Clearing Bankers, later known as the Committee of London and Scottish Bankers, including minute books of various Committees; papers relating to advertising, public relations, exhibitions and shows including photographs; papers relating to the banking information service; papers relating to bank staff associations and employment in banks; statistics; papers relating to banking arrangements for coal, gas, electricity, transport, iron and steel, shipbuilding, agriculture, industry, exports, small firms, students and the disabled; and papers relating to matters concerning banks including income tax, bank taxation, stamp duty, professional secrecy, nationalisation, security and fraud, hours of business, accounting procedures, legislation, investments, foreign currency and debit rates.

Restricted access to later records.

Financial records from the solicitor's practice of Edward Herbert Burkitt.

Records of Butterworth and Company (India) comprising agreements to publish books, with related correspondence.

Records of Butterworth and Company (Overseas) comprising financial records (journal, cash book and ledger).

Records of Coke Press, publishers of The Law Journal, including financial accounts, minutes of meetings, and correspondence.

Financial ledger of R J Acford Limited, legal printers.

Records of the publishers of the journal Justice of the Peace. The records comprise memorandum and articles of association, directors' and annual general meetings minutes, annual reports and accounts, agreements and correspondence.

The archives of Camp Bird Limited, mining company, consist of minutes, reports and accounts, financial material and correspondence. The archives include records of subsidiary companies including Tekka Taiping Limited; Grahams Trading Company Limited and subsidiaries and Davis and Soper Limited.

These records are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice to view.

Records of Grahams (Lisbon) Limited, general merchants and manufacturers, consisting of Board minutes, annual reports and a register of directors. The records are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.

The records of Tekka Taiping Limited, tin mining company, comprise Board and general minutes, cash books, journals, and ledgers. They are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice to access.

Records of William Graham and Company, comprising inventory of the Ponte Nova indigo printing works, Portugal.

Records of William Graham Junior and Company, comprising inventory of premises in Lisbon, Portugal.

Records of the Assam Frontier Tea Company Limited, including Directors' minutes; annual general meeting minutes; ledger and London trustees provident fund minute book.

Records of Empire of India Holdings Limited, comprising Board of Directors' minutes, annual general meeting minutes and a ledger. The records are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.

Minute book of the Oriental Rubber Company.

Records of Charles Barker and Sons Ltd, advertising agency, as follows:-
Mss. 19973-19979: Foundation and Constitution: memorandum and articles of association, certificate of incorporation, shares and related papers;
Mss. 19980-19981: Management: minutes and related papers;
Mss. 19982-20007: Finance: private accounts; annual reports and accounts, ledgers, journals, cash books etc;
Mss. 20008-20028: Administration: advertising record and order books, correspondence and miscellaneous papers, clients lists, newsletter of 1824, papers relating to Joint Stock Companies Directory, reports and scripts;
Mss. 20029-20034: Samples of advertising proofs;
Mss. 20035-20038: Scrapbooks of press cuttings relating to clients and bankers;
Mss 20039-20041: Press releases and miscellaneous press cuttings;
Mss 20042-20044: Printed information booklets relating to the company, presentation documents;
Mss 20045-20055: Personnel: records of appointment, remuneration, fees etc. of partners, directors and managers;
Mss 20056-20058: Property;
Mss 20059-20067: Miscellaneous: company history, personal and genealogical papers relating to the Barker family (see also Ms 19982).

Also records of Barker Family (MS 19982, 20007, 20065), 1764-1905. The records comprise private accounts, receipts and notices concerning life assurance policies and investments, and genealogical notes.

Records of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company Limited, comprising minutes of the board of directors; cash books; share ledgers; mining ledgers and shipping ledgers.

Records of William Coare (d 1830), wine and brandy merchant, including Coare's apprenticeship indenture and freedom of the City of London; sales ledger; bonds for money owed to Coare; lists of stock and inventories; correspondence; and legal papers.

Records from the Marine Department of the Edinburgh Assurance Company Limited, comprising registers of vessels, casualty books, loss report books, and salvage books.

Records of the Fine Art and General Insurance Company Limited comprising Board minute books, Committee minute books and general meeting minute books.

They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of the Mercantile Fire Insurance Company, comprising articles of association and minute books only. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Minutes of the Provident Clerks and General Guarantee and Accident Company Limited.

Minute book of the Scottish Metropolitan Life Assurance Company.

Records of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia London office, including ledgers, financial accounts and registers.

Records of William Coates and Company, wine merchants, consisting of order and voucher books and a book of tables.

Photocopies and microfilm copies of the correspondence of Philip and Bartholomew Corsini, Florentine merchants in London, 1568-1637. Also letters addressed chiefly to Francesco Venturini, merchant and banker, and his partner and successors, in Leghorn [Livorno}, 1663-1708, and to Angiolini and Frangini, merchants, and others, in Florence, 1701-1742.

Original items: only two original documents are held: a letter from Nov 1590 (CLC/B/062/MS22280A) and an insurance policy for a cargo (CLC/B/062/MS22281)

This archive relates mainly to the management of the coffee, coconut and cinnamon estates of A. S. Daniell and his son S. W. Daniell in Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]. The estates were called Gomera Tennai, New Gomera, Olooambelam, Imbulgaswaddie and Katooloya Tennei. The archive consists mainly of returns and reports from the local managers, Darley Butler and Company of Colombo, Ceylon, and of correspondence, accounts and legal papers. It also includes some family papers, comprising copies of wills and marriage settlements, accounts, bills and receipts, and a letter. Additional records of Daniell and Company, of separate provenance, are catalogued as Mss 11464-11465a.

Records of Drury Thurgood and Company, chartered accountants. The records entirely comprise financial records, including private ledgers, 1926-71 (Ms 29896) and clients ledgers, 1936-85 (Ms 29898).

Records of chartered accountants Reads and Company, entirely comprising financial records, including private and expense ledgers, 1924-69 (Ms 29901), clients ledgers, 1929-85 (Ms 29902) and salaries books, 1918-45 (Mss 29913-14). The earliest record is a dividend book, relating to the debts of businesses in liquidation and bankrupts, which dates from 1905 until 1954 (Ms 29910). Most of these records are indexed.

Records of Dyster, Nalder and Company, comprising catalogues of sales of skins, hides, furs, horns, hair and tallow; and an out-letter book.

24 HOURS NOTICE IS REQUIRED FOR ACCESS TO CERTAIN RECORDS

Records of E Dent and Company Limited, clock and watch makers. The archives in this collection are the surviving business records, covering mainly the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They are primarily the records of the Strand and Royal Exchange shops - only Ms 18026 and 23823-4 relating to M. F. Dent, 1856-1920, appear to have survived.

They are arranged as follows:
Ownership of company - shares, bonds (Mss 18005-7);
Administration - ledger, balance sheets and accounts, letter books; company management (Mss18008-15);
Business -
(i) stock books and manufacturing books (Mss 18016-26);
(ii) letters patent, specifications and related papers (Mss 18027-40);
(iii) Watch trial certificates, trade mark certificates (Mss 18041-2);
(iv) Drawings of watches, clocks, parts etc. (Mss 18043-52);
(v) Photographs of watches, clocks, parts etc. (Mss 18053-4);
Leases and agreements relating to premises (Mss 18055-64);
Miscellaneous mainly printed (Mss 18065-76);
Records of M. F. Dent (Mss 23823-4).

Records of the East India Company, comprising warrant for the delivery of tea; correspondence and receipts; account book of the ship "Ganges"; and papers relating to an investigation into the alleged sale of a staff position in the Madras establishment.

Records of the Reversionary Interest Society, including out-letter books; deeds of settlement; minute books; annual reports; administrative papers; papers relating to shareholders; financial accounts; actuary's reports; legal papers; property deeds; and notes on the history of the Society.

Records of Foster and Braithwaite, stockbrokers, which comprise ledgers, journals and subscription books.

Records of parish of Saint Saviour, Battersea, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; preachers' books, service books and church service registers; papers relating to the appointment of clergy; photographs of clergy; correspondence and legal documents relating to parish boundaries and land owned by the parish; papers relating to the benefice; faculties, plans and correspondence relating to the maintenance of the church, vicarage and church halls; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; administrative correspondence; financial accounts; papers relating to organisations related to the church including parochial charities, the parish school, Sunday School, and societies; newspaper cuttings; parish magazines and historical notes.

Records of the parish of St Anne, Bermondsey, including registers of baptisms and registers of marriages.

Records of the parish of Saint Crispin, Bermondsey, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns, confirmations and church services; faculties; preachers' book; parish magazines and Sunday School register.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Rotherhithe, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; papers relating to the clergy and church staff; map of parish boundaries; correspondence regarding the benefice; faculties and inventories.

Records of the parish of Saint James Church Bermondsey on Jamaica Road in Southwark. The records include registers of baptism, registers of marriages, registers of burials, registers of confirmations, a photograph, assignment deeds, patronage deeds, conveyance documents, church restoration accounts and papers, faculty documents, plans, notebooks recording inscriptions from the churchyard, letters, meeting minutes, annual reports, papers relating to re-arrangement, churchwardens accounts, school documents, parish magazines, historical notes, sermons, and service leaflets.

Records of the parish of Saint Luke, Bermondsey, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; and Parochial Church Council minutes.

Records of the parish of Saint John, Bethnal Green, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; registers of church services; Churchwardens' financial accounts; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; administrative files including general correspondence, reports and circulars; financial records; papers relating to Saint John's Schools; photographs of the church, church personnel, and church activities; papers relating to parish boundaries; and reports regarding the church building.

Records of the parish of Saint James the Great, Bethnal Green, including records of registers of baptisms, marriages and banns of marriages; church services registers; financial accounts; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; parish magazines; photographs; papers relating to the parish school; papers relating to the building including faculties, inventories and plans; and histories of the parish.

Records of the parish of Saint Matthias, Bethnal Green, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, banns, preachers and church services.

Records of the parish of Saint Thomas, Bethnal Green, including registers of baptisms and marriages, and minutes of meetings of the committee of St Thomas' National Schools.

Records of the parish of Saint Andrew, Peckham, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns, confirmations, and church services; minutes of the Parochial Church Council; Churchwardens' accounts; and papers relating to church societies and clubs.

Records of the parish of Saint Barnabas, Dulwich. There are substantial records which illustrate the basic activities of church life: financial records, records relating to the church fabric, parish magazines, and so on. But there are also records, such as those relating to the Infants' School, the Saint Barnabas Institute (a social club), the chaplaincy of Dulwich Hospital, the Christian Stewardship Campaigns, and the Mothers' Union, which show the additional commitment by the vicars and parishioners to community life and the established Christian Church.

The records include: registers of marriages and baptisms; registers of banns of marriage; marriage licences; registers of church services; papers of the Incumbent; papers relating to staff; papers regarding parish boundaries; papers relating to the benefice; papers relating to the Church fabric and the Church hall; financial records; papers of the Vestry and the Parochial Church Council; parochial charity records; and parish magazines.

Records of the parish of Saint Chrysostom, Peckham, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, and church services; parish magazines; papers regarding the assignment of the consolidated chapelry; papers relating to the church building including plans; papers regarding finances; papers relating to parochial charities.

Records of the parish of Saint Michael and All Angels, Camberwell, including registers of baptisms, marriages and church services; financial accounts; Parochial Church Council minutes; and minutes of Saint Michael's Group Ministry.

Records of the parish of St Mark, Cobourg Road, Camberwell, including registers of baptisms; registers of marriages and register of confirmations.

Records of the parish of Saint Silas, Nunhead, including registers of baptisms and marriages; church services registers; minutes of the Church Building Committee and papers relating to the building of the church; Vestry minutes; financial accounts; and parish magazine.

Covering dates of registers held: Christenings: 1896-1998; Marriages: 1904-1997.

Records of the parish of Saint Saviour, Chelsea, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, sermons, preachers and church services; papers regarding church finances including accounts; papers regarding the construction and maintenance of church buildings; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; annual pastoral letters and reports; and parish magazines.