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      THAMES
      CLA/037 · Collection · 1505-1994

      Records of the Port of London, Thames Conservancy and Thames Navigation, 1505-1994.

      Port of London records include administrative papers, committee reports, accounts, annual reports, bye-laws, papers of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the best mode of increasing the accommodation of the Port of London, 1796-1799, city tonnage dues cash books and canal boat registration.

      Thames Conservancy records include papers relating to the City's claim to the Thames soil, shores and bed; correspondence; reports; maps; acts and bills for the Conservancy of the River Thames; papers regarding the boundary stones marking the limits of the jurisdiction of the City of London; minutes of the Navigation Committee and Parliamentary papers.

      Thames Navigation records include accounts, bye-laws, petitions and reports.

      Also papers relating to fishing including conservation of fish stock and issue of licences; Parliamentary papers relating to the Thames and the Embankment; papers relating to maintenance of embankments and wharves; publications regarding various aspects of the history of the Thames.

      Corporation of London
      THAMES WATER PREDECESSORS
      GB 0074 ACC/2558 · Collection · 1582-1976

      Records of Thames Water predecessor companies (water supply) and local authorities (waste water management including sewer network), comprising the following:

      ACC/2558/CH: Chelsea Waterworks Company

      ACC/2558/DV: Darenth Valley Main Sewerage Board

      ACC/2558/EL: East London Waterworks Company

      ACC/2558/GJ: Grand Junction Waterworks Company

      ACC/2558/KE: Kent Waterworks Company

      ACC/2558/LA: Lambeth Waterworks Company

      ACC/2558/LC: Lee Conservancy Catchment Board

      ACC/2558/LL: London Local Authorities, Metropolitan Board of Works, London County Council and Greater London Council

      ACC/2558/MW: Metropolitan Water Board

      ACC/2558/NR: New River Company

      ACC/2558/S: Shadwell Waterworks Company

      ACC/2558/SR: Staines Reservoir Joint Committee

      ACC/2558/SV: Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company

      ACC/2558/TW: Thames Water Authority

      ACC/2558/WK: West Kent Main Sewerage Board

      ACC/2558/WM: West Middlesex Waterworks Company

      The records include corporate records and minutes, staff records, clerk's papers, records relating to water supply and distribution, technical reports, purchase records, property records, legal papers, plans, substantial series of photographs, glass plate negatives and lanterns slides (especially clean water: under ACC/2558/MW/PH, ACC/2558/MW/GP and ACC/2558/MW/L and sewer and waste water: under ACC/2558/LL/PH) and financial accounts and ledgers.

      Cataloguing of this collection has been funded by Thames Water. For more information about the cataloguing project which was completed September 2019, please see 'The Thames Water Treasure Trove' in 'Source' magazine, July 2016 (library reference: 24.217 THA). London Metropolitan Archives would like to thank Thames Water for funding the cataloguing of this collection.

      Chelsea Waterworks Company Darenth Valley Main Sewerage Board East London Waterworks Company Grand Junction Waterworks Company Kent Waterworks Company Lambeth Waterworks Company Lee Conservancy Catchment Board Metropolitan Water Board New River Company Shadwell Waterworks Company Staines Reservoir Joint Committee Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company Thames Water Authority West Kent Main Sewerage Board West Middlesex Waterworks Company
      GB 0100 KCLCA C/PP4 · 1881-1889

      The papers of Herbert Tomlinson, [1895-1904], comprise a printed volume of lectures delivered to the Royal Society by Tomlinson between 1881 and 1889, mainly concerning the effects of strain in materials and on viscosity.

      Tomlinson , Herbert , 1845-1931 , physicist
      Transport History Collection
      GB 1975 Transport History · c1811-1990s

      Papers relating to British railway history, especially that of the Great Western Railway (GWR) and railways in the London area, including books, maps, periodicals, timetables and several thousand photographs, c1920s-1980s. The books represent a strong collection on British railway history from earliest times to the early 1980s. The collection is less strong in periodicals but there are some substantial runs of major titles. There is a large collection of early railway maps including Airey and Railway Clearing House (RCH) maps; also Ordnance Survey maps and railway junction diagrams, and a substantial collection of Bradshaw guides, and working and passenger timetables, with the following archival material:

      Clinker Collection comprising notes and correspondence relating to the publications of Charles Ralph Clinker on railway history, particularly his Register of closed passenger stations and goods depots in England, Scotland and Wales, 1830-1977 (1963, revised 1978) and papers relating to his 1982 revision of the History of the Great Western Railway (London, 1964) by E T MacDermot; timetables, including those for the Bristol area, 1880s-1970s; General Strike, 1926; timetables during other strikes, 1920s; Great Western and Midland, various notices; Midland and South Western Junction Railway timetables, 1885-1947; operation instructions, GWR, London Midland and Scottish (LMS), London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), Southern Railway (SR); GWR working of stations, 1939-1965; LMS Railway train marshalling, 1943-1944; LMS timetables, 1890s-1940s; train arrangements during World War One and World War Two, 1914-1918, 1939-1945; papers relating to Broadgauge conversion; papers relating to Golden Valley Railway and Leominster-Kington Railway; ephemera relating to the Hay Railway, 1811-1977; Southern Railway plans for stations west of Salisbury, 1905- (mainly 1920s-1930s); Severn Bridge, General Manager's file, 1936-1943; logging of train performances, 1918-1927; books and periodicals, including rare and 19th century printed material on the early railway system, particularly guidebooks and station instructions.

      Garnett Collection, mainly comprising railway maps, particularly those produced from 1869 by John Airey, an employee of the RCH, and subsequently by the RCH itself, and also includes Ordnance Survey maps and railway maps produced by the various railway companies; catalogues and research notes by Garnett, including lists of maps prepared by Airey and the RCH, 1869-1960; Macaulay [Zachary] series for Great Britain, Ireland and London, 1851-1908; notes on tramways and railways in Port Talbot area; catalogues of station handbooks, 1851-1956, and railway junction diagrams (the Airey and RCH maps, station handbooks and junction diagrams were used to determine ownership of stations and junctions for commercial purposes).

      Research notes and photographs relating to Railway structures by Stuart Kear (9 vols); typescript of Chronology of the construction of Britain's railways, 1856-1922 by Leslie James; research notes by John Palmer on 19th century railway periodicals and the Eastern Counties Railway in its formative years; research notebooks and papers of Harold Vernon Borley on the history of railways in London, used for his Chronology of London railways (Railway and Canal Historical Society, Oakham, 1982).

      Locomotive and General Railway Collection, featuring several thousand photographs (photographer unknown) of British locomotives, particularly steam trains, 1920s-1970s.

      Wookey Collection, comprising several thousand photographs of British railway stations and signal boxes.

      Mowat Collection (of Professor Charles Loch Mowat, 1911-c1969), comprising 2500 photographs in albums of railway scenes, 1926-1969 (mostly 1942-1969, with a few before 1924). These are mostly of small and medium sized railway stations (trains are generally incidental), covering most of the United Kingdom, with particular emphasis on the GWR and Wales, with coverage of Somerset and Dorset, Midland and South Western Junction, Lincolnshire, Midland Railway in the West Country, Great Eastern, Glasgow and Edinburgh Suburban, Bristol Suburban, Ireland, and narrow gauge lines in the UK such as Ffestiniog, Penrhyn, Bishop's Castle and Ditton's Prior. He also covered south east of Manchester in 1962, including the Hayfield, Macclesfield, Buxton (London North Western and Midland) and North Staffordshire lines. The collection also includes Mowat's index to his photographs and 14 notebooks containing track diagrams and notes on the stations he photographed, c1920-1969.

      Clinker , Charles Ralph , 1906-1983 , railway historian Garnett , David , 1909-1984 , electrical engineer and railway historian Wookey , Chris , 1957-1989 , chemistry teacher and railway photographer Borley , Harold Vernon , fl 1982 , railway historian Mowat , Charles Loch , 1911-1970 , professor and railway photographer
      TURNPIKE ROADS
      GB 0074 ACC/0990 · Collection · 1757-1794

      Papers relating to turnpike roads, comprising copies of the 1766 Act to repair the highways between Tyburn and Uxbridge... and for amending the road from Brent Bridge over Hanwell Heath, through... Hanwell, New Brentford, and Ealing to the Great Western Road; and for lighting, watching, and watering the highway between Tyburn and Kensington Gravel Pits; a plan of the Great Road from Tybourn to Uxbridge and from Brent Bridge to Brentford; and the 1794 Act to continue the term and enlarge the powers of the 1766 Act.

      Unknown.
      TURNPIKE TRUSTS
      TP · Collection · 1728-1871

      Records of Bedfont and Bagshot Turnpike Trust, 1763-1850, including minutes; financial accounts; grants of land; correspondence; reports and Acts of Parliament.

      Records of Colnbrook Turnpike Trust, 1728-1871, including minutes; financial accounts; assignments; leases of tolls; conveyanves and other deeds; plans; correspondence; bonds and Acts of Parliament.

      Minutes of the Hampton and Staines Turnpike Trust, 1826-1859.

      Bedfont and Bagshot Turnpike Trust Colnbrook Turnpike Trust Hampton and Staines Turnpike Trust
      Voisin, C.D.
      GB 0096 MS 219 · 1735

      Engineering designs for Phillipe de la Hire of L'Academie Royale des Sciences, 1735.

      Voisin , C. D. , fl 1735 , engineer
      Walmsley, William
      GB 0102 MS 380599 · (1891) 1991

      Typescript copy, 1991, by Elizabeth Mardel of journal (1891) of William Walmsley, chronicling his journey to Zanzibar, everyday events, his impressions of customs and life in Zanzibar, including slavery, and his illness. The diary stops a few days before Walmsley's death.

      Mardel , Elizabeth , fl 1991 , grandniece of William Walmsley
      GB 0074 ACC/2558/WM/A · Collection · 1770-1976

      Corporate records of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company, including Board of Directors minutes; General Assembly minutes; Committee minutes; letter books and correspondence; legal papers; records relating to stocks and shares; files on Royal Commissions on water supply; and general files of the Secretary.

      West Middlesex Waterworks Company
      GB 0074 ACC/2558/WM/F · Collection · 1835-1954

      Property records of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company including trade rental books and rental volumes.

      West Middlesex Waterworks Company
      GB 0074 ACC/2558/WM/C · Collection · 1861 Nov-1891 Nov

      Staff records of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company, comprising correspondence relating to the appointment of JA Christie.

      West Middlesex Waterworks Company
      GB 0074 ACC/2558/WM/D · Collection · 1811-1906

      Records of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company relating to water supply and distribution, including Engineer's reports; Engineer's diaries for technical matters and workmen's time; Inspectors' technical diaries; revenue survey volumes; water supply and distribution volumes and files.

      West Middlesex Waterworks Company
      O/080 · Collection · 1709

      Copy of Court Orders of Westminster Commission of Sewers, 7 and 28 June 1709, allowing Mrs Katherine Akrode to make a drain from her house in Butcher Row, Saint Clement Danes, into the sewer there, 28 June 1709.

      Westminster Commission of Sewers
      GB 0074 CLC/162 · Collection · 1771-1813

      Records of the Westminster Paving Commissioners, comprising assignments and agreements relating to contracts and loans.

      Westminster Paving Commissioners
      GB 0074 CLC/L/EB · Collection · 1982-2008

      Records of the Worshipful Company of Engineers, 1982-2008, comprising an official printed copy of the charter of incorporation with an associated letter, court minutes, 1982-2008, and annual reports and accounts, 1984-2007.

      IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.

      Worshipful Company of Engineers
      GB 0096 MS 393 · 1643

      Manuscript letter, dated 22 February, 1643, containing an Order of the Committee of Revenue to Thomas Fauconbridge, Receiver of Crown Revenues, to pay 'the poore Pewterers or Hammer men' of London the sum of £100, due to them by virtue of an Act of Parliament. The letter is signed by members of the Committee for Revenue, including Sir Henry Vane, Sir Henry Mildmay, Francis Rous, William Ashhurst, Thomas Hoyle and Dennis Bond. With a receipt dated 27 February 1643, bearing 56 signatures or marks and the signature of Robert Leeson, Warden of the Worshipful Company of Pewteres.

      Committee for Revenue