The surviving records of the Corn Exchange Company include minutes, annual reports and accounts, financial material, correspondence, records of stockholders, records relating to the restaurant, and deeds, plans and photographs. The records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Minutes of the Debenture Corporation Limited, investment company.

Records of Farebrother, Ellis and Company, chartered surveyors. Records relate mostly to the fee farm rent business. The rentals are generally very detailed, giving the names of the landlords of the fee farm rents and of successive tenants (ie owners) and occupiers of each property, together with a description of the property, its reference number and the amount of rent payable.

Records of Flower, Ridehalgh and Company, stockjobbers, comprising financial accounts and book of stocks paid and received.

Records of Gillet Brothers Limited, discount bankers, including constitutional documents, ledgers, cash books, calculations relating to the firm's business, correspondence, circulars, deeds, notes concerning staff and offices, essays on discount banking by members of the firm, and histories of the firm.

Records of Aberdeen, Ceylon and Eastern Trust Limited, comprising minutes and directors' annual reports and accounts.

Records of Connaught Trust Limited, investment trust, including minutes of board and annual general meetings; and financial records relating to investments.

Records of Broad Street Estates Limited, including minutes of director's meetings; statements of account; financial records such as ledgers and cash books; rent rolls; and building plans.

Records including minutes; policy registers; annual reports; financial records including papers relating to shares and shareholders; agreements; correspondence; deeds; and reports; of predecessors and subsidiaries of the Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Company, as follows:

Guardian Assurance Company Limited;
Royal Exchange Assurance;
Albion Fire Insurance Company Limited;
Atlas Assurance Company Limited;
British Equitable Assurance Company Limited;
Caledonian Insurance Company;
Car and General Insurance Corporation Limited;
Car Services Limited;
Essex and Suffolk Insurance Company Limited;
Licenses and General Insurance Company Limited;
Liverpool and London Plate Glass Insurance Company;
Local Government Guarantee Society;
London and Manchester Plate Glass Insurance Company;
Manchester Assurance Company Limited;
Motor Union Insurance Company Limited;
National Provincial Insurance Company Limited;
Pilot Insurance Corporation Limited;
Reliance Marine Insurance Company;
State Assurance Company Limited;
United British Insurance Company Limited;
Westminster and General Insurance Company Limited;
Essex and Suffolk Accident Indemnity Society.

Records of Royal Exchange Assurance, comprising fire policy registers 1753-1870 (Mss 7252-5); inventories of works of art relating to policies 1822-1913 (Ms 10461); court and committee minutes 1825-1964 (Mss 16235-243, 16245-6, 16250); financial records including life journals and ledgers 1842-1943 (Ms 16251-4); accounts of affiliated companies 1908-1944 (Ms 31634); reports 1838-1957 (Ms 16246A-249); stock ledgers 1838-1927 (Ms 16233) and some staff records 1906-19 and 1927 (Ms 16244).

Mss 16232 and Ms 16234 have been returned to the depositor.

Please note that 24 hours notice is required for access to Mss 16232-54 and 31634.

Albion Fire Insurance Association Limited records comprise minutes of the board of directors and of annual general meetings. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Licenses and General Insurance Company Limited records comprise Board minute books and accounts. 24 hours notice is required for access to these records.

Local Government Guarantee Society board of directors minutes.

London and Manchester Plate Glass Insurance Company Limited board of directors minutes and annual balance sheets.

Board minute books of the National Provincial Insurance Company Limited.

Minutes of the Westminster and General Insurance Company Limited.

Records of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited relating to shares, including annual reports; share prospectuses; circulars to shareholders; financial records; correspondence; and papers relating to the Company's Stock Exchange listing.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of William Worsley, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. These account rolls relate to William Worsley's private and personal income and include not only the revenues of the deanery of St Paul's, but also those of his other ecclesiastical preferments and numerous other estates held privately by Worsley in London, Middlesex, Bedfordshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Berkshire.

Records of the London Stock Exchange dating from 1798. 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.

Records include transcript of the deed of settlement of the Stock Exchange; minutes of the General Purposes Committee and various sub-committees; minutes of the Trustees and Managers; minutes of the Council; minutes of the Federation of Stock Exchanges Committees; administrative records including legal papers, notices, circulars, letters and correspondence, petitions, and reports; financial records including stamp duty books, journals and cash books; applications for membership; members lists and registers; clerks registers; membership statistics; applications for listing; reports regarding applications for permission to deal; papers regarding opposition to listing of certain companies; papers of the Department for the Administration of Defaulters' Estates; specifications, plans and elevations of Exchange buildings; photographs of senior staff from 1886-1900; and a short history (in manuscript) written in 1932.

The manuscript archives of the Exchange are immediately available for research with the exception of the "Applications for Listing" (CLC/B/004/MS18000 and CLC/B/004/MS18000A) which are available by appointment only.

Financial records of the Aircraft Insurance Committee.

Records of the Building Society Indemnities Committee, comprising minutes.

Records of the Glasgow Rate and Salvage Association, comprising a deed of constitution.

Minute book of the Home Office Vehicles Pool.

Records of the London Fire Engine Establishment, including Committee minute books; out-letter book; annual accounts and registers of fires in London, which contain information relating to fires attended by the London Fire Engine Establishment, including date, time of discovery, place, name and profession of occupier, possible cause of fire, details of insurance, who raised the alarm, who put out the fire, which engines attended, and what was damaged.

Minute book of the London South African Insurance Committee.

Records of the National Conference of Industrial Assurance Approved Societies comprising copy of constitution, minute books, reports of the proceedings of general meetings, and related papers.

Records of Argonauts Investments Limited, comprising correspondence regarding loans and a map of land plots in Tanzania.

Records of the Borneo Company, as follows:
1.Deed of settlement; memorandum and articles of association: Ms 27174-7;

2. Board, AGM and committee minutes; annual reports and accounts: Ms 27178-90;
3. Secretary's papers: Ms 27191-8;
4. Accounts: Ms 27199-231;
5. Overseas operations records:-
   Agency and general agreements-Ms 27232-43;
   Java and Sumatra-Ms 27244-58;
   Malaya and Singapore-Ms 27259-76;
   Philippines-Ms 27277;
   Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei-Ms 27278-304;
   Siam-Ms 27305-29;
6. Investments, takeovers and subsidiary company papers:-
   Australia-Ms 27330-45;
   Canada -Ms 27346-50;
   Hong Kong-Ms 27351;
   Colombia-Ms 27352;
   Cuba-Ms 27353;
   India-Ms 27354-5;
   Java and Sumatra-Ms 27356-9;
   Malaya and Singapore-Ms 27360-400;
   Netherlands-Ms 27401-2;
   Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei-Ms 27403-19;
   Siam-Ms 27420;
   United Kingdom-Ms 27421-3;
7. Publicity and sales material: Ms 27424-6;
8. Staff records: Ms 27427-43;
9. Property records (London only): Ms 27430-6;
10. Centenary celebrations and notes for centenary history: Ms 27437-43;
11. Photographs: Ms 27444-66;
12. Branch records:-
    Sarawak: Kuching-Ms 27467-70;
    Siam: Bangkok -Ms 27471-4.

Records of Whiffen and Son Ltd, manufacturing chemists, 1752-1972, including history of the company; articles of partnership and other contracts and agreements; legal documents relating to property; correspondence; circulars; financial accounts; papers relating to shares and shareholders; stock records; newspaper cuttings; photographs; staff wages books and pensions papers; records relating to staff associations and sports clubs including minute books; reports on chemical manufacture, laboratory notebooks and chemical analyses; papers relating to sales; papers relating to imports and foreign suppliers; advertisements; registers of product labels; samples of packaging; rules, regulations and legislation regarding factories and safety measures; papers regarding the Second World War including war damage to factories and papers relating to staff on active duty.

Also records of Saint Amand Manufacturing Company Limited including ledgers, letter books and journals.

Assignment of a rent of two shillings each night of performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and free privilege for 21 years, between Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Linley and James Ford; and Anna Maria Ford.

Property records of the East London Waterworks Company, including rental ledgers; particulars of land purchases; notices and plans of intended purchase and schedule of deeds.

Corporate records of the London Bridge Waterworks Company, including Committee of Managers minute books; General Meetings of the Proprietors minute books; shareholders register; stock ledgers and transfer books and dividend books.

Records of the parish of Saint Stephen, Coleman Street, City of London. The collection includes the so-called 'Vellum Book', a record book chiefly of church property dating from 1466 (Ms 4456). The main archive dates from the 15th century and includes churchwardens' accounts from 1486, parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials, banns) from 1538, poor rate and tithe rate assessments from 1592 and vestry minutes from 1622.

Records of the parish of Saint Stephen Walbrook, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; preachers' books; Vestry minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes; Churchwardens' accounts; administrative papers; poor rate assessments and tithe rate assessments.

Records of the parish of Saint Swithin, London Stone, Cannon Street, City of London, including parish registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns, Vestry minutes, Churchwardens' accounts, deeds, poor rate and tithe rate assessments and miscellaneous administrative papers.

Records of the London Stone District Visiting Society, 1830-1854, 2 volumes: This was a charitable society for visiting families and distributing religious tracts, and also linen, bread, coal etc. Little is known about the society. An undated (but ca.1830s or 1840s) printed notice bound into Ms 3367 gives the secretary's name as J. C. Bowles and indicates that the society was run by a committee which met at 16 Walbrook. The records of the society were deposited with the records of the parish of St Swithin London Stone in 1938 and catalogued shortly afterwards by a member of Guildhall Library staff. They comprise a cash book 1830-54 (P69/SWI/D/02/MS03366) and a summary of visits and payments made 1831-43 (P69/SWI/D/03/MS03367).

Records of the parish of Saint Giles, Camberwell, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Churchwardens' account books; legal documents relating to parish properties; papers relating to parish boundaries including maps; faculties; orders of service; papers relating to tithes; and history of the church.

Records relating to the civil functions of the parish including records relating to the poor rates; papers of the Overseers of the Poor; removal orders from and to the parish; settlement examinations; bastardy examinations; Workhouse Committee minutes; workhouse admission and discharge registers; and other papers relating to poor relief.

Records of Goodhews Limited, brewers, consisting mainly of minutes from the meetings of the directors of Goodhews Limited and later the subsidiary companies of Goodhews (Holdings), Goodhews (Caterers), Goodhews (Inns), Goodhews (Castle Richmond) and the Cromwell Hotel (Stevenage) Limited. There are also papers relating to the formation of the Goodhews Company and the sale of R.V. Goodhews' shares in the 1930s.

Papers of George Henry Ross Goobey relating to his career in pensions fund management, investments and related advice to businesses and other organisations, attendance at conferences, benevolent and charity work, sports especially golf and his personal life.

The collection is particularly rich in documenting Ross Goobey's involvement in pensions fund management and investments and related institutes and associations.

LMA/4481/A: Records of Imperial Tobacco pension fund scheme and investments; speeches delivered by Ross Goobey in his capacity as pensions fund manager and director; papers and notes on investment subjects including copy of the paper "The place of Ordinary Stocks and Shares in the portfolio of large Funds"

LMA/4481/B: Records from Ross Goobey's executive directorship at Hill Samuel, including copy of conference presentation 'The Investment Scene'; correspondence and advice based on investment philosophy; reports from Western regional office and correspondence between Hill Samuel and Church of Ireland

LMA/4481/C: National Association of Pension Funds Limited (NAPF) conference programmes including draft copies of speeches and presentations delivered by Ross Goobey as both President and delegate; conference pack for 50th Jubilee conference in 1975; itinerary and reports from visit to South Africa; invitations and personal correspondence

LMA/4481/D: Papers relating to Christ's Hospital School including valuation schedules looking at disposition of investments in equity market; Founder's Day dinner programmes for 1958-1986; drafts of speeches and toasts delivered by Ross Goobey; information booklet on the history of Christ's Hospital; minutes of Property and Investments Sub-Committee meetings and papers of the Amicable Society of Blues

LMA/4481/E: Records of actuarial, investment and pensions bodies including conferences attended by Ross Goobey as speaker/delegate; organisations with which he corresponded as guest and advisor, and papers relating to his appearances in television and print media

LMA/4481/F: Papers of other businesses and organisations with which Ross Goobey was involved, including Livery Companies (mainly Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers and Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders); trade associations and institutions; sports organisations; clubs and charities. Correspondence with organisations including copies of talks given by Ross Goobey and associated notes

LMA/4481/G: Personal papers including general correspondence and household and family documents .

The collection includes ledgers showing pledges, stock and sales books; balance sheets and accounts; certificates of incorporation or memorandum and articles of agreement; correspondence covering a range of topics including the robbery of the Holloway Branch, letters from customers and matters relating to the closure or liquidisation of branches. There are also a series of auction sale catalogues (a family member was also a director of the London Bridge Auction Rooms) showing lots put for sale by Thomsons.

Records of the Proprietors of Battersea Bridge, 1842-1871, including a copy of a statement on tolls sent to the Committee of Metropolitan Bridges, copies of questions submitted on the Thames Navigation Act 1870 and on Albert Bridge, copy of an agreement and a copy memorial sent to the Examiners of Standing Orders for Private Bills of non-compliance with standing order.

Records of the Albert Palace Association Ltd, consisting of a prospectus for purchase of debentures and two newspaper cuttings relating to entertainment, 1884-1887.

Records of the Bowkett Benefit Building Society, 1864-1875, consisting of declaration by Secretary as to trustees and a mortgage of 89 Grove Road, Upper Islington.

Records of the parish of Saint Alban, Wood Street, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; register of church services; Vestry minute books; Churchwardens' records; poor rate assessment books; tithe rate assessment books; and account books listing charitable donations.

Records of the parish of All Hallows, Bread Street, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Vestry minutes; Churchwardens' financial accounts; poor rate assessments and tithe rate assessments. Some records relate to the united parishes of All Hallows Bread Street with Saint John the Evangelist Friday Street.

Records of the parish of All Hallows, Lombard Street, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns; preachers' books; registers of church services; Vestry minute books; papers of the Churchwardens; accounts, correspondence and papers relating to sequestrations; papers relating to poor relief; church rate assessments; poor rate assessments; tithe rate assessments; Vestry clerk's annual parish accounts; and other papers relating to parochial charities.

Records of the parish of Saint Andrew by the Wardrobe, Queen Victoria Street, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; preachers' books and service registers; Vestry minute books and notice books; Churchwardens' accounts and vouchers; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; Overseers' papers; rate assessment books, including poor rates and tithe rates.

Records of the parish of Saint Augustine, Watling Street, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; preachers' books and church services registers; Vestry and precinct minute books; Churchwardens' and Overseers' financial accounts; poor rate and tithe rate assessment books; and papers relating to the Estate trustees.

Records of the parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate date from the mid 16th century, but the archive also includes muniments of title from 1279. There are churchwardens accounts from 1547, vestry minutes from 1583, and poor rate assessments, tithe rate assessments and paving rate assessments from 1738. Parish registers include baptisms, marriages, banns, burials, preachers and church services. There are also papers relating to poor relief including the workhouse.

The series of rate books listed here are for the East Smithfield and/or City parts of the parish. East Smithfield was divided for rate collection purposes into Upper and Lower Precincts (UP & LP) and the extents of these precincts are given in the catalogue entries. The Upper Precinct included some of the Tower of London liberty until 1829 when separate rate books survive for the liberty (denoted as TL). St Katharine's Precinct appears not to have been included in any rate assessments for East Smithfield, apart from the paving rate books (Ms 2537) which include a small section of the Precinct. The City part of the parish is divided into five precincts, Houndsditch (H), High Street (HS), Tower Hill (TH), Barrs (B) and Covent Garden (CG). The extents of these precincts is given in the catalogue entries. The parish of Holy Trinity Minories does not appear in rate assessments for either the City or East Smithfield parts before its union with St Botolph.

Records of the parish of Saint John of Wapping, Green Bank, Stepney, inclduing registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; and records relating to local taxation including rate assessment books.

Records of the parish of Saint Matthew, Brixton Hill, Brixton, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; registers of preachers and church services; pew registers; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; Churchwardens' accounts and orders; papers relating to parish charities; papers relating to parish schools; plans of the church; maps of the parish; papers relating to tithes; papers relating to the churchyard, vaults and tombs.