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.

Records of Cazenove and Company, investment bankers. The records are especially strong for financial records (including partners' and staff ledgers), and the company's late 20th century history, particularly the period around "Big Bang" in the 1980s, and leading up to incorporation in 2001. As well as partnership deeds, minutes, accounts and financial records, they include the papers of a number of partners, including Mark Loveday who was Senior Partner 1994-2001 and retired on the point of incorporation, and a significant amount of material gathered in the course of research for the company's history. The archives include copy material dating from 1823.

The archives are subject to a 30 year closure rule and are on 24 hours call. Access to some of the correspondence is subject to special conditions. For further details about access, please enquire with staff.

Records of Charles Hammond and Son, stockbrokers, comprising a journal of stock purchased and customer ledger, and papers relating to the history of the firm.

Records of the City Offices Company Limited, comprising annual reports and accounts, minutes, financial material, rent and tenancy books and title deeds. They are held offsite and require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of the Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited, including minutes, ledgers, journals, letters, and insurance registers. Also records of subsidiary and predecessor companies, including:

Accident Insurance Company;
British and European Insurance Company;
British General Insurance Company;
Edinburgh Assurance Company;
Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation;
Fine Art and General Insurance Company;
General Accident and Guarantee Company;
Guardian Plate Glass Insurance Company;
Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Company;
Imperial Live Stock and General Insurance Company;
Indemnity Marine Insurance Company;
Liverpool Victoria Insurance Corporation;
London Amicable Assurance Society;
London and Scottish Assurance Corporation;
Mercantile Fire Insurance Company;
New India Assurance Company;
North British and Mercantile Insurance Company;
Northern Assurance Company;
Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation;
Ocean and General Guarantee Company;
Ocean Marine Insurance Company;
Palatine Insurance Company;
Planet Assurance Corporation;
Provident Clerks and General Guarantee and Accident Company;
Railway Passengers Assurance Company;
Scottish Metropolitan Life Assurance Company;
Union Assurance Society;
United Kingdom Life Assurance Company;
Westminster and Kensington Freeholds Limited;
World Auxiliary Insurance Corporation;
World Marine and General Insurance Company.

Records of the British General Insurance Company Limited comprising Board minutes, Marine Department loss advice book and Marine Department register of losses.

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

Board minutes of the Guardian Plate Glass Insurance Company Limited.

Minute book of general meetings of the Liverpool Victoria Insurance Corporation. This item is held off-site and requires 24 hours notice for access.

Board meeting minutes of the London Amicable Assurance Society Limited.

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

Records of the Railway Passengers Assurance Company, including Board minutes, deeds of settlement, Committee minutes and general meeting minutes.

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

Records of the Union Assurance Society, comprising minutes of board meetings, general meetings, and committee meetings. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice to access.

Records of the World Marine and General Insurance Company Limited, comprising minutes of annual general meetings, Board meetings and the London Committee. The records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

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 Watney Mann Ltd, 1712-1968, comprising deeds and other legal documents relating to public houses owned by the company, including The Railway Hotel and "The Stag", Acton; "The Angel Hotel", Edmonton; The Park Hotel, Hanwell; "The Waggon and Horses", Tottenham, the Wheatsheaf Brewery, Twickenham and "The Case is Altered", "The Spotted Dog", the Stonebridge Park Hotel and "The Victoria", Willesden.

Records of the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund, including minutes; annual reports; rules; subcription books; cash books; retirement fund accounts; and distress fund accounts.

Records of the London Grosvenor Building Society, 1878-1984, comprising minutes; financial records; Secretary's Board papers; income tax papers; office files and advertisement.

Records of building societies taken over by the London Grosvenor Building Society, including:

Duchess of Kent Building Society (of Marcol House, 289 - 293 Regent Street): annual reports and various files Metropole Building Society: share ledgers, mortgage ledgers, minutes, cash books and other financial records and share certificates Middlesex Building Society: minutes and typed financial accounts Official and General Building Society: minutes, deeds and deeds register, financial accounts, office files and intention notices St Marylebone Central Building Society: financial records, correspondence and office files United Friendly Building Society: minutes, deeds registers, mortgage registers, financial records and office papers
*West Hampstead Building Society: minutes, financial records, share transactions and ledgers and deeds register.

Sales records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including sales books and ledgers; sales comparisons; gains and losses book; trade sales; sales to Bottling Department; registers of customers; papers relating to the duty on beer; and circulars book.

Corporate records of the Royal Brewery Brentford Limited, including Directors' meetings minutes; agreements; share records; registers of seals; articles of association; and annual reports and accounts.

Property records of Royal Brewery Brentford Limited, including quarterly rent journal; insurance register for licensed premises; premises repair order book; tenants' dilapidations ledger and tenancy agreement.

Records of Arthur Cooper (Wine Merchant) Limited, including correspondence; share transfers; papers regarding mergers and name changes; papers relating to financial matters; memorandum and articles of association and annual reports with accounts.

Records of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including correspondence relating to properties owned by the company; and papers relating to insurance policies.

Property records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including rent books; purchase of property book; estates summary; tenancy records; papers relating to building repairs; rating and valuations records; redemption of land tax certificates; insurance records; deeds; and register of plant and machinery.

Records of Chandlers Limited, brewers, including London committee minutes with agendas; papers about share transfers; list of ordinary shareholders, divided into London, South Africa and other registers; correspondence; memorandum and articles of association; financial accounts; reports and notes on accounts and plant; and forms of proxy.

Corporate records of H and G Simonds Limited, brewers, including Board minutes; letter books; records relating to shares and debentures; registers of agreements, seals, directors, directors' holdings and interests; Directors' reports and accounts; papers relating to financial schemes; papers relating to the acquisition and liquidation of other companies.

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.