Records relating to the management of bridges in London, 1664-1990, including petitions; reports; financial papers; legal papers; publications; press releases; papers relating to building and maintenance; title deeds relating to Staines Bridge and papers relating to proposals to build 'St Paul's Bridge', abandoned at the outbreak of World War One.

Also papers, 1868-1890, relating to the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Metropolitan Bridges which worked to free all bridges over the Thames and Lea from tolls, including papers on the Staines Bridge, Walton Bridge, Hampton Court Bridge, Kingston-on-Thames Bridge, Kew Bridge, Chingford Mills Bridge, Hellyer's Ferry Bridge and Tottenham Mills Bridge.

Records of the Enquiries into the Constitution of the Corporation Committee, Court of Common Council, including minute books and papers, 1837-1840; minute book and papers, including Police Rate Assessments and returns of wards with lists of municipal election voters, 1852-1853 and minute books and papers, 1856-1861.

Minutes and papers of various small, temporary committees of the Court of Common Council, 1668-1990. The Committees were formed to consider various matters including the election, remuneration and behaviour of officers and staff of the Corporation of London; consideration of the effects of various Parliamentary Acts and Bills; the historical rights and privileges of the City of London; the provision of cemeteries; parishes and benefices; metage, particularly of coal and corn; the reform of the Corporation; markets; building maintenance and preservation; debtors, insolvency and bankruptcy; the Gresham bequest; food imports; transport including railways; presentation of the Freedom to William Pitt; militia; the erection of monuments and statues; the funerals of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and Horatio, Viscount Nelson; legacies and bequests; care of orphans; poor relief; estate management; schools and libraries; City finances; water and gas supply; Port of London; sewers; regulation of trade and licensing; street lighting; prisons and compters.

Also papers relating to the general organisation and running of Court of Common Council Committees, including the decision to allow public and press to attend certain committees, 1974; lists of committee Chairmen and members for various years; committee books, 1690-1727 and 1813-1990; bills books, 1873-1884; notes on the historical powers of the Court of Common Council and the Court of Aldermen and notes on the streamlining of committees and administration, 1835-1965.

Records of Rates Finance Committee, Court of Common Council, comprising minutes, 1936-1968 and committee papers, 1948-1957. Please note that minutes 1930-1936 were destroyed by enemy action.

Assessed tax accounts for the New Brentford and Uxbridge Districts.

Financial records of the Blue Nile Brewery Limited, including balance sheets; correspondence; budgets; cash forecasts; remuneration file; excise duty files and financial accounts.

Papers of Parnel Seaton, including letters, receipts for payments, assessments for tax on houses, servants, carriages, horses, dogs, hair powder and armorial bearnings, and certificates of assessments for property in Twickenham.

Records of the Bullock family, including title deeds to properties in Stanwell, also Colnbrook, Horton, Langley Marish, and Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, 1366-1830; title deeds to Poyle Mills and related properties in Stanwell, 1612-1744; abstracts of title, 1612-1811; plans, early nineteenth century; Bullock family wills and settlements, 1708-1830; Bullock family accounts and business papers, 1704-1877; Bland family papers, 1770-1879; Stanwell Parish Records (church rate accounts and churchwarden's accounts), 1728-1854; Colnbrook Chapel Records (charity accounts), 1693-1850; and building leases, Fitzroy Square, 1793-1794.

Collection of historical records including papers of sheriffs of London and Middlesex 1623-1829; Paymasters General in Ireland 1693; Hampton Court 1663-1664; Royal Household 1773; King's Bench and Common Pleas 1716-1816; Central Criminal Court 1847 and Receiver-general of taxes 1801-1816; and Middlesex Sessions Records.

Also title deeds and other legal documents for premises in Acton, Ashford, Bedfont, Brentford, Chiswick. Cowley, Ealing and Brentford, Edgware, Edmonton, Enfield, Feltham, Finchley, Friern Barnet, Greenford, Hampton, Hanwell, Hanworth, Harefield, Harmondsworth, Harrow (incl. Kenton, Preston, Sudbury, Wembley), Hayes, Hendon, Heston, Highgate, Hillingdon, Ickenham, Isleworth, Kingsbury, Laleham, South Mimms, Pinner, Ruislip, Shepperton, Staines, Little Stanmore, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Tottenham, Twickenham and Twyford.

Notes on reviewing hearth tax assessments and bringing them up to date for a speedy return to the Clerk of Peace and subsequent transmission to Exchequer. A review of Hendon and Harrow on the Hill assessments are provided as examples.

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board Survey Department, including terrier volumes; registered dockets; files on land acquired; deeds registers; and files regarding rates assessments.

Records of the Bow Common Estate Company, 1901-1928, including memorandum and articles of association; sales catalogues; sales books; sales completion statements; bundle of papers and correspondence regarding Company's appeal against assessment for Corporation Profits Tax; statement of facts, history of Company and argument for its status as a holding rather than a trading company and therefore not liable for tax; legal advice relating to the tax status of the company and file of papers of Clerk W.W.T. Worth, including draft title deeds to properties, mortgages and rents, and details of sales.

Collection of documents relating to local government, including:

• Court book of the Liberty of St Martin le Grand;
  • Papers of Saint Saviour's Workhouse and the Whitechapel Union;
  • Resolution of thanks from the London School Board to the Corporation of London;
  • Tax assessments for the civil parish of Staple Inn and the Liberty of the Rolls;
  • Papers relating to the repair of roads in the parish of Saint Margaret Westminster;
  • Papers of the Tower Hamlets Libraries Department.

Records of the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London. The records comprise: official documents relating to the case of the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London v William Bulkeley Glasse and others; sewer rate books, 1771-1874; consolidated rate books, 1790-1908; and Metropolis Main Drainage rate books, 1858-1869.

Records of the City Chamberlain, Corporation of London, including return of pensions paid by the Corporation; receipts for rents and rates paid; papers relating to Freedoms of the City of London; assessments of subsidies; quinquennial valuation lists; papers relating to duties and rates.

Papers of the Coal Meters' Committee, including minutes, letter books, cash books, ledgers, books of notices and orders, ships' registers, records of coal exports and imports, and papers relating to the reorganisation of the Coal Meters' Office.

The records of the Coal Meters' Benefit Society, the Coal Meters' Provident Club and the Coal Meters' Office Protection Branch also form part of the archives of the Coal Meters' Committee. The Benefit Society records consist chiefly of minutes, resolutions touching amendments to the constitution, statements of account and correspondence relating to the Coal Meters' Benefit Society and Widows' Aid Fund. The Provident Club records contain a copy of rules, nomination form counterfoil book and account book. The Protection Branch records consist of annual reports, ledger accounts and cash books.

Records of Aldersgate Ward, Corporation of London, comprising minutes and accounts, rate assessments, presentments, precepts, beadles' circuit books, coal ticket books, petitions, and inquest papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Records of the Broad Street Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise wardmote minutes, accounts, rate assessments, presentments at inquests and details of officers, and other administrative papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

These records are exclusively for the part of Cripplegate Ward lying inside the City wall. The records comprise wardmote minutes, accounts and rate assessments. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Records of Farringdon Without Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise minutes and accounts, rate assessments and inhabitants lists, inquest and legal papers, title deeds and other administrative papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Records of the Porksoken Ward, City of London. The records comprise minutes and accounts, rate assessments and poll books, records of the volunteer association, rent roll and other administrative and legal papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Records of the Walbrook Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise Wardmote minutes and accounts, rate assessments and inhabitants lists, precepts and other administrative papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Records of the Diocese of London, 1467-1976, held at the London Metropolitan Archives include:

• records of the Archdeaconry of Hampstead (induction mandates, visitation papers)
• records of the Archdeaconry of Hackney (visitation papers)
• records of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex (assignation books, churchwardens' presentments, financial papers, calendars, probate books and probate inventories, caveat books, registers of wills, administration bonds, renunciations, warrants, original wills, visitation books)
• records of the Consistory Court of London (Acts of Court, assignation books, deposition books, Vicar General's books, registers of wills, original wills, matrimonial and testamentary cause papers, appointments of proctors, caveat books, Chancellor's notebooks, statistics)
• papers of various rural deaneries (Paddington, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green, Saint Pancras, Enfield, Chelsea, Tottenham, Shoreditch, Saint Marylebone)
• bishop's transcripts from the County of Middlesex and the County of London

• papers relating to tithes (maps, apportionments, altered apportionments, certificates of capital value, awards of exchange, redemption certificates).

  Records of the Diocese of London, 1306-1996, (held at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section but currently accessible through the LMA) include:

• Bishops' registers
• Vicar Generals' books
• Bishops' Act books
• Ordination papers and Ordination registers
• Licensing papers for curates, lecturers, institutional chaplains, parish clerks, midwives, physicians and surgeons, schoolmasters
• Marriage allegations and marriage bonds
• Parish files (of church deeds, consecration papers, plans and so on.)
• Faculty papers, by parish.
• Subscription books.
• Parish register transcripts
• Episcopal visitation records
• Records of jurisdiction:-
• Commissary Court records including court books, probate records, original wills, probate and administration act books, probate inventories

• Estate records for property and manors in the City of London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, Westminster and Worcester.

  Also papers relating to the Bishop of London's jurisdiction overseas. The Bishop of London was held to exercise responsibility for Anglican churches overseas where no other bishop had been appointed. He retained responsibility for churches in northern and central Europe until 1980, but his jurisdiction in southern Europe ceased in 1842 on the creation of the diocese of Gibraltar. In 1980, the Bishop of London divested himself of all overseas jurisdiction and a new diocese of 'Gibraltar in Europe' was established. Records include:-

• Ordination and licensing records
• Consecration papers and chaplaincy deeds
• Foreign register transcripts
• issues of the "Gibraltar and Fulham Diocesan Gazette"
• Foreign chaplaincy archives for the chaplaincies of:
  Adelboden, Switzerland
  Aix les Bains, France
  Alassio, Italy
  Archangel, Russia
  Athens, Greece
  Balestrand, Norway
  Biarritz, France
  Bologna, Italy
  Bordighera, Italy
  Boulogne, France
  Bucharest, Romania
  Bucharest and Lower Danubian ports, Romania
  Burgenstock, Switzerland
  Calais, France
  Cannes, France
  Cap d'Antibes, France
  Cartagena, Spain
  Champery, Switzerland
  Chantilly, France
  Corfu, Greece
  Davos, Switzerland
  Ferrol, Spain
  Florence, Italy
  Fray Bentos, Uruguay
  Geneva, Switzerland
  Ghent, Belgium
  Grindelwald, Switzerland
  Haarlem, Netherlands
  Hamburg, Germany
  Helsinki, Finland
  Hughesovka, Russia
  Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
  Leghorn, Italy
  Leysin, Switzerland
  Libau, Latvia
  Lisbon, Portugal
  Lucerne, Switzerland
  Lyons, France
  Messina, Sicily, Italy
  Minas de Riotinto, Spain
  Monte Carlo, Monaco
  Moscow, Russia
  Nantes, North West France
  Odessa and South Russia
  Oporto, Portugal
  Ostend, Belgium
  Palermo, Italy
  Pisa and Bagni di Lucca, Italy
  Ponta Delgada, Azores
  Riga, Latvia
  Rigi-Kaltbad, Switzerland
  Saas Fee, Switzerland
  St Servan, France
  Seville, Spain
  Spiez, Switzerland
  Stockholm, Sweden
  Stresa, Italy
  Syra, Greece
  Tamaris sur mer, Toulon, France
  Taormina, Sicily
  Trieste, Italy
  Ulvik, Norway
  Versailles, France
  Viareggio, Italy
  Vitznau, Switzerland
  Wengen, Switzerland
  Zermatt, Switzerland

Records of the Parish of Saint Giles, South Mimms, including registers of baptisms, banns, marriages, confirmations and burials; registers of services; papers relating to the benefice and tithes; Churchwarden's accounts, inventories and papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; Vestry meeting minutes; papers of the Overseers of the Poor including accounts, grants to the poor, settlement certificates and papers regarding the workhouse; minutes, accounts and correspondence of the Surveyors of Highways; papers of parish charities; papers of the South Mimms Church of England School; enclosure award for South Mimms; photographs of the church; minutes of the Parochial Church Council; papers relating to the maintenance of the church, church hall, vicarage and churchyard; and maps of parish boundaries.

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 Saint Mary, Hayes, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, confirmations and church services; papers relating to fees, tithes and endowments; Churchwardens' papers regarding the maintenance of the church fabric and church finances; Parochial Church Council minutes; papers of parish charities; papers of the church bell ringers and maps.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin, Perivale, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage, graves and church services; Vestry minute book; Parochial Church Council minute books; plans of churchyard showing graves; Perivale Committee minute books; annual reports; newsletters and parish magazines; faculties; papers relating to tithes.

Records of the parish of Saint Matthew, Ashford, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations, banns of marriage, and church services; Preachers' books; papers relating to parish boundaries and transfers; papers relating to tithes; Churchwardens' accounts; papers relating to parish charities; maps of the parish. Also architects' drawings and plans for Saint Matthew's Church, Saint Matthew's Churchyard and Saint Hilda's Church; and correspondence and Vestry minutes for Saint Benedict's Mission Church.

Records of the parish of St Mary Magdalene, Littleton, Surrey, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage, confirmation and church services; papers relating to the benefice and tithes; papers relating to church buildings including faculties, correspondence, plans and drawings and church inspection reports; papers relating to Saint John's Mission Hall including deeds and plans; Churchwardens' financial accounts; Parochial Church Council minutes; Overseers of the Poor rate books; and a history of the church.

Records of the parish of Saint Luke, Hornsey, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and confirmations; church service registers; correspondence and papers of the incumbent; papers relating to the appointment of church personnel; papers relating to parish boundaries including plans; papers relating to the benefice and tithes; material regarding the church building including faculties, plans, drawings, contracts and specifications, reports and surveys; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; parish magazines and photographs.

A letter from Reverend William Aubrey Phelp to James Wilson of Sneaton, Yorkshire concerning the payment of parish rates.

Apportionment of rent charge in lieu of tithes in the parish of Hendon, with plan, 1741-1903.

Printed list of gross and rateable values of valuation lists for Metropolitan parishes and unions, 1875.

Records of Saint George the Martyr Poor Law Parish, 1835-1873; including minutes of the Board of Guardians; orders of removal; admission and discharge registers; and registers of children admitted.

Records of Saint Mary Newington Poor Law Parish, 1867-1874, comprising Board of Guardians minute books and Newington Sick Asylum District manager's minute books.

Records of the Southwark Poor Law Union (formerly the Saint Saviour's Poor Law Union), 1798-1933, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; byelaws and regulations; property documents including deeds; correspondence; settlement examinations; removal orders; report books; admission and discharge registers and creed registers; registers of children admitted and boarded out; register of boys sent to the Training Ship Exmouth; registers of children sent to the Hanwell Schools, Central London Schools District; financial accounts; staff records; plans made as part of survey for rating valuation of property in Saint Saviour's Union; and notices of marriage.

Records of the parish of Saint Pancras, Soper Lane, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Vestry minutes; Churchwardens' accounts; church rate assessments and poor rate assessments.

Records of the parish of Saint Sepulchre, Holborn Viaduct, City of London, including registers of baptisms, burials, marriages and banns; Vestry minutes; papers of the Vestry Clerks; papers of the Churchwardens; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; papers relating to parish poor relief including papers of the Overseers and the workhouse; tithe rate assessment books and poor rate assessment books.

The main archive dates from the 17th century (with parish registers from 1662), but the records also include deeds from 1537. The records of the area of the parish which lay within the City of London are distinct from those of the area which lay within the county of Middlesex. The records of the City of London area of the parish appear first in the catalogue.

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, Rotherhithe, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials. Also records relating to civil functions including paving rate book, poor rate book, and Workhouse Committee minutes.

Land tax assessments for the Liberty of Lambeth Dean, Brixton Ward and Norwood Ward, 1804-1910.

Records of the parish of All Hallows, London Wall, City of London. The earliest records are churchwardens' accounts, which date from 1455. There are parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials, banns, church services) from 1559, and vestry minutes from 1700. However, most of the records date from the 18th century or later, including poor rate assessments and tithe rate assessments.

Records of the parish of Saint Andrew Undershaft, Leadenhall Street, City of London, including parish registers (baptisms, burials, marriages and banns), financial accounts, rate assessments, overseers' papers including papers relating to the workhouse, deeds and rentals, faculties, drawings and plans, parish magazines, records of the Parochial Church Council, and records of charities and estates.

Records of the parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, City of London. The records include parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials, banns), rate assessments, Churchwardens' accounts, Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes, legal papers, deeds, plans and photographs, papers relating to the maintenance of the building, charity and school papers, and administrative records.

Records of the parish of Saint Benet Sherehog, City of London, including Vestry minutes; Churchwardens' accounts and other papers; church rate assessments; poor rate assessments; papers relating to parish charities; and papers relating to parish properties.

Records of the parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; preachers' books; Churchwardens' records; land tax surveys; papers relating to church charities; Vestry minute books; Trustee minute books; correspondence; poor rate books; churchyard rate books; police rate books; highways rate books; settlement examinations; bastardy examinations; orders of removal from and to the parish; registers of apprentices; and papers relating to the workhouse including admissions.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Blackfriars Road, Southwark, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; papers relating to the burial ground; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; church services registers; maps of the parish; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; prints of the church interior and exterior; financial records; papers relating to parish charities and schools; and historical notes.

Also records relating to local taxation including poor rate books; church rate books; minister's rate books; church yard/burial ground rate books, highways rate books, watching and lighting rate books, sewers and draingage rate books.

Records relating to the parish of Saint Saviour, Borough High Street, Southwark; also known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Saviour and Saint Mary Overy. This is a large and extensive collection and it is recommended that researchers consult the detailed catalogue. Summary of some of the major holdings:

• papers relating to the maintenance of the church building including bills for work and repairs done in the church, contracts, and faculties;
• token books;
• marriage licences and registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials;
• financial records;
• records of the Vestry including minute books and papers of the clerks;
• minutes of other committees;
• legal documents relating to parish properties including leases, agreements, conveyances and deeds;
• papers relating to legal cases;
• papers relating to poor relief including petitions to the wardens from the poor and sick asking for assistance;
• plans and drawings of parish properties;
• records of constables and other parish officers;
• records relating to local taxation including poor rates and church rates;
• papers of parochial charities;
• papers relating to Saint Saviour's Free Grammar School;
• registers of apprenticeship indentures;
• papers relating to Parliamentary elections for the Borough of Southwark, including lists of persons entitled to vote;
• papers relating to Borough Market;
• records of the parish of Saint Margaret, Southwark, including financial accounts and depositions.

Records of the parish of Saint Dunstan and All Saints, Rectory Square, Stepney, including registers of baptisms, banns, marriages and burials; tithes books; financial records; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; minutes of the Rural Deanery of Stepney; papers of parochial charities; newspaper cuttings; photographs and newsletters.

Records of the parish of Saint Botolph, Aldersgate. The main archive dates from the 17th century, but it also includes churchwardens' accounts from 1466, vestry minutes from 1601 and muniments of title from 1365. Parish registers include baptisms, burials, banns, marriages and church services. The archive includes poor rate assessments; tithe rate assessments; records of the extra-parochial liberty of Glasshouse Yard, which was in the northern part of the parish; and records relating to a number of parish charities, including Dame Anne Packington's School.

Records of the parish of Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate, City of London. The archive dates from the 16th century, with parish registers (baptisms, marriages, banns, burials) from 1558, churchwardens' accounts from 1567 and vestry minutes from 1616. Poor rate and tithe rate assessments are particularly well represented, with a number of extensive and comprehensive series spanning 1703-1946.

Records of the parish of Saint Clement Eastcheap, City of London. They include parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials and banns), vestry minutes, churchwardens' accounts, plans, papers of the overseers of the poor, poor and tithe rate books, and material relating to parish charities and estates.

Records of the parish of Saint Dionis, Backchurch, Lime Street, City of London, including parish registers (baptisms, marriages, banns, burials) dating from 1538; registers of coffins; Vestry minutes, correspondence and notices; financial accounts; papers of the Churchwardens; papers relating to parish poor relief; poor, church and tithe rate assessment books; and papers relating to parish charities and properties.