Collection ACC/3560 - GOVERNMENT OF LONDON

Identity area

Reference code

ACC/3560

Title

GOVERNMENT OF LONDON

Date(s)

  • [1930-1945] (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

0.08 linear metres

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

This set of copies of photographs belonged to W.W. Sheppard, who taught in London 1925-1927 and 1939-1940. During the Second World War he was seconded to the RAF Education Service from the post of headmaster of The Grange boys' modern secondary school, Wirral, Cheshire. It is probable that he used the photographs as a teaching aid while he was Education and Welfare Officer at RAF Nassau. In June 1946 he was appointed Principal of the London County Council Emergency Teacher Training College at Leavesden, near Watford, Hertfordshire.

Archival history

ACC/3560 [1930-1945] Collection 0.08 linear metres Sheppard , W W , fl 1925-1946 , educationalist

This set of copies of photographs belonged to W.W. Sheppard, who taught in London 1925-1927 and 1939-1940. During the Second World War he was seconded to the RAF Education Service from the post of headmaster of The Grange boys' modern secondary school, Wirral, Cheshire. It is probable that he used the photographs as a teaching aid while he was Education and Welfare Officer at RAF Nassau. In June 1946 he was appointed Principal of the London County Council Emergency Teacher Training College at Leavesden, near Watford, Hertfordshire.

Received in 1995 (ACC/3560).

Photographs of London scenes relating to the government of London and the provision of education, healthcare and welfare services in the 1930s and 1940s. On the backs of the photographs there are typescript captions.

Scenes include the election of the Lord Mayor in the Guildhall; Corporation of London meetings held at Mansion House after Guildhall was burnt out by incendiary bombs; the Lord Mayor's Show; a policeman standing next to Big Ben; Tower Bridge and Pool of London; River Police boarding a coasting steamer moored in the Thames; Covent Garden Market with sacks and baskets stacked outside; County Hall taken from across the Thames; London County Council in session at County Hall; photograph of a sketch map showing location of London County Council housing estates; flats recently completed by London County Council; mains sewer with repair work in progress; map showing open spaces maintained by London County Council; view from Richmond Hill showing stretch of country beside River Thames maintained as an open space by London, Middlesex and Surrey County Councils; babies being weighed at a Child Welfare Centre; exterior view of Honor Oak girls' secondary school maintained by London County Council; cookery class at Carlyle School, Chelsea, a London County Council Girls' secondary school; lunch time at an elementary school; school medical inspection; evacuation of London mothers with children under five, with boy scout assisting; boys in dormitory of a school camp; balconies at the ends of ward blocks, North Eastern Hospital for infectious diseases, later St Ann's Hospital, Tottenham; ward with female patients suffering from tuberculosis at Pinewood Sanatorium, Surrey; verandah of Claybury Hospital, Essex, a London County Council mental hospital; exterior of New Malden Branch Library, Surrey; interior of children's library, New Malden Branch Library, Surrey; women using an ironing machine in a communal laundry.

Also photographs of wartime services including women entering a memorial hall used as a wartime restaurant by the London County Council Londoners' Meals Service; British Restaurant kitchen; Rest Centre for people suddenly made homeless; Air Raid Heavy Rescue Workers in action; patient on stretcher being lifted into London County Council ambulance; London Fire Brigade Headquarters; Fire Service dealing with a fire in Central London caused by incendiary bombs; Fire Service on River Thames fire float provided by the London County Council for dealing with fires in the docks.

ACC/3560/1-28: London and its Government; ACC/3560/29-36: Wartime Services.

Available for general access.

Copyright: City of London.
English

Fit

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. April to June 2009 Sheppard , W W , fl 1925-1946 , educationalist Libraries Photography Hospitals Construction engineering Building design Building standards Accommodation Housing War Council housing War damage Air raid damage Government Public administration Local government Local authorities County councils Educational institutions Schools Emergency services Fire services Open spaces Parks International conflicts War victims Social welfare Child welfare Health services Medical institutions People People by occupation Personnel Emergency services personnel Police personnel Policemen Migration Evacuation LCC , London County Council x London County Council The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London Mansion House , Corporation of London Corporation of London Richmond Hill Richmond upon Thames London England UK Western Europe Chelsea Haringey Tottenham Hertfordshire New Malden Surrey Honor Oak Lewisham Thames, river Kingston-upon-Thames Kensington and Chelsea Europe

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Received in 1995 (ACC/3560).

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Photographs of London scenes relating to the government of London and the provision of education, healthcare and welfare services in the 1930s and 1940s. On the backs of the photographs there are typescript captions.

Scenes include the election of the Lord Mayor in the Guildhall; Corporation of London meetings held at Mansion House after Guildhall was burnt out by incendiary bombs; the Lord Mayor's Show; a policeman standing next to Big Ben; Tower Bridge and Pool of London; River Police boarding a coasting steamer moored in the Thames; Covent Garden Market with sacks and baskets stacked outside; County Hall taken from across the Thames; London County Council in session at County Hall; photograph of a sketch map showing location of London County Council housing estates; flats recently completed by London County Council; mains sewer with repair work in progress; map showing open spaces maintained by London County Council; view from Richmond Hill showing stretch of country beside River Thames maintained as an open space by London, Middlesex and Surrey County Councils; babies being weighed at a Child Welfare Centre; exterior view of Honor Oak girls' secondary school maintained by London County Council; cookery class at Carlyle School, Chelsea, a London County Council Girls' secondary school; lunch time at an elementary school; school medical inspection; evacuation of London mothers with children under five, with boy scout assisting; boys in dormitory of a school camp; balconies at the ends of ward blocks, North Eastern Hospital for infectious diseases, later St Ann's Hospital, Tottenham; ward with female patients suffering from tuberculosis at Pinewood Sanatorium, Surrey; verandah of Claybury Hospital, Essex, a London County Council mental hospital; exterior of New Malden Branch Library, Surrey; interior of children's library, New Malden Branch Library, Surrey; women using an ironing machine in a communal laundry.

Also photographs of wartime services including women entering a memorial hall used as a wartime restaurant by the London County Council Londoners' Meals Service; British Restaurant kitchen; Rest Centre for people suddenly made homeless; Air Raid Heavy Rescue Workers in action; patient on stretcher being lifted into London County Council ambulance; London Fire Brigade Headquarters; Fire Service dealing with a fire in Central London caused by incendiary bombs; Fire Service on River Thames fire float provided by the London County Council for dealing with fires in the docks.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

ACC/3560/1-28: London and its Government; ACC/3560/29-36: Wartime Services.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright: City of London.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

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Finding aids

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London Metropolitan Archives

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Language(s)

  • English

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