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      LCC/AR/CB · Collection · 1836-1964
      Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

      Papers of the London County Council Architect's Department relating to Council Buildings: standard specifications, tenders and quotations, 1922-1940; materials, 1930-1937; air raid precautions at Council premises, 1937-1947; salvage of waste metals and other materials, 1925-1942; lists of Council premises damaged by enemy action, 1940-1945; papers relating to the construction of hospitals and other institutions, 1929-1947, including standard planning and points of construction, fire prevention arrangements and transfer of property under the National Health Service Act 1946; papers relating to the construction of museums, 1914-1938; papers relating to the construction of housing estates, 1898-1934; papers relating to the construction of schools, 1910-1939; papers of the Board of Education Departmental Committee on the Construction of School Buildings, 1925-1927; papers relating to the construction of playgrounds, 1911-1928; programmes of building work for the Children's Department, 1950-1960; standards for car parks, 1955-1959; papers of Housing Layout Committee, 1952-1958; papers of Architects' Housing Conferences, 1950-1959; development work on Housing type plans, 1951-1962; papers relating to homes for the elderly, 1934-1961; papers relating to halfway houses and hostels, 1952-1959; design of school furniture, 1949-1959; investigations leading to selection of the Hook, Hampshire, for site of new town, 1955-1959; papers relating to Basingstoke, 1952-1963; Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Committee on Official Architecture, 1913-1929; papers relating to work done by non-LCC architects and criticism of the official Architect, 1905-1920; papers relating to town development, including Bracknell, Corby, Hemel Hempstead, Letchworth, Welwyn and Hatfield, 1952-1964; papers relating to the development of the Royal Festival Hall, South Bank.

      Sample files relating to individual premises, comprising subject and policy files retained when a large number of similar files were destroyed, to illustrate the construction and maintenance works carried out at typical LCC developments. Examples include housing estates, schools and colleges, a workhouse, a hospital, a historic building, bridges and County Hall.

      Reports, including surveys by the Architect of properties transferred to the LCC, including hospitals, institutions, schools, children's homes, and ambulance stations, 1929-1930; surveys of general and special hospitals, 1934-1937; minutes and reports of Departmental Committee on Hospital Standards, 1930-1934; schedule of prices for repair to buildings, 1915-1919; register of construction works, 1892-1912.

      Visitor's Books for historic building Prince Henry's Room, 17 Fleet Street, 1906-1925; publication The Architectural Work of the London County Council by WE Riley, Architect to the Council, 1909; plans of demolished or disused buildings including Clerkenwell Sessions House, India Office Store, Chandos Street Fire Station, Tooley Street Fire Station, Clapham Fire Station, Bayswater Fire Station and Dulwich Fire Station.

      LCC , London County Council x London County Council
      GB 0074 ACC/0468 · Collection · 1869-1882

      Plan of Dovecote Estate in Hornsey, 1882, with one sheet from the Ordnance Survey map of London, 1869-1872.

      The Artizans, Labourers, and General Dwellings Company Limited
      GB 0097 ADA LEIGH HOMES · 1880-1952

      Papers relating to the activities of the British and American Ada Leigh Homes and Hostels in Paris, 1880-1952, including Directors' minute books, 1880-1953, which also contain some correspondence, receipts, lists of Directors and Council members, photographs of properties in Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine, and a portrait of Ada Leigh; minute books of the Council in Paris, 1899-1931; notice and agenda of the 77th Annual General Meeting, 5 Dec 1950; legal documents, 1924-1958, notably copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, with revisions and annotations up to 1933, a copy of a special resolution to change the name of the Association, 1924, agreements between the Land Law Company Ltd and Ada Leigh Homes concerning the tenancy of a room in 32 Mowbray House, London, 1936 and 1945, typescript lawyers' notes relating to the will of Ada Leigh, 1951, and a document concerning advice from the Charity Commissioners relating to Ada Leigh Homes, 1958; correspondence, 1940-1946, with the Rev W H F Couldridge, Chaplain of Christchurch, Neuilly-sur-Seine, concerning his expenses and pay following his evacuation from France following the German invasion of Paris; correspondence, 1945, concerning insurance policies and taxes on properties in Paris; correspondence relating to the sale of Christchurch, 1949, including copy legal documents in French, a statement on the history and purpose of the Ada Leigh Homes, and press cuttings; bound account books, 1923-1957, including a journal of daily expenses, 1923-1953, a ledger showing income and expenditure, 1933-1939, a cash book, 1939-1945, and a petty cash book, 1940-1957; insurance papers, 1931-1950, relating to the London Office and the Paris hostels, with details of damage to buildings during the German occupation of Paris; endowment papers, 1937-1947, namely deed of covenant forms for donations to the Ada Leigh Homes, and lists of contributors and contributions to the Endowment Fund, 1939; receipt books and bank books, 1927-1957, notably 7 books of receipt book stubs showing donations, 1948-1956, and several volumes containing returned cheques, 1947-1957; a note from the Charity Commissioners concerning the purchase of shares by Ada Leigh Homes, 1929; financial vouchers and receipts, 1945-1956; financial material relating to the Paris hostels, 1949-1950, including statements of accounts for the household at Wagram Hostel, and correspondence with banks and solicitors; general financial file relating to property held by Ada Leigh Homes, 1947-1950, notably typescript notes relating to the Christchurch Endowment Fund (taken from the 1932 Directors minute book), bank statements, bills and receipts from solicitors, and correspondence and estimates concerning the refurbishment of Christchurch Presbytery in 1947.

      British and American Ada Leigh Homes and Hostels in Paris
      GB 1556 WL MF 27 · 1933-1965

      Papers of the Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief, 1933-1965, detail the work of the CBF in shelters, hostels, internment camps, schools and foster homes, and also contain information on the finances of the fund. The collection notably include CBF minutes of its committees, finance, reports from individuals, and also a complete run of country files detailing the fund's work abroad; records of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and other relief organisations, 1941-1953; records of the Children's Refugee Movement and the Jewish Refugees Committee; files on various other organisations which were involved with the work of the CBF to a greater or lesser extent, including the Agudas Israel World Organisation.

      Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief x World Jewish Relief
      GB 0370 DC · [1906]-1991

      Papers of Donald Piers Chesworth, [1906]-1991, comprising family papers, including photograph album of scout camp attended by his father, Frederick Chesworth, [1929-1936]; diaries of his mother, Daisy Chesworth, 1942-1981, giving brief entries; family holiday photograph album, [1936], stamp albums; files relating to Daisy Chesworth's death and estate, 1987;

      volume of notes and lectures relating to the National Fire Service, [1939-1945];
      papers relating to Chesworth's standing as a Parliamentary candidate, 1945, 1950, including posters, press cuttings, photographs with Clement Attlee campaigning in Rangoon; notes on rallies of Oswald Mosley (standing for Parliament in North Kensington), 1959;
      correspondence, reports and papers relating to Notting Hill housing and social conditions, [1957-1963], including interviews with tenants and local people, housing waiting lists, minutes of Notting Hill Social Council, 1963; population survey of Kensington, [1961]; rent tribunals; papers, probably preparatory notes for a book by Chesworth, "Anatomy of Notting Hill"; paper entitled "Community Struggles in North Kensington 1966-1974";
      correspondence and papers of the Association of Neighbourhood Councils, 1971, (a local government pressure group), particularly with MPs;
      correspondence, reports, photographs and papers relating to Chesworth's work with War on Want, 1963-1986, including the Mahiwa project, Tanzania, 1970-1973; Bangladesh War of Independence, 1971;
      minutes and papers relating to the World Political Action Trust, 1970-1973;
      reports and papers relating to wage fixing in Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika), [1961-1967]; reports and correspondence, 1962-1989, relating to the Sugar Wages Council and education in Mauritius; correspondence and papers relating to the assassination of the vice-president of Zanzibar, 1973 (Zanzibar Treason Trial);
      papers relating to the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Labour group, including correspondence relating to secondary schools, 1973; papers relating to his work in Tower Hamlets, including Tower Hamlets Training Forum, [1962], 1986-1989; Tower Hamlets ILEA Tertiary Education Council, [1987-1990]; Spitalfields Heritage Centre, 1983-1991; papers relating to the opening of the Thames Children's Beach (Tower Hill), [1980s];
      correspondence, reports and papers relating to Chesworth's work as Warden of Toynbee Hall, [1906-1987], including papers of the Management Committee, articles on the history of the Hall, annual reports, [1970-1988];
      papers and correspondence relating to his work as Consultant to Kumagai Gumi UK, 1987-1991.

      Chesworth , Donald Piers , 1923-1991 , politician and administrator
      GB 0074 ACC/2863 · Collection · 1922-1990

      Records of the Great Western (London) Housing Association, covering the association's creation in 1923 to its dissolution in 1990. They include a complete run of forty two volumes of minute books and annual reports.

      Great Western (London) Housing Association
      GUINNESS TRUST
      GB 0074 LMA/4656 · Collection · 1889-[2000]

      Records of the Guinness Trust (London Fund) including: Deed of Trust (1890) and other foundation papers, signed minutes (1889-1975, with notes to 1979), agendas (1893-1959), annual reports and accounts (1890-2007), statistical and other reports; annual statements (1892-1968); Secretary's general and estate development letter books arranged by estate (1889-1935); Ledgers (1889-1937), Cash books (1889-1977); site ledgers; Depreciation of Buildings Fund account book insurance policy register; leases and agreements (1897-1975); rent books (1891-1939) rent assessment books.

      Other records include schedules of property (1890-1954), bills of quantities, specifications and plans for estate buildings; a staff register listing details of service (1891-1968) (LMA/4656/E/01/001); printed notices, press cuttings (1889-2000), published articles and histories. Histories concerning the development of the Trust's work, personalities and life on the estates can be found in series LMA/4656/B/01/05, LMA/4656/F/01 and LMA/4656/F/03.

      Records relating to the Dublin Fund are contained in this collection within minutes and reports to circa 1903 only.

      Records relating to tenants can mainly be found in the registers of tenants (series LMA/4656/D/08) held for the following estates only: Brandon Street, Walworth; Draycott Avenue, Chelsea; Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith; Lever Street, Finsbury and Pages Walk, Bermondsey. In the same series there is also an estate book for Snowsfields, Bermondsey which provides tenant details. Also held is Secretary's correspondence concerning compensation cases relating to named tenants (1913-1936) (LMA/4656/B/01/03/001). Names can also be found in rate assessment books (LMA/4656/D/05/002-003) and in some reports to trustees (LMA/4656/A/04).

      Photographs of estates and events can be found under series LMA/4656/D/04 and photographs of management and staff under series LMA/4656/E/02. These photograph series have been digitised by LMA: please contact staff for further details.

      The records were catalogued in 2014-2015 as part of a project funded by The Guinness Partnership Limited for 125th anniversary since the founding of the Guinness Trust.

      Guinness Trust xx Guinness Trust (London Fund)
      GB 0074 P72/TRI · Collection · 1867-1939

      Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Bethnal Green, including register of marriages, register of baptisms, and minutes of the Committee for the Holy Trinity Hostel for Austrian Refugees.

      Parish of Holy Trinity, Bethnal Green , Church of England
      HORNSEY HOUSING TRUST
      GB 0074 ACC/1523 · Collection · 1933-1978

      Records of the Hornsey Housing Trust, including minutes of the Committee of Management; shares prospectuses; rules of the Trust; annual reports; and financial accounts.

      Hornsey Housing Trust
      HOUSING DEPARTMENT: FINANCE
      LCC/HSG/FIN · Collection · 1908-1934
      Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

      Records of the London County Council Housing Department relating to finance, 1908-1934, including estimates for the Becontree Estate and Old Oak Estate; loan sanctions for local housing operations by Bermondsey Borough Council, Poplar Borough Council, Wandsworth Borough Council and Woolwich Borough Council; subsidy registers, containing copies of reports and Council minutes fixing rents and giving estimated financial results, lists of houses subject to special conditions and copies of completion certificates, for the Becontree Estate, Castelnau Estate, Wormholt Estate, White Hart Lane Estate and Downham Estate.

      LCC , London County Council x London County Council
      HOUSING DEPARTMENT: GENERAL
      LCC/HSG/GEN · Collection · 1845-1971
      Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

      Records of the London County Council Housing Department, 1845-1971, including subject and policy files regarding the Becontree Estate; Old Oak Estate; National Housing and Town Planning Council; visits to estates and to the Housing Department Chart Room; correspondence; rents; Norbury Estate; Roehampton Estate Tenants Association; Watling Estate; White Hart Lane Estate, Tottenham and the Bellingham Estate.

      Selection of reports relating to the Housing of the Working Classes, bound into volumes; annual reports of the Housing Committee; Housing Manager's annual reports and statistical tables; Workmen's Trains: report of the case of LCC and others versus Great Eastern Railway Company and others before the Railway and Canal Commission of the High Court; evidence from the Inquiry into the Whitecross Street Scheme; Housing notebook containing particulars of the Council's Estates and Dwellings; lecture "Working Class Dwellings - the Rebuilding of the Boundary Street Estate" by Owen Fleming, assistant architect to LCC; lecture "Overcrowded London" by R.M Beachcroft, LCC alderman; speech "A Remedy for Overcrowding in London" by Henry Jephson; lecture "Slum Areas in London" by Cecil B Levita, chairman of the LCC Housing Committee; LCC Housing Progress Handbook.

      Plans and details of Standard Types of LCC Housing Accommodation; Acts of Parliament relating to housing functions and lodging houses; plans referred to in schemes made under the Housing of the Working Classes Act; map and guide to LCC housing estates; samples of tenant's handbooks; Code of Instructions for the Guidance of Superintendents of Estates; rent books and tenancy file of a model tenant on the Downham Estate; large poster inviting applications for tenancy of LCC dwellings, listing all estates with details of accommodation and rents; samples of completed application forms for tenancy of Council houses and flats.

      LCC , London County Council x London County Council
      LCC/HSG/PP · Collection · 1950-1965
      Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

      Housing Estate Plans from the London County Council Housing Department, 1950-1965, for the following estates:

      Ainsworth Estate, Hampstead

      Albion Street Areas, Bermondsey

      Ashburton Estate, Chartfield Avenue, Wandsworth

      Avebury Estate, Turin Street Site, Bethnal Green

      Avery Hill, Woolwich

      Barn Elms Park Site, Wandsworth

      Baxter Grove Areas, Islington

      Baylis Road, Lambeth

      Beckenham Hill Road, Lewisham

      Bellingham Estate Extension, Lewisham

      Besson Street Area, Deptford

      Blessington Road Site, Lewisham

      Boreham Wood Estate, Hertfordshire

      Regal Cinema Site, Bromley High Street and Bow Road, Poplar

      Bricknall Place areas, Lambeth

      Broadway Site, Hackney

      Bromley Road Extension, Lewisham

      Brook Lane Site, Greenwich

      Browning Estate, Townley Street Site, Southwark

      Burdett Estate Extension, Stepney

      Burlington Road Site, Fulham

      Butterswick Cottages, Hammersmith

      Campbell House Site, Woolwich

      Carnbrook Road Site, Greenwich

      Caroline Estate Extension, Hammersmith

      Castle House, Woolwich

      Cherry Garden Site, Bermondsey

      Church Crescent, Hackney

      Colebrook Row Area, Islington

      Cordelia Street, Poplar

      Creek Road Site, Lewisham

      Dartmouth Road Site, Lewisham

      Dodson Street Site, Southwark

      Dove Row Extension, Shoreditch

      East Dulwich Estate Extension, Camberwell

      East India Dock Road Site

      Eastman Street Site, Bethnal Green

      Elmington Estate

      Ember Street Site, Bermondsey

      Fayland Estate, Wandsworth

      Finchley Road Development, Hampstead

      Flamstead Estate Extension, Greenwich

      Frampton Park, Hackney

      Gauden Road Site, Wandsworth

      Giffrin Street Site Extension Reginald Road site, Deptford

      Glamis Road Site, Stepney

      Grove Street site, Deptford

      Hawgood Street site, Poplar

      Heathside Estate, Greenwich

      Hedgers Grove, Hackney

      Heston Street Area, Deptford

      Hilgrove Estate, Finchley Road, Hampstead

      Hilldrop Estate, Islington

      Hillside Gardens Estate Extension, Wandsworth

      Hobson's Place, Stepney

      Jackman Street site, Hackney

      Jamaica Road site, Bermondsey

      Kender Street Area, Deptford

      Kidbrooke Park Estate Extension, Greenwich

      King Henry Street, Islington

      Lancaster Street site, Southwark

      Lansbury Estate, Stepney and Poplar

      Lant Street site, Southwark

      Lawson Street Development, Southwark

      Lindley Estate, Camberwell

      Loampit Vale site, Lewisham

      Long Lane Areas, Bermondsey

      Longstaff Estate, Wandsworth

      Loughborough Street, Lambeth

      Lurgan Avenue Area, Fulham

      Malay Street Area, Stepney

      Maple Court, Acacia Grove, New Malden

      Mardyke Street Area, Southwark

      Maxey Road site, Woolwich

      Mill Gardens Area, Lewisham

      Milne Estate Extension, Woolwich

      Ocean Street site, Skidmore Street, Stepney

      Patmore Street site, Battersea

      Pearscroft Road, Fulham

      Pennyfields, Poplar

      Pitsea Street site, Stepney

      Polthorne Street Area, Woolwich

      Poplar High Street, Poplar

      Priory site, Wandsworth

      Prospect Estate, Farnborough, Hampshire

      Raglan Street Area, Saint Pancras

      Rapley Place, Bethnal Green

      Ravensbourne Estate, Lewisham

      Roehampton High Street site, Wandsworth

      Rowlett Street, Poplar

      Ruskin Park Estate Extension, Camberwell

      Saint George-in-the-East Hospital site, Stepney

      Saint Katherine's Way (Matilda House), Stepney

      Saint Luke's Housing Development, Old Street, Finsbury

      Saint Martin's Estate, Upper Tulse Hill Lambeth

      Saint Peter's Hospital site, Stepney

      Samuda's Wharf Site, Poplar

      Southend Lane Site, Lewisham

      Stockwell Gardens, Lambeth

      Stockwell Lane, Lambeth

      Stockwell Road Development, Lambeth

      Streatham Hill, Wandsworth

      Sydenham Hill Site, Lewisham

      Tabard Garden Extension, Southwark

      Teesdale estate, Bethnal Green

      Trafalgar Road Site, Greenwich

      Tyers Street Site, Lambeth

      Tyson Road Site, Lewisham

      Vauxhall Gardens Extension, Tate Street Site, Lambeth

      Wager Street Site, Stepney

      Wapping Estate Extension, Stepney

      Watermead Estate Extension, Lewisham

      Watson's Street, Deptford

      Welshpool Street Site, Hackney

      Weston Rise Site, Finsbury

      Whetstone Road Site, Greenwich

      White City Estate, Hammersmith

      Woodberry Down Estate, Stoke Newington

      York Hill Site, Lambeth

      Zangwill Road Sites, Greenwich

      LCC , London County Council x London County Council
      Howard de Walden Estates
      GB 2942 · 1724-2003

      Records of Howard de Walden Estates Limited (and its predecessors) comprising:

      minutes of General Real Estates Investment and Trust Limited (GREIT), 1919-1953; minutes of the Advisory Board, 1913-1919; Directors' attendance books, 1919-1953; minutes of Howard de Walden Estates Limited (HDWEL) 1953-1965; minutes of the Advisory Board, 1960-1966; attendance books, 1952-1955;

      financial records of GREIT including ledgers, 1920-1949; financial journals, 1919-1952; cash books, 1919-1943; petty cash books, 1920-1951; fees book 1913-1950; Register of members and share ledger, with details of mortgages and debentures, 1916-1953; share certificates, 1919-1955; correspondence relating to shares; Register of directors' holding interests, 1948;
      financial records of HDWEL including balance sheets and accounts 1953-1963; ledger, 1953-1963; financial journal 1953-1963; cash books, 1953-1963;

      records relating to leases including lease book, 1799; registers of leases, 1921-1961; register of settled property, 1922-1951; particulars of assignment of lease 1912-1990; lease receipt book, 1941;

      lease plan books and reference plans, c.1800-1960; block plans, c.1920-1940;

      Terms of Contract series, 1812-1962; Ground Plan series, 1812-1967; indexes to terms of contract and ground plans, c 1900;

      Particulars of licences granted, 1864-1967; Contract books, 1907-1947; GREIT Settled Estate contract books, 1912-1963; Contract register, 1909-1962; Register of seals, 1933-1946; Plans approved, 1924-1958;

      maps and plans of the Estate including Survey of Marybone and Barrow Hills in the County of Middlesex, 1708; plan of estate in the parish of St Marylebone belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland, also of an estate held by lease under the Crown of England situate in the parishes of St Marylebone and St Pancras, 1789; sheets from first editions of Richard Horwood's Survey of London and its environs, 1793-1794; copies of 36 block plans (now deposited at Westminster City archive), c.1805-1870 covering the current estate; manuscript plan of two plots of land in Wigmore St, c.1840; manuscript plan of Estate in Portland Town, the 'Primrose Hill Estate', 1843; plan and elevation of 2-24 Mansfield St, c1850; elevation of 12-19 Devonshire St, 1870; section and elevation of the Oxford Market by Charles Fowler, 106 Gower St, c.1880; Ordnance Survey maps of the Estate, 1894-1896; plan showing extent of the Estate south of Marylebone Rd, c.1910; plan of extent of Estate in Portland Town, c.1910; plans entitled 'Howard de Walden Estate Land Duties' showing different categories of leases, 'Howard de Walden Estate Land Duties' showing 999 year leases, 'Howard de Walden Estate' showing mortgaged properties, 'Howard de Walden Settlement' showing central portion of Estate, c1915; plan of estate in Portland Town, c.1912; plan of Estate, c.1920;
      and collection of 13,000 drawings relating to the estate c1890-present;

      Title deeds including deeds relating to: Four pieces of ground north of Cavendish Square, 1724, 1749; Devonshire Place and adjoining area, 1791, [1810], 1866; 23 Aybrook Street and adjoining area, 1939, 1916; 7 Devonshire Place, 1789-1870; Great Portland Street and adjoining area, 1919; 11 (formerly 8) Mansfield Street, 1860-1900; 278-288 Oxford Street, 16-28 Holles Street and 6 Cavendish Buildings, 1921; 17 Upper Harley Street, 1865; 14 Westmoreland Street and 49 Little Woodstock Mews, 1905-1929; [7] George Street, York Buildings, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1764-1788;

      other Estate records including Survey of the Marylebone Estate, 1737; Local Acts of Parliament 1770-1831; Certificates for redemption of Land Tax on the Estate, 1851; Marriage settlement, 1912; Index to deeds and other Estate documents, c.1920;
      news cuttings relating to the Estate, 1922-1925; news cuttings mainly on leasehold enfranchisement, c1929-1939;
      memos, accounts and reports relating to the reorganisation of the Estate, c 1920-1964; correspondence and reports on the reorganisation of the Howard de Walden Estates Ltd, 1963-1964; papers relating to the Cavendish Square car park, c.1960-1966; Scottish Life Assurance Co: Group Policies for Pension Fund, 1969, 1975; weekly rent collection books, 1984-1988, 1990-1995;

      photographs including images of 23 Queen Anne Street, c.1880, 1935, 1937, 1965 (31 photographs); Bedford Lemere photographs of the Estate and properties no longer on the estate, 1908-1917, and related correspondence, 2002; miscellaneous photographs, including the Oxford Market, 1875, 16-17 Holles Street, c.1903, Cavendish Square car park, 1968-1973, and Survey of the Howard de Walden Estate, c1981-1986 (3000 negatives and contact prints).

      Edward Harley , 1689-1741 , 2nd Earl of Oxford Henrietta Cavendish Harley , nee Holles , 1694-1755 , wife of 2nd Earl of Oxford Margaret Cavendish Bentinck , nee Harley , 1715-1785 , wife of 2nd Duke of Portland William Bentinck , 1709-1762 , 2nd Duke of Portland William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck , 1738-1809 , 3rd Duke of Portland William Henry Cavendish-Scott Bentinck , 1768-1854 , 4th Duke of Portland William John Cavendish-Scott Bentinck , 1800-1879 , 5th Duke of Portland Lucy Joan Ellis nee Scott-Bentinck , 1907-1899 , wife of 6th Baron Howard de Walden Frederick George Ellis , 1830-1899 , 7th Baron Howard de Walden Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis , 1880-1946 , 8th Baron Howard de Walden General Real Estates Investment and Trust Limited (GREIT) , 1918-1953 Howard de Walden Estates Limited , 1953 - (incorporated in 1963)
      GB 0098 I · Created 1860-1992 (ongoing)

      Records of South Kensington Development Schemes, 1936-1948, and Imperial College Expansion Scheme, including proposed schemes for South Kensington, 1936-1945; minutes of the Sites Committee, 1945-1950; plans and correspondence relating to the South Kensington site, 1944-1947; notes and plan of the Chemical Technology extension, 1949; new biochemistry building, 1950; purchase of various properties on Queen's Gate, 1937-1969, including war damage compensation; papers relating to the development of Silwood Park Field Station, Sunninghill, Berkshire, 1954-1957; minutes of the Dean's Committee, later Development Committee, 1953-1970, with correspondence (IA);
      papers relating to academic posts, 1953-1962, including new chairs, 1953; postgraduate bursaries, 1955-1957 (IB);

      papers relating to Imperial College Expansion Scheme, including press cuttings, 1946-1970; early history, 1950-1955; reports and plans for the expansion scheme, 1958; correspondence concerning the proposed demolition of the City and Guilds College building, 1955-1956; notes concerning future Student Union facilities, 1955;
      papers of Sir Patrick Linstead, Rector, including correspondence concerning the expansion scheme, 1944-1966, notably the retention of the Imperial Institute building, 1955; the Collcutt (now Queen's) Tower, 1956-1957; 170, Queen's Gate, 1957-1963; accommodation for departments, 1959-1965; new hall of residence (Linstead Hall), 1963-1969;
      papers relating to the demolition programme and architects, including correspondence with the architects, 1951-1963; plans and finance, 1953-1967; demolition programme, 1954-1957; Imperial Institute, 1955-1956; building programme, 1957-1958; use, restoration and occupation of Queen's Gate and Prince's Gardens, 1957-1962; Royal College of Science adaptations, 1957-1962; correspondence relating to the Roderic Hill Building, 1949-1962; Biochemistry building, 1964-1967; adaptations to the Royal School of Mines, 1958-1970; papers relating to the Falmouth Gates, including the Memorial fund, 1962-1965; design of the gates, 1964-1969; report and correspondence relating to landscaping, 1958-1967; souvenirs from the demolished Royal College of Science building, 1956-1977;
      papers relating to halls of residence, including Prince's Gardens, development scheme, 1957-1962; acquisition, 1954-1960; architects, 1956-1976; occupiers of the site, 1860-1959; correspondence relating to Linstead Hall benefactions, 1963-1975, extension, 1976-1980 and building specification, 1964; correspondence concerning Southside Halls opening and maintenance, 1963-1966; papers concerning Weeks Hall, 1956-1975, including the opening, 1958-1959, structural failures, 1973-1975;
      papers relating to the Mechanical Engineering Building, 1956-1960, including contract documents, 1956-1957; papers relating to the Physics Building, 1953-1975, including planning, 1953-1964, opening of the Blackett Laboratory, 1975; correspondence and opening programme relating to the Huxley building 1966-1976; correspondence relating to the College Block, 1958-1969; papers relating to the Science Museum Library, 1953-1962; college estates development plan, 1992 (IC).

      Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
      RLHSS · Fonds · 1834-2006

      Administrative records, financial records, photographs.

      Marie Celeste Samaritan Society
      LMA/4057 · Collection · 1927-1987

      Records of the London Mission (West) Circuit, 1927-1987, including administrative files consisting of material relating to Grove House Hostel for ex-borstal boys, Gilbert Goodliffe House for retired men and women, Saint Luke's and Saint Mary's House for men and women, Emerson Bainbridge House and Hopedene House for Mother and Babies; legal papers concerning legacies; material relating to Kingsway Hall Church including press cuttings and 10 volumes of Orders of Service; slides and photographs; and 106 exhibition boards of photographs and a brief history of the West London Mission created for the centenary exhibition in 1987 along with location maps from 1832 and 1987 showing activities of West London Mission.

      Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
      GB 0074 LMA/4025 · Collection · 1841-1873

      Records of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes. The minutes (LMA/4025/01) describe in detail the foundation of the Association, its aims and objectives. They document its development from a well-intentioned philanthropic organisation to a major provider of housing (12 substantial blocks by 1873). The activities recorded range from fund-raising to land acquisition and from collections of mortality statistics to estate management.

      The visitors book (LMA/4025/03) records the important visitors to Old Pancras Road including Prince Albert, Lord Shaftesbury, Mr Gladstone, Charles Kingsley and Dr Southwood Smith.

      These manuscripts have not been accessible to researchers before and are an exciting discovery. They were purchased with assistance from the Purchase Grant Fund administered by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

      Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
      MXPC · Collection · 1932-1984

      Records of the Area Probation Service, 1946-1984, including minutes and files of the Probation and After Care Committee relating to probation officers, staff appointments and personnel management, Home Office circulars, Court building programme, after-care hostels, approved probation hostels, bail hostels and community service. Also papers of the Petty Sessional Division, 1932-1982.

      Records of the County Probation Committee, 1939-1969, including minute books, Staff Sub-Committee minute books, and Committee papers.

      Please note that access to these files may be restricted.

      Middlesex Area Probation Service Middlesex County Probation Committee
      GB 0074 ACC/3445 · Collection · 1795-1990s

      Records of the Peabody Trust, including corporate records, financial accounts, personnel records, property records, estate management, plans, photographs, publications, artefacts, seal books, clasp books and legal papers.

      Records of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, including corporate records; financial records; correspondence; property records; tenants' records; plans; photographs; publications and artefacts.

      Records of the Westminster Housing Trust including corporate records; financial accounts; administrative records; legal records; personnel papers; estate management papers; tenants' records; plans; photographs and publications.

      Peabody Trust Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes x The 1830 Housing Society Westminster Housing Trust Limited
      GB 0074 B/PBI · Collection · 1846

      Record of the Peckham Building Investment Company comprising deed of settlement, 4 May 1846, for John Tricker Conquest of Finsbury Square and Henry England of New Cross, to form joint stock company 'The Peckham Building Investment Company'. The deed records the name and business of company, names of subscribers, and of directors and officers, duration of company and mode of dissolution; with signatures and addresses of shareholders, and note of number of shares held by each.

      Peckham Building Investment Company
      LMA/4337 · Collection · 1899-1969

      Records of the Presbyterian Housing Scheme, Poplar, including Ladies Committee minute book (The Committee of the Presbyterian Settlement, East London), 1901-1910; Ladies Settlement Committee minute book, 1910-1912; Committee of the Women's Presbyterian Settlement minute book, 1912-1939; Settlement Committee minute book, 1939-1946; General Committee minute book, 1946-1964; Executive Committee minute book, 1938-1960; Finance Committee minute book, 1954-1958; annual reports of the Presbyterian Settlement (missing years 1938, 1939 and 1966), 1899-1969; annual reports written by the congregation (missing 1961/1962), 1960-1965; architectural plans, 1938-1953; printed material relating to the Presbyterian Settlement, 1924-1968 and correspondence, 1911-1967.

      Presbyterian Church of England
      SUTTON HOUSING TRUST
      GB 0074 ACC/2983 · Collection · 1894-2000

      Records of the Sutton Housing Trust, consisting of a fine series of minutes and accounts. In particular there are detailed registers of tenants (including information on income and employment), hundreds of photographs of estates and developments and correspondence giving advice from people such as Octavia Hill and Charles Booth.

      Sutton Dwellings Trust x Sutton Housing Trust William Sutton Housing Association Limited
      LCC/WE/CW · Collection · 1923-1951
      Part of LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL

      Records of the London County Council Welfare Department, 1923-1951, relating to casual wards in Chelsea, Hackney, Lambeth, Northumberland Avenue, Paddington, Poplar, Southwark, Saint Pancras and Woolwich. Please note some files may be closed for Data Protection purposes.

      LCC , London County Council x London County Council