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Administrative records of the Town Clerk's Department including office accounts, 1733-1898; papers relating to the duties of the Town Clerk, 1817-1837; orders and receipts for payment of fees, gratuities, bills, and for disbursements for counsel for William Wagstaffe, 1676-1687 and Randolph Stacey, 1717-1727; bill books for Court of Aldermen, 1734-1956; general warrant books for payments by Courts and Committees, 1805-1918 and 1937; letter books, 1975-1998 (restricted access); Town Clerk's personal letter books, 1905-1947; general letter files, 1987-1994; letter files regarding departmental reorganisation, 1992 and registers of letters received, 1948-1974.

Records of the Town Clerk's Department relating to civil defence, including Fire Guard registration files, 1941-1943; correspondence, reports and depositions regarding the administration of the D 20 Fire Guard zone, 1943; Civil Defence Registration, an index of enrolment notices under Civil Defence Duties (Compulsory enrolment) (City of London) order 1941, and Civil Defence Duties (compulsory enrolment) (City of London) (No 2) order, 1942, 1941-1942, with register of Civil Defence Volunteers, 1942-1943; log of messages received at City Control Depot, including air raid warnings and their classification, dispatch of stretcher and rescue parties, and daily reports, 1939-1941; list of aid treatment at first aid posts in the City of London of casualties caused by enemy action, 1939-1945; papers relating to the identification of civilians killed by enemy action, 1941-1946 (please note these records are closed); notes on Invasion Preparations containing material on general policy, evacuation and refugees, restriction of movements and supplies (food, petrol), communications and information, mutual aid between military and civil powers and so on, [1941]; sample building plans of first aid posts, cleansing stations, respirator stores and gas chamber, [1938]; book of permits issued to various individuals to make plans and sketches of air raid damage in the City, 1940-1942; notes, memoranda, correspondence and press cuttings regarding the Invasion Defence Scheme and the formation of the City of London Civic Guard, 1942-1943; Civil Defence Circulars on bombs, gas bombs, the Fire Guard, invasion defence, operations bulletins, organisation and training, air raid precautions and unexploded missiles, 1940s; anti-gas arrangements at the Port of London, 1940s; papers regarding water supply during the war, 1941-1942; examples of the certificates issued to members of the City of London Civil Defence General Services 1939-1945, at the conclusion of hostilities, 9 May 1945 and papers relating to Defence Medal claims, 1945-1979.

Also Civil Defence Corps Divisional Annual Reports for the City of London, 1964-1967; papers relating to Exercise STRIVE and Exercise GRAPPLE, 1967; papers relating to the disbanding of the Civil Defence Department, 1967-1968; correspondence with the Society of Industrial Civil Defence Officers and the Civil Defence Instructors Association, 1950-1960; War Emergency Planning correspondence, 1967-1984; correspondence regarding plans in the event of peace time disasters, 1978-1981; correspondence and other papers regarding plans in the event of a Thames flood, 1974-1981; correspondence, agenda for conferences, reports of Corporation and other committees and of London Fire and Civil Defence Authority and various circulars on emergency procedures in London, 1986-1987; papers, minutes and correspondence of the City of London Emergency Planning Committee, 1969-1978 and papers of the City of London Civil Defence Instructor Association, 1954-1979.

Records of the Town Clerk's Department relating to the registration of births, marriages and deaths, including papers relating to the administration of London City Registration District No 243, 1932-1984; list of registers formerly in the custody of the Superintendent Registrar for the Registration District of London City at the Register Office, Guildhall, with a list showing amalgamations of sub districts in the City of London; list of registers lost in the Guildhall bombing, 1940 and papers relating to the Corporation of the City of London Registration Scheme 1977 which provided for Lee District Register Office to be located at Finsbury Town Hall and for a sub-district office within the County Corporate of the City of London, 1977.

Papers of individual Town Clerks, including documents regarding an affray between Ralph Crepyn, Town Clerk, and Lawrence Duket, goldsmith, which led to Duket's death, 1284; letters addressed to Miles Man, 1726-1756; letters addressed to James Hodges, 1757-1774; journal recording the business done by the Town Clerk in person, including attendance at Courts, Committees and ceremonials, 1759; transcript of divorce proceedings in the Consistory Court between Town Clerk William Rix and his wife, including information about her activities with her lover in the Town Clerk's house, Guildhall Yard, 1776; letter to Henry Woodthorpe Senior, 1804-1823; papers regarding the debts of Henry Woodthorpe Junior, prisoner in the Fleet, 1826-1842; appreciation and synopsis of career of Alfred Thomas Roach, Town Clerk, 1946 and article John Carpenter - a famous Town Clerk, 1982.