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Records of the London County Council Architect's Department, 1893-1970, including plans, sections and elevations of properties in London County Council owned housing estates, including diagrams of gas and water supply, fireplaces, chimneys, drains, water mains, gardens, cisterns, roofing, estate workshops and offices, refuse chutes, staircases and joinery; and plans of the estate layouts.

Records of the London County Council Architect's Department relating to Emergency Wartime Measures, including Rescue Service orders to contractors to carry out urgent emergency works, 1940-1941; papers relating to the reorganisation of the Rescue Service, 1942; central office arrangements, 1939-1941; notes for the guidance of rescue parties in the London Civil Defence Region, 1940; Rescue Service physical training instructors, 1939-1943; staffing of the War Debris Survey and Disposal, 1941-1942; Architect's Department emergency staff arrangements, 1938-1939; staff matters relating to the closing down of the Rescue Service, 1945-1946; proceedings and report of Departmental Committee on Staffing and Organisation of the Architect's Department, 1942-1943; report of the Departmental Committee on the Utilisation of Staff and the Elimination of Non-Essential Work, 1942; meetings of Principal Officers in Architect's Department, 1942-1944; Special Course in Air Raid Precautions run by the University of London in conjunction with Ministry of Home Security, May 1940; assistance to Civil Defence services by the Home Guard, 1944; working papers used in preparation and final draft of the War History of the Architect's Department, 1945; lists of awards for gallantry awarded to the Heavy Rescue Service, 1939-1945; Rescue Service Circular Memoranda numbers 1 to 891, 1939-1945; Rescue Service General Orders numbers 1 to 176, 1941-1945.

Records from the Paddington District Surveyor's District, 1940-1945, including index book of war damaged premises; incident record books; War damage Survey notebooks; orders to contractors in relation to dangerous structures; Borough Council's demolition or works orders; incident report forms; incident reports on work done (includes those attended outside Paddington under mutual assistance arrangements); dangerous structure notices under Defence Regulations; daily returns of incidents; schedules of areas suggested for future redevelopment. Also tracings of maps showing damage caused by individual flying bomb and rocket incidents in Stepney, 1944.

Records of the London County Council Children's Department comprising individual case files of children in care. Please note that because of the sensitive and personal nature of the information some of these files are closed under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Records of the London County Council Children's Department comprising general files relating to various subjects including copies of statutes affecting children; bye laws passed by the LCC; reports regarding changes under the Local Government Act 1929; schools transferred to the LCC in 1930; evacuation and return of children from residential schools and homes during Second World War; boarding out; entertainments, holidays and holiday camps; transfer of Poor Law institutions and responsibilites to the LCC; the Interdepartmental Committee on sex instruction in residential schools; adoption of children and registration of adoption societies; deaths of children in care; the Roman Catholic Liaison Committee; preventative work; children neglected or ill treated in their own homes; homeless families; handicapped and mentally defective children; children in care; fostering and foster homes; statistics; 'Aunts and Uncles' scheme; cooperation with the police; young unmarried mothers; transfer of care services from the LCC to the boroughs; training of nursery students; spiritual ministrations; inspection of homes; Children's Department bulletins and circulars; pamphlets and leaflets about the work of the service.

Please note that because of the sensitive and personal nature of the information some files are closed. Please see the detailed catalogue for further information.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Children's Committee, comprising general papers relating to Juvenile Delinquency, 1947-1964 and papers regarding the effect of the London Government Bill and Act, 1963 on the Children's Service, 1960-1965.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Fire Brigade Committee. General papers on a variety of subjects, 1865-1956, including fire alarms, fire telephones and exchange telephone lines, automatic fire alarms, malicious false alarms, annual displays, air raid precautions, the Auxiliary Fire Service, exhibitions, Coronation arrangements (1937), film and photograph service, cost of the Fire Brigade, inventions affecting Fire Brigade equipment, smoke helmets and breathing apparatus, hydrants, water supply, fire prevention, fire stations, serious fires and other incidents, fires on tube railways, the River Service, the Departmental Committee on Fire Brigades in Great Britain, the Royal Commission on Fire Brigades and Fire Prevention, the Departmental Committee on Fire Brigade Services, legislation affecting fire brigades, Fire Service organisation, the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council Joint Fire Prevention Committee, radio and telephone communications, London Fire Brigade publicity (press cuttings and fire prevention film), Fire Brigade circulars, staffing and medals and awards.

General papers of the London County Council Clerk's Department, 1721-1965, including reports by the Clerk of the County Council on general subjects and staff matters; instructions, orders and memoranda for the Clerks of the Council Departments; Committee and General letter books, consisting of carbon copies of outgoing letters conveying Committee (and Council) decisions to outside persons; registers of documents sealed with the Council's seal; register of penal notices and other documents signed by the Clerk of the Council; register of plans presented by committees to County Council; Sealed Orders and other statutory documents; Compulsory Purchase Orders; Bye laws Sealed Orders; sealed directions under Town and Country Planning Orders; Sealed Orders Building Preservation Orders; Sealed Completion Certificates under various private Improvement Acts and Sealed Tree Preservation Orders. Also deeds, leases, conveyances, assignments and mortgages for Council land and properties.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to highways, 1882-1966, including papers relating to the establishment of an electricity supply in London, including charges, laying of mains and Battersea Power Station; papers relating to roads including proposals, legislation affecting roads, motorways and road improvements; papers relating to individual road schemes; papers relating to Thames crossings including weak bridges, railway bridges, tunnels, embankments, the Blackwall Tunnel, the Woolwich Free Ferry, the Rotherhithe Tunnel, Albert Bridge, Charing Cross Bridge, Chelsea Bridge, Hammersmith Bridge, Lambeth Bridge, Putney Bridge, Wandsworth Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Leader of the Council's Secretariat, including papers from Town Planning conferences, 1960-1965; papers relating to the Architect's Department and the Valuer's Department, 1945-1965; papers relating to the Roads Committee, including conference papers, 1960-1964; papers relating to the Housing Committee, including conference papers, 1960-1965; papers relating to civil defence, 1948-1963; Trades Union Joint Negotiating Committee, 1964-1965 and papers relating to the reorganisation of London government, 1959-1965.

Records relating to the arts including Royal Festival Hall conferences, 1948-1963; papers regarding the London Philharmonic Orchestra, 1948-1963; papers regarding Ballet Rambert, Festival Ballet and Ballet Trust, 1963-1967; papers regarding the Commonwealth Arts Festival and papers relating to the South Bank and support of the arts, 1947-1963.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Local Government, Records and Museums Committee, 1884-1938. Committee Clerk's general papers including "The Unification of London - Summary of the observations and recommendations of Royal Commissions and Special Committees as to the Government of the Metropolis and short Account of Bills introduced for the Reform of London, 1837-1884"; reports relating to the reform of London Local Government; transfer of powers from the London County Council to vestries and District Boards of Works (after 1900, Metropolitan Borough Councils); papers regarding the Royal Commission on London Government; papers regarding the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and the Relief of Distress; proposed abolition of Poor Law authorities and their supersession by county councils and county borough councils; papers regarding Quarter Sessions for the County of London, the Central Criminal Court, London County Court Districts and Metropolitan Police Courts; papers regarding electoral reform; proposals to adjust or extend various county boundaries; amalgamation of various parishes; amalgamation of various Poor Law Unions; statistics regarding new metropolitan borough areas following the London Government Act, 1899; LCC inquiries and Public Local Inquiries; orders of Local Government Board; papers regarding rating, valuation and local taxation; LCC expenditure; returns of licensed premises; returns of baths and wash-houses and papers regarding elections and electoral registration.

Orders in Council concerning Boundary Changes, including orders to establish metropolitan boroughs and maps showing boundary changes effected by Orders in Council establishing metropolitan boroughs.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Public Control Committee, 1879-1965, including papers relating to: legislation; Quarterly reports of Chief Gas Examiner and Reports of Appeals concerning Gas Supply; overhead wires; telephones; Sunday observance; control of clubs and coffee bars; bottle parties; entertainments licensing; theatres and music halls; occasional licences; Sunday opening of theatres and music halls; Sunday cinematograph; entertainments variations in form of permission; fees for entertainments licences; smoking in places of public entertainment and in cinemas; improprieties in performances; nudity on the stage; music and dancing licences; All-in Wrestling; the Cinematograph Act, 1909; use of non-inflammable film; eye strain in cinemas; admittance of children to cinemas; fires and panics in cinemas; registration of charities under the Charities Act, 1960; Working Party on Vehicle Registration and Licensing and Driving Licensing; health, welfare and safety in public places; licensing of employment agencies and licensing of massage establishments.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to Committees concerned with public health, 1876-1965. Committee Clerk's general papers on a variety of topics including: hospital stewards and clerical staff; massage staff; medical artist and photographer; pathological laboratory staff; pharmacists; radiographers; veterinary surgeon for the Public Control Department; hospital laundries; statistics of patients and staff at hospital; epileptic hospitals; Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot; Norwood Children's Hospital; Princess Mary's Hospital for Children, Margate; Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup; River Hospitals (Joyce Green Hospital, Orchard Hospital and Long Reach Hospital, Dartford and Southern Hospital, Dartford); emergency arrangements for small-pox treatment; St Benedict's Hospital, Tooting; St James' Hospital, Balham plastic surgery unit and central dental workshop; medical education facilities in LCC hospitals; Hammersmith post-graduate Medical School; venereal disease clinics; spiritual ministration in hospitals and institutions; District Nursing; domiciliary midwifery service; Invalid Meals for London; rag and bone dealers; seamen's lodging houses; food and drugs (including milk); National Health Service Act, 1946; alcoholism; domestic home help service; Health Centres and group practices; maternity and child welfare; distribution of welfare foods; ante-natal care; welfare of children in hospitals; preventive mental health education; services for children with impaired hearing; mentally sub-normal children; problem families; chiropody; day nurseries; child minder service; health education; dental treatment and laboratories; tuberculosis; closure of tuberculosis hospitals; chest clinics rehabilitation of the tuberculous; vaccination and immunisation; infectious and endemic diseases; vital and health statistics; mental health statistics; co-operation between hospital, local authority and general practitioner services; liaison with Regional Hospital Boards; family planning clinics; fluoridation of London water supply; polio-myelitis; effect on Health Committee of reorganisation of local government in Greater London; Woodberry Down Health Centre; London Ambulance Service; return of Sanitary Officers and Staff; Licensing Sessions for Slaughterhouses, Cowhouses and Knackers' Yards; bye laws under Public Health Act, 1891; offensive trades; lodging houses; infectious diseases; vagrancy; flies and vermin; removal of dust and refuse; disinfection; factories, workshops and bakeries; cemeteries and burial grounds and cremation; London County Asylums; conference on measles and verminous conditions in London; papers of the Working party on transfer of Personal Health Services to London Boroughs.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Parks Committee, 1888-1970. Clerk's general papers on a variety of subjects including allotments for the unemployed; agriculture and food production in parks; London Development Plan proposals affecting parks and open spaces; entertainments in parks; fairs; the Circuses and Performing Animals Defence League; Festival of Britain arrangements in parks; Green Belt including legislation, requisitioned lands and papers regarding specific Green Belt areas; temporary housing on open spaces; preservation of London Squares; memorials in parks; playgrounds and playing fields; press notices and publicity concerning activities in parks; railings; requisitioned land; sculptures and open air sculpture exhibitions; grey squirrels; Parks staff; swimming baths; town planning in relation to parks and open spaces; transfer of powers to metropolitan borough councils; victory celebrations; protection of wild birds; Parks bye-laws and regulations; gifts of memorial seats and other items, and tree preservation.

Papers relating to individual parks including Battersea Park (including the Festival Gardens); Blackheath; Crystal Palace; Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich; Hackney Marsh; Hainault Forest; Hampstead Heath; Holland Park; Kenwood House and Park; Marble Hill House, Twickenham and Richmond Hill; Parliament Hill; Streatham Common; Tooting Common; Victoria Embankment Gardens; Victoria Park; Woolwich Common; Wormwood Scrubs; Bethlem Hospital grounds (now Imperial War Museum); Burgess Park (North Camberwell Open Space) and Lee Valley.

Ordnance Survey maps of London (1867-1875 edition) annotated by Mrs Basil Holmes as part of her investigation into London burial grounds and churchyards. The sites of burial grounds are colour coded: those in use - blue; disused - green and those converted into public recreation grounds - green with a red border.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to Special Committees, comprising general papers of the Advisory Committee on the Design of Consumer Goods, 1945-1951; general papers and reports of the Survey of London (Joint Publishing) Committee, 1911-1952; papers of the Special Committee on the Unemployed regarding the recruitment of workers for the construction of arterial roads in Essex and Kent; general papers of the Church of England Advisory Board on Spiritual Ministration, 1932-1961.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to public assistance, social welfare and welfare committees, including papers relating to training colonies for able-bodied men including Dunton Farm and Hollesley Bay, 1929-1942; papers relating to non-residential training centres, 1903-1945; papers relating to Almoners and almoners' staff, 1930-1948; papers regarding the reorganisation of public assistance administration in local areas, 1934-1935; payment of lunacy fees to relieving officers, 1932-1934; papers relating to Mother and Baby Homes, 1951-1963; papers relating to the welfare of the blind, 1949-1964; papers relating to workshops for the blind, 1948-1965; papers relating to a car badge scheme for disabled drivers, 1961-1963; papers regarding charges for accommodation at welfare establishments, 1949-1965; papers relating to evicted, neglected or ill-treated children, 1961-1964; papers relating to homeless families, including short stay accommodation and statistics, 1953-1965; general papers on the liaison between Health and Welfare Services, 1951-1965; analysis of the effect on the Welfare Committee of the London local government reorganisation, 1957-1965; papers regarding the welfare of old people, including provision of meals, 1949-1965; papers of the Central Consultative Committee on the Welfare of Old People, 1951-1964; papers relating to refugees and others in special need, 1956-1961; papers on the registration of private welfare homes, 1949-1965; statistics relating to welfare services, 1962-1965; resettlement of tuberculous persons, 1949-1962 and papers on Reception Centres for persons without a settled way of living, 1948-1964.

Records of the London County Council Comptroller, 1870-1971.

Subject and policy files on a variety of topics including financial arrangements for the transfer of education services from the School Board for London to the London County Council; sale of Thames steamboats following discontinuance of the service; procedures for dealing with drowned human bodies; collections for the Belgian and Serbian Children's Clothing Fund; local bonds for housing; rating of site values; annual maintenance estimates; education maintenance estimates; precepts and county rates; registers of County and Main Drainage Contributions and Equalisation Charges; Equalisation Fund; Fire Insurance Companies' contributions; returns made by insurance companies and associated correspondence; annual tables showing contributions due from each insurance company; loans sanctioned for other authorities and loans advanced to other authorities; loans advanced to, or sanctioned for, Vestries and District Boards of Works, Metropolitan Borough Councils, the School Board for London, the Metropolitan Asylums Board and the Boards of Guardians; register of applications from borough councils for loans; weekly cash papers; financial statements accompanying minutes of Council proceedings; invoices received for the Works account; wages books (kept as specimens); LCC Stock and Bills; returns of LCC investments; Government grants and relations with the central government; Commercial audit; First World War economy measures and savings campaigns; average weekly cost of maintenance per patient or inmate for each hospital and institution; Superannuation and Provident Fund; analysis of expenditure and receipts; Joint Select Committee on Local Government Acts Financial Adjustments; papers relating to Parliamentary Bills; London Passenger Transport Board; booklet "Pounds, Shillings and Pence - A few Notes about the Comptroller's Department, 1948"; Royal Commission on the Port of London.

Ledgers and accounting records including Capital ledgers for education; Capital accounts (excluding Joint Improvements) ledgers; Capital accounts (Classification Book) payments; Capital accounts ledger of receipts; Capital accounts ledger of payments; Joint Improvements account ledger; register of Joint Improvements; Total account ledgers; Tramways account ledgers; Aggregate accounts; Superannuation and Provident Fund Investments ledger; Investments Transactions journals

Registers of staff transferred from the Poor Law authorities on 1 April 1930 (showing details of dates of birth and appointment, pay, allowances and emoluments and superannuation and other deductions), including Bermondsey Board of Guardians, Bethnal Green Board of Guardians, Camberwell Board of Guardians, Chelsea Board of Guardians, City of London Board of Guardians, Fulham Board of Guardians, Greenwich Board of Guardians, Hackney Board of Guardians, Hammersmith Board of Guardians, Hampstead Board of Guardians, Holborn Board of Guardians, Islington Board of Guardians, Kensington Board of Guardians, Lambeth Board of Guardians, Lewisham Board of Guardians, Paddington Board of Guardians, Poplar Board of Guardians, Saint Marylebone Board of Guardians, Saint Pancras Board of Guardians, Shoreditch Board of Guardians, Southwark Board of Guardians, Stepney Board of Guardians, Wandsworth Board of Guardians, City of Westminster Board of Guardians and Woolwich Board of Guardians; Poor Law School District Boards; Metropolitan Asylums Board; Central Unemployed Body for London and Mental Hospitals.

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department, comprising log books for the following schools in the Finsbury, Holborn and Islington areas:

All Saints School

Anglers' Gardens School

Baltic Street School

Cottenham Road School

Denmark Terrace School

Drayton Park School

Duncombe Road School

Ecclesbourne Road School

Barnsbury Central School

Barnsbury Secondary School

Bath Street School

Bishop Gifford School

Bloomsbury School

Blundell Street School

Britannia Row School

Buckingham Street School

Canonbury Road School

Central Street School

Chequer Street School

Christchurch School

Claylands Road School

Christopher Hatton School

Compton Primary School

Finsbury Park Secondary School

Forster School

Gifford Street School

Grafton Road School

Hanover Street School

Harborough

Hargrave Park School

Highbury Wesleyan School

Highbury Hill High

Holloway Literary Institute

Hugh Myddleton School

Hugh Myddleton Central

Hungerford Road School

Isledon Secondary School

Jack Ashley School

Laycock Secondary School

Laystall Street School

South Macclesfield Street Infant School

Matthias Road School

Moreland Street School

Offord Road School

Penton Grove School

Pooles Park School

Popham Road School

Princeton Street School

Queenshead Street School

Richard Street School

Rising Hill Street School

Romilly Road School

Rosebery Avenue School

Rotherfield Street School

Saint Andrews School

Saint Barnabas School

Saint Clements' School

Saint Giles in the Fields School

Saint James' School

Saint John's Lane School

Saint Josephs Roman Catholic School, Highgate Hill

Saint Josephs Roman Catholic School, Bunhill Row

Saint Luke's School

Saint Mark's School

Saint Matthew's School

Saint Paul's School, Dove Road

Saint Paul's School, Dorset Street

Shelburne Road School

Sebbon Street School

Shepperton Road School

Southampton Street School

Thornhill Road School

Tollington Park School

Upper Hornsey Road School

Vernon Square School

Westbourne Road School

White Lion Street School

Whittington School

Winchester Street School

Windsor Street School

Yerbury Road School

York Road

York Way School

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department, comprising log books for the following schools in the Bethnal Green, City of London, Poplar and Stepney areas:

All Hallows School

All Saints (National) School

All Saints

Alton Street

Approach Road Wesleyan School

Atley Road

Ben Jonson

Berner Street

Bishop Challener Secondary Boys

Blakesley Street

Bonner Lane School

Bow Creek School

Bow Chapel (Wesleyan) School

Bow Secondary School (Girls)

Bow Road School

Bow Brook School

Brewhouse Lane School

Bruce Road School

Burdett Road School

Cephas Street Secondary School

Christian Street School

Coleman Street Ward School

Columbia Road School

Commercial Street School

Cranbrook Road School

Cubitt Town

Culloden School

Cyril Jackson School

Dalgleish Street School

Daniel Street School

Davenant School

Dempsey Street School

Devons Road

Essex Street School

Fairclough Street School

Fairfield Road School

Farrance Street School

Garford Street School

Geere House (Open Air School)

Gill Street School

Glengall Road School

Glengall Secondary School

Globe Terrace School

Grove Road School

Hague Street School

Heckford Street School

High Street School (Bow)

Highway School

Imperial Street School

Isle Of Dogs

Janet Street School

Johnson Street School

Knapp Road School

Lawrence School

London Street School

Lower Chapman Street School

Lowood School

Malmesbury Road School

Mansford Street Secondary School

Marner Street School

Martin Frobisher Secondary School

Millwall School

Montieth Road School

Mowlem Street School

New Castle Street

Nichol Street School

Nicholas Gibson School

Northey Street School

Oban Street School Bromley

Ocean Street

Old Ford School

Olga Street School

Our Lady Roman Catholic School

Poplar Juvenile Unemployment Centre

Portman Place School

Pritchards Road School

Redmans Road School

Ricardo Street School

Robert Montifiore School

Rochelle Street School

Roman Road School

Rutland Street School

Saint Bartholomew's School

Saint Gabriel's School

Saint Georges In The East Central School

Saint Josephs School

Saint Jude School

Saint Leonard's Road School

Saint Mathias Church of England School

Saint Paul's Road School

Saint Paul's School

Saint Saviour's School

Senrab Street School

Settles Street School

Single Street School

Sir John Cass (Foundation)

Smeed Road School

Somerford Street School

South Grove

Stafford Road School

Stepney Jewish School

Stewart Headlam School

Teesdale Street School

Thomas Street School

Thomas Street Central School

Tidey Street School

Tollett Street School

Tower Hamlets

Trafalgar Square

Tredegar Road, Bow

Turin Street School

Upper North Street School

Virginia Road School

Wellington Road School (Way)

Wilmot Street School

Wolverley Street School

Wood Close School

Woolmore Street School

Wrights Road

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department, comprising log books for the following schools in the Deptford, Greenwich and Woolwich areas:

Ancona Road School

Blackheath Road School

Bloomfield Road School

Bluecoat School

Borough Road School

Bostall Lane School

Briset Secondary School

Brockley Central School

Brockley Road School

Burnt Ash Hill School

Burrage Grove School

Calvert Road School

Canterbury Road School

Catford Central School

Catherine House School

Charlton Central School

Charlton National School

Charlton Park Open Air School

Childeric Road School

Christ Church School

Church Manor Way School

Clifton Hill School

Clyde Street School

Conway Road School

Creek Road School

Deansfield Road School

Deptford Roman Catholic School

Deptford Park School

Deptford Pupil Teachers School

Dreadnought School

Earl Street School

Edward Street School

Eglington Road

Elfrida School

Elizabeth Street School

Fossdene Secondary School

Fox Hill School

Frankham Street School

Glenister Road School

Goldie Leigh Hospital School

Gordon School

Greening Road School

Greenwich Central School

Greenwich Road School

Griffin Manor School

Grove Street School

Haimo Road

Halstow Road School

Henwick Road School

High Street School

High Street, Plumstead School

Holy Trinity School

Hughes Fields School

Invicta Road School

Kender Street School

Lamorby (Residential School)

Lombard Wall School

Lucas Street School

Manor Lane School

Manorway Primary

Marsh Lane School

Maryon Park

Mulgrave Place School

Oakmere Secondary School

Old Woolwich Road School

Piedmont Road (Special) School

Plum Lane School

Plumstead Road School

Pope Street School

Powis Street School for the Blind

Purrett Road School

Ravensbourne School

Randall Place School

Richmond St Roman Catholic School

Riverway School

Robert Street School

Roper Street

Royal Hill

Saint Ann's Roman Catholic School

Saint John's School

Saint Michael and All Angels School

Saint Thomas Church of England School

Saint Thomas, Sand Street

Sandhurst Road

Sherbington Road School

Shooters Hill School

Slade School

Thomas Doggett School

Timbercroft School

Trafalgar Nursery School

Union Street School

Vicarage Road

Waller Road School

Westhorne School

Wickham Lane School

Wood Street School

Woolwich Pupil Teachers School

Woolwich Central School

Woolwich Church of England School

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department, comprising log books for the following schools in the Bermondsey, Lambeth and Southwark areas:

Akerman Road Special School for the Mentally Defective

All Saints School

Archbishop Sumners School

Avenue Secondary School

Benevolent Society of Saint Patrick

Beresford Street School

Blackfriars School

Caldecot Road School

Charles Dickens School

Christ Church School

Church Street School

Clarence Street School

Cormont Road School

The Cowley School

Crampton Street School

Effra Parade School

English Martyrs Road School

Fair Street School

Faunce Street School

Flint Street School

Fountain Street School

Friar Street School

Galley Wall Road School

Gipsy Road School

Hackford Road School

Harper Street School

Hemp Row School

Heygate Street School

Holland Street School

Holy Trinity Church of England School

Jessop Road School

John Harvard School

John Wesley School

Kennington School

Kennington Road

King And Queen Street School

Lansdowne Place School

Lant Street School

Lawn Lane Myopic School

Laxon Street School

Loughborough Central School

Melior Street (Roman Catholic)

Michael Faraday School

Midway Place School

Mina Road School

Monnow Road School

Nelson Street School

Old Kent Road School (Special)

Pages Walk School

Paragon School

Parkside School

Pocock Street School

Priory Grove School

Riverside Junior School

Rosendale Road School

Rotherhithe New Road

Saint Andrews' School

Saint George's School

Saint John and All Saints

Saint Jude's School

Saint Martins in the Fields High School

Saint Mary the Less School

Saint Mary Magdalen School

Saint Michael School

Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic School

Saint Pauls, Vauxhall

Saint Paul's School (Walworth)

Saint Peter's School

Saint Saviour (Salamanca School)

Saint Saviour's School

Saint Stephen's School

Salters Hill School

Sandford Row School

Santley Street School

Sayer Street School (Myopic)

Snowfields School

Southwark Central School

Springfield School

Stockwell Road School

Sudbourne Road School

Sussex Road School

Turney Road School

Vauxhall Central School

Vauxhall Street School

Venetian Road School

Wadding Street School

Walnut Tree Walk School

Waterloo Road School

Webb Street School

Whitney School

Woodland Road School

Westow Hill School

Westminster Bridge Road School

Weston Street School

Wood Vale School

Wycliffe School

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department, comprising log books for the following schools in the Battersea and Wandsworth areas:

Aristotle Road Secondary School

All Saints School

Basnett Road School

Battersea Park Road School

Bolingbroke Road School

Bonneville Road School

Brandlehow Road School

Broadwater School

Cavendish Road School

Chesterton Primary School

Clapham Manor School

Defoe School

Deodar Road School

Derington Road School

Eardley School

Eltringham Street School

Ensham Central Mixed School

Ethelburga Street School

Fircroft Road School

Fountain Road

Furzedown School

Garratt Lane School

Gideon Road School

Graveney School

Haselrigge Road School

Hearnville Road School

Hillbrook Secondary School

Hitherfield Road School

Holden Street School

Honeywell Road School

Huntingfield Road School

John Burgess School

Larkhall Lane School

Lavender Hill School

Magdalen Road School

Mantua Street School

Mitcham Lane School

New Park Road

New Road School

Oldridge Road School

Plough Road School

Our Lady Of The Angels

Putney Church of England School

Ravenstone School

Raywood Street School

Richard Atkins School

Riversdale School

Royal Victoria Patriotic School

Saint Anne's National School

Saint George's School

Saint John's School

Saint Mark's School

Saint Mary Putney School

Sellincourt Road School

Shillington Street School

Sleaford Street School

Springwell House School

Surrey Lane School

Stonehouse Street

Swaffield Road School

Telferscot Road School

Wandle School

Wandsworth and Battersea School

Wandsworth Technical Institute

Winstanley Road School

Wix's Lane School

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department relating to special schools, 1854-1977, including: Acts and Regulations relating to mental deficiency; ascertainment and notification of mentally defective children; the organisation of emergency special schools in London during the Second World War; acquisition of country properties for use as residential schools; sex instruction in residential schools; blind and defective children formerly dealt with under Poor Law powers; use of school ambulances for physically defective pupils; corporal punishment in transferred residential schools and homes; the Education (Institution Children) Act, 1923; scholarships for physically defective children; scholarships for myopic pupils; scholarships for partially blind children; domestic training for blind and partially blind girls; diet at residential schools and homes; reservations for the handicapped at Government holiday camps; visit of 200 London delicate children to Adelboden, Switzerland; wireless sets and gramophones for special and industrial schools; Joint Parliamentary Advisory Council concerning physically defective children; Church of England Advisory Board on Spiritual Ministration; Building Programme for special schools; Regional Conferences on Special Schools; Meetings of Heads of Boarding Special Schools; visit of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands to John Ruskin School for partially-sighted children; visit to special schools in Belgium and Holland by Council officers; sickness at residential schools; residential school nurses; further education of handicapped children; enuresis (bed-wetting); cost of maintenance of special schools; juvenile delinquency and statistics. Also general papers relating to individual institutions, including photographs and histories.

Minutes of the Managing Committees of various industrial, reformatory and truant schools, children's homes, residential schools for deprived children, residential open-air schools, residential schools for children with mental or physical disability, day special schools and reformatory schools. Registers of admission and discharge, log-books, punishment books for various reformatory schools, residential schools and children's homes; and annual reports and inspection reports for various schools (please see catalogue for full list of the schools).

Specimens of progress record books for deaf children; sample of case papers for children reported on under the Mental Deficiency Acts, 1913-1927; sample of case-papers for children reported on under Section 57 of the Education Act, 1944; specimen sets of case-papers for handicapped children placed in residential schools; sample school leavers case sheets for Educational Special Needs schools under the Mental Health Act, 1959; and diagrammatic record of incidence of cases of infectious diseases at residential schools.

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department relating to staff, 1881-1968.

Subject and policy files relating to the Burnham Committees, including the Elementary Committee, Secondary Committee, Technical Committee, Standing Joint Committees (Elementary, Secondary and Technical), Local Education Authorities Panel, papers relating to revision of salaries and papers relating to arbitration proceedings.

Subject and policy files relating to teaching staff, including papers on student teacherships; the eligibility of aliens; assessment machinery for promotion of teachers; teachers failing to pass the certificate examination; employment of conscientious objectors; shortage of Infants' school teachers; married women teachers; staffing of elementary schools; staffing of schools in poor and difficult districts; qualifications required for teachers of commercial subjects in central schools; distribution and training of music teachers; supply teachers; women teachers in boys' departments; appointment of Head Teachers; environmental conditions of teachers and children; interchange of staff and exchanges abroad; recruitment and employment of teachers; supervision of meals and teacher training colleges.

Subject and policy files relating to non-teaching staff including the LCC Education Officer and his staff; the Chief Inspector and inspectors of schools; the Children's care service; health visitors and the School Health Service; social workers; school inquiry officers; the Play Centre Service; and administrative and clerical staff.

Registers of teachers and other staff working at LCC and non-provided schools; registers of applicants for employment; registers of pupil teachers, salary registers and registers of unattached teachers. Pamphlets "The Teaching Profession - How to become a Teacher in a London School" (1921) and "Willingly to School: An Introduction to the Work of the Education Officer's Department" (1952).

Also album of photographs of members of the Education (Executive) Dept in 1908 presented to Mr. (later Sir) Robert Blair on occasion of his Silver Wedding, 1908, including photographs of Philippa Fawcett, principal assistant in charge of secondary schools, and Elizabeth Burgwin, child care pioneer.

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department relating to emergency wartime measures, including evacuation, 1908-1954.

Subject and policy files relating to evacuation including historical record of the evacuation operation up to 1943; statutory basis of evacuation scheme; acceleration of civil defence measures; Air Raid Defence League; correspondence with other metropolitan authorities; correspondence with authorities in reception areas; circular letters to schools; Government publications on evacuation; inter-departmental conferences; circulars issued by local education authorities in the reception areas; tests and rehearsals; signals and messages; reports by Inspectors on emergency re-assembly; statistics; staffing and organisation; care and use of gas masks; identification measures and equipment; education of evacuated children; propaganda drive and possibility of compulsory evacuation; communal activities for evacuated women; aliens evacuated to restricted areas; employment of school children on harvest work; railway facilities for visits by parents to the reception areas; visits by relatives in cases of sickness or death; 1940 Scheme for provision of boots and clothing; subsistence allowances for teachers and other staff; billeting arrangements; recovery of expenses from parents in some circumstances; Plan IV, the second large-scale evacuation operation in June 1940; Plan V, the 'trickle' evacuation after June 1940; Plan VI, the large-scale evacuation on advent of heavy bombing; Plan VII, the evacuation of homeless children with their parents; Children's Overseas Reception Scheme; special scheme for evacuation of certain coastal areas; the 'Rivulet' evacuation operation in case of resumption of aerial attacks, put into effect in July 1944 after commencement of fly-bomb raids; refugee students; Christmas parties in the reception areas, Christmas Treats Fund; Advisory Committee on Evacuation of School children (Ministry of Health); Education Officer's Advisory Committee on Evacuation; Confidential Bulletins (Secretariat File); transport arrangements; criticisms of the evacuation arrangements; 'The Schools in Wartime', Board of Education Memoranda numbers 1 to 35; Board of Education circulars; Ministry of Health circulars; LCC Evacuation Bulletins; BBC broadcast talks and announcements concerning evacuation; anecdotes from evacuation period; closing down of evacuation scheme; return arrangements on close-down of evacuation scheme; administration in the reception areas; correspondence relating to the 'Official History of World War II' Education volume.

Subject and policy files relating to the evacuation of special categories of evacuees (special schools, nursery schools, mothers and under-fives, open air schools, mentally disabled children, approved schools and remand homes, diabetic children, hospital schools, blind persons, refugee children, aged and infirm persons, Jewish school children, expectant mothers), including holiday camps used for special evacuees; circular letter concerning evacuation arrangements for special parties; juvenile delinquency on the part of London evacuees; reports by medical inspectors on physically and mentally defective children in evacuation camps; evacuation to Northern Ireland; evacuation to Ireland; and winding up of evacuation scheme for special parties and nurseries.

Subject and policy files on schools remaining in London, including air raid circulars issued to schools during the First World War; census of children in London; children returning to London; steps taken to check drift back to London; weekly estimates of children in London; re-opening of schools in London; emergency schools in London; re-imposition of compulsory attendance; reports by inspectors on school conditions during the period of "flying-bomb" attacks; air raid precautions in schools; adaptations in school premises to provide first aid posts; use of school premises by the Civil Defence services; damage to schools and post-war reconstruction; war production work in technical institutions; war-time day nurseries and play centres; report on the standard of attainment at wartime elementary schools in London; victory celebrations.

Photographs and press cuttings relating to the evacuation of children and schools; school diaries and log books; school magazines; posters (double crown size) connected with various aspects of the evacuation scheme; Directory of London Schools in the Reception Areas; outline map showing distribution of London's evacuated school children; transport schedules prepared by Divisional Dispersals Officers; Ministry of Health handbook on billeting and welfare for the use of Chief Billeting Officers; 'The Schools in Wartime', booklet published by Ministry of Education; publicity material.

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

Records of the London County Council Legal and Parliamentary Department, 1867-1948, including Parliamentary Sessional papers (Bills and Acts) relevant to aspects of London governance, including water supply, gas supply, tramways, metage and duties, housing, electricity supply, post offices, places of entertainment, telegraphs, parks and open spaces, police and fire services, bridges and tunnels, hospitals and healthcare, railways, markets, education and schools, River Thames, local government, London County Council, construction and building, town planning and finance.

Also reports by LCC officers, including the Chief Engineer, Architect and Parliamentary Agent, on Bills before Parliament, including bills relating to railways and other schemes affecting London; bills, private bills and provisional orders affecting London and proposals for legislation to be promoted by LCC.

Records of the London County Council relating to the Lieutenancy of the County of London, 1888-1967, including outgoing letter books; ceremonial presentation by the Lord Lieutenant of Medals of the Order of the British Empire and the King's Police Medal; Deputy Lieutenants Roll with copies of certificates of qualification to serve; procedure for appointment of Deputy Lieutenants and correspondence with prospective appointees; the Association of Lieutenants of Counties; notification of appointments of Special Constables; Lieutenancy dinners; participation by Lord Lieutenant in recruiting campaigns for the Territorial Army and other auxiliary forces; participation by Lord Lieutenant in appeals on behalf of social and charitable bodies; the London Justices Advisory Committee; the appointment of Justices; applications for appointment as Justices; appointment of Juvenile Court Justices; transfer of Justices between Divisions and Counties; Justices appointed by the Lord Chancellor without prior consultation; Royal Commission on the Selection of Justices of the Peace; complaints concerning Justices; emergency appointments to the Bench; resignations of Justices; appointment of women as Justices; correspondence on individual candidates for appointment as Justices, maps of boroughs showing distribution of home addresses of Justices; Deputy Lieutenants' Sub-Committee.

Minutes and presented papers of meetings of the London County Council, 1889-1965. Also minutes and presented papers of London County Council Committees and Sub-Committees, as follows:

Air Raid Precautions Committee

Appeals Committee

Asylums Committee

Bridges Committee

Building Acts Committee

Central Public Health and Medical Services Committee

Children's Committee

Civil Defence Committee

Contagious Diseases Committee

Corporate Property and Endowments Committee

Education Committee

Emergency Committee

Entertainments Committee

Establishments Committee

Evacuation Committee

Finance Committee

Fire Brigade Committee

General Purposes Committee

Health Committee

Highways Committee

Historical Buildings and Records Committee

Housing Committee

Improvements Committee

Industrial Schools Committee

Inebriates Committee

Local Government Committee

Main Drainage Committee

Midwives Committee

New and Expanding Towns Committee

Parks and Open Spaces Committee

Parks (special entertainments) Committee

Parliamentary Committee

Public Assistance Committee

Public Control Committee

Public Health Committee

Restaurants and Catering Committee

Rivers Committee

Roads Committee

Smallholdings Committee

Stores Committee

Theatres Committee

Town Planning Committee

Water Supply Committee

Welfare Committee

Welfare of the Blind Committee

Works Committee

Please note that copies of these minutes and papers are on open access in the Information Area.

Minutes and presented papers of London County Council special and joint committees, 1889-1965, as follows:

Allegations (Council Officials) Committee

Special Committee on the Establishment of an Ambulance Service

Special Committee on Building Control

Advisory Committee on the Control on the Construction of Buildings in London

Charing Cross Bridge Advisory Committee

Church of England Advisory Board on Spiritual Ministration

Special Committee on Contracts

Special Joint Committee on the provision of Coroner's Courts and Mortuaries

Council Chamber and Offices Committee

Special Committee on the transfer of County Business

County Hall Luncheon Club Committee

County Rate Committee

Departmental Committees on the Organisation and Working of LCC Departments

Special Committee on the Office of Deputy Chairman of the Council

Advisory Committee on the Design of Consumer Goods

Special Committee on Finance Bill, 1914

Special Committee on Fire Insurance

Greater London Regional Planning Committee

Meetings of Heads of Departments

Special Committee on Health Administration in London

Hospitals Committee

Interim Panel

Juveniles Committee

Lack of Employment Conference

Joint Committee on the working of the Leyton tramways

Loan Fund for Prospective Teachers

Special Committee on Local Expenditure

Local Pension Committee

Special Committee on Locomotion and Transport in London

London Air Terminal

Advisory Committee on the Amendment of the London Building Act, 1930

Special Committee on London Electricity Supply

Special Committee on changes in London Local Government

Special Committee on London Government

London War Pensions Committee

Special Joint Committee on the Control of lunatics, imbeciles and infectious poor

Advisory Committee on combined medical appointments in Division 9 of the LCC Public Health Department

Members and Staff Committee

Joint Committee of Members and School-keepers

Special Committee of Inquiry into certain matters of administration in the Mental Hospitals Department

Sub-committee of the Provisional LCC appointed to confer with a Committee of the Metropolitan Board of Works

Special Committee on the provision of New Offices

Officers (Education) Superannuation Committee

Conference on Open Spaces for recreational purposes

Special Committee on the Organisation of the Council's Service

Poor Law Committee

Procedure Committee

Richmond Hill (Preservation of View) Executive Committee

Committee of Inquiry on Sadlers Wells

Special Committee on Staff Appeals

Conference on regulations in connection with Streets and Street traffic

Special Committee on the allocation of the cost of Street Improvements along Tramway Routes

Survey of London (Joint Publishing) Committee

Teacher's Superannuation Committee

Special Committee on Technical Education

Special Committee on Thames Bridges

Joint Committee on Thames Flood Prevention

Special Committee on Traffic

Tramways Committee

Special Joint Sub-committee on the Typhoid Fever Epidemic in Maidstone and the London Water Supply

Special Committee on the Unemployment

Special Committee on the Valuation of Land

Special Committee on the War Estimates

Special Committee on the Works Department

Please note that copies of these minutes and papers are on open access in the Information Area.

Records of the London County Council Public Control Department relating to Coroners, 1889-1965, including general files relating to the Departmental Committee on Coroners Law and Practice; the Departmental Committee on Coroners; the Coroners' (Amendment) Act, 1926; the Human Tissue Bill; the Suicide Bill; the Committee on Consumer Protection and Consumer Protection Bill; proposals for amendment of law relating to coroners; coroners' qualifications; articles and booklets on the office of coroner; coroners' statistics; cremation regulations; custody of coroners' records; pathologists and toxicologists; fees and payments, both to the coroner and by the coroner; removal of bodies; undertaking of funerals; employment of council's officers as expert witnesses; reorganizations of districts; reorganisation under London Government Act, 1963; proposals to set up one or more post mortem centres in London; unusual cases and inquests; deaths due to poisoning; inquests following motor bus and tram accidents, coal gas poisonings and demolition of buildings; deaths from drowning and removal of drowned bodies; deaths occasioned by starvation; deaths due to tetanus; incidents relating to unprotected fire-grates; accidents through window cleaning; inquests held as a result of air raids (First World War); fire inquests and treasure trove.

Papers relating to staffing, including general papers on the positions of coroner, deputy coroner, assistant deputy coroner and mortuary keeper; papers relating to appointments, including procedures and files on individual appointments; papers regarding salaries, pensions and expense allowances; and the personal files of various coroners.

Papers relating to coroner's premises, including individual coroner's courts and mortuaries; general papers relating to mortuaries; maps showing areas covered by individual mortuaries and statistics relating to the use of mortuaries.

Records of the London County Council Public Control Department relating to the storage of petroleum, celluloid and explosives, 1872-1960, including correspondence with the Home Office as to necessity for an amendment of the Petroleum Acts; report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Petroleum Bill; the London County Council (Celluloid, etc.) Act, 1915 and Code of Practice; report of the Departmental Committee on Celluloid; suggested Legislation for control of storage of manufactured celluloid articles; conferences at the Home Office on adequacy of existing celluloid law; increase in size of cine reels; projectors; Celluloid Storage Committee papers and report; pamphlets and abstracts concerning celluloid; wartime measures for celluloid storage; notices regarding manufactured celluloid articles; fires involving celluloid; Explosives Registers and street index to premises registered for storage of explosives.

Records of the London County Council Public Control Department relating to Shops and Markets, 1886-1965, including papers on the catering trade; sale of fireworks; mock auctions; analysis of statistics of shops and stalls in the county of London; effect of the First and Second World Wars on shops; Consumer Rationing Order, 1941; sale of contraceptives from automatic machines; the Shops Act, 1912 and 1913; Shops (Early Closing) Acts, 1920 and 1921; Shops (Hours of Closing) Act, 1928; Shops Act, 1950; Government Investigation into hours and conditions of Employment in shops and Select Committee on Shop Assistants; Shops (Sunday Trading Restriction) Act, 1936; Fabrics (Misdescription) Act, 1913; Departmental Committee on Hours of Employment of Young Persons in unregulated occupations; Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1938; Covent Garden Market; Billingsgate Fish Market; Deptford Cattle Market; Whitechapel Hay Market; street trading; register of shops for Sunday Trading and examples of posters for public display giving notice of orders, regulations, and so on.

Reports, including Select Committee on Shop Hours Regulation Bill Report, 1886; Select Committee on Shop Hours Bill Report and Special Report, 1892; Departmental Committee on the Shops (Early Closing) Acts 1920 and 1921 Report and Evidence, 1927; Departmental Committee on the Wholesale Food Markets of London Reports, 1920-1921.

Records of the London County Council Public Control Department relating to weights and measures and gas testing, 1888-1972, including records of Daily Gas Testing; Gas Testing Weekly Returns; reports and conferences relating to gas supply; quarterly reports of the Chief gas examiner; quarterly reports by the LCC chemist and reports regarding the Weights and Measures Acts.

Samples of records including journal of weights, measures, weighing and measuring instruments submitted for verification and fees received by the inspector of weights and measures; journal of fines; certificates of measures verified; certificates of weighing on a public weighbridge; certificates for weighing mechanically propelled vehicles; receipts of glassware for testing; glass-testing book; public notice concerning Publicans' Glass Measures; public notice concerning Sale of Bread; standards and testing of gasholders testing sand-blast machines; papers relating to the re-verification of local standards, scale-beams, and so on with the Board of Trade.

Records of the London County Council Public Health Department relating to mental health, 1890-1960, including general papers on mental deficiency, diagnosis, mental age tests, venereal disease in relation to mental deficiency, psychological tests and persistent offenders; sample of forms and reports on school children examined for admission to special schools; sample of case cards and papers of mentally sub-normal children; sample of case-papers of lunacy certification cases; sample of case-papers of mental deficiency certification cases; newspaper cuttings relevant to the work of the Asylums Committee and advertisements issued under authority of the Asylums Committee; minutes of the Executive Committee of London Association for the Care of the Mentally Defective and minutes of Meetings of Asylum Officers.

Also registers of patients admitted to LCC asylums, 1895-1904; lists of patients admitted, died and recommended for discharge, Banstead Asylum, 1916-1928, Bexley Asylum, 1913-1928, Cane Hill Asylum, 1916-1928, Claybury Asylum, 1915-1928, Colney Hatch Asylum, 1911-1927, Ewell Colony, 1903-1928, Hanwell Asylum, 1913-1928, Horton Asylum, 1913-1927, Long Grove Asylum, 1916-1927, Manor Asylum, 1913-1927 and West Park Asylum, 1924-1928; list of Contract Patients (London patients in out-County or non-LCC asylums), 1892-1901; register of patients at Farmfield Reformatory for Female Inebriates, 1900-1908-1914; Farmfield Reformatory for Female Inebriates Case History Books, 1900-1914; register of London patients at inebriate reformatories other than Farmfield, 1901-1910; register of London patients at inebriate reformatories of the National Institutions for the Care and Reformation of Inebriate Persons, 1909-1916; register of London patients at the Langho Inebriate Reformatory of the Lancashire Inebriates Act Board, 1910-1914.

Records of the London County Council Public Health Department relating to personal health services, 1902-1963, including papers on Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics and Health Centres, including papers of individual clinics and brochure "Health Services and How to Obtain Them" (1958); papers relating to Domiciliary Midwifery Services including notices, rules, lists of certified Midwives, training, historical sketch of the service and the Midwives Bill, 1902; papers relating to day nurseries and home helps, including sample of applications for home helps and report on LCC Home Help Service by the National Institute of Houseworkers; papers regarding chest clinics for the treatment of tuberculosis, including sample of case papers for the boarding out of child tuberculosis patients, papers and case notes of tuberculosis patients, reports relating to tuberculosis and papers of individual chest clinics; papers relating to blind persons, including papers of the Departmental Committee on Welfare of the Blind, reports and schemes undertaken under the Blind Persons Act, 1920, papers on the prevention of blindness and investigation into myopia, the number and general classification of blind persons in London and ophthalmological research.

Records of the London County Council Tramways Department, 1904-1950, comprising posters, and original artworks used in posters, advertising various attractions and destinations reachable by tram. Some of the posters were designed at the LCC Central School of Arts and Crafts. Also plans of works to LCC tramways and trolleybus routes.

Goad Fire Insurance Plans used by the London County Council Valuation Department, 1923-1957. The plans in this series consist of two sets of plans bound in large volumes which cover the London area. Those numbered I - XII map in detail the central areas of London north and south of the River Thames, and include the docks and the Regents Canal. The second set are lettered A - K (there is no letter I) and only survey in detail the 'congested areas' in the rest of the County of London. These latter plans extend into Essex to a certain extent but omit parts of south and much of south-east London.

Each volume consists of plans in numerical order beginning with one or more key plans. Detailed information given includes street names and name changes, house numbers, street widths, the nature of any business carried out, the names of occupiers of large buildings or large numbers of buildings, the structure of buildings, existing fire precautions, dimensions of rooms and where relevant, information about floors other than the ground floor. Much of the structural information is conveyed by signs. Very occaisionally a section of the building is shown.

Case papers of the London County Council Welfare Department, 1904-1930. Please note some files may be closed for Data Protection purposes.

Records of the London County Council Welfare Department relating to homes and institutions, 1896-1962, including reports, religious ministration, administration, nursing and medical, staffing, building works, finance, workshops, inventory, log-books and information about residents for homes including Alexandra House, Brockle Bank, Bromley House, Camberwell Reception Centre, Carisbrooke Lodge, Dale Mead Old People's Home, Fulham Road Hostel, Ladywell Lodge, Luxborough Lodge, Newington Lodge, Norwood House, Orchard Lodge, Princes Row, Southern Grove Lodge and Saint Peter and Saint Paul Home for Babies. Also case papers for small homes, large homes and out of county homes. Please note that files may be closed for Data Protection purposes.

Records of the London County Council Welfare Department, 1930-1964, comprising orders of removal to or from the County of London. Please note that some files may be closed under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the London County Council, 1721-1983, including the Architect's Department, Chief Engineer's Department, Children's Department, Clerk's Department, Comptroller of the Council's Department, Education Officer's Department, Fire Brigade Department, Housing Department, Legal and Parliamentary Department, Lieutenancy of the County of London, Public Control Department, Public Health Department, Parks Department, Restaurant and Catering Department, Staff Benevolent Society, Supplies Department, Tramways Department, Valuation Department, Welfare Department and Works Department.

The type of records held include committee minutes and papers, administrative records, reports, plans and maps, photographs, log books, registers and samples of case files, examinations, application forms, licences, school report books, publicity material, pamphlets, leaflets and publications. The records deal with various aspects of London governance including the management of schools, hospitals, health centres and other insitutions; the overseeing and regulation of construction work, street improvements, sewers and drains, flood defences and bridges; tax assessments; the construction and maintenance of housing estates; the maintenance of parks and open spaces; the care of children, the elderly and the disabled; the monitoring of legal requirements; licensing and monitoring of establishments including lodging houses, theatres, cinemas, and slaughterhouses; licensing of vehicles and drivers; traffic congestion and transport issues; town planning; financial accounts, estimates and budgets and emergency measures during the First and Second World Wars.

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.

Plans from the London County Council Architect's Department Plan Room. The plans are for the varied buildings designed and constructed by the Architect's Department, predominantly housing estates but also schools, fire stations, hospitals, old people's homes, colleges, docks, shopping centres and hostels. There are also plans of the Royal Festival Hall.

Records of the London County Council Architect's Department relating to Town Planning, including proposals prepared under the 1909 Town Planning Act, 1909-1938; papers regarding the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act, 1935-1937; proposals for Town Planning Schemes, 1927-1935; regulation of advertisements and illuminated signs, 1914-1939; preservation of trees, 1932-1939; papers regarding zoning, 1921-1936; coordination and development of transport, 1926-1932; arterial and classified roads, 1915-1935; papers and research data prepared for the Plan for Redevelopment of the County of London, 1940-1942; appeals against town planning decisions, 1949-1951; schemes for Croydon and Beckenham under the 1909 Town Planning Act, 1921-1923; papers regarding garden squares and enclosures, 1923-1945; Town Planning Information Bulletins, 1959-1965; papers regarding reviews of the County of London Development Plan, 1957-1964.

Papers, 1922-1956, regarding the formulation of town planning schemes, including consultation with crown lands, estate owners, borough councils and local authorities both in and outside of London. Subject and policy files relating to Green Belt proposals, 1926-1937, town planning schemes, 1924-1939 and correspondence of the Greater London Regional Planning Committee, 1933-1936. Objections, public enquiries and modifications to the County of London Development Plan, 1951-1962. Article 'Town Planning in relation to old and congested areas with special reference to London', by Arthur Crow, 1910; papers on Arterial Roads in London, 1914-1915; report on the travelling facilities to and from south east London, 1926; reports relating to post-war reconstruction, 1943-1949; 'Plan for Saint Pancras', prepared by the Saint Pancras Borough Council, 1949; reports of the Greater London Regional Planning Committee, 1929-1931. Registers of planning applications under the Town and Country Planning Act 1947-1951.

Maps of London, Middlesex, Kent and Hertfordshire, 1860-1940, showing sewers, drains, sites of Council buildings, locations of proposed developments, street name changes, road widening schemes and tree preservation, all stamped as 'superseded'. Plans including land use surveys, 1922-1957; maps and plans made to accompany town planning schemes, 1928-1941; age of buildings survey, 1870-1916; war damage surveys, 195-; objection maps, showing the site of buildings in the 1951 Development Plan about which objections were raised, 195-; maps showing the listed historical buildings in each borough, 1965 and Bermondsey reconstruction plans, 1937-1950.

Records of the London County Council Chief Engineer's Department comprising annotated maps of London and Middlesex, 1894-1896, from the Public Health Section library.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Improvements Committee, and also of the Bridges Committee (1889-1906) and the Corporate Property Committee (1889-1904) whose functions largely passed to the Improvements Committee on their closure.

Committee Clerk's general papers, 1883-1931, relating to a variety of subjects including the Land Transfer Act, 1897, leasehold redemption policies, auction of surplus land, tramways, arbitration proceedings, "London Street Improvements" pamphlet by Henry Clarke, Improvements Committee Chairman, 1892, LCC (Improvements) Bill 1897: minutes of evidence, speeches, and papers; LCC (Improvements) Bill 1900: minutes of evidence, speeches, and papers. Also papers relating to individual road improvements and widening schemes, and papers relating to the construction and maintenance of individual bridges, embankments and tunnels. Please consult the detailed catalogue for a full list.

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department relating to teacher training, 1903-1976.

Subject and policy files on a variety of topics including the Departmental Committee on the Training of Teachers; relations between the Universities and Training Colleges; the Central Consultative Committee of Headmasters and Headmistresses; training of art teachers; training of teachers of the blind; training of teachers of building; training of teachers of the deaf; training of domestic economy teachers; training of teachers of educationally sub-normal children; physical training in LCC Training Colleges; arrangements during the Second World War; Emergency Training Colleges; Senior County Teachers' Scholarships; statistics; National Froebel Union (later Foundation); University of Cambridge Certificate of Education; grants regulations; supply and training of teachers for technical colleges; introduction of the three-year teacher training course.

Subject files relating to individual LCC Training Colleges and individual Training Colleges not maintained by the LCC, including papers on buildings, equipment, expansions, reorganisations and closures, staffing, establishment of courses, arrangements and evacuation during Second World War, transfer of colleges to University of London, correspondence, syllabi, pamphlets, prospectuses, college magazines, policies, grants and fees, inspections, Governor's meeting minutes, Students' Union meeting minutes, Staff-Student Consultative Committee minutes, Staff Meetings and Academic Board meeting minutes (please see catalogue for full list of the individual colleges).

Also sample sets of applicants' case-papers for the Loan Fund for Prospective Teachers; sample sets of personal files of Training College students; reports from Annual Conferences of Teachers; handbooks from the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project; sample certificates and student report and record books; National Froebel Union regulations, examination papers and reports of examiners; 'The Government of Maintained Training Colleges', LCC pamphlet (1953).

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department relating to welfare services and children's care, 1888-1970.

Subject and policy files on a variety of topics including children's care work; report of Children's Care Organisers and Divisional Superintendents on Unemployment and Distress in the early stages of the First World War; London Juvenile Advisory Committee; employment of children and juveniles; cleansing of verminous children; dietary and clinical investigation into nutritional standard of Bethnal Green school children by the Rowett Research Institute (Carnegie Trust); provision of hot mid-day meals in schools; Children's Play Centres Fund; after-care of school leavers; children's care organisers; proposed integration of children's care service and school inquiry service; Association of Children's Care Organisers; Association of Social Workers; the Young People's Advisory Service Avondale Project; Children's Country Holiday Fund; Youth Employment Service; Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906; School Meals Service; Bateson Report on the employment of children as film actors, in theatrical work and in ballet; smoking and health; Child Guidance Clinic, Maudsley Hospital.

Minutes of the Children's Care Committees of individual LCC schools and minutes of Local Associations of Children's Care Committees. Registers of infringements and prosecutions regarding the employment of children under Education Act, 1921; Summons Books for infringements of school attendance requirements; minutes of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Children's Care Service.

Records of the London County Council Fire Brigade Department, 1822-1965, including subject and policy files on general topics including correspondence on question whether horses can smell fire and locate scene of outbreaks; participation by Brigade in International Horse Shows; surprise inspections of stations by the Chief Officer; passing of information on fires to firms of fire assessors; the funerals of Sir Eyre Massey Shaw and Sir Lionel Wells; drills and competitions; Women's Fire Protection Force; emergency arrangements during the 1926 General Strike; pamphlet on National Fire Brigades Association; International Fire Exhibition, Paris; mutual arrangements between brigades for extinguishing fires; London Fire Brigade Questions and Answers Book; liaison with press; displays and demonstrations at exhibitions and events; London Fire Brigade Museum; reorganisation of the Brigade (1934); visits by officers to foreign fire brigades; the Royal Commission on Fire Brigades and Fire Prevention; Departmental Committee on Fire Brigade Services (Riverdale Committee); Fire Brigades Act, 1938; insurance companies' contributions towards the cost of the Brigade; Central Advisory Council for Fire Services; press cuttings; transfer of Fire Services from National Fire Service to local authorities after Second World War.

Subject and policy files regarding fires and special services, including papers on: fires aboard ships; fires on tramcars; fires in dance halls, factories, workshops, warehouses, Government and LCC buildings, hospitals, nursing homes, massage establishments, chimneys, hotels, clubs, lodging houses, restaurants, fried fish shops, places of public entertainment, houses, flats, tenements, schools, colleges, churches, church halls, University buildings, wharves, docks, gasworks, gas mains, departmental stores, shops and retail markets; fires involving explosives; static electricity as a cause of fire; reports on serious fires; legal right of Brigade to enter premises on fire; Society for the Protection of Life from Fire; special services including gas escapes, lift accidents, railway accidents and pumping operations during flooding; fires of doubtful origin or caused by arson and incendiaries; City fire inquests; lives lost at fires; electrical hazards at fires; organisation at large fires; oil fires; fires and panics; special reports on individual fires; fires involving celluloid; reports on fires by fire prevention officers; register of fires and other incidents attended by the Brigade Control Unit.

Subject and policy files regarding appliances and equipment including land steamers, horses and stabling, motor vehicles, motor pumps, Merryweather's pumps, escape vans and turntable ladders, electrical turntable ladders, foam tender, fireboats "Alpha", "Beta", "Gamma", "Massey Shaw" and "Raidwood", smoke helmets, respirators and breathing apparatus, chemical fire extinguishers, fire escapes, asbestos protective equipment, air foam. Also Stores Ledgers and registers of accidents to vehicles and appliances.

Subject and policy files relating to communications including street fire alarms, fire alarm telegraph systems, fire telephones, malicious false alarms, automatic fire alarms, radiotelephony, messages, Watch-room and Control Room procedures, teleprinters, radio installations, list of automatic fire alarms and fire telephones connected to each station.

Subject and policy files relating to fire prevention, including tests of fireproof flooring; inspection of public, government and Council buildings; fire precautions at various buildings including hospitals; petroleum storage; petrol fires on barges; celluloid risks; explosives; electric high voltage and neon signs; household fire protection rules; revised fire drill rules for schools; automatic sprinkler installation; foam installations to deal with petrol and oil fires; automatic drencher installations; means of escape in case of fire; Advisory Committee on the Amendment of the London Building Act, 1930; fire prevention arrangements on ships and Tube railways; Fire Prevention (Business Premises) Order, 1941.

Subject and policy files relating to water supplies including liaison with Metropolitan Water Board in cases of water shortage at fires; hydrants and hydrant tablets; maps showing locations of hydrants; hydrant registers. Subject and policy files relating to Fire Brigade buildings, particularly London Fire Brigade Headquarters at Albert Embankment.

Original fire reports, containing detailed reports concerning individual calls to fires, including false alarms, including: address of fire, occupiers of premises, business or trade carried on, where fire started, particulars of fire, times of calls, method of extinguishing fire, fire appliances in attendance and fire station called. Also daily return of fire calls, compiled under section 31 of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act, 1865, which required the Fire Brigade to supply each fire insurance company with a daily return of fires occurring in the Metropolis. The information generally duplicates that of the fire reports.

General reports and publications, including Memoir of James Braidwood; pamphlets and order of proceedings; handbooks; lectures; reports; articles; guidebooks; memoranda, orders and instructions; order books, statistics and log books. Also photographs.

Records of the London County Council Public Control Department relating to diseases of animals and regulation of performing animals, 1892-1963, including files on foot and mouth disease; anthrax; glanders (a contagious disease in horses); parasitic mange; rabies and hydrophobia; sheep scab; sheep pox; Johne's Disease (wasting condition of cattle); fowl pest; the Report of the Committee on the Slaughtering of Livestock, 1932; the Departmental Committee of Inquiry into Cruelty to British Wild Animals; Interdepartmental Committee on Slaughterhouses; importation of dogs and cats orders; transit of animals orders; animals (sea-transport) orders; destruction of carcases; overcrowding of animals in railway trucks; transit of unfit animals by rail and road; the Control of Dogs Orders and Dogs Act, 1906; Exported Cattle Protection Order, 1957; Protection of Animals Act, 1911; Pet Animals Act, 1951; Animals Boarding Establishments Act, 1963; Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876; Protection of Birds Act, 1954; the Markets (Protection of Animals) Order, 1964; Animal (Cruel Poisons) Act, 1962. Also registers compiled under the Performing Animals (Regulation) Act, 1925.