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Records of the Middlesex County Council, 1712-1975, including the Architect's Department, Civil Defence Department, Children's Department, Clerk's Department, Clerk's Legal Department, Education Officer's Department, Engineer and Surveyor's Department, Estates and Valuation Department, Fire Brigade Department, County Treasurer's Department, Health Department, Local Taxation Department, and Public Assistance and Welfare 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, publicity material, pamphlets, leaflets and publications. The records deal with various aspects of Middlesex governance including the management of schools, hospitals, health centres, libraries, residential care homes and other insitutions; the overseeing and regulation of construction work, roads and highways, sewers, drains 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 theatres and cinemas; licensing of vehicles and drivers; traffic congestion and transport issues; town planning; financial accounts, estimates and budgets, and civil defence and emergency measures during the First and Second World Wars.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Civil Defence Department, including general files, 1953-1964, relating to civil defence including planning, guidance, memoranda, reports, background information, general correspondence, correspondence relating to air raid shelters, surveys, conferences and papers on the use of the Civil Defence Corps in peacetime emergencies.

Files on training, 1949-1964, including syllabus and instructor notes for training in handling casualties, rescue, wardens, tactics, evacuation, care of the homeless, billeting, rest centres, operational control, cable laying and communications; orders for training exercises; demonstrations and competitions, and plaques presented to the Middlesex Division Civil Defence Corps for completion of training by the Royal Air Force.

Files on tactical studies, 1953-1962, including London tactical study exercise questions; London Region control and deployment study; papers from a London tactical exercise at Park Royal; and papers from a Middlesex County Council tactical study at Hirst Hall, Wembley including programmes, talks and notes.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department comprising index cards of children in care. Please note access to these records is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to staffing, comprising index cards of staff in the Department, 1948-1965. Please note that access to these records is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department comprising case files of adoptions, 1943-1947. Access to these records is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department comprising plans of works carried out on roads and highways in the Middlesex area, 1932-1939.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to estates and housing, 1889-1965, including index cards listing MCC properties; index cards of properties in the Green Belt, and files relating to the administration of MCC properties and land, including some deeds, purchase information, correspondence, plans and photographs. Properties and structures include housing estates, a pumping station, an electricity sub-station, fire stations, footpaths, open spaces, playing fields and sports grounds, civil defence training premises, railway extension, hospital, offices, highways and schools.

Also plans of a clinic, housing estates, schools, street layouts, a sports ground, allotments, a police station and a court house.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to entertainments licensing, 1893-1965, including orders, reports and regulations concerning licences; applications for licensing; reports on the building requirements of premises seeking licences for music, dancing or stage plays; writs, reports and correspondence; prosecutions against unlicensed premises; police reports relating to Sunday opening of cinemas; stage play bonds, and pamphlet 'A short history of the cinema in Middlesex 1910-1965'.

Papers relating to individual premises including cinemas, hotels, music halls, canteens, hippodromes, cafes, arenas, dance halls, lecture halls, sports arenas, restaurants, skating rinks, working men's clubs and theatres.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Establishment Committee, 1923-1965, comprising papers relating to staff matters including superannuation, grading, appeals against grading decisions, leave, recruitment, expenses, employment of the disabled, departmental reorganisations, salary scales, equal pay, staff inspections, financial aid, training schemes, bonus schemes, advertising and publicity, correspondence, reports, conditions of service and regulations. Also Joint Negotiating Committee papers, Fire Brigade personnel cards, and papers relating to the transfer of staff to other authorities in 1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to finance, 1864-1965, including general papers on a variety of subjects including accounts, audits, estimates, budgets, County stocks, rates, rating and valuation, correspondence, general loans, grants, mortgages, contracts, reports, sale of property, staff salaries, rents, financial regulations, investments, trust funds, borrowing, capital expenditure, war damage, insurance, banking arrangements, housing advances and housing loans.

Papers of the Accounts and General Sub-committee; papers of the Central Purchasing Sub-committee; papers of the Organisation and Method Committee; papers relating to the administration of the Edmonton Latymer Foundation; register of applications to the Local Government Board for consent to borrow loan sanctions; register of applications to the Ministry of Health for consent to borrow loan sanctions; indexes to loan sanctions

Papers relating to rates including correspondence, County rate basis forms of return calculations, revisions of county rate basis, returns by clerks to assessment committees, appeals against rates, calculations for the basis of county rates and revision of county rate basis returns of properties.

Administrative papers of the Finance Department, including office procedures, correspondence, appointment of the County Treasurer and other staff, staff personal files, and superannuation.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the London Airport Committee (Heathrow), 1948-1964, including correspondence; financial papers; papers relating to noise from aircraft, transport links and road works; papers relating to insurance, and press notices.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to the East Middlesex Drainage Scheme, 1934-1965, including conferences and correspondence between the MCC and over local authorities; reports on sewerage and waste disposal; papers relating to boreholes; papers regarding the Cuffley Brook Sewer, East Barnet Branch Sewer, High Level Sewer, Lee Valley Main Sewer, Tottenham Low and High Level Sewers, Chingford Sewer, Waltham Holy Cross Branch Sewer and Wood Green Sewer; papers relating to trade effluent agreements; protective clauses and notices; purchase of sites; electricity lines near the works; contracts and supplies; acquisition of and access to land and sludge disposal.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to light railways and tramways, 1884-1921, including deeds; copies of relevant Parliamentary Bills; papers relating to litigation against Middlesex County Council; papers relating to conveyancing, including property register, purchase of properties, compensation payments and general property matters; maps and plans; photographs of the first cars at Edgware, Bounds Green Road and Enfield.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to magistrates courts, 1957-1965, including general papers and papers relating to Barnet, Harrow, Highgate and Willesden Courthouses.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to Parliament, 1884-1965, including papers relating to Bills promoted by the MCC including the Middlesex County Council Acts 1930, 1931, 1934, 1944 and 1961; copies of Parliamentary bills of interest to the County Council including bills promoted by other local authorities, legislation promoted by second tier authorities in Middlesex, orders concerning electrical and gas undertakings and orders concerned with tramways and railways; papers relating to water undertakings including Parliamentary bills, maps of water company districts and pollution of rivers; copies of Parliamentary standing orders.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to smallholdings, 1927-1965, including general papers; matters arising under the Smallholdings and Allotments Acts; papers relating to individual smallholdings including problems with land access, sale of land and construction works taking place on land.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to the management and maintenance of various Middlesex court houses, 1947-1965, including the Middlesex Guildhall and courts in Feltham, Highgate, Ealing, Uxbridge, Willesden, Acton, Brentford, Enfield and Hendon. Also papers relating to the County Record Office.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department comprising Middlesex County Council seals and badges, 1902-1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to valuation, 1923-1948, including papers relating to the Rating and Valuation Act 1925; correspondence of the County Valuation Committee; general papers and correspondence of Assessment Committees; papers regarding assessment areas; papers regarding panels of valuers; papers relating to the rating and assessment of particular types of property including railways, public utilities, hospitals, charities, sports grounds, sewers, shops, canals, residential property, garages and sheds, factories, workshops, airports and Crown property.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Welfare Department, 1939-1965, including general files relating to a variety of topics including Medical Officers inspections, care for the deaf, care for the blind, care of the physically disabled, homeless families, problem families, special equipment, provision of residential accommodation, nursing homes, registration of disabled and old people's homes, personnel problems, conferences and papers relating to individual care homes and institutions.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department relating to higher and further education, 1929-1965, including further educational schemes; papers relating to higher education in Acton, Finchley and Tottenham; examinations for the Armed Forces and the Royal Society of Arts; papers relating to individual colleges and polytechnics.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Fire Brigade Department relating to staff, 1944-1965, including policy and administration files including: recruitment policy, recruitment advertising, conditions of service, contracts of employment, staff discipline, pensions schemes, membership of unions and professional bodies.

Papers relating to training including: Fire Service College, training school, training of recruits, test calls and exercises, driving tests and promotion examinations. Personal papers of the Chief Officer including minutes of meetings, budgets, pay negotiations, staff annual reports, divisional instructions and memos.

Also personnel files for individual staff members. Personnel files survive for personnel who worked for the Middlesex County Council Fire Brigade Department and who resigned from the service before the 31st March 1965. The personnel files of regular, uniformed staff who transferred from the Middlesex Brigade, in particular to the new London Fire Brigade in 1965, were passed onto their new employers at the time and do not survive in the MCC archive. The same applies to files of Auxiliary Fire personnel. Files concerning regular firemen have been kept in their entirety, apart from those for staff born before 1900 or whose deaths (not occurring at work) were reported in the files. Please note access to these files is restricted.

Records of the Middlesex County Council County Treasurer's Department, 1889-1965, including annual budgets; abstract of accounts; annual budget capital estimates; revised capital estimates; reports of the Accounts and General Sub-committee; statistics; financial and statistical digest; capital ledgers for various departments; general revenue ledgers; trust funds; loan ledgers; stock and stock redeemable ledgers; superannuation funds; charges for maintenance of children in hostels; financial records of individual children's homes; accounts of Hampton Grammar School Foundation; accounts of Edmonton Latymer Foundation; and financial accounts of the Estates and Housing Committee.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to care and after care, 1944-1965, including papers relating to the care of tuberculosis patients; papers relating to chiropody clinics; papers relating to mother and baby homes; papers regarding the provision of nursing equipment; papers relating to the provision of invalid kitchens and laundry services.

Papers relating to the Health Education Scheme including lecture notes; public information film '52 Small Bones' on the care of children's feet; papers of the Smoking and Lung Cancer Committee; papers of the Fluoridation Information Service; policy relating to accidents in the home; papers relating to diabetes; papers regarding Well Women's Clinics, and papers regarding venereal diseases. Also papers relating to recuperative holidays including registers of cases; sample of case papers of those sent on recuperative holidays, and registers of recuperative holidays for children.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to the dental section, 1922-1965, including orthodontic treatment policy; dental education to aid in the conservation of teeth; dental treatment in schools; research and investigation into sodium fluoride; dental prosthetics; dental anaesthetics; Ministry of Education circulars; Ministry of Health Circulars, and press cuttings.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to school health, 1944-1965, including general files relating to: juvenile delinquency, physically disabled pupils, special schools, blind and partially sighted pupils, education of the deaf, residential schools, epilepsy, mentally deficient pupils, medical inspections, ear, nose and throat clinics, dermatological survey of schoolchildren, provision of medicines and vitamins, child guidance centres, holiday camps for diabetic and epileptic children, speech therapy, first aid equipment, accidents, employment of children, 'latch-key' children, school canteens, head lice, ophthalmic treatment, colour vision testing, orthopaedic treatment, physiotherapy, surveys of the health and development of children, precautions against tuberculosis, vaccination, maladjusted children, dyslexia, control of infectious diseases and school meals.

Minutes and presented papers of Special Committees, Joint Committees and Advisory Committees of the Middlesex County Council, 1889-1965:

Airports Committee

Arms Committee

Auxiliary Forces Committee

Barnet Union Committee

Bridges Committee

Common Interests Committee

County Solicitor Committee

Dyrham Park Committee

Edmonton Union Committee

Education Committee

Governance Committee

Guildhall Committee

Health Committee

Local Government Committee

Medical Committee

Member of County Council Committee

National Insurance Committee

Officers Committee

Pensions Committee

Physically Handicapped Committee

Planning Committee

Poor Law Committee

Quarter Sessions Committee

Refuse Dumps Committee

Registration of Title Committee

Richmond Hill Committee

Road Stone Committee

Testimonial Committee

Thames Committee

Unemployed Workmen Committee

Vagrancy Committee

Voluntary Hospitals Committee

Wild Birds Committee

Records of the Middlesex County Council Public Assistance and Welfare Department relating to public assistance and relief, 1889-1948, including relevant Parliamentary legislation; papers of relief offices; personnel files; papers relating to relief policy; reports; appropriation of Poor Law hospitals; assessment regulations; papers relating to individual hospitals; papers relating to maternity care; papers relating to the care of children; papers relating to the care of mentally disabled persons; legal proceedings; registers and case files; registers of persons in the care of Boards of Guardians including lunatics and non settled poor.

Also papers relating to the Second World War including relief districts; invasion plans; fire watching and equipment; clothing distribution; arrangements for evacuation of persons in institutions and care homes; home refugees; refugees from abroad; billeting and re-housing; rest centres and emergency feeding.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to highways, 1902-1965, including papers relating to improvements to roads and footpaths; papers relating to light railways (tramways); index cards made as part of measures to restrict ribbon development, describing applicants with details of building, access, material and works; papers relating to rivers including the River Brent, River Thames and the Duke of Northumberland's River; rainfall statistics for the county and list of bridges and main roads maintained by the MCC. Also plans of highways, rivers, bridges and sewers.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Joint Thames Bridges Committee, 1891-1919. Papers relating to King Edward VII Bridge (Kew Bridge), including copies of relevant legislation; resolutions; reports of the Surveyor and Solicitors; correspondence; plans; specifications for tender and papers relating to the opening ceremony, including photographs.

Papers relating to Kingston Bridge, including copies of relevant legislation; plans; correspondence; instructions for tendering; reports; acquisition of land and sale of land.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to supplies, 1948-1965, including papers relating to members allowances and expenses; papers regarding central repair depots and transport depots; papers relating to stores; lists of approved contractors and investigations into monopolies and restrictive practices; papers relating to chauffeurs and drivers, and tenders for supply of various goods.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to the West Middlesex Drainage scheme, 1929-1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to planning, 1926-1946, comprising maps and plans showing town planning schemes in Acton, Brentford, Chiswick, Ealing, Edmonton, Enfield, Feltham, Finchley, Friern Barnet, Harrow, Hayes, Harlington, Hendon, Heston, Isleworth, Hornsey, Potters Bar, Southall, Norwood, Southgate, Staines, Tottenham, Twickenham, Uxbridge, Wembley, Willesden, Wood Green and Yiewsley.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department relating to finances, 1919-1966, including papers relating to school fees; papers relating to financial aid for pupils; budget estimates and correspondence relating to the estimates; and abstract books for teacher salaries and superannuation.

Publications produced by the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department, 1899-1965, including Technical Instruction directories; directories of secondary schools, technical institutes and evening schools; lists of public elementary, secondary, junior technical and art schools, polytechnics, colleges, evening schools and youth employment bureaux; issues of the 'Schools Gazette'; The Middlesex Book of Verse' collected poems by students of Middlesex secondary schools (1929); booklet 'Further education in Middlesex: A review of the thirty years 1933-1963' (1964); 'Guide to courses of further education in Middlesex' (1964); and pamphlet 'Middlesex County Libraries Silver Jubilee, 1922-1947' (1948).

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department relating to the Youth Employment Service, set up in 1910 to guide young people into the occupations for which they were most suited. It contains files on administration, correspondence and reports, lists of staff and school leavers, regional committee files, apprenticeship schemes and papers of individual youth employment bureaux.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Engineer and Surveyor's Department relating to civil defence, 1949-1963, including Home Office civil defence circulars; Middlesex civil defence circulars; notes for instructors; training notes and technical notes.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Engineer and Surveyor's Department, 1914-1964, comprising administrative files relating to the day to day work of the Department. The subject matter of this series is wide ranging and includes information on road widening, road improvements, maintenance of highways, bridges and sewers, provision of road signs, accident reports and town planning schemes.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Estates and Valuation Department, 1897-1960, including County rate basis registers of returns from clerks to assessment committees and from clerks to commissioners of taxes; objections to rate assessments; rating schedules for MCC properties, including special properties, out county assessments, analysis of variations in assessment, and register of proposals and proceedings; Middlesex Review Order maps; papers relating to special properties including railways, canals, sewers and parks; review and alteration of county boundaries and circular letters issued by the Department.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Fire Brigade Department Auxiliary Fire Service, 1948-1965, including policy and administration files relating to: civil defence, planning, repair depots, personnel management, staff regulations, conditions of service, minutes of meetings of officers, tactical studies, tactical instructors, competitions, recreational facilities, and liaison with other authorities.

Files relating to recruitment and training including: recruitment policy, recruitment publicity including films, courses at civil defence training schools, rescue training, training films, exercises, promotions, women's section, allowances and expenses, medical examinations and long service medals.

Files relating to appliances and equipment including housing of vehicles and appliances, motor cycles, Bedford self propelled pumps, equipment for water relaying, stores and provisions, extension ladders, and training pamphlets.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to local health services, 1934-1965, including papers regarding co-operation between local health authorities, hospital authorities and general practitioners; policy on day nurseries and crèches; policy relating to the care of mothers and babies; policy relating to birth control; papers relating to the midwifery service and general childbirth; papers of the Family Help Service relating to problem families; policy on homeless families; policy relating to welfare foods; policy on health visiting and home nursing; papers regarding vaccination and immunisation; policy relating to the care of the aged; policy on nursing homes; papers relating to research, investigations and trials.

Maps from the Middlesex County Council Planning Department, 1920-1961, including map of London Airport (Heathrow); map showing allotments in Middlesex; maps of bye-passes, roads and highways; maps of school sites and playing fields; map of land liable for flooding; nature conservancy map; maps of drainage and sewerage; map of the Thames Riverside Walk; maps of the Central, North, South and West Planning Areas and map of parishes, unions, rural and urban sanitary districts.

Aerial photographs from the Middlesex County Council Planning Department, 1944-1964, taken by the Royal Air Force on behalf of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. The photographs were numbered and need to be used in conjunction with the index maps.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Public Assistance and Welfare Department, 1940-1965, including general files on a variety of topics including government legislation, administrative instructions, financial accounts and budgets, people in receipt of domiciliary relief, survey of physically disabled persons, welfare visitors, chronic sick people in residential accommodation, young chronic sick persons, liaison with regional hospital boards, mother and baby hospitals, abandoned children, and neglected children.

Register of old people's homes; registers of moveable property; case registers and index cards of elderly persons. Please note access to the case registers and index cards may be restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Architect's Department, including administrative records, 1929-1963, such as correspondence, contract books, registers, departmental organisation and procedures, committee papers and minutes, memoranda, exhibitions, journal articles and press cuttings on the work of the department, papers relating to the issue of iron and steel for building purposes, schedules of prices for building works, papers relating to private architects and correspondence with teaching staff on school design.

Records relating to the construction of primary and secondary schools in Acton, Brentford, Chiswick, Ealing, Eastcote, Edmonton, Enfield, Feltham, Finchley, Friern Barnet, Hampstead, Hanworth, Harrow, Hayes, Hendon, Heston, Hornsey, Northwood, Pinner, Potters Bar, Southall, Southgate, Teddington, Tottenham, Twickenham, Uxbridge, Wembley, West Kenton, Willesden and Wood Green, 1946-1963; including bills, estimates, contracts, accounts, specifications and correspondence. Contracts, estimates, bills and specifications for Acton Technical College, Ealing Technical College, Maria Grey Training College, Southgate Technical College, Trent Park Teacher Training College and Willesden Technical College, 1947-1963.

Bills, specifications, accounts, and estimates for other buildings, 1949-1964, including offices, branch libraries, housing, civil defence control centres, clinics, community centres, court houses, ambulance garages, fire stations, sports facilities and the Central Middlesex Hospital, Willesden.

Drawings and plans, 1880-1961, for Middlesex Guildhall, Hanworth Grammar School, Feltham; Edmonton Technical Institute; Twickenham sewerage connection; Twickenham Fire Station and an old people's home in Tottenham.

Indexes to adoption cases dealt with by the Middlesex County Council Children's Department, 1933-1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to approved schools and remand homes, comprising indexes of children in approved schools, 1941-1965. Please note that access to these files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department transferred from Hornsey and Tottenham, 1930-1952, comprising medical officer notifications of births and deaths in Hornsey; and reports of the Infant Protection Visitor, register of foster mothers and children, index of adoptions, register of approved schools and foster parents and case files for Tottenham.

Hornsey and Tottenham were boroughs which prior to 1948 had run their own child life protection service and through their education committees had been responsible authorities under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, like many other Middlesex local authorities. When these powers were transferred to the MCC Children's Department Hornsey and Tottenham were jointly administered as Area Three. For unknown reasons some records of the previous administration were transferred to the MCC instead of remaining in the boroughs.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to the Children's Officer, 1947-1965, including the personal files of Jane Rowell regarding adoption policy, apprenticeship of children in care, approved schools, children neglected in their own homes, children ill treated, correspondence with children, correspondence requesting assistance or advice, attendance at conferences, the Family Help Service, health, including mental health, juvenile courts, juvenile delinquency, meeting minutes, press cuttings and publicity, Psychiatric Advisory Service, reports, foster homes, staffing, and voluntary organisations.

Also samples of monthly returns of children, submitted to the County Treasurer, and statistical returns submitted to the Home Office; and publications relevant to the work of the Department including "Report on the services administered by the Children's Department, MCC", 1952.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to children's homes, 1930-1965; including papers of individual MCC owned homes and nurseries; papers of privately run homes and nurseries used by the MCC; Medical Officers reports; and general files including papers on heating in homes, holidays, Jewish children and the care of children under five years old.