MBW/1901-1908: Thames Floods (estimate of works required to repair damage caused by floods and estimates of works for defence against future flooding)
MBW/1909-1910: Redistribution Of Vestrymen (cuttings from minutes)
MBW/1911-1913: Water Supply (reports on the metropolis water supply)
MBW/1914-1916: Letters (in-letters, petitions, applications and out-letters)
MBW/1917-1919: Advertisements
MBW/1920-1924: Newspaper Cuttings
MBW/1925-1928: Staff Lists (including duties of officers)
MBW/1929-2309: Finance (including registers of contracts and agreements, salary books and rate books)
MBW/2310-2420: Printed Reports (including annual reports of the Board and Committees, architect's, engineer's and fire brigade reports, papers circulated to Board members, Bills and Acts of Parliament)
MBW/2421-2445: Contracts And Specifications for work on sewers, drains and embankments.
MBW/2446-2653: Plans (plans submitted to Parliament, plans of local improvements arranged by parish, plans of artisan's dwellings, plans of the metropolis water supply, plans of Thames floods, plans of parks and open spaces, plans presented to the Board and to various Committees to accompany reports, memorials and proposals for improvements, creation of parks, drainage, bridges, roads and tunnels, plans of railways)
MBW/2654-2656: District Surveyor (monthly returns and drainage applications)
MBW/2657-2663: Bridges (Accountant's Department papers concerning claims of the bridge companies whose bridges were acquired under the Metropolitan Toll Bridges Act 1877 and the Metropolitan Bridges Act 1883)
MBW/2664-2682: Thames Floods (volumes of duplicate copies of notices served on riparian [situated on the banks of a river] owners under the Metropolis Management (Thames River Prevention of Floods) Amendment Act 1879 and Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1882, with associated plans and riverfront elevations)
MBW/2683-2685: Financial Records (Accountant's Department papers)
MBW/2686-2807: Thames Floods (plans and estimates for flood prevention works and plans of river frontage with elevations of riparian [situated on the banks of a river] properties)
MBW/2808-2812: Thames Soundings
MBW/2813-2830: Specifications (volumes of specifications for housing, fire stations, bridges, drainage, parks, embankments and sewers)
MBW/2831-2837: Contract Books and Registers
MBW/2838-2840: Rate Books
MBW/P: Plans
MBW/OW: Office of Works (papers relating to the Chelsea Bridge and Embankment, Westminster Bridge, Battersea Park, Kennington Park and Victoria Park)
MBW/BC: Bridge Company (papers relating to Vauxhall Bridge)
MBW , Metropolitan Board of Works x Metropolitan Board of Works