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Records of Cannon Lane Methodist Church, Pinner, comprising pamphlet concerning building development scheme and fundraising, 1963 and article of agreement between G E Cowie and C Laurier for tenancy of furnished house known as 68 Love Lane, including related correspondence and income tax and land tax forms 1942-1947.

Records of Kenton Methodist Church, including booklet entitled "Our Golden Jubilee", 1977; Kenton Methodist Church Newsletters, 1946-1993; service of re-dedication following the redevelopment of the church, 1990; Trustees correspondence, 1938-1947; agendas, minutes and reports of Church Council meetings, 1981-1982; Church Directories, 1983 and 1992-1993.

Calendars and historical research relating to the City and Corporation of London, 1252-1999. The collection contains calendars and indexes made by clerks to aid their work including calendars and indexes of wills and deeds entered in the Court of Husting, 1252-1616; calendar to Acts of the Common Council 'Liber Legum' (extracts from the City's Letter Books), 1582 and 1585; calendar of various matters dispersed through the City's books and rolls, 1275-1609 and 1713-1717; index to repertories, 1545-1588; copies of articles from the Charter and Liberties of London, 16--; copies of 126 legal cases made on behalf of the City, 16-- - 1755; papers dating to the 17th and 18th centuries collected by William Turner Alchin, Guildhall Librarian, 1845-1865, including material relating to the Great Fire of London, 1666, the Gordon Riots, 1780, and markets.

Also research notes and reports including the collection of Dr R R Sharpe, Clerk of the Records, 1876-1913; research papers intended to replace the Historical Reports destroyed in 1940 by the Guildhall bombing, consisting mainly of reports made by the City Archivist and his predecessors on the historical aspects of institutions of the Corporation and of the City Companies, as well as reports and articles by others, based on research amongst the Corporation's archives; and some publications of the London Topographical Society, 1945-1999.

Minutes and committee papers of the Markets Improvement Committee, Court of Common Council, 1849-1874.

Records of the Port of London Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1855-1857; committee papers, 1798-1817; bills for work done on docks and canals, 1794-1802; various financial papers, 1797-1806 and standing orders, 1826-1829.

Minutes of the Policy and Parliamentary Committee and the Policy and Resources Committee, Court of Common Council, 1966-2005. Please note minutes created after 1978 are closed.

Records of Rates Finance Committee, Court of Common Council, comprising minutes, 1936-1968 and committee papers, 1948-1957. Please note that minutes 1930-1936 were destroyed by enemy action.

Records of the Railways Committee, including volume of minutes, 1864-1865; committee papers, 1864; Third Report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on metropolitan railway communication, 1863 and report of House of Commons on railway schemes (metropolis), 1864.

Records of the Revenue and Officers Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1835-1838; Revenue Committee reports, 1836; returns of Officers' salaries, 1835-1836; attendances and allowances, 1833-1836; expenses of Mayoralty, 1835 and expenses of Mayor's household, 1835-1836.

Minutes of Special Bridge or Subway Committee, Court of Common Council, 1876-1878.

Records of the Special Finance Committee, Court of Common Council, including papers, minute book, rough minutes, Chairman's book, and printed report on the Income and Expenditure of the Corporation (13 Dec 1888), 1887-1889.

Records of the Select General Purposes (Porters) Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, papers, index of witnesses and synopsis of evidence, 1852-1853.

Records of the Special Revenue Committee, Court of Common Council, including minute book, Chairman's Book, rough minutes, papers, financial accounts, estimates and reports, 1857-1958.

Minute book of the Whole Court (Public Health Department) Committee, 1899-1905.

Plans of land and property owned by Bridge House estates, 1592-1889, including site or street plans of Avondale Square; Maidenhead Court; Wrestler's Court; White Street, Bermondsey; Webber Street, Southwark; the widening of Upper Thames Street, Tooley Street, Pottery Fields, The Maze, Little Eastcheap, Fish Hill Street; improvements at Temple Bar; a new street at Tottenham Court Road; a burial ground at St Michael, Crooked Lane; Bankside, Southwark, including the Globe Theatre; Wild Marsh, Stratford; Rock Hill and West Hill, Sydenham; St George's Fields, Southwark; Kent Street Road; Finsbury Circus; Great Suffolk Street and Belvidere Row, Bridewell, Surrey. Also drawings, elevations and plans of buildings including premises in Swan Street, Thames Street, Sun Alley, Rood Lane, Fenchurch Street, Paternoster Row, Philpot Lane, Old Change, King William Street, Lewisham High Street, Crucifix Lane, Dirty Lane, Friday Street, Five Foot Lane, Cheapside, Bermondsey Street, Arthur Street and Blackman Street; the Castle Alehouse and other properties, Watling Street; vaults and premises on Water Lane; the Watch House and other premises on Tooley Street; premises near St Paul's Churchyard; the Freemason's School and other premises, St George's Fields, Southwark; premises near King's Bench Prison and Marshalsea Prison; Borough Compter and surrounding premises; a stable on Old Kent Road; Sherwood's Dye House and other premises, Battle Mill Lane; demolished properties on Montague Close, Southwark; The Crown Public House, shops and other premises, Newgate Street; wharves and warehouses, Malt's Wharf; shipyards, wharves and docks, Deptford; designs for Legal Quays, St Catherine's Docks, the Southwark river frontage, West India docks and Cotton's Wharf, Southwark; Bridge House Court, Gracechurch Street; designs for warehouses and almshouses; plans and designs for Bridge House, the administrative headquarters of the old London Bridge; Mr Toulmin's Soap Manufactory, Bridewell, Surrey; stairs at Pepper Alley. Also signed contract drawings for Tower Bridge; designs for St Michael's Bridge, Stratford; survey of watercourses and designs for bridge at Battle Mill Stream; plan of the river Lea from Hertford to the Thames; designs for the reconstruction of Southwark Bridge; designs and plans of the bridge, approach roads, chapel, gate and houses, London Bridge; plans for the Chatham and Dover Railway Bridge over the Thames; designs for footpaths, tramways, railways, approaches and the Fleet Sewer, Blackfriars Bridge, and designs for the Croydon and Rotherhithe Canal and the Grand Surrey Canal.

Plans of land and property owned by the City Lands estates, 1641-1928, including site or street plans of All Hallows church, London Wall; Pickaye Street, Barbican; Bevis Marks near St Mary Axe; Chatham Place; Coleman Street; the Conduit Mead and Finsbury Estates; Earl Street, Blackfriars; Fenchurch Street; Holborn Valley improvements; Leadenhall Street; the Minories; Old Change; St Paul's Churchyard; Shoemaker Row; Temple Bar; Thames Street; Tottenham Court Road; Whitecross Street; plans for the widening of Billiter Lane, Wormwood Street, Bow Lane, Bread Street, Brick Hill Lane, Camomile Street, Cheapside; Snow Lane, Dowgate Hill, Eastcheap, Jewin Street, Mark Lane; Old Jewry; Poultry, Seething Lane; Snow Hill; Tower Street; Walbrook; Watling Street, Wormwood Street. Also drawings, elevations and plans of buildings including premises in Mitre Court and Adams Court, Duke's Place; Aldermanbury; Aldgate High Street; Bangor Court, Shoe Lane; Lothbury; Bell Court, Old Bethlem; Cheapside; Bishopsgate Street; New Broad Street; Budge Row, Castle Street; Cateaton Street; Chancery Lane; Crown Court, Moorfields; Crutched Friars; Dolphin Court, Blackfriars; Duke's Place; Grub Street; City Road, Old Street; Rotten Row; Windmill Hill; Fish Street Hill; Fleet Street; Giltspur Street; Gracechurch Street; Holborn Bridge; Houndsditch; Isle of Dogs; Jewry Street; Lambeth Hill; Ludgate Hill; Moorfields; Moorgate; New Bridge Street; New Broad Street; New Court, St Swithun's Lane; Ratcliffe; St Dunstan's Hill; St Mary Axe; St Swithun's Lane; Shoe Lane; Stonecutters Street; Watling Street; plans of houses to be demolished in Bartholomew Lane; Bethlem Hospital in Moorgate, with adjoining premises and burial ground; plans of Blackwell Hall; plan of the Boar's Head Tavern, Smithfield Barrs; plan of the house of the Keeper, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground; designs for extension, East India House; plan of Hudson's Bay Company premises; plan of the Gresham Almshouses; plan of Guildhall and offices; Watch House and other premises, Old London Wall; designs and plans for Mansion House; plans, designs and elevations for Leadenhall Market, Stocks Market, Honey Lane Market, Fleet Market, Farringdon Market, Smithfield Market, Queenhithe Market, Newgate Market and Street Lane Market; 'a method to fix the ground in Moorfields at a mean depth', Old Bethlem; designs for timber stairs at Old Swan Stairs, near London Bridge; designs for renovations, Paul's Stairs, Vauxhall Stairs, Three Crane Stairs and Stew Lane Stairs; designs and plans, Giltspur Street Compter, Poultry Compter, Newgate Prison, Ludgate Prison, Wood Street Compter; new burial ground at St Andrew's Holborn; plan of Blackwall Wharf; design for Blackfriars Wharf; plan of Broken Wharf; design for rebuilding Custom House Quay; design for Corn Office, Black Swan Court, Tower Street; plans of Artillery Ground, Finsbury; plan of Puddle Dock, Sabbs Dock and Queenhithe Docks; designs for embankments and towpaths along the River Thames; plans for Whitefriars Dock; plan of wharf and approaches, Blackfriars Bridge; plan for repairing London Bridge; plans of Westminster Bridge and section of the Isle of Dogs Canal.

Many of the plans include the names of tenants or owners of the buildings or lands.

Minute books of the Hampstead Heath Management Committee, Court of Common Council, 1989-2007. Please note these volumes are closed until 2025.

Minutes of the Highgate Wood Joint Consultative Committee, Court of Common Council, 1974-1988. Please note these minutes are closed until 2019.

Minute book and committee papers of the Joint Advisory Committee, Court of Common Council, 1946-1959. Please note these records are closed until 2035.

Committee papers of Joint Bridge House Estates and Special Committee, Court of Common Council, 1928-1931.

Records of the Joint Bridge House Estates and Thames Navigation and Port of London Committee, Court of Common Council, comprising minutes regarding petitions in respect of steam boat landings at the stairs on the Surrey end of London Bridge, 1854, and a communication made by a deputation from the Committee to the First Lord of the Treasury on necessary engineering works for the River, 1855.

Minutes and committee papers of the London Bridge Approaches Committee, Court of Common Council, 1841-1854.

Records of the Local Centres Examination Board Executive Committee, comprising minute book, 1912-1951 and Music Committee papers, 1942-1949.

Minute books of the Bridge House Trust Committee (also called the Bridge House Grants Committee), Court of Common Council, 1995-2006. Please note that these records are closed until 2030.

Records of the City Lands Committee, Court of Common Council, including journals, 1699-1870; minutes, 1703-1968; rough minutes, 1668-1698; committee papers, including reports, petitions and other documents presented to the committee, 1666-1957; City Lands and Bridge House Committees letter books, 1898-1913; report books, 1941-1965; order books, 1667-1816; warrants for payments to be made to workmen, 1873-1887; standing orders, 1793 and 1837-1909; City rentals, 1937-1950; papers of the City and Bridge House Accounts Committee, 1838-1845; papers regarding liability under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897; powers vested in the committee by the Court of Common Council, 1668-1673 and 1796-1846 and papers regarding collection of rents and enforcement of payments, 1873-1893.

Minute books of the Board of Governors, City of London School, 1973-2003 and minute book for the City of London School Bursary Committee 1979-2003, a sub committee of the main Board of Governors committee. Please note these records are closed.

Minutes of the Computer Steering Group Committee, Court of Common Council, 1970-1984. Please note these records are closed.

Records of the County Purposes Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1889-1956; committee papers, 1889-1956; papers regarding the use of inland waterways, 1917-1918; papers relating to the War Charities Act, 1916-1981; list of Chairmen, 1889-1931; list of powers and duties of the Committee, 1931; report books, 1913-1923 and 1941-1947, and solicitors' correspondence, 1890-1891.

Records of the Enquiries into the Constitution of the Corporation Committee, Court of Common Council, including minute books and papers, 1837-1840; minute book and papers, including Police Rate Assessments and returns of wards with lists of municipal election voters, 1852-1853 and minute books and papers, 1856-1861.

Minute book, 1917-1920, and letter book, 1941-1955, of the Local Food Control Committee, Court of Common Council, City of London.

Records of the Library and Museum Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1869-1874 and committee papers, 1869-1875.

Records of the Lunatic Asylum Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes 1838-1866 and committee papers, 1846-1872, including a number of returns of pauper lunatics chargeable to the City of London in various asylums.

Records of the Music and Drama Committee, Court of Common Council, comprising minute books of the Deputation regarding a National Training School for Music, Music Deputation and (from 1882) Music Committee, 1876-1999; committee papers, 1876-1957 and order book, 1894-1904.

Also Minute Book for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Trust Fund Committee 1984-2002.

Minutes and papers of various small, temporary committees of the Court of Common Council, 1668-1990. The Committees were formed to consider various matters including the election, remuneration and behaviour of officers and staff of the Corporation of London; consideration of the effects of various Parliamentary Acts and Bills; the historical rights and privileges of the City of London; the provision of cemeteries; parishes and benefices; metage, particularly of coal and corn; the reform of the Corporation; markets; building maintenance and preservation; debtors, insolvency and bankruptcy; the Gresham bequest; food imports; transport including railways; presentation of the Freedom to William Pitt; militia; the erection of monuments and statues; the funerals of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and Horatio, Viscount Nelson; legacies and bequests; care of orphans; poor relief; estate management; schools and libraries; City finances; water and gas supply; Port of London; sewers; regulation of trade and licensing; street lighting; prisons and compters.

Also papers relating to the general organisation and running of Court of Common Council Committees, including the decision to allow public and press to attend certain committees, 1974; lists of committee Chairmen and members for various years; committee books, 1690-1727 and 1813-1990; bills books, 1873-1884; notes on the historical powers of the Court of Common Council and the Court of Aldermen and notes on the streamlining of committees and administration, 1835-1965.

Minute book of the Central Criminal Court (Extension) Committee, Court of Common Council, 1964-1978. Please note these records are closed until 2009.

Records of the Newson-Smith Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1960-1961; report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Business of Criminal Courts, presented to Parliament in 1961; report of the Newson-Smith Committee, 1961; typed minutes, agenda, memoranda, correspondence and reports, 1959-1961; correspondence, 1960-1961; correspondence and memoranda regarding the re-convening of the Newson-Smith Committee to discuss the extension of the Central Criminal Court, 1966.

Records of the Epping Forest and Open Spaces Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1878-2004; committee papers, 1877-1957; subject files relating to specific developments including Jubilee Retreat, Bury Road, Chingford, Essex, 1941-1949, East Ham Civil Defence Centre, Capel Road, Wanstead Flats (including plans), 1952-1956, Western Sewage Works, Chingford Hatch, 1956 and report of Superintendent regarding Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge, 1952; letter books, 1879-2001; reports of the Epping Forest Committee to the Court of Common Council, 1882-1949 and annual reports, 1983-1997. Please note that some of these records are closed.

Records of the General Purposes Committee, Court of Common Council, including journals, 1789-1858; minutes, 1789-1981; rough minutes, 1791-1842; committee papers, 1789-1957; proceedings from various subcommittees including the Compter Committee, By Law Committee, Mansion House Committee, State Coach Committee, Marshale Committee, Blackfriars Bridge Committee, Shop Tax Committee, Court of Requests Committee, and investigations including the Sheriff's Court, regulation of unlicensed Carts, riots at Knightsbridge, regulating elections within the City, conduct of staff and proposal to alter the date of the annual wardmotes, 1777-1924; standing orders, 1826-1841 and summary of powers and duties with a list of Chairmen and standing orders of the Committee, 1880-1920.

Records of the City of London Board of Health, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1831-1834; extracts of relevant Common Council minutes, 1831-1833; committee papers, 1831-1833, including ward and parish returns as to state of poor, condition of cesspools and privies, Nov 1831, weekly returns of sick from wards and daily reports of diarrhoea and cholera cases; letter book, 1831-1833; account book, 1831-1833; volume of letters and reports including many from Sunderland where cholera first appeared in England; collection of printed notices and memoranda with three manuscript letters concerning cholera and precautions against cholera in Bengal, Odessa, and Europe, 1831-1833 and daily reports of cholera cases, issued by the control Board of Health giving number of new cases, dead, recovered etc. in London and elsewhere.

Records relating to Brokers, 1674-1906, including accounts of brokers' rents, 1788-1882; ledger of brokers' rents, 1746-1886; accounts of rent received, 1845-1847; brokers' rents cash book, 1847-1889; brokers' rentals, 1858-1885; brokers' bonds, 1697-1870; records of various Committees of the Court of Aldermen, which dealt with the admission and regulation of brokers, 1692 and 1764-1886; Act of Common Council for regulating Brokers upon the Royal Exchange, 1674; petitions of individuals to be admitted as brokers, submitted to the Court of Aldermen, 1708; registers of admission and discharge, 1708-1886; receipt books for medals certificates, 1840-1886; notices of discharge, 1863-1886; applications to the Court of Aldermen for admission as brokers, 1868-1871 brokers' medals, 1803 and 1837-1861; various lists of brokers, 1708-1882; Parliamentary Bills and orders, rules and regulations of the Court of Aldermen regarding brokers and article Brokers' Medals and Stockbrokers' Tokens by J.B. Caldecott, 1906.

Minute book of the Administration of Justice Committee, Court of Aldermen, dated November 1781.

Records of the Gaol Committee, Court of Aldermen, comprising minutes, 1817-1857; rough minutes, 1794-1795 and 1815-1816; committee papers, 1812-1866; reports, 1843-1878; orders, 1867 and 1871-1878; financial accounts, 1859-1878 and testimonials, 1849-1865.

Records of the Committee of the Whole Court of Aldermen, comprising minute book and papers, 1836 and rough minutes, 1821-1825.

Records of the Administration of Justice Committee, Common Council, 1836-1840, comprising minute books and committee papers.

Records of the Airport Committee, Court of Common Council, 1938-1956, comprising minutes, committee papers and various files, including correspondence, particularly regarding use of the land by the Air Ministry during World War Two and the post war sale of land to Ilford Borough Council; relevant Acts and Bills; minutes of meetings of the Aerodrome Owners Association; off-prints and press cuttings; memorandums; sub-committee minutes and surveyors reports.

Also papers relating to the inauguration of the first direct air service between London and Venice, April 1956.

Minute books of various Select and Special Committees of the Commissioners of Sewers and the Public Health Department, 1882-1929, including committees on the provision of electric lighting, school board expenditure on sanitation, the Engineer's Department, the construction of new offices, the provision of uniforms for inspectors and officers, the London Building Acts Amendment (1905) and the Metropolitan Water Board (Various Powers) Bill. There are also minutes of a joint sub-committee of the Improvements and Finance, Streets and Sanitary Committees.

Minute book and committee papers of Special Markets Committee, Court of Common Council, 1918-1922.

Records of the Spitalfields Market Committee, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1937-2001 (closed from 1976 onwards) and committee papers, 1937-1957.

Minute book of the Special Police Committee, Court of Common Council, 1857-1858.

Records of the Environmental Services Department, 1872-2003, as follows:

Records of the Port Health Authority including papers of a conference 'for the purpose of promoting unity of action and taking into consideration the necessary measures for the prevention of the introduction and spread of Cholera', 17 Feb 1893; papers relating to the hospital ship RHIN, 1872-1884; reports of the Medical Officer for the Port of London, 1880-1884; regulations and reports relating to shellfish, 1915-1917; copies of Acts of Parliament relevant to the Port Health Authority, 1891-1936; report of visit by Mr Mackie, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Port Health Authority, London, to the foreign Quarantine Division, United States Public Health Service, 1951; records of inspection of imports, 1965-1973; Technical Assistant handbook, 1977; summary of powers and duties of the Port Health Authority, 1957 and 1967; accounts of the history of the Port Health Authority, 1942, 1972 and 1972.

Records of the Cleansing Department including papers relating to staffing, 1942-1948 (closed until 2024); booklets relating to the Cleansing Depot and Wharf at Walbrook, 1963-1985; report from a conference on litter, 1967; A Clean City is Our Business, a folder issued by the Cleansing Department, giving advice on the responsibilities of the Corporation towards its ratepayers regarding waste disposal, 1992 and offprint of article "The City of London: A Waste Management History" by Alfred Dunitz, in Wastes Management, the monthly journal of the Institute of Wastes Management, 1993.

Also byelaws relating to the Animal Quarantine Section, Heathrow Airport, 2000-2003 and leaflet describing the service, 1994.

Records relating to Officers of the Corporation of London, including Act of Common Council that 'no office within the city be granted in possession on reversion unless to freemen', 1572; receipts for gifts given to Officers of the Crown and Government Officers, 1664-1744; order of the Court of Aldermen that the Head Officers shall perform their duty in walking before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen when they ride through the Streets on days of solemnity, 1680; papers relating to fees and gratuities claimed by Officers, 1666-1803; certificates of the admission and swearing in of City Officers in the Court of Aldermen, 1699-1782; papers relating to the sale and alienation [transferral of ownership] of Offices, 1700-1829; lists of the names of Officers, 1777-1947 (with gaps); papers relating to life insurance offered by the Corporation to Officers, with records of payment, 1760-1818; papers regarding the ceremonial precedence of Officers, particularly in processions, 1788-1948; reports presented to the Common Council regarding the roles of various Officers, and reports by Officers, 1762-1862; payments to City Officers, 1713-1729; papers relating to the applications and appointments of Officers, 1852-1991 (these papers are closed from 1932 onwards); ballot books for the election of Officers by the Common Council, 1833-1880; papers of the Officer's Guarantee Fund, 1903-1938; report of Town Clerk on organisational policy, 1957 and papers relating to the Local Government Training Board Grants Scheme, 1968-1976.

Also records relating to individual Offices including memoranda relating to the Accountant-Auditor, 1943-1973; certificate of the Attorney of the Sheriff's Court, 1752; lists of the City Auditors, 1409-1431 and 1603-1756; names and duties of the various Bridge House Officers, 1824-1877; papers relating to the Bridge House Comptroller, 1755-1839; papers relating to the Bridgemasters, 1596-1942; notes regarding prison and compter Chaplains, 1816-1825; appointment of Chronologer, 1660; papers relating to Officers' Clerks, 1673-1679, the Clerk of the Common Council, 1772-1838, the Clerk of the Works, 1658-1852, the Clerk of the Peace, 1801-1881; bills relating to the Common Cryer, 1677-1790; correspondence regarding the Common Cryer and Serjeant-at-Arms, 1907-1938; papers relating to the Common Pleader, 1673-1763; extracts and reports relating to the Common Serjeant, 1319-1850; applications for office of Executioner, 1883; papers regarding the office of Garbler [an official who 'garbled' spices, removing refuse from them], 1525-1708; papers relating to Law Officers, 1671-1741; papers relating to Marshals, 1589-1876; applications for the post of Medical Officer of the Port of London, 1873; reports relating to the office of Outroper [auctioneer], 1674-1710; papers relating to Polemen, 1689-1707, including warrant to arrest unlicensed Nightmen, Polemen and Carters carrying night-soil, 1689; extracts and papers relating to the Recorder, 1298-1922; papers relating to the office of Secondary, 1497-1937; extracts and notes regarding Serjeants, including Serjeants-at-Mace and Serjeants of the Chamber, 1475-1850; papers relating to the Swordbearer, 1665-1874; papers relating to the City Waits, 1689-1968 [watchmen, particularly those armed with wind-instruments to sound alarms, later musicians who accompanied the Mayor on ceremonial and festive occasions]; papers relating to the Water Bailiff, 1663-1847 and papers relating to Yeomen, 1493-1766.