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Registers of marriages, 1918-1951.

Records of Earlsfield Congregational Church, 1877-1970, including Church Meeting minute books; Deacons' Meeting minute books; Sunday School minutes; financial statements; Church magazines and the financial accounts of the 9th Wandsworth Girl Guide Company.

Records of Earls Court Grounds Limited, comprising minutes of Board and General Meetings.

Registers of marriages, 1900-1972.

Programme of Ealing Theatre for performances by Mr. Herbert Sleath's Company of "What happened to Jones" by George H. Broadhurst, preceded by the Comedietta "A Morning Call", with note of forthcoming performances and many advertisements, 1900.

Records of the Ealing North Divisional/Constituency Labour Party, including attendance books, annual reports, accounts and subject files on election campaigns. Though these files are mainly concerned with finance, many also include campaign material. Also ward/branch material. Each ward or branch had its own committee. Of particular interest are the early minute books of Northolt Labour Party.

Records of the Ealing Labour Party, comprising minutes of the General Committee; Trades Council; Dormers Wells Ward; Ealing Council Labour Group and the Greenford Labour Party branch.

Records of the Ealing Horticultural Society, comprising financial accounts, correspondence, annual reports, and registers of awards and prizes.

Registers of marriages, 1912-1958.

Papers of Reverend Ivor Roy Dowse collected during research for his histories of Ealing College (first edition 1970, second edition 2008), including research notes, press cuttings, photographs, memories of pupils and staff, ephemera items such as prospectuses, speech day programmes and orders of service; newsletters, and material relating to the Ealing College Former Pupils' Association including newsletters.

Diagrammatic plan of Ealing, then part of the County of Middlesex, showing locations of existing and proposed schools, 1950.

Rate books from Ealing, Hanwell, Greenford, Perivale and West Twyford parishes, 1817-1922. Also other records from Ealing Parish including Vestry notice books; Vestry Clerk's letter books; Churchwarden's financial accounts and papers relating to poor relief and the Poor Law Union.

Seal of the Burial Board of Ealing, dating to after 1858, the date of the formation of the Board.

Records of Eagle Star Insurance Company Limited and predecessors, including policies (fire, marine, motor, life, contingency, pluvius and other insurance types), minutes, prospectuses, registers of directors, annual reports, financial records, papers relating to staff, papers relating to shareholders, property records and publications.

Records of particular interest are the individual life policies. Substantial register series survive for: English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Limited, 1840 - 1863 (CLC/B/005/ESL04/01/01); Sceptre Life Association Limited, 1865 - 1885 (CLC/B/005/SC04/01/01); Star Life Assurance Society Limited, 1843 - 1868 (CLC/B/005/ST04/01/01).

Individual life policies have survived for famous people such as Victoria, Duchess of Kent and Strathearn (CLC/B/005/AL04/01/02/001); Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (CLC/B/005/EA04/01/02/001/010); Charles Dickens (CLC/B/005/EA04/01/02/001/005) and William Henry Smith, founder of W H Smith (CLC/B/005/ST04/01/03/02/001).

Other significant records include Box 1299 (CLC/B/005/PA04/05/03) which is a deed box found in 1944 in a Swansea bank vault containing papers of Swansea agency of Palladium Life Assurance Company. It is noted for its many early stamped letters.

There are many examples of Arthur Frederick Shepherd's pioneering advertising work (e.g. CLC/B/005/ES04/12/01/004-005).

The collection contains a few notable films including 'The Magic Scroll', 1930 (CLC/B/005/ES04/12/03/001) which is considered to be one of the earliest advertising films.

There are varied records relating to staff social activities including the Eagle Dramatic and Operatic Society (CLC/B/005/ES06/04/02), British Dominions Football Club (CLC/B/005/ES06/04/03) and British Dominions Swimming Club (CLC/B/005/ES06/04/04).

Also of significance are the records of Sir Edward Mountain (CLC/B/005/ES01/09/05) including a book signed by 1261 employees and presented to Sir Edward on his silver wedding anniversary in 1922, and papers relating to his famous expedition to find the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland, 1934.

Please note that 48 hours notice is required to consult these records. Access to all records dating less than 50 years requires permission from the donor. Please contact staff for details.

Records of Benjamin and Mary Eager relating to their property in Brentford and Ealing.

Records of E Lambert and Son, druggists, comprising agreement between Edward Joshua Lambert of 60 Queen's Road, Dalston, druggist's sundryman and manufacturer of surgical instruments (trading as E. LAMBERT and SON), and Harry Percy Neats Watkins of 5 Tyrrell Road, Dulwich, for the employment of Watkins by Lambert for three years as clerk and traveller, at £2 10s 1 per week, hours 9 am to 7 pm (Saturdays 9 am to 2 pm), holidays 14 days per year, 1893.

Papers purchased from E. Joseph, bookseller of Charing Cross Road, including copies from the Court Roll of Isleworth Syon Manor, Twickenham, relating to the lease of lands belonging to the manor, 1697-1796; lease for land in Eastfield and in Holloway Shott, Twickenham, 1719 and 1723; Decree and Order of Master of the Rolls for the sale of freehold, copyhold and leasehold of estates left by John Gray in his will, Twickenham, 1751; lease for 21 years for land with a garden, coach house and stables in Montpellier Row, Twickenham, 1811. Also lease for land in Saint Mary, Islington, 1824.

Records of EF Marchant Limited, fishmongers, including minutes; register of members and shares; and financial accounts.

Records of E Dent and Company Limited, clock and watch makers. The archives in this collection are the surviving business records, covering mainly the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They are primarily the records of the Strand and Royal Exchange shops - only Ms 18026 and 23823-4 relating to M. F. Dent, 1856-1920, appear to have survived.

They are arranged as follows:
Ownership of company - shares, bonds (Mss 18005-7);
Administration - ledger, balance sheets and accounts, letter books; company management (Mss18008-15);
Business -
(i) stock books and manufacturing books (Mss 18016-26);
(ii) letters patent, specifications and related papers (Mss 18027-40);
(iii) Watch trial certificates, trade mark certificates (Mss 18041-2);
(iv) Drawings of watches, clocks, parts etc. (Mss 18043-52);
(v) Photographs of watches, clocks, parts etc. (Mss 18053-4);
Leases and agreements relating to premises (Mss 18055-64);
Miscellaneous mainly printed (Mss 18065-76);
Records of M. F. Dent (Mss 23823-4).

Records of E A Mitchell Limited, wine and spirits merchant, comprising minute books of directors' meetings, annual general meetings, and sealing committee meetings; share certificates; and financial accounts.

Records of Dyster, Nalder and Company, comprising catalogues of sales of skins, hides, furs, horns, hair and tallow; and an out-letter book.

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Plan of the Dyot Estate, St Giles-in-the-Fields, Bloomsbury, property of Thomas Skip Dyot Bucknall.

Records of the Dyot family relating to their estate in the parish of St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, including deed, lease, abstract of title, and plans.

Records of Dyer, Son and Creasey, auctioneers and chartered surveyors, comprising war damage cost of works payments books, only covering properties mainly in South-East London. No other records are known to survive.

Records of the Dutch Church at Austin Friars, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; financial accounts; letter books; lists of members; council and committee minute books; memoranda books; legal papers; property records including title deeds; rules and regulations relating to the governance of the church.

Papers, 1902-1946, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising conveyances relating to properties in Acton.

Papers of Mary Edith Durham, [1928] comprise corrected proofs for 'Some tribal origins, laws and customs in the Balkans', which focuses particularly on incidents and customs witnessed in Albania, Montenegro and Serbia and was published in London by George Allen and Unwin by 1928. The collection also includes additional handwritten notes and corrections.

Papers of Mary Edith Durham, c 1908-1911, comprise notes (original and abstracted) on folklore, history, and linguistics including sketches. The collection includes studies of Albania focusing on folklore, 'Early people of the Balkan peninsula', the study of the Albanian language and includes some photographs within some booklets.

Papers of Mary Edith Durham, 1900-1912, comprise letters to the family, mainly to her mother and her sister Nelly.

Papers of Mary Edith Durham, comprise a collection of tales from the Balkans notably including 'The tale of the lonely Han' and other folk tales. The collection also includes illustrations for the 'True tales of the Balkans', inlcuding those depicting indigenous people in their costume.

Papers of Mary Edith Durham, c 1927, comprise ethnological manuscripts relating to her travels in the Balkans and notably include 'Montenegrin manners and customs', 'Traces of sun and moon worship in the Balkans' and 'The decree of the good men' and other manuscripts concerning the customs and traditions of people indigenous to the Balkans.

Papers of Mary Edith Durham, 1900-1936, comprise notebooks mainly concerning journeys in the Balkans which include sketches, photos, postcards of places including Ostrog, Podgorica and Scutari.The notebooks also contain inserts including a coloured cartoon from Papaghan, Constantinople and notes, letter and draft of a 'Petition to the Powers'.

Papers of Mary Edith Durham, 1900-1914, comprise 'My Balkan notebook' which comprises detailed drawings, photographs and notes relating to her experience in the Balkans, these include 'Primitive implements', a notebook depicting boats, hearths, buildings in various Balkan districts, costumes, buildings in Serbia; notebook with Sun and moon designs, tattoos, graves in Bosnia and Albania, buildings, costumes, war mutilations in Montenegro and notebook concerning Albania depicting tribes, costumes, buildings.

Papers of Mary Edith Durham, 1905, comprise Albanian ballads collected between May and June 1905, including Voyvoda Milosh of Drobnjak and the maiden. MS 47/2 also includes a basic Albanian/English dictionary.

Records of Durham Raw Materials Limited, including articles of association, board and general meeting minutes and agendas; correspondence; financial accounts; and sales ledgers.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of the Durham Chemical Group, including articles of association; annual reports; financial accounts; correspondence; list of products sold and historical notes on the company.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of the Manor of Durants and Garton, Enfield, 1689-1905, including Court Baron and Special Court book with minutes.

Records of Dunstable Synagogue, consisting of an account book.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

Records of the Manor of Dunsford, Wandsworth, including court books, conveyances, declarations, mortgages, enfranchisements, maps and plans.

Papers of Alexander Graham Dunlop, 1877, comprise copy of a letter to H M Freeland, asking his opinion of foreign affairs.

Records of the Dunlop Rubber Company, 1901-1965, consisting of a complete set of reports and balance sheets from all the Dunlop national companies and subsidiaries. The reports consist of both printed (for national companies) and typescript (for subsidiaries) financial reports on a yearly basis, predominantly from January to December. These were reports presented to the Board of Directors which controlled Dunlop Rubber Company Limited. They contain audited balance sheets, profit and loss statements and notes on the accounts. However, the extent of detail varies from company to company.

Also printed painting advertising Dunlop (195-) (ACC/2166/108) .

Collection of historical research notes on the topography of the counties of Kent and Oxfordshire, by John Dunkin.

Records of Arthur William Dunk, Boer War soldier in the City Imperial Volunteers, comprising official papers; letters and postcards written home during his service; notebooks providing itinerary of travels in South Africa; and menu cards and programmes for dinners of the City Imperial Volunteers Old Comrades Association.

Papers of Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas, consisting of bound volumes of official and private correspondence for Dundas's Mediterranean command, 1851 to 1854. There are also letters, reports and memoranda of diplomatic importance in this period.

Records of the Duncombe family relating to their property in London, as follows:

E/DNC/1-10: property, including that of William Lowndes, in Westminster and elsewhere;
E/DNC/11: Duncombe family property: Westminster;
E/DNC/12-25: Duncombe family property: Holborn;
E/DNC/26, 27: Duncombe family property: City;
E/DNC/29-30: Duncombe family property: St Giles in the Fields etc.
E/DNC/31: Duncombe family property: Kensington;
E/DNC/32: Duncombe family property: Hoxton;
E/DNC/33: Duncombe family property: unspecified [perhaps as solicitors].

Royal Writ of Privy Seal proclaiming Edmund Dunch a rebel because of his non-appearance at the Court of the King's Council at Whitehall, and ordering that he be arrested, 1639.

Records of Duncan Macneill and Company, including partnership deeds; correspondence; financial accounts; annual reports; agreements; and valuations of tea companies managed by the company.

Records of J. B. Barry and Son, including partnership deeds, correspondence and financial accounts.

Records of both companies including articles of association; annual reports; financial accounts; maps of tea gardens; goods ledger; produce ledger; tea companies' ledger; correspondence and legal papers.

Also records of John Mackinnon's trusts and Duncan Macneill's trusts.

Papers of Scott Dunbar, [1977-1984], largely comprise letters from Iris Murdoch to Dr Scott Dunbar and copies of his work. Letters from Iris Murdoch to Dunbar raise issues including religion, politics, structuralism, philosophy and also more personal matters including her mother's illness. The collection also includes an itinerary listing a series of ten lectures to be given by Iris Murdoch in October 1982 at the University of Edinburgh, the Gifford Lectureship in Natural Theology entitled 'Metaphysics as a guide to morals', possibly attended by Dunbar and a photocopy of a letter from Scott Dunbar to Murdoch answering a question at length: 'why are gay bars so sad?'.

The collection also contains letters from other individuals to Dunbar including Duncan Averbach, 1989, discussing Dunbar's thesis and the difference between the human being and person; letter from Theodore Brotsis, enclosing a photograph of Theodore, 1986; published works by Dunbar including 'On art, morals, and religion: some reflections on the work of Iris Murdoch', Scott Dunbar, Religious Studies, Vol 14, No 4, 1978; typescript copies of works including 'Alcoholics Anonymous and Alcohol Dependency' Part One and Part Two and handwritten notes, presumably by Dunbar, including notes titled 'IVF and all that' and lecture notes including 'The Iliad Lectures'.

Letter books of the Dunaburg and Witepsk Railway Company, later known as the Dvinsk and Vitebsk Railway Company Limited.

Papers of Alexandre Dumas, [1830-1845], comprise a letter To 'Mon bien cher Hugo' [Victor Hugo], regreting that he was out when Hugo called but hopes to see him the following day.