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Church book containing minutes of Church Meetings, 1850-1864, including report on activities of congregation, collections and funds, 1850-1863, membership rolls, 1850, register of marriages, 1852-1856 and register of baptisms, 1850-1861; volume containing minutes of Church Meetings, 1864-1897, membership rolls, 1864 and register of baptisms, 1876-1897.

Records of the Finsbury Chapel including register of baptisms, 1824-1889; register of marriages solemnized in Finsbury Chapel, 1838-1864; minute book of Managers of Finsbury Chapel, 1835-1841 and 1864-1890; minutes of special meetings of members and seatholders, 1889-1891, including minutes of meetings of trustees concerning closure of chapel and disposal and copy letter of trustees to Reverend J. Vench requesting him to deliver up his keys "also any papers or documents he may have in his possession belonging to the Chapel", and photograph of exterior of chapel, [1890].

Records of West Dulwich Congregational Chapel including register of marriages, 1939-1941; lists of members and registers of attendance, 1853-1939; forms of commendation and applications for transfer, 1930-1944; minute book of Church meetings, 1868-1930; minute book of Deacons' meetings, 1868-1935; minute book of Chapel Building Improvement Committee, 1870; correspondence relating to administrative and social matters,1856-1892; financial accounts, 1854-1945; papers relating to property owned by the church, 1855-1856; ground plan of chapel, 1863; papers relating to Trustees, 1855-1889; certificate registering Dulwich Chapel, Park Road, Lower Norwood as a Congregationalist or Independents' place of worship for solemnization of marriages, 1859; minutes of Literary Society and Committee meetings, 1895 - 1908; Musical Committee minute book, 1899-1904 and printed circular letter raising funds for alterations to church, with sketch of proposed alterations, 1938.

Records of Harley Street Congregational Chapel, Bow, including register of baptisms, 1885-1926 and marriages, 1881-1925; registers of attendance, 1878-1926; minutes of Church meetings, 1876-1890 and 1906-1922; minute book of 'Church Committee' otherwise 'Vestry meetings', 1908-1915.

Records of Greville Place Congregational Church, Kilburn, including volumes containing historical account of Church for period 1869-1880, roll of members, 1858-1898 and 1910-1915, register of marriages, 1871-1879, 1894-1895 and 1922-1923, register of baptisms, 1871-1890 and 1907-1923, minutes of church meetings, 1870-1902 and 1911-1924, and newspaper cuttings; Deacon's meetings minute books, 1860-1878 and 1900-1920; minute book of management committee, 1921-1924; correspondence relating to preservation of Church, 1923-1924; volumes of accounts; receipts and expenditure, 1904-1924 and inventory and valuation of Church furniture, 1924.

Records of Bedford Congregational Chapel, Camden, including minutes of meetings of Deacons and Finance Committee, 1888-1896; Church Meetings minutes, 1892-1905 and Deacon's Court minute book, 1896-1905.

Records of Holywell Mount Congregational Church, comprising baptism certificates, 1837-1854.

Registers of baptisms, 1756-1908 and minute book of Church meetings, 1794-1841, including minutes of December 1836-September 1839 relating to the acquisition of a site for and erection of new chapel in Bishopsgate Street and temporary meetings in Bury Street Chapel.

Roll of members, [1894]; minute book of deacons' meetings, 1894-1896 and minute book of church meetings, 1819-1897.

Register of baptisms, 1730-1869; minute books of Church meetings, 1707-1828; minute book of Deacon's meetings, 1838-1867; minute book of Building Committee, 1832-1835; documents relating to lease of Chapel site, 1721-1839; list of Subscribers to the Fetter Lane Auxiliary Missionary Society, 1819-1826; annual report, 1904; papers of the Provident Society, Fetter Lane Chapel, including financial accounts, minutes, reports and membership lists, 1806-1912.

Records of Wycliffe Congregational Church, Stepney, including register of baptisms, 1850-1899; volume containing minutes of Church meetings, register of collections, register of marriages and register of baptisms, 1873-1906; volume containing minutes of deacons meetings, minutes of Church meetings and minutes of Organ Committee, 1849-1877; volume containing minutes of deacons' meetings and minutes of Church meetings, 1877-1888; volume containing minutes of deacons' meetings, Sunday School meetings and minutes of Church meetings 1889-1896; minutes of Church meetings, 1895-1906; minutes of deacons' meetings, 1896-1905; volume containing minutes of deacons' meetings and minutes of special meeting of deacons with representatives of Wycliffe Congregational Church, Ilford, 1905-1907; annual report of Church activities, 1901; rolls of Church members, 1827-1891; financial accounts, 1848-1907; minutes of Wycliffe Chapel Restoration Fund, 1873, with catalogue of sale of fancy articles in aid of Restoration Fund; minutes of committee of Wycliffe Christian Association, 1893-1902; minutes of meetings of teachers of Girls' Sunday School and Sunday School Excursion Sub-Committee, 1849-1868; minutes of meetings of teachers of Boys' Sunday School, 1843-1849; minutes of meetings of teachers of Sunday Schools, 1849-1907; register of burials in Wycliffe Chapel Burial Ground, 1831-1902, with index of graves in Wycliffe Chapel Burial Ground and list of charges.

Records of Christ Church Congregational Church, later Wycliffe Congregational Church, Ilford, including minutes of Church Meetings, 1896-1897 and 1904-1950; minutes of deacons' meetings, 1904-1955; roll of members, 1896- 1939; cash books, 1931-1962; minutes of Sunday School teacher's meeting, 1903-1936; annual reports of the activities of the Church, Church groups and groups to which the Church was affiliated, 1910-1963.

Register of baptisms, 1905-1950.

Conveyance for Numbers 42 and 43, The Broadway, Deptford, 1896.

Lease, mortgage and reconveyance for land and Church buildings on Maze Hill road and Park Street, Greenwich, 1823-1870.

Register of marriages, 1884-1916; volume containing historical account of Church, minutes of Church meetings and index of Church members, 1815-1882; minutes of Church meetings, 1883-1914 and financial accounts, 1882-1916.

Baptism and burial register, 1792-1826; register of burials, 1792-1793; general minute book, 1788-1901; Church meetings minute book, 1789-1907; Church book containing notes on foundation of church and membership list, 1789-1862; register of members, 1828-1959; papers of the Sunday School, 1826-1902; minute book of Church Societies, 1844-1876, including Christian Instruction Society, Congregational Chapel Temperance Society, Working Men's Temperance Society and the United Societies' Committee.

Records of Brondesbury Park Congregational Church, Wrentham Avenue, Brondesbury (formerly Craven Hill Chapel, Lancaster Gate, Bayswater), including composite register containing baptisms, 1950-1971 and marriages, 1950-1970; Church Meeting minute book, 1861-1915 and 1952-1959; Church Meeting minutes and elections of deacons, 1914-1933; Deacons' Meeting minute books, 1935-1967.

Records of Chequer Alley Chapel, 1869-1897.

Register of baptisms, 1869-1888; minutes of the Chapel and Schools, 1865-1897 and collection journal, 1870-1881.

Records of the Golden Lane Sunday School and its successor, the Radnor Street Schools, 1793-1818.

Account of proceedings [log book], 1798-1818.

Minutes of Quarterly Meetings, 1877-1891; minutes of the Chapel Trusts Liquidation Fund Committee, 1876-1877; minutes of the Circuit Committee for the Renovation of the Chapels in the Hoxton Circuit, 1882-1883; minutes of Local Preachers meetings, 1865-1892; Circuit Account Book, 1865-1890 and Circuit Schedule Book, 1874-1885.

Log Book for the Girls School, 1863-1836.

Records of the Hackney Road Methodist Chapel and Shoreditch Methodist Mission, 1836-1910.

Register of baptisms, 1838-1880; register of marriages, 1843-1880 and 1902-1906; minutes of Sunday School Teachers' Meetings, 1875-1902; collection journal, 1931-1955; financial accounts, 1863-1881; subscription book for a Lying-In Charity, 1854-1905 and Hackney Road Branch of Wesleyan Missionary Society cash book, 1888-1910.

Mission Fund collections book, 1899-1931 and alphabetical index to names of scholars admitted into the Sunday School, 1902.

Minute books containing Trustees' meetings and Chapel Management Committee meetings, 1878-1922; Treasurer's account book of receipt and expenditure, 1907-1911; subscription list for Debt Reduction Effort, 1918; souvenir programme of "Alice in Wonderland" bazaar, 1912; programme of "Prims" Concert Party, 1917.

Minutes of the Annual General Meetings of the Circuit Trustees, with Trustees General Ledger recording the income, expenditure and debts of Great Queen Street Chapel, Kings Cross Chapel, Camden Town Chapel, Kentish Town Chapel, Finchley Chapel and Barnet Chapel, 1840-1869, including notes on the history of these chapels and lists of trustees number of members in each society.

Minutes of Minister's House Trust, including minutes of Sutherland Gardens Minister's House Trust, 1890-1964 and Minister's House Trust account Book, 1890-1969.

Minutes of Hiley Road Committee, 1890-1893.

Minutes of the Annual United Trustees' Meetings, 1947-1961.

Minutes of Trustees' Meetings, 1869-1941; minutes of Leaders' Meetings, 1892-1964; minutes of Sunday School Council, 1868-1948 and minutes of Sunday School Teachers' Meetings, 1868-1886.

Register of baptisms for ?Walworth Methodist Church, 1850-1897, including people from parishes in Walworth, Newington, Lewisham, Camberwell, Rotherhithe and Bermondsey.

Minute book of the quarterly meetings of the Deptford Circuit, 1811-1838; volume of names and accounts of collections in the Deptford Circuit, 1812-1835, with enclosed section, elevation and plan of a chapel [Woolwich], 1835, and collection book for Mary Ann's Chapel, Deptford, 1847-1873.

Account book of the stewards of the First West London Circuit and the Second London Circuit, 1827-1837.

Circuit preaching plans for the following Circuits and Missions, 1959-1979: Blackheath and Lee Circuit; Blackheath and Lewisham Circuit; Broomwood and Clapham Circuit; Hackney Mission Circuit; Hammersmith Circuit; Hinde Street Circuit and Chaplaincy to the University of London Methodist Society; Leysian Mission Circuit; London Mission (North and Central) Circuit; London Mission (North and Central) Circuit; North-West London Mission; Notting Hill Methodist Church and Group Ministry; Shooters Hill Circuit; Tooting Mission; Wesley's Chapel City Road Circuit; West London Circuit; The Whitechapel Mission.

Receipt of Charles Webb, collector of sewer-rates for Westminster Commissioners of Sewers, from "Mr. Sherwin", for works in King Street, Duke Street and Chandos Street sewer, Covent Garden / Strand area, Westminster, 16 March 1710.

Booklet by the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, giving map of location of hospital, list of staff, the objects of the institution, attendance of medical officers, rules for students and clinical clerks and fees for hospital practice, 1891.

Report, dated 1946, prepared by the Civil Defence Department, Home Office, on a flying bomb incident at Lewisham, 28 Jul 1944; and draft report, apparently prepared for Deptford Borough Council, on rocket incidents in the borough, 1944-1945.

Parchment found under the memorial stone of Barbican Congregational Church, Hoxton, listing the name of the minister, deacons, New Building Committee, architects and builders, 1867.

Paper by H.R. Wilton Hall on church life in Clapham, with emphasis on Evangelicalism, 1890s.

Minutes and agendas of the School Board, 1870-1925; minutes and agendas of other committees and sub-committees including the Accommodation and Attendance Committee, Bye Laws Committee, Capricious Migration of Children Committee, Minuting and Educational Endowments Committee, Evening Classes and Continutation Schools Committee, Finance Committee, General Purposes Committee, Industrial Schools Committee, Legal Committee, Manual Training Committee, Overpressure Committee, Rearrangement of Committees Committee, School Management Committee, Statistical Committee, Underfed Children Committee, Works Committee, Health of Schoolchildren Committee and Scholarships Committee.

Printed documents issued by the Board such as forms, requisition lists, notices, contracts, specifications, agendas and tickets; annual reports; publication "The Work of the London School Board", 1900; rules and regulations; list of all members of the School Board compiled after the closure of the Board in 1904; reports by committees including the Bye Laws Committee, the Works Committee and the School Accommodation and Attendance Committee; reports by solicitors relating to legal matters; correspondence; curricula, syllabi and notes on methods of teaching domestic subjects, drawing, history, geography, manual training, physical training, reading, religious instruction, science and technical training; tables of schools within the district of the Metropolis; books of reference for building works; plans of schools; maps showing the locations of Board schools; contracts and registers of contracts for the erection, alteration, repair, cleaning, supply and maintenance of schools; papers regarding Higher Grade schools, Industrial schools, Special schools, Industrial schools and Truant schools; Inspector's Reports; papers regarding staff including salary ledgers; tenders and particulars for stationery and stores; financial accounts and schedules for repairs.

Letters patent appointing Commissioners, 1727-1840; writs to swear in Commissioners and to summon juries, 1727-1830; qualification book containing forms of declaration of £100 property owners, 1834-1844; court minutes and presentments, 1569-1642; court minutes, 1677-1781; court orders, 1703-1781; court minutes and orders, 1781-1847; General Purposes Committee minutes, 1820-1847; plans and sections of sluices, sewers, washways, culverts, roads, streets and wharves; original presentments of juries, not reproduced in full in the minutes, 1743-1793; out letter books, 1833-1848; financial records, 1789-1854 and rate books, 1723-1848.

Records of the Saint Pancras Poor Law Union, 1804-1932, including minutes of meetings and reports of the Board of Guardians and various Committees including Visiting Committees; administrative papers including deeds, agreements, year books and newspaper cuttings; orders and correspondence from government departments; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; medical certifications of lunatics; daily journals of the male and female insane wards; registers of lunatics; registers from Saint Pancras Workhouse, North Infirmary, South Infirmary and Belmont Workhouse; registers of children sent out as apprentices or servants; registers of children at Leavesden School; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of the Wandsworth Poor Law Union, 1836-1933, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians; minutes and reports of various Committees including the Assessment Committee, Schools and Institutions Committee and Boarding Out Committee; correspondence with the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health; contracts; orders of the Poor Law Board; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers of the Swaffield Road Workhouse and Saint John's Hill Workhouse; registers of apprentices; registers of children at the Intermediate School, Swaffield Road and the Anerley School, North Surrey; financial accounts; staff records; maps of parishes in Wandsworth; floor plans of Saint John's Hospital; registers of relief given to the wives and children of interned aliens [foreigners], First World War.

Records of the Woolwich Board of Guardians, 1861-1932, including minutes of meetings of the Board; correspondence with government departments including the Ministry of Health; orders for settlement, removal or relief; registers of lunatics; Woolwich Institution (workhouse) registers including admission and discharge, creed and deaths; Medical Officers record of examinations of inmates at the Woolwich Institution; registers of children in care including baptisms at the Woolwich Union Chapel, apprenticeship indentures, boarded out children, children at Roman Catholic establishments, children in the Infirmary, children in the workhouse and children held in outlying establishments (ones outside the Union); registers for Plumstead Workhouse, including admission and discharge and creed; admission and discharge registers for the Goldie Leigh Cottage Home for Children; quarterly returns of the British born wives and children of interned aliens [foreigners]; financial accounts and registers of staff.

Papers of Adam and Company Limited covering the period 1825 to 1914. They relate to the sugar trade and import merchanting, including in-letters, bills of lading, charter parties, invoices, account sales and disbursements accounts; to ships' agency work, in particular that of the Clan Line; to insurance matters, consisting of policies and claims; to marine casualties, notes of protest and particular and general average statements and survey reports. There is a great deal of detailed information about the employment of immigrants and the conditions relating to their welfare. There is also a census of slaves employed on the Pipon estates in 1826 ('Greffe de l'Enregistrement des Esclaves'). Note that this collection is uncatalogued and there is no detailed list available.

The earliest of the ten volumes relating to foreign navies are two copies in English of the ordinance of Louis XIV for his navy, 1689. There is also a receipt book of the Treasurer General of Galleys of the French Navy, 1715 to1717; a volume of 1780 listing the French navy, giving the officers, dimensions, construction details and comments on each vessel; a treatise on seamanship, in French, c 1780, which concludes with lists of French and English ships; and the order book of Captain J M Girardias of the INFATIGABLE, 1803 to 1806, together with a bundle of loose orders received. The remaining four volumes contain cuttings, original photographs, plans, building specifications, details of armaments and equipment and copies of reports relating to foreign warships; they were very probably compiled at the Admiralty in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One deals with Italian warships, ca. 1880 to 1922; the second with French warships, c 1880 to 1906; the third with cruisers and smaller ships of the French Navy, c 1880 to 1906, the German navy, ca.1880 to 1926, and the Russian Navy, c 1885 to 1907; and the fourth volume deals with non-European unarmoured ships and includes details of the United States Navy, ca.1883 to 1922, the Brazilian Navy, 1883 to 1910, the Argentine Navy, 1880 to 1913, the Japanese Navy, 1884 to 1922, the Chinese Navy, 1883 to 1914 and the navies of many powers.

This class consists of thirty two volumes of accounts, disbursements and memoranda relating to shipping and trade, seventeenth to twentieth centiuries. There are two seventeenth-century volumes. The first is the account book of Thomas Pye, cloth merchant in the Levant trade, 1657 to 1661; the second is an abstract of the 'Inspector-General's accounts of import and export, 1697 to 1698'. Of the twelve eighteenth-century volumes, the earliest is a volume relating to the packet contract of Edward Dummer (d 1713), and the subsequent enquiry into it, 1702 to 1713. There is also a volume containing the names and salaries of the Commissioner and officers of the Customs, 1711; the day book of the CASTLE of Bristol, 1727 to 1728, in which accounts of the slaves purchased in kind were entered together with a list of the slaves who died, with the causes; an account book showing the profit and loss of the collier GEORGE, 1737; the account book of the whaler HENRIETTA of Whitby, 1777 to 1820, and that of the privateer GEORGE of Bristol, 1779 to 1782. There are sixteen nineteenth-century volumes. They include the freight book of three ships which plied between Liverpool and Londonderry; they were the ISABELLA NAPIER, 1835 to 1840, the ROBERT NAPIER, 1847 to 1848 and the MAIDEN CITY, 1847 to 1848. There are two account books of insurance underwriters, 1836 and 1884, Baltic and Mediterranean trades; the wages account book of the GRESHAM, 1865 to 1871, together with a collection of wages forms, and the COLDSTREAM, 1872 to 1874, in the Australian trade; voyage expenses of the RYDAL HALL, 1871 to 1875, and of the barque EARL GRANVILLE, 1895 to 1903.