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Papers collected by the antiquarian dealer in the course of his work, comprising article of agreement, assignment and surrender of leases relating to premises in Saint Mary, Whitechapel, 1680-1694; receipts for rates for paving, lighting, cleansing and watch, and demand for poor rate, for premises in Saint Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street, City of London, 1822-1823.

Liquidator's accounts for DL Thomson and Company, stockbrokers.

Records of D and J Barber (Eels) Limited, including articles of association; minutes of meetings; register of members and shares; and financial records.

Papers relating to the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union, 1968 comprising leaflets, proclamations of solidarity, photographs, appeals to the public, warnings concerning 'traitors' issued by the Czech Communist Party, and a report of a confidential press conference given by Prime Minister Oldrich Cernik to the directors of the mass media.

Papers documenting the activities of organisations in Great Britain, involved in providing relief for Czech and Czech Jewish refugees during the Nazi era, 1943, comprising appeal by Czechoslovak Relief Action for donations to a fund to supply provisions to internees in Terezin, Oct 1943; pamphlet entitled 'Proposals for principles for the repatriation of deported Jews' published by the Relief Committee of Jews from Czechoslovakia, Oct 1943; transcript of speeches in aid of a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Czechoslovakia's independence by the Anglo-Palestine club and the National Council of Jews from Czechoslovakia, Nov 1943; report of a speech made by the president of the Czechoslovak Government in exile, regarding the restitution of illegally obtained property during the Nazi occupation, Oct 1943 and Ing. A. Frischer's report of a speech made by Frantiska Nemce, minister of economic renewal, Oct 1943.

Records of the Customs Annuity and Benevolent Fund Incorporated including minutes of Court with expenditure accounts; 'T,MandS' Committee minutes; balance sheets and Board of Trade Returns; Benevolent grants; Rules and rates, and Register of assurances and profit (with separate index volumes).

The records document benevolent payments to individuals and their families. The main series which can be used are the Court minutes (1816-1983) (LMA/4575/01/01) and the indexes to insurance holders (1891-198-) (LMA/4675/02/03).

The Court minutes contain letters to Committee and presentations to the Board giving proposals for insurance received from individuals; life losses; surrenders; mortgages and reversions; cash statements and expenditure and details of benevolent loans including amounts advanced, paid and outstanding.

The records provide an insight into the types of proposals for support received and whether these met with success. In minutes of 5 Sep 1889 a Benevolent Grant is ordered to be paid to the widow of John Fox of Liverpool, being the amount of Poundage contributed (£5.8.10). In minutes of 10 Apr 1890 an application is shown to have been received from Henry Casserley for a loan of £20 in consideration of his being insured No.1318 (for repayment by instalments). Decision recorded that there is no power to make such a loan but that he may commute under Rule 6. An Index of insurance holders [LMA/4675/02/03/001] confirms just the one insurance number 1318 for Henry Casserley.

Records of Customs and Excise, comprising 'poundage and premium' ledgers relating to pensions arrangements for Customs and Excise staff, 1867-1868. Also letters to Customs and Excise from authors whose books had been counterfeited, 1905-08.

Records relating to the Custom House Methodist Church, Frederick Street, comprising correspondence concerning repairs and renovations and a loan from the White Loan Fund, 1931-1932; list of rules of the Men's Club, 1931, and an invitation to the first meeting, 9 Jan 1931; and memorandum of appointment of new trustees for the Custom House Church and premises, 3 Sept 1931.

Papers of Admiral Curzon-Howe comprising logs, 1868 to 1873, fishery reports, Newfoundland, 1892 to 1895, memoranda, 1888 to 1893, 1909 to 1910, and notes on manoeuvres, 1895, 1899.

Records of Curtis Nicholson Limited, brewers, 1938-1958. This collection comprises the Memorandum and New Articles of Association for Curtis Nicholson Limited and a Board meetings minute book for Mile End Distillery Company Limited.

Records of Currys Group plc, 1896-1985. The collection comprises records of the parent company and a few records of subsidiary and associated companies.

The records of the parent company include memoranda and articles of association (ACC/3485/1-3), a series of board minute books, 1922-79 (with gaps) (ACC/3485/4-16), which, in addition to policy decisions, include minutes of some annual general meetings and committee meetings, one separate AGM minute book, 1927-72 (ACC/3485/17) and an almost unbroken series of annual reports and statements of accounts presented to shareholders, 1925-83 (ACC/3485/18-74). There are also minutes of meetings of three committees: the directors' committee (known also at various times as the depot management committee, the joint managing directors' committee and the group management committee), 1927-85 (ACC/3485/77-124), at which decisions concerning the operation of the business especially at branch level were taken, the committee of the staff life assurance scheme, 1952-8 (ACC/3485/125) and the sealing committee, 1966-8 (ACC/3485/126). The collection also includes a few share records (ACC/3485/127-31), internal accounting and financial records (ACC/3485/132-43), records relating to the administration of the business (ACC/3485/144-9) and records relating to property (ACC/3485/150-60).

Personal diaries of Adm Bernard Currey, 1885-1914.

Papers of Sir Charles Cunningham including official service documents, a log, 1796 to 1798, and a manuscript account of the Nore Mutiny. There is also a transcript of this made by Mr Granville Proby in the 1940s. The loose papers consist of correspondence received between 1799 and 1832 from, among others, William, Duke of Clarence, when Lord High Admiral, Earl St. Vincent (q.v.), Sir Evan Nepean (q.v.), Lord Spencer (1758-1834), Sir William Cornwallis (q.v.), the Hon. Charles Philip Yorke (q.v.), Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) and the 2nd Viscount Melville (q.v.). There is also material relating to Cunningham's period at Chatham.

Papers of Andrew Browne Cunningham relating mostly to the period after his retirement. There are seven copies of the Tenedos Times, 1914 to 1915, notes and drafts of speeches, and papers relating to the many honours bestowed on Cunningham and to his membership of various societies and institutions.

Papers relating to Mark Cummins' work as a Liberal Democrat councillor on Brent Council and also as a Liberal Democrat candidate in the General Election of 1992, mainly leaflets, election ephemera, policy papers and other publications.

Minute books of the Cumberland Benevolent Institution.

Records of Cull and Company, private bankers, comprising minute books, financial accounts and register.

Please note that access to these records requires written permission from Morgan Grenfell and Company: details are available from a member of staff.

Records of architects Cubitt Nichols, Sons and Chuter, comprising plans and drawings of shops and offices, mainly on Glasshouse Street, Brewer Street and Air Street, 1902-1918.

Outgoing letter books including a letter book of William Cubitt and Company, and lease books containing plans of estates.

Records of the Crystal Palace District Gas Company, later called the South Suburban Gas Company, 1853-1949. The records include deeds of settlement, proprietors' and directors' meeting minutes and committee meeting minutes and a volume relating to a Parliamentary Bill, 1903.

Records of the Crystal Palace Trust, 1853-1952, including Trustees minutes, 1914-1950; Finance Committee minutes and notes, 1914-1948; General Purposes Committee minutes, 1914-1949; Special Subcommittee minutes, 1914-1949; speeches of the General Manager, Sir Henry Buckland, to the Trustees, 1935-1948; reports, 1936-1946, including report of the Special Committee after the 1936 fire; trustees attendance book, 1914-1949; inventory of statuary, 1853; inventory of refreshment department, 1898; inventory of contents of Crystal Palace, 1909; printed programme of Opening Day, 1920; financial records and accounts, 1890-1952; agreements and contracts, 1880-1922, including contracts for the aupply of gas and electricity and the sale of refreshments, contract for management of the Cricket Club, agreement for the Football Association (FA) Cup Finals to be held at the Palace and contracts for the running of escalators and lifts.

Draft agreement of employment relating to work in Dulwich, between William Crundall and Company and George Spanswick, commercial traveller, 1887.

Private ledger of Cruikshank and Company, stockbrokers.

Papers relating to the North London Kinship Survey, mainly research material, including notes from the census, probate records and published sources; notes of interviews with residents; family trees and notes on the history of certain families; maps of the area; index cards for individuals and families, [1950-1964]. Also correspondence, drafts and meeting reports relating to the survey.

Records of Croydon Community Health Council (CHC) (1974-2003) including Minutes (1996-2003), Annual Reports (1974-2003), Visit Reports (1995-2003), Survey and Project Reports (1993-2003) and Publications (199- - 2001).

Proposal for development of a housing estate on the former Croydon Airport site, 1965.

Crown Life Assurance Company records comprise: deed of settlement, 1853; conveyance of assets, 1867; agreement for amalgamation, 1891; rules and regulations, 1825-1873; minutes, 1825-92; and report books, 1870-1890.

Permission to publish any material must be obtained: ask a member of staff for further information.

Records of J P Crowley comprising drawings of and notes on sundials in churches and churchyards in North Devon, 1952-62, and in Cornwall, 1957-64.

Papers of the Crowley family of London, comprising inventories of goods and chattels, financial accounts and legal papers.

Registers of marriages for Crouch Hill Presbyterian Church, Holly Park, 1877-1960.

Mission Committee minute book for Andover Road Mission, 1914-1943; Court of Session minute books, 1876-1961; Deacon's Court minute books, 1877-1961; Women's Missionary Association minute book, 1916-1937; annual reports and accounts, 1876-1960; Communicants' roll books for Andover Road Mission, 1896-1959; Communicants' roll book, 1877-1961; register of baptisms, 1876-1961; Visitors book, 1946-1960 and records of services and collections, 1876-1961.

Marriage registers for Crossway Central Mission Church, Southwark, 1909-1969.

Laboratory notebook possibly compiled in laboratories at Crossness Pumping Station, Belvedere Road, Abbey Wood, SE2; containing wide range of analyses including: water quality, gas testing, Thames mud, sand, sewage, cow shed water, asbestos, petroleum, and so on. Several entries concern a Thames Pollution enquiry. The volume also contained 'Oxygen Sag Curve' analyses of the Thames. It is probable that the work was carried out for the Metropolitan Board of Works.

Records of Crosse and Blackwell Limited, food manufacturers, 1830-2003. The records include business agreements; correspondence; published histories; financial records; papers relating to shareholders; papers relating to production including agreements, ledgers, notebooks, reports, and labels; price lists; papers relating to staff organisations and staff photographs; property records including inventories, leases and photographs; papers relating to advertising including newscuttings, publications, adverts, correspondence and photographs.

Also papers of subsidiary companies including British Vinegars Ltd, Elizabeth Lazenby Ltd, James Kellier and Sons and Allards Wharf Ltd.

"Order of religious services to be held in the Cross Street Mission Room, in connection with Cranmer Wesleyan Society, 1876-1877" and "Cross Street Wesleyan Sunday School plan of teachers etc, 1876". Presentation copy printed on silk and bound in leather. Also lists visitors, mission workers, officers and tract distributors. Presented to the Reverend Alexander McAulay, 9 November 1876.

Records of Joseph Croskey, textile merchant, consisting mostly of financial accounts and correspondence, some relating to the business of Brunswick and Company, furriers.

Records of Crosfield, Lampard, Clark and Company, tea traders, including financial accounts and correspondence.

Records of Crosfield, Lampard and Company, managers of tea and rubber plantations in Sri Lanka, including correspondence; financial accounts; and statements of tea shipments.

Crosby Hall visitors book, c 1833-1837, with minutes and rough accounts of the trustees and committee of the subscribers to the preservation of Crosby Hall, 1833-1835.

Confirmation notebook of the Reverend Frederick Goldsworthy Croom. Candidates came from Southwark, Bermondsey, and Shoreditch.

Papers, 1762-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including deeds and legal documents relating to properties on Hornsey Lane, Highgate; copies of the court roll of the manor of Harringay alias Hornsey; legal papers relating to the Idle family of Kennington, including marriage settlements; and legal papers relating to the Grove family of Hackney and the City of London, including marriage settlements, correspondence, genealogical research and wills.

Volume of correspondence between Thomas Crofton Croker and Frederick William Fairholt, engraver and antiquary, and others, on antiquarian and private matters, also containing letters from Croker's wife Marianne, and his son Thomas Francis Dillon Croker (1831-1912), Recollections of Dillon Croker and other bound in printed items. Also scrapbook containing notes relating to Roman and other antiquities in London.

Records of Crocker Brothers Limited, brewers, including Board and annual general meeting minute book; agendas; and resolutions.

Papers, 1867-1910, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 557 Lordship Lane, Dulwich, including leases, mortgages, assignments of lease, conveyances and covenant to produce deeds.

These records are exclusively for the part of Cripplegate Ward lying outside the City wall. The records comprise wardmote minutes and accounts, rate assessments, presentments and returns, plans of the ward and other administrative papers.

Cripplegate Within Ward Schools records, comprising minutes, attendance registers and log books, a declaration of trust, inspector's reports and deeds.

These records are exclusively for the part of Cripplegate Ward lying inside the City wall. The records comprise wardmote minutes, accounts and rate assessments. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.

Cripplegate Ward Ratepayers' Association minute book.

Cripplegate Ward Club records comprising: illuminated address, 1882 (Ms 8313) and correspondence, 1967 (Ms 30669).

Records of Cripplegate Ward, Corporation of London, comprising wardmote agenda papers and petitions to the Court of Common Council. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.