Records of Bow Road Wesleyan Methodist Church, including register of marriages, 1866-1916; registers of baptisms, 1862-1955; Trustees meetings minute books, 1888-1976; financial accounts, 1865-1965; Leader's meetings minute books, 1868-1970; Management Committee minutes, 1922-1931; collection journals, 1956-1972; Government Air-Craft Insurance for Merchant Street Wesleyan Chapel, Bow Road, 1915; Wesley Guild minute books, 1929-1957; church magazines, 1946-1969; box containing booklets and newspapers (1863-1865) found under the memorial stone of Bow Road Chapel, after its destruction in 1941; newspaper cuttings, 1937-1970; photographs, 1960-1970 and papers and correspondence (1914-1965) regarding the centenary of Bow Road gathered in preparation for Leslie Farmer's history of Bow Mission, includes photographs.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords of Bow Street Magistrates Court, 1724-2004, including court registers; domestic proceedings registers; gaoler's records; applications for warrants; club licensing; matrimonial case registers; extradition registers; registers of applications for adoption abroad, adoption abroad procedural and case files; papers relating to magistrates' salaries; files of the Chief Clerk; Poor Box financial accounts, bequests and correspondence; papers relating to trust funds and bequests; Committee files and office administration.
Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.
Matrimonal cases: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him.
Reconveyance of part of mortgaged property at Albert Road, Edmonton, 1905.
Bower, Cotton and Bower , solicitorsRecords of the Bowkett Benefit Building Society, 1864-1875, consisting of declaration by Secretary as to trustees and a mortgage of 89 Grove Road, Upper Islington.
Bowkett Benefit Building SocietyTitle deeds for property in Edmonton owned by the Bowles family, 1786-1835; property in Highgate owned by the Gould family, 1724-1795; and properties in Ashford, Stanwell, Staines, Enfield, Hornsey and Pinner, 1684-1885.
Various.Household and personal account book of Colonel Henry Ferryman Bowles.
Bowles , Sir , Henry Ferryman , 1858-1943 , baronet , member of ParliamentPapers of Thomas Bowrey, sea captain and merchant, including ledger; correspondence; diaries; drawings; charts; and maps; relating to travel and trade in India, Africa, Holland, France, Batavia (Jakarta) and Persia (Iran); the "Coffree" language of Delagoa and the Telenga language; shipping insurance and Lloyd's coffee house; whaling; and piracy.
Bowrey , Thomas , d 1713 , sea captain and merchantPapers, 1906-1982, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Clifton Road, Finchley, including abstracts of title, conveyance, lease and assignment.
Boyes Sutton and Perry , solicitorsRecords relating to the family of Boyle, Earls of Burlington and Cork, and of the family of Fairfax, Barons Fairfax of Cameron. Papers include notes by Sir Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, on the rise of his family (copy of a document of 1632); commissions of Henry, Lord Fairfax as Colonel of the Regiment of Foot, West Riding, Yorkshire, 1679 and 1685; appointment of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, as Deputy Lieutenant for West Riding and York, 1700; papers of Richard, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, including records of the management of his estates in Ireland and Burlington Gardens, London, legal papers, and correspondence, 1724-25.
Boyle , Richard , 1566-1643 , 1st Earl of Cork Boyle , Richard , 1694-1753 , 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork , architect and patron of the arts Boyle , family , of Ireland and EnglandPapers of Lt Col Robert Verelst Boyle, 1897-1943, including: Battalion standing orders of the 1st Battalion The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (Gale & Polden, Aldershot, 1930); notes and correspondence regarding the Combined Operations Training Centre, Comox, Vancouver Island, Canada, 1942-1943; papers relating to lectures given while GSO1, HQ Combined Chiefs of Staff, USA, including: text of lecture on commandos, Economic Society, Detroit, 4 May 1942; article on commandos in Military Review, Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Jul 1942; text of lecture considering how to attack a strongly defended coast, Junior Staff College, RMC Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Aug 1942; text of lecture on commandos given to the Annual Convention of American Newspaper Editors, New York, 1942; text of lecture on ship-to-shore operations, given at the US Army Amphibious Training Centre, 1942; text of lecture on preparations for the resumption of the land offensive, given to US Army Armoured Training Centre, 1942.
Formal photographs of Combined Chiefs of Staff events at Fort Benning and Fort Jackson, USA, including photographs of FM Sir John Dill, General George Marshall, Chief of Staff, US Army, Admiral Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations, Lt Gen Mark Clark and Lt Col Dennis Price, meeting troops, watching parades, demonstrations and exercises, and inspecting weaponry. Also photograph labelled 'My official yacht whilst I started and commanded the Canadian Combined Operations Training Centre at Comox, Vancouver Island, 1942-43'.Photograph album, invitation and programme of events for the Presentation of New Colours to the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), in Famagusta, Cyprus, 7 Oct 1949.
Also items belonging to Boyle's father in law Lt Col Adrian Grant Duff: The Pathan Revolt in North-West India by H Woosnam-Mills (Civil and Military Gazette Press, Lahore, India, 1897) and Razmak station standing orders (Commercial Steam Press, Dera Ismail Khan, India, 1931).
Papers of John William Brackenbury. The bulk of the collection is a series of letters written by Brackenbury to his wife, 1870 to 1902. Other than these there are logs, 1862 to 1863, 1879; a diary, 1888; official service documents; official correspondence, 1879, 1881 to 1882, 1884, 1887 to 1892 and 1896; letters from other naval officers, 1879 to 1912, and papers relating to the Vitu operations and the VICTORIA and CAMPERDOWN disaster.
Brackenbury , John William , 1842-1918 , AdmiralBraco de Prata Printing Company Limited records include constitutional documents, Board minutes and an inventory of property in Portugal. The records are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.
Braco de Prata Printing Co LtdRecords of Braddan Fishing Company Limited including articles of association, profit and loss accounts and cash book.
Braddan Fishing Co LtdTwo files of research by Charles Angell Bradford relating to the history of the church and parish of Saint Sepulchre, Holborn.
Bradford , Charles Angell , fl 1930-1939 , historianResearch notes by J G Bradford, including index to pedigrees and arms contained in the heralds' visitations in the British Museum; genealogical notes relating to members of the peerage; genealogical notes on the mayors of London; and collection of county heraldic visitations.
Bradford , J G , fl 1930-1933 , historianPapers of Sir Edward Eden Bradford chiefly relating to Bradford's earlier career and include detailed log books and journals from 1873 to 1883, official progress certificates, reports, etc, as well as letters and reminiscences. Contained in one journal are entries regarding the events in the Solomon Islands whilst serving on HMS SANDFLY and elsewhere in the collection are newspaper articles and poems relating to this incident.
Bradford , Sir , Edward Eden , 1858-1935 , Knight , AdmiralPapers, collected by the estate agents in the course of their work, comprising sales particulars, 1948-1949.
Bradwell and Sons , estate agentsRecords of Brae and Chingoor Tea Estates Limited, comprising ledgers, cash book and bills payable.
Brae and Chingoor Tea Estates LtdPapers of James Brant comprising a report of a journey through part of Armenia and Asia Minor, 1836, published in the Journal of the Royal Georgraphical Society vol 6; ten letters from Captain Washington and Colonel Jackson, (secretaries of the Royal Geographical Society) to Brant 1829-43; sketch map of disputed territory between 'Ghuriel' and 'Adjarah'. The collection also includes an impression of an RGS wax seal on an envelope, the only example of such a seal held within the archives.
Brant , James , d 1861 , diplomatPapers of Margaret Irving relating to her work as a tea taster at Brash Brothers (Tea) Limited.
Irving , Margaret , fl 1922-1960 , tea tasterRecords of the Bread Street Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise minutes, accounts, rates, tax and rate assessments, correspondence, jury lists and a First World War roll of honour. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.
Bread Street Ward , Corporation of LondonPapers of 'Breda' war criminals comprise transcript of a radio interview, which deals with misunderstandings concerning the Germans still imprisoned in Breda, 1955; press release of the Dutch embassy (in Germany) regarding the Breda prisoners including lists of the following categories of prisoners: those originally sentenced to death and later commuted to life (with details of their offences); those sentenced to death (with details of their offences); those sentenced to 20 years (with details of their offences); those released in 1952 after serving two thirds of their sentences.
UnknownPapers concerning Breendonk Camp, Belgium, 1944 comprise a report on Breendonk concentration camp containing the following sub-headings: atrocities committed against the civilian population of Breendonk; details of life and conditions within the camp; particulars of Germans and collaborators mentioned in the report; appendices including statements and summaries of statements made by former inmates.
Headquarters 21 Army GroupRecords of Brent Community Health Council (CHC) and predecessors (1991 - 2003). Includes Minutes (1999 - 2003), Meeting Papers (1996 - 2003), Annual Reports (1997 - 2003), CHC Reports (1991 - 2002) and Publications (1999 - 2001).
Brent Community Health CouncilPapers of Harry Woodfall Brent comprising two volumes of official service documents, 1851 to 1887; an order book of the BELLEROPHON; a volume of correspondence relating to the HIMALAYA and a log of the MONARCH, 1886, Channel Station, kept by Henry Dacres Menzie Brent.
Brent , Harry Woodfall , 1834-1911 , Vice-AdmiralRecords of the Brentford Poor Law Union, 1836-1930, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; register of apprentices; correspondence from the Local Government Board; financial accounts and legal documents relating to property; plans of the Brentford Union Workhouses; papers relating to the Board's work as a Sanitary Authority; maps of the parishes within the Union and orders of removal.
Brentford Poor Law Union x Brentford Board of GuardiansRecords of Boston Road Presbyterian Church, Albany Congregational Chapel and the Brentford Congregational Church, Boston Road; including volume containing baptisms, burials, membership and minutes of Church Meetings, 1693-1867; volume containing documents regarding finance, purchase of chapel site and construction of chapel and minutes of meetings, 1731-1840; minutes of deacon's meetings, 1883-1891; volume containing minutes of various Church meetings, membership rolls and correspondence, 1925-1941; volume from Albany Chapel containing history of chapel, minutes of Church meetings, baptisms and collections, 1853-1875; documents relating to property, 1709-1825; and papers concerning the reopening of the Church after damage by enemy action, 1954-1955.
Congregational Church of England and WalesDeed relating to Brentford Market: exemplification of an inspeximus of letters patent, in which King James VI and I grants rights to hold a market every Tuesday and an annual fair on eve and day of Feast of Saint Laurence and four days following in West Brentford, with right to hold court of pie-powder and to levy tolls and dues, 1610.
An 'inspeximus' is a charter in which the person granting the charter avouches to have inspected an earlier charter which he repeats and confirms.
James VI and I , 1566-1625 , king of Scotland, England, and IrelandRegisters of marriages, 1934-1960.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchCircuit plan for Brentford Methodist Circuit, 1924-1925.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords of Brentford Magistrates Court, 1840-1976 and Ealing Magistrates Court, 1919-1988.
Records of Brentford Magistrates Court comprise:
- PS/B/B/01/001-246: Court Registers, 1880-1958, 1965-1976;
- PS/B/B/02/001: Court Minute Books, 1840-1841;
- PS/B/B/04/001-012: Juvenile Court Registers, 1933-1959;
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PS/B/B/08/001-018: Court Administration, 1902-1976.
Records of Ealing Magistrates Court comprise:
- PS/B/E/01/001-576: Court Registers, 1919-1988;
- PS/B/E/02/001-004: Justices' Attendance Books, 1919-1961;
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PS/B/E/03/001-017: Juvenile Court Registers, 1933-1966.
Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.
Records of the Brentwood School District, 1877-1886, including signed mintues of the Board; claims upon the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund; letters and orders of the Local Government Board; creed registers from the Brentwood Industrial School; admission and discharge register of Harold Court School, Harold Wood; list of officers and servants and papers relating to the appointment of staff.
Brentwood School DistrictRecords of Thomas Brewer, antiquarian, comprising: a calendar of correspondence in Remembrancia 1, 1850 (Ms 00007); a memoir of John Carpenter, town clerk, 1835 (Ms 01555); notes relating to offices and office-holders of the City of London Corporation, mid 19th century (Ms 02173, 03117-8, 10139-40); extracts from the City's records relating to the River Lea and the New River, compiled 19th century (Ms 02194); extract from the wardmote inquest book of the ward of Cheap, compiled 19th century (Ms 02195); extracts and notes relating to the Plaisterers' Company, mid 19th century (Ms 02192, 03555); copies of monumental inscriptions, and extracts and indexes of records of the church of St Lawrence Jewry and St Mary Magdalene Milk Street, mid 19th century (Ms 03119, 03288, 03292-3, 03551); copies of inscriptions in St Mary le Bow church, 1858 (Ms 07820); text of a paper on customs formerly observed in public schools, ca. 1850 (Ms 02193).
The records were catalogued between 1908 and 1959 by members of Guildhall Library staff.
Brewer , Thomas , fl 1835-1870 , antiquarianPapers of Adolphe Brewster Brewster, 1890-1923, comprising typescript book (MS 25) by Brewster entitled 'Genealogies and histories of the Matanitu: or, tribal governments of central Viti Levu, Great Fiji' with photographs, genealogical tables and map of Viti Levu showing pilgrimages of tribal fathers, 1923, and MS 25a: letter from Brewster to E N Fallaize, Honourary Secretary of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 25 Mar 1925, enclosing original documents by Fijians, used by Brewster to write his Genealogies and histories of the Matanitu, including an account of the election of the first Vunivalu of Nomalu by Ratu Joni Kuradudua, Native Stipendiary Magistrate of the Province of Colo Wainimala; notes by Jimi Tiraulevu, District Scribe of Noemalu on the tribal history of the Noikoro, 27 Nov 1892; notes by Aliferete, District Scribe of Noemalu, on the Vunaquma (Vunangumze) tribe, 1890; notes by Jolame (Joram) Tamanavuilagi, District Scribe of Muaira, on the Muaira tribe, 7 May 1892; notes by Nathaniel, District Scribe of Nadrau, on the Nadrau tribe, [1895]; notes on the Colo Navosa or tribes of the Tholo West by Revd Felix (Vilikeasa) Kalou, Wesleyan Native minister of Tholo West, 1895, with covering letter containing further notes on the Noidavutukia tribe at Koroinasu by Aliki Bere, Provincial Scribe of Tholo West, 21 Aug 1895; notes by B G Corney on the Shark clan of Noikoro and notes by Timoci Cuva, Provincial Scribe of Tholo North, on legends related by Nadurutamata, the ancient of Noemalu including the legend of Tuvou of Nagatagata, showing the relationship between the Noikoro and Vatusila tribes and the legend of the dispute between Jehovah and Degei upon the creation of man.
Brewster , Adolphe Brewster , 1855-1937 , colonial administrator x Joske , Adolphe BrewsterPrinted broadsheet of the Proverbs of Poor Richard, or the Way to Wealth, by Benjamin Franklin; printed by T. Brice, in Musgrave Alley, High Street, Exeter.
T Brice , printer of Exeter Franklin Benjamin , 1706-1790 , natural philosopher, writer, and revolutionary politician in AmericaRecords of Bridewell Hospital, 1660-1960, including administrative papers, reports, orders and recommendations.
Corporation of LondonRecords of the Battersea Bridge Company, 1771-1882, including deeds and other legal documents; minutes of meetings; financial accounts and correspondence.
Records of the Fulham Bridge Company, 1739-1770, comprising minutes of meetings.
Records of the Joint Committee of the Corporation of the City of London and the Metropolitan Board of Works for freeing Kew and other bridges from toll, 1864-1889, comprising minutes of meetings and reports.
Records of the Staines Bridge Commissioners, 1828-1870, comprising account of bonds. Records of the Vauxhall Bridge Company, comprising plans and sections of the bridge, its approaches and the riverbed, 1878-1880. Records of the Strand Bridge Company, 1809-1814, comprising share and annuities certificates.
MBW , Metropolitan Board of Works x Metropolitan Board of Works Corporation of London x City of London Battersea Bridge Company Fulham Bridge Company Staines Bridge Commissioners Vauxhall Bridge Company Strand Bridge CompanyBridge House Estates papers including bridgemasters' accounts rolls, 1381-1398; bridgemaster's annual accounts and rentals, 1404-1850; weekly payments, 1404-1445 and 1505-1849; bill books, 1745-1789 and 1815-1889; receipt books, 1598-1851; cash books, 1602-1784; fair cash books, 1713-1851; rough cash books, 1713-1810, miscellaneous ledgers and cash books, 1787-1819; materials sold, 1614-1682; corn and granary books, 1568-1714; rent and arrears books, 1707-1941; papers relating to individual properties owned by the Trust, particularly leases and grants, and administrative papers.
Corporation of LondonDraft terrier of lands and buildings in Saint Georges Fields, Southwark, belonging to the Bridge House Estate. A terrier is an inventory of buildings, land, tenants and so on.
Bridge House Estates , Corporation of LondonRecords of Bridge Within Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise minutes, accounts, rates and inhabitants lists, memoranda, papers relating to the watch and other miscellaneous papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.
Bridge Within Ward , Corporation of LondonRecords of the Bridge, Candlewick and Dowgate Wards Schools, comprising subscribers annual general meetings minute book; and lease and asbstract of title of the schoolhouse, 13 Swan Lane.
Bridge, Candlewick and Dowgate Wards SchoolsPapers of Sir Cyprian Arthur George Bridge including a few watch bills and other papers relating to the AUDACIOUS, 1874 to 1877; out-letterbooks, 1881 to 1885 and 1898; private letters received, 1895 to 1898, 1901 to 1904, and admiral's journals, 1895 to 1898.
Bridge , Sir , Cyprian Arthur George , 1839-1924 , Knight , AdmiralDocuments relating to Bridgen Hall Estate and Adelaide House Estate, Forty Hill, Enfield; including lease and releases; fines; wills; mortgages; bonds; agreements; conveyances; admittances; copies from court rolls; and other title deeds and legal documents relating to property ownership.
Various.Extracts from the wills of stationers of London, 1550-1664; and lists of apprentices bound to members of the Stationers' Company, 1555-1640.
Bridger , Charles , fl 1867 , historianRecords relating to the management of bridges in London, 1664-1990, including petitions; reports; financial papers; legal papers; publications; press releases; papers relating to building and maintenance; title deeds relating to Staines Bridge and papers relating to proposals to build 'St Paul's Bridge', abandoned at the outbreak of World War One.
Also papers, 1868-1890, relating to the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Metropolitan Bridges which worked to free all bridges over the Thames and Lea from tolls, including papers on the Staines Bridge, Walton Bridge, Hampton Court Bridge, Kingston-on-Thames Bridge, Kew Bridge, Chingford Mills Bridge, Hellyer's Ferry Bridge and Tottenham Mills Bridge.
Corporation of LondonRecords of the Bridges family relating to premises in Edmonton, Enfield, Pinner, Harrow, Hillingdon, Isleworth, Tottenham, Hackney, Twickenham, Clapton, Hampstead, Islington, Holborn, Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London., Clerkenwell, Shoreditch, Chelsea, Bloomsbury, Stepney, City of Westminster, and Saint Clement Danes. The documents include releases, leases, extracts from court rolls, marriage certificates and settlements, legal case papers including Chancery court, probates, letters of administration, leases, abstracts of title, and conveyances. Also appointments by Justices of the Peace of John George Bridges and John William Bridges, both of 54, Torrington Square, as Special Constables, 1848.
Various.Papers of Albert Francis Barclay Bridges, including a journal, 1912 to 1918; pocket diaries, 1918 to 1920, kept whilst in the Mediterranean and Black Sea; and a photograph and scrap album belonging to his brother, William M Bridges mainly relating to the surrender of the German fleet, 21 Nov 1918.
Bridges , Albert Francis Barclay , fl 1912-1920 , Paymaster LieutenantJournal of business and private expenditure of John Bridgman, West India merchant.
Bridgman , John , fl 1766-1803 , West India merchantRecords of Brightwen and Company, bankers and bill brokers, comprising articles of partnership and financial material.
Brightwen and Co , bankers and bill brokersPlan by James Brindley, civil engineer, of a proposed canal between Monkey Island and Isleworth.
Brindley , James , 1716-1772 , civil engineer