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This collection of miscellaneous documents includes: correspondence between the camp authorities and the Gestapo, Holland, regarding the belongings of dead Dutch prisoners, 1941-1942; statistics on exterminations, unnatural deaths and transports to death camps, April 1945; list of surviving prisoners, March 1945.

Minute Book for the Manor of Little Stanmore, 1785-1839. With various documents found enclosed in the minute book, including letters and papers relating to the household accounts of the Marquis of Buckingham, and letter to the steward of the Manor of Great Stanmore.

Typescript copy of a paper by W A Buckingham, entitled 'Beliefs and Religious Symbols in the Bronze Age of England'.

These papers of Francis and George Bent Buckley comprise antiquarian notes compiled by them from 1930 to 1938, chiefly relating to watches and 17th and 18th century London watchmakers.

The records comprise: list of lost watches of London watchmakers, c 1930 (Ms 02921); list of references to 18th-century newspaper advertisements relating to watchmakers, clockmakers and allied trades, c 1934 (Ms 03338); list of British clockmakers working outside London, 1937 (Ms 03355); and alphabetical list of glass sellers, china-men and "potters", 1938 (Ms 03384).

Records of the Buckton family relating to property, including extracts from the court rolls of the Manor of Hornsey; sales particulars; covenants; lease and conveyances.

These papers relate to the property of Sir John Buckworth and his family. They comprise deeds and related papers concerning property in or near Great Winchester Street within the parishes of All Hallows London Wall and St Peter le Poer.

Records of the Budla Beta Tea Company comprising Board of Directors minutes; annual general meeting minutes, London trustees provident fund minutes and a ledger. The records are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.

Building plans from the Metropolitan Boroughs of Battersea or Wandsworth or from their predecessor bodies, 1835-1985. Many of these plans were generated by the London Borough of Wandsworth or its predecessors, others by private architects or engineers.

Files of the Building Research Board relating to the repair of damaged buildings during and after the Second World War, principally concerning London.

Notes (handwritten) relating to a housing loan scheme proposed by the Church Benefit Society, including draft of charges and sample correspondence. Includes prospectuses and advertising pamphlets from existing building societies, presumably gathered for research, including the Prudential Assurance Company Limited, the Temperance Permanent Building Society, the Bradford Second Equitable Benefit Building Society, the Abbey Road Building Society and the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society.

Records of the Building Society Indemnities Committee, comprising minutes.

Papers, 1865-1954, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 117 Tollington Way, Holloway, Islington; including leases, mortgage, conveyance, abstract of title and assignment of leasehold.

Records of Bulkships Limited, comprising articles of association.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a mortgage for two pieces of land at Ponders End, Enfield, on north side of South Street, 19 Nov 1880.

Records of Bull and Bull, solicitors, including financial accounts such as ledgers, cash books, journals, disbursements and petty cash; and letter books.

Records of Charles Bullard, surveyor, comprising printed sales particular for house, farmyard and land, including allotment, by side of canal in Sydenham, before 28 April 1814, with plan of these premises by Charles Bullard, including table of reference and names of adjacent landholders, October 1816.

Records of the Bullock family, including title deeds to properties in Stanwell, also Colnbrook, Horton, Langley Marish, and Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, 1366-1830; title deeds to Poyle Mills and related properties in Stanwell, 1612-1744; abstracts of title, 1612-1811; plans, early nineteenth century; Bullock family wills and settlements, 1708-1830; Bullock family accounts and business papers, 1704-1877; Bland family papers, 1770-1879; Stanwell Parish Records (church rate accounts and churchwarden's accounts), 1728-1854; Colnbrook Chapel Records (charity accounts), 1693-1850; and building leases, Fitzroy Square, 1793-1794.

Letters and papers of and concerning Maria Hackett (of 8 Crosby Square, Bishopsgate, 1783-1874), and letters relating to church music. 1782-[1910]. Compiled and collected early 20th century.

Papers of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. The records comprise: interment order books and registers of burials, [1671]-1854; accounts, 1788-1854; and a volume concerning stones taken out, 1840-1854. There are also records of monumental inscriptions, 19th century, together with alphabetical index of surnames based on a tomb survey of 1972, with plans, 1973, which are useful for locating surviving monuments.

Letters from Charles Burden to his wife, 1906-1907, sent from a tour of schools in Canada and the USA; photographs of Burden during his headship of Beverley Grammar School, Yorkshire, [1912-1935].

Papers of Rev Michael Burden, 1979-1992 comprising MEd Thesis, 1979: 'An experiment in humanistic education - a personal education curriculum for spiritual and moral development', (1 vol.); 'Your future in Hull', workbook and handbook for a scheme in conjunction with Humberside County Council, relating to the future employment of pupils at the Sir Leo Schultz High School, Hull, (2 vols); 'An investigation into spiritual development: being a short report of sabbatical study, Jan-Mar 1992', undertaken at the North of England Institute for Religious Education, Durham University; typescript draft of 'A curriculum for personal growth', (9pp)and typescript draft of 'What is meant by spiritual development?', (7pp).

Records of Burdett Road Congregational Church including registers of marriages, 1909-1939; register of membership, 1866-1932; minutes of Deacon's meetings, 1913-1927; Treasurer's accounts, 1917-1926; tenancy agreement between the Church and the Borough of Stepney to use the ground floor rooms of the church as a Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, 1932; printed order of service for Ordination of Sydney Smith, 1908; correspondence, 1915-1936 and photograph of chancel and organ at Harvest Festival.

Records of Burge and Company Limited, brewers, comprising Directors' meetings minute books, 1928-1930.

Registers of services for Burgenstock Anglican Chaplaincy, Switzerland.

The collection comprises diaries of William Hugh Burgess, a fifteen-year old boy from a family of Huguenot descent, who lived in Marylebone in the late eighteenth-century. They are rare examples of historical diaries written by a child.

In what became part of his daily routine from January 1788 until October 1790, William wrote about himself and his everyday life, simply recording what he did and what he saw.

Records of the de Burgh family relating to their estates in Harmondsworth, Hillingdon and West Drayton.

Papers of Fysh de Burgh, lord of the manors of West Drayton and Colham, comprising receipts from James Mercer for wages as gamekeeper and bailiff, and for care of dogs.

Records of the de Burgh family, including papers relating to the Manor of Colham including court rolls (courts baron), indexes of tenants, quit rent books, valuations and surveys of the manor; papers relating to the Manor of West Drayton including court rolls (courts baron), quit rent rolls, legal papers relating to the management of the estate, and admissions; and documents relating to property ownership and transfer, particularly for premises in West Drayton, Hillingdon and Kilburn.

Records of the de Burgh family relating to their estates in Hillingdon, Harmondsworth and West Drayton, including leases, releases, mortgages, letters, agreements and tax certificates. Also court rolls (courts baron) for the Manor of Colham and the Manor of West Drayton.

Financial records from the solicitor's practice of Edward Herbert Burkitt.

Registers of patients treated by Frederick Burkitt in private practice, 1923-1959.

Sale catalogues and copies of correspondence relating to the sale of Burleigh House, Enfield.

Papers, 1610-1887, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to property in Westminster, Uxendon, Preston, Kenton and Wembley, including Preston Farm and Uxendon Manor House.

Papers, 1707-1760, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising copies of court rolls of the Manor of Colham.

Correspondence and papers of Brian Rusbridge, Secretary to the Burnham and Allied Commitees, 1972-1987, including minutes of the meetings of of the Primary and Secondary and Further Education Management Panels, 1979-1986; minutes of meetings of the Primary and Secondary Committee, 1976-1987; notes on meetings of the Primary and Secondary Committee, 1984-1987 and of the Further Education Committee, 1982-1986; verbatim transcripts of the Primary and Secondary Committee meetings, 1972-1980 and of Education Committee meetings, 1979-1983; files relating the Committee of Inquiry into Teachers' Pay (the Houghton Committee), 1974-1975.

Reminiscences of John Burt, prison warder at H.M. Prison Wormwood Scrubs. Includes newspaper cuttings relating to the prison, 1890-1936.

Papers of Capt Alfred Burton, comprising letters, 1811 to 1812, 1831 to 1834, including a series of twenty-nine to his mother for the latter period.

Papers of Cuthbert Ward Burton, comprising two series of letters. The first is of eighty-four letters written by Burton to his mother during his service on the China Station, 1853 to 1858, and the second is to his family, 1859 to 1860, 1862 to 1865 and 1871 to 1873.

Papers of Esmond Burton, c 1955, comprise seven plaster miniatures of working men and women prepared by sculptor Edmond Burton, relating to the bas-reliefs on the three frontages of Bentham House, residence of the Faculty of Laws at University College London. The buidling was originally the headquarters of the General and Municipal Workers' Union (now part of GMB), and was designed by Hubert Lidbetter. Fourteen black and white photographs of the bas-reliefs and construction of the building. Note that the right-hand figure in the 'group of five' photograph is Hubert Lidbetter.

Mortgages and assignments of property in Oxford Road, Cambridge Road, Chichester Road and Alexander Road, Kilburn, 1862-1894; and deed of convenant of indemnity from the Real Property Trust Ltd for a property in Twickenham, 1881.

Papers, 1863-1923, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Ealing and Islington, including leases, conveyances and mortgages.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising sales particulars for a leasehold house in South Street, Peckham, near the "Rosemary Branch", 1822.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease of house and premises at Southgate Pike to Thomas Rogers, 1820, and conveyances and mortgages of premises in Hampton and Hampton Hill, 1869-1926.

Papers of the Burtt family of London, including financial accounts; marriage and death certificates; wills and probates; and letters.

Records of 73 bus companies which became part of London Transport. The records vary from company to company but generally include minutes of Board and Shareholder meetings and financial records such as ledgers, journals and cash books.

Papers relating to the Bush Hill Estate, Edmonton, owned by the Clarke family. Documents include sale to John Clarke 1696/7; inheritance by Samuel Clarke 1700-1701; additions to estate 1701-1716; inheritance by Anna Clarke and William Clarke 1741-1755; sale to John Blackburn 1785; deeds of lands bought by John Blackburn senior as additions to estate 1721-1796; inheritance by Catherine Blackburn and John Blackburn junior 1799-1805; deeds of land bought by John Blackburn junior from William Mellish 1795-1805; sale of Bush Hill Estate to R.M. Jephson 1809; and sale of Bush Hill Estate to Isaac Currie 1811.

Also documents relating to St. Mary's Road, Edmonton 1882; Slopers Pond Farm, Enfield 1846-1879; The Grove, Hanwell 1871 and Monken Hadley and Barnet 1836-1878.

Records of the Business Equipment Trade Association (BETA) and related organisations. The collection includes a complete run of 27 volumes of council minutes, from July 1951 to December 1980. The minutes reflect the association's preoccupation with its role as a public relations body, and with issues affecting its membership, such as VAT or decimalisation. Issues discussed reflect the changing commercial climate, illustrating the increased use of microelectronic technology, although individual products are seldom mentioned unless they are the subject of a dispute. Considerable time is also given over to general internal and administrative matters, and to the continued examination of BETA's aims and activities. Two divisional minute books provide a taste of the activities of the association's sections. Council working papers and correspondence include duplicate minutes of council meetings, reports to council on executive committee meetings, press cuttings, and correspondence relating to association luncheons. A sample of the association's journal is also included.

Research by Robert Woodward Buss on the genealogy of the Fleetwood family.

Records of the Butchers' Charitable Institution including Committee minute books; reports; papers relating to the merger with the London Meat Traders' and Drovers' Benevolent Association; annual reports; financial accounts; applications for assistance; registers of annual subscriptions; registers of members; press cuttings; photographs; historical notes and dinner menus.

Some material relating to pensioners or personnel has a 30 year closure period. More recent material is retained by the Institution.

The surviving records of Butler's Charity comprise minutes, accounts, legal papers, records of apprenticeships, the Charity Commissioners' scheme, letter books and title deeds.

Records of Butterworth and Company (Australia), including ledgers; Director's reports; annual accounts; correspondence; reports; and sales catalogues.