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Records of the Parish of Shepperton, 1714-1936, including settlement certificates; settlement examinations; removal orders; settlement appeals; apprenticeship indentures; bastardy bonds; papers relating to the workhouse; papers relating to the militia; rates and accounts; papers relating to tithes; enclosure and common lands maps.

Records of the Shepperton Parish Council, 1895-1928; including correspondence; financial accounts and plans. Records of the Lindsay Estates, 1837-1964, including deeds; correspondence and plans. Plans and maps of the parish, 1841-1938; and some undated historical notes regarding the parish and the estate.

Records of Shepperton Manor including court rolls; indexes to court rolls; extracts from court rolls; court memos; surrenders and powers of attorney.

Records of Sheppards and Chase, stockbrokers, comprising clients' ledgers 1851-1864 and 1893-1907; stock transaction records 1845-1935 and private ledgers 1854-95.

The records of Price and Pott comprise accounts 1869-84 and a clients' ledger 1850-1854.

Two volumes of accounts 1834-1847 and 1859-1874 have been attributed to the firm of Scott, Corthorn and Scott by internal evidence.

The records of Cannon, Pelly and Allcard and its predecessors comprise a list of principals ca. 1848-58 and client ledgers 1845-9, 1851-60.

The records of George Davidge and John H. Davidge comprise client lists ca. 1818-54.

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Papers of the Sheppard family, comprising personal property records as follows:
E/SHP/001-012 Wills of William Odber, and members of the Sheppard, Hall and Webb families;
E/SHP/013 Thomas Treadway Odber's estate (abstract of title to estate in Newington);
E/SHP/014-015 Thomas Treadway Odber's estate (leases for estate in Newington);
E/SHP/016 Elizabeth Hall's estate (title deed for premises in Newington);
E/SHP/017-026 John Sheppard Jnr's estate (title deeds to Alfred Place, St. George the Martyr, Southwark);
E/SHP/027-051 John Sheppard Jnr's estate (leases to Alfred Place, St. George the Martyr, Southwark);
E/SHP/052-058 John Sheppard jnr's estate (title deeds to other property in Southwark and Kennington);
E/SHP/059 Tredway Sheppard's estate (title deed);
E/SHP/060 Ann Webb's estate (title deed to premises in St George in the Fields);
E/SHP/061-068 Kesterton John Inman's estate (title deeds to property in St Pancras);
E/SHP/069-070 Papers regarding property in Southwark.

Records of Shenley Hospital, 1931-1974, including minutes from various committees including the Middlesex Colony sub-committee, Standing sub-committee, Middlesex Colony Staff sub-committee, Management sub-committee and Mental Hospitals committee; administrative files including resolutions, annual reports, commissioners reports, Board of Control statistics, hospital services statistics, and contract specifications and estimates. Patient records include medical registers, admission and discharge registers, death registers, civil registers of voluntary and certified patients, and matron's reports. There are also records relating to staff and finance, and a large series of hospital plans dating from the 1930's when the hospital was opened. Most are architectural plans of the villas and other buildings which made up the Shenley Complex. There is also a series of plans which covers the whole site showing layouts of the villas and includes an overall key to the coding of the hospital buildings.

Papers of Joseph Sheldon, 1944, comprise an account by Joseph Sheldon, formerly Jozef Szwarcman, a medical officer holding the rank of Lieutenant in the 1st Polish Armoured Division, of his experiences shortly after the liberation of Esterwege concentration camp, Lower Saxony,and a page torn from a volume which listed details of inmates of that camp.

Papers relating to Robert Sheldon's chairmanship of the Committee of Public Accounts, 1964-1997, including Chairmen's files, Committee of Public Accounts and National Audit Office reports, Treasury minutes and correspondence.

Records of the Sheffield and District Public House Trust Company Limited, public house management company, including Directors' minutes; transfer deeds and cancelled share certificates; memorandum and articles of association; correspondence and agreements in respect of acquisition by Courage, Barclay and Simonds of properties and business and subsequent transfers to James Hole in 1968 and annual reports and accounts.

Records of Sheer Pride Limited, metal office furniture manufacturer, 1941-1979, including five directors' minute books, company annual returns and one file and one register relating to share transfers.

Pocket book entitled "Tables and Memoranda for Engineers", published by M T Shaw and Company Ltd, containing useful information for engineers such as mathematical formulae, calculations, the strengths of various materials, the width of types of pipe, the hardness of different soils, the areas of circles and so on.

Miscellanea, or scraps and correspondence relating to 'Old London', as represented at the International Health Exhibition in 1884, arranged by George Shaw.

Papers of Shaw Savill and Albion Co Ltd. The bulk of the correspondence files belong to the period 1947 to 1965, although the earliest paper is dated 1924. They are concerned with the building and trials of new vessels, ships in service, standard freight rates and routine instructions to masters. There are summaries of passage money and numbers of passengers, 1900 to 1946; analyses of passage money, outward, 1946 to 1960, 1970 to 1972; passage money, homeward, 1965 to 1968. the records cover chartered vessels as well as the Company's own ships. (Although there is some information about individual passengers, this is not a complete record of passengers carried: more comprehensive lists can be found in the passenger lists in the Board of Trade records at the Public Record Office.). In 1969 a series of refrigerator and engine logs, 1956 to 1962, were deposited as well as deck logs, 1944 to 1965.

Records of Shaw and Sons Limited, publishers, including agreements with authors; notes on books published; financial accounts; and catalogue.

Title deeds for properties in Chelsea, Clerkenwell, Hendon, Paddington, Saint George-in-the-East, Saint Marylebone, and Saint Pancras.

Ledgers of William Sharpe, Thomas Sharpe and George Bishop, heraldic painters; including customers' names.

Papers of Philip Ruffle Sharpe, comprising diaries, 1857-1859, and letterbooks, 1867-1870 and 1875-1877, together with official service documents and a few letters and photographs, Sharpe's own copy of The Voyage of the Rattlesnake, by John MacGillivray (London, 1852, 2 vols), and typescript extracts from an autobiography up to 1849. The letters include one from Sharpe's brother-in-law, William R Hobson, a lieutenant in the FOX, under Captain F L McClintock, describing the finding of relics of the expedition led by Sir John Franklin. There are service papers, three logs and a notebook kept by Commander Philip William Carwithen Sharpe (1884-1957), Sharpe's son, as a midshipman in the MAJESTIC, Channel, 1900 to 1901, DIANA, Mediterranean, 1901 to 1902, and ARIADNE, West Indies, 1902 to 1903. There are also a few service papers of Second Officer Mary Gertrude Sharpe, WRNS (Mrs M G Corran).

Papers, 1847-1927, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to Sunbury Court and Kempton Park Estates, and to premises in Harrow and Pinner.

Legal documents acquired by the solicitors in the course of their work; comprising a right hand indenture of a fine relating to land in the parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green, 1790; lease for premises on High Street, Tottenham, 1803 and exemplification of a common recovery relating to land in the parishes of Saint John at Hackney, Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green and Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, 1829.

Share Investment Trust records comprise minutes of meetings of the trustees.

Register of baptisms, 1820-1823.

Records of the Shadwell Waterworks Company, comprising financial material including rent books; cash books; receipt books; wage books; account books and some papers relating to works carried out.

Records of the Shadwell Waterworks Company, 1673-1869, including records relating to the establishment of Shadwell Waterworks, agreement with West Ham Waterworks, opposition to proposed London Docks, purchase of Waterworks by London Dock Company, papers concerning unclaimed shares and ownership of a share in the Shadwell Waterworks.

This deposit is a solicitors' collection of papers relating to the Shadwell family, who held estates in Greenford and Northolt, and also land in Essex. A large proportion of their estates, including the manor of Northolt, was purchased from the Earl of Jersey in 1827, and remained in the hands of the Shadwell family until the early 20th century, when the estate was split up for building purposes.

Records include:
Broughs Meadow; freehold and copyhold land in Northolt and Greenford, 1732-1838.
Copyhold and freehold lands in Northolt and Greenford, including Greenford Green Farm and Hart Mead, 1756-1932.
Freehold and leasehold premises, No. 23 Queen Square, parishes St. Andrew Holborn and St. George the Martyr, then St.Pancras, {1761}-1865.
Leasehold premises, No. 89 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, 1859-1879.
Freehold land in Waltham Holy Cross and Sewardstone, Essex, 1899-1923.
Marriage settlement of Eliott Scarlett Currey and Mary Campbell Lill Shadwell, and appointment of trustees, 1878-1933.
Papers and correspondence of trustees of will of Alfred Hudson Shadwell, 1846-1937.
Papers relating to claim of Alfred Hudson Shadwell on annuity of the Earl of Perth, 1830-1901.
Miscellaneous family and business papers, 1808, 1847-1889.

Records of the Shadwell family relating to Northolt, Ruislip and Greenford. Records include papers relating to the sale of estates and property transactions in Northolt and Ruislip; estate administration; sales particulars; manorial records; financial papers; legal papers; and notes on the history of the area.

Papers of the Shadbolt family relating to property in Edmonton, including conveyances, releases, mortgages and agreements.

Records of the Shacklewell Baptist Church, Stoke Newington, including meeting minutes; register of members; and financial accounts.

Records of the Shabbaton Choir consisting of scrapbooks containing souvenirs of concerts and tours. Files include arrangements, publicity, photographs, messages of thanks and congratulation, concert programmes, orders of service.

Register of baptisms, 1921-1943; collection journal, 1932-1944 and account book, 1915-1944.

This collection contains betacam videotapes and transcripts of interviews with leading political figures and members of the public during the 1970s and broadcast as the documentary 'The Writing on the Wall'. The collection covers many areas of political and social history during the period, most notably trade unionism and industrial relations.

Records of Settle, Speakman and Company, coal merchants, comprising Board minutes and register of Directors' holdings.

Papers of Beatrice Serota, 1953-2002, relate to her work in London local government, as a Minister of State, member of the House of Lords and of a number of advisory bodies and committees, including the Advisory Council on the Penal System and the Commission on Local Administration. Includes correspondence, reports, publications, notes, speeches and other papers.

Records of the Sermon Lane Mission comprising printed annual reports, 1875-1924; programme of Sermon Lane Christian Institute Young People's Club, 1947-1948 and programme for centenary festival, 1949.

Records of Serjeants' Inn civil parish, comprising poor rate books, 1873-1907; and overseers' book, 1896-1908.

Navy Office records belonging to Charles Sergison comprising Navy Board Minutes, 1673 to 1718 (seventy-six volumes), and copies of Admiralty orders to the Navy Board, 1603 to 1717 (thirteen volumes), mostly after 1674. There are also a large number of miscellaneous documents, including lists of ships in Sea Pay, 1660 to 1685 and 1684 to 1718, lists of officers, 1688 to 1716, Instructions for Ordnance, 1660 to 1688, Instructions for the Navy, 1686 to 1688, an abstract of Navy Board Warrants, 1660 to 1717, an abstract of numbers of dockyard workmen, 1686 to 1718, the Ordinary Estimate, 1692, papers relating to a victualling enquiry, 1710 to 1713, and an account of the Select Committee to Examine and State the Debt of the Navy, 1714. Finally there are copies of Hollond's 'Discourse on the Navy' and 'Survey of the South Coast' by Edmund Dummer, Surveyor of the Navy between 1692 and 1699.

Correspondence and financial papers of P A Gordon (alias James Kasper) relating to Sequah Ltd, 1890-1892 and his work as a Sequah agent selling quack medicines, including a variety of advertising material and copies of the Sequah Chronicle.

Records of Sengat Rubber Estate Limited, including articles of association, annual report, and circulars to shareholders.

This collection consists of various papers on business organisation and management from a diverse selection of companies.

Papers of Siegfried Seligmann c 1910-1926, including notes, working papers and photographs. Topics covered include magic and mysticism and include: 'Der Fischschwanz als Amulett und Talisman'; 'Wie sollen wir uns zu der Homöopathie stellen'; 'The Evil Eye' and 'Die Magischen Heil- und Schutzmittel'.

Fieldwork notes of expeditions to Borneo and the Torres Straits, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and the Sudan along with Brenda Seligman's work on kinship, and both Charles' and Brenda's publications on anthropology; extracts from the work of other anthropologists and correspondence between the Seligman's and other colleagues; notes and photographs by Dr Neil Munro relating to his anthropological work with the Ainu and correspondence relating to the editing by Brenda Seligman of this work; material relating to Charles Seligman's work as a doctor treating shellshock during World War One, noting the patients' symptoms, treatment given and response to treatment; correspondence concerning Jewish identity; and papers relating to Charles and Brenda Seligman's interest in Chinese porcelain, journals of their visits to China and Japan and correspondence with friends and family.

Papers of Milosh Sekulich, 1932-1962; notably correspondence, notes, case records, and draft writings pertaining to his study of tuberculosis and its classification, mainly 1953-1962.

Typescript copy of a report, 1975, on the Sekretariat Warburg, by Robert Solnitz, former head of the organisation, including mention of Dr. Josef Carlebach, the Chief Rabbi of Hamburg, who gave his life in order to stay with his congregation; Claus Göttschethe, Gestapo head of the Jewish department, Hamburg, in relation to assistance to Hamburg's Jews and Max Plaut, the leader of Hamburg's Jewish community.

Papers of Lilli Segal, 1987-1995, comprise correspondence including letters to Professor Müller Hill regarding Nazi medical experiments (895/1-4); letter regarding numbers of Holocaust victims from Hans Mommsen (895/28); correspondence with the Nationale Mahn und Gedenkstätte Buchenwald regarding the memorialisation of the Holocaust (895/13-16) and copies of relevant newspaper cuttings, book extracts and photographs.

Secret Hungarian papers regarding British involvement in the history of Hungary, [1959] comprise copied reports by Hungarian Foreign Office officials regarding the role of Britain in the history of Hungary, 1937-1945.

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.

Copy book for correspondence, 1906-1910 and Deacons' Court minute book, 1930-1937.

Papers of Parnel Seaton, including letters, receipts for payments, assessments for tax on houses, servants, carriages, horses, dogs, hair powder and armorial bearnings, and certificates of assessments for property in Twickenham.

The records of Searle and Company Limited, jewellers and silversmiths, comprising customer ledgers recording sales to private clients 1896-1968.

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Records of Seaport (Selangor) Rubber Estate Limited, including articles of association, annual reports, and circulars to shareholders.

Minute book of the local preachers' meetings of the Seamen's Mission Circuit, 1908-1933; Circuit schedules of the Seamen's Mission Circuit, 1906- 1956; Circuit schedule books for the Seamen's Mission Circuit, including visitation of classes, 1936-1958.

Papers relating to seamanship, there are four volumes in this class. The earliest is by Sir Henry Mainwaring (1587-1653), entitled 'An Abstract and Exposition of All Things pertaining to the Practice of Navigation', written in 1623, and consisting of a dictionary of sea terms; it was edited by G E Mainwaring and W G Perrin, The Life and Works of Sir Henry Mainwaring (Navy Records Society, vol.56, 1921). The other volumes contain two drafts of the manuscript of 'The Mariner's Sheet Anchor or Seaman's Practical Expositor' by Darcy Lever, which was published in 1808; and an illustrated dictionary of nautical and seamanship terms, with French, Italian and Spanish translations, c 1870.