The East London Peoples Archive, 1995-2007, including over 1000 oral histories collected as part of projects conducted by the Eastside Community Heritage to document the lives of 'ordinary' people in East London on topics including World War Two; women's history; markets; boxing; ethnic groups in East London including Somali and Chinese; food; parks and the hijab. Also including DVDs on East London local history produced by Eastside Community Heritage comprising Eastside voices: from Canning Town to Custom House, 2003; My Roots, Our Heritage, 2006 and Our Brick Lane, 2007. Published books and booklets on East London local history, chiefly published by Eastside Community Heritage including A Working Class War and Hidden Lives: stories from the East End and index to photographs collected as part of projects by Eastside Community Heritage comprising black and white thumbnail reproductions.
Eastside Community HeritageRecords of the East London Synagogue, consisting of Board of Management minutes, other administrative records, financial accounts, membership records, marriage contracts and index of social services cases.
PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.
East London SynagogueRecords of the East London Water Works Company, 1899-1903, consisting of contract drawings and a timetable of a visit made by members of Portsmouth Water Works Company to East London Water Works.
East London Water Works CompanyFinancial records of the East London Waterworks Company, including general ledgers; journals and cash books; Collectors' accounts volumes; analyses of expenditure volumes; minor financial volumes and rating files.
East London Waterworks CompanyCorporate records of the East London Waterworks Company, including Court of Director's minute books; legal papers; Committee papers; title deeds; correspondence and letter books; papers relating to stocks, shares and debentures; Parliamentary papers; papers relating to royal commissions on water supply; Secretary's files; press cuttings; and plans.
East London Waterworks CompanyProperty records of the East London Waterworks Company, including rental ledgers; particulars of land purchases; notices and plans of intended purchase and schedule of deeds.
East London Waterworks CompanyStaff records of the East London Waterworks Company, including Officers' guarantees; papers relating to salaries annual holidays and sickness; and staff lists.
East London Waterworks CompanyPapers of the East London Waterworks Company relating to water supply and distribution, including Engineers' reports; Engineers' correspondence; volumes of accepted tenders; water supply agreements; Collectors' and Inspectors' letter books; indexes to the locations of meters; rating volumes; accounts; plans and diagrams.
East London Waterworks CompanyPamphlet relating to the development of East Molesey Methodist Church, 1966.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords of the Manor of East Smithfield, City of London. The records comprise: court leet books, 1728-88; and court rolls, 1763-1862.
Manor of East Smithfield , City of LondonList of subscribers, 1839-1846.
Presbyterian Church of EnglandRecords of the East Surrey Traction Company, 1911-1957, consisting of minute and agenda books, agreements, register of members, newspaper cuttings books, memorandum and articles of association, annual reports, correspondence relating to the purchase by London General Omnibus Company Limited and menu of first annual staff dinner.
East Surrey Traction Company Ltd , bus service operatorPapers of Eastern and Australian Steamship Co Ltd, containing a copy of the 1873 mail contract with the Government of Queensland: the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the third company (1894) and some early account books, 1894 to 1898. Later accounting records include company returns, 1920 to 1969, and there are minutes of Board meetings, 1906 to 1969. Included in the tonnage data, 1948 to 1969, are the contract and hull specification for the ARAFURA, 1952 to 1953.
Eastern & Australian Steamship Co LtdRecords of the Eastern and South African Telegraph Company Limited comprising minutes, Directors' annual accounts, balance sheets, general ledgers, cash books and journals.
Eastern and South African Telegraph Co LtdRecords of Eastern Bank Limited. The archives are those of the London Head Office, and most of the correspondence is in the name of the General Manager. The collection includes corporate records; minutes; General Manager's papers; accounts; correspondence with branches; inspection of branches; lending (except the Mundhra loan); staff records; and premises records.
Access to the archives is subject to a 45 year rule, with a 70 year rule for records containing personally sensitive information. In addition, all records are held off-site, and require at least 24 hours notice for access.
Eastern Bank LtdPapers of the Eastern Bank Limited relating to the Mundhra Loan, including correspondence; Board memoranda, news cuttings and correspondence relating to the Mundhra Group; memoranda, progress reports, statistics and legal papers regarding Brahmapootra Tea Company (India) Limited and the Osler Electric Lamp Manufacturing Company Limited; and correspondence with Chartered Bank regarding the Mundhra Group.
Access to the archives is subject to a 45 year rule, with a 70 year rule for records containing personally sensitive information. In addition, all records are held off-site, and require at least 24 hours notice for access.
Eastern Bank LtdRecords of the Eastern Extension, Australasian and China Telegraph Company Limited comprising Directors' annual reports and accounts, photographs of Javanese villages and papers regarding the new issue of shares.
Eastern Extension, Australasian and China Telegraph Co LtdRecords of the Tottenham and District Gas Company, 1847-1959, including register of shareholders and stockholders; minutes of shareholders' meetings; minutes of directors' meetings; out-letter book of board of directors; reports of the chief engineer and general manager to the directors, containing details of coal stocks, gas consumption, laying of mains, etc.
Reports of the managing director to the directors, incorporating those of both the chief engineer and the gas sales manager; reports of the secretary to the directors; files of printed Acts and Orders and correspondence; financial and accounting records; staff records and estimate and bill of costs for the extension of showrooms and offices at 639 High Road, Tottenham.
Records of the Southgate and District Gas Company, 1858-1938, including volume of Acts of Parliament relating to the Gas Companies; registers of shareholders; list of proprietors; registers of debenture stock and of debenture stockholders; register of transfers of stocks and shares; minutes of shareholders' meetings; minutes of directors' meetings; financial and accounting records.
Tottenham and District Gas Company , 1928-1948 Tottenham and Edmonton Gaslight and Coke Company , 1847-1914 Tottenham District Light, Heat and Power Company , 1914-1928 Southgate and District Gas Company , 1858-1938Eastern Society of Master Pawnbrokers records comprise: minutes 1813-21, 1824-31 (Ms 22327) and correspondence and other papers, 1821-30 (Ms 22328). They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1987.
Eastern Society of Master PawnbrokersEastern Telegraph Company Limited records comprise minutes of joint committee meetings, indexes to board minute books and an "authority book" containing papers concerning share issues and the payment of dividends.
Eastern Telegraph Co LtdRecords of the Ebenezer Chapel, King Street, Hammersmith, later the Albion Congregational Church, Dalling Road, Hammersmith, including volume, 1784-1849, containing articles and rules for faith and practice, 1784, roll of church members, 1784-1849 and register of events such as admission of new members, resignation of and invitations to pastors and so on, 1785-1819; Church book, 1881-1938, containing historical account of church covering period 1774-1938, minutes of Church Meetings, 1881-1886, roll of members, 1857-1938, register of marriages, 1881-1938, register of baptisms, 1881-1938, register of burials, 1881-1886; register of baptisms, 1875-[1880]; volume containing minutes of Church Meetings, 1923-1938, history of church covering 1774-1932 and note on the closure of the church, 1938.
Congregational Church of England and WalesEclectic Book Society minute book.
Eclectic Book SocietyPapers relating to an Economic and Social Research Council funded project to index fire insurance policies of the Sun and the Royal Exchange, including copies of the indexes.
ESRC , Economic and Social Research Council x Economic and Social Research CouncilEconomic Life Assurance Society records comprise constitutional documents, minutes and other financial and administrative material.
Economic Life Assurance SocietyRecords of the Edensor Rubber Estate Limited, including articles of association, board minutes, annual reports and circulars to shareholders.
Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Edensor Rubber Estate LtdPapers, 1884-1967, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Ealing, Edmonton, Hanwell, Harrow Weald and Willesden; including mortgages, leases, agreements, abstracts of title, conveyances, Land Registry searches and probates of wills.
Edgar Duchin , solicitorRecords of the Edgar Quinet School, Paris, comprising roll of pupils studying in England; and views of Paris presented to the London County Council.
Edgar Quinet School , ParisPapers of Harry Edmund Edgell, consisting of official letterbooks, 1855 to 1860, and two folders of official letters, 1857 to 1858.
Edgell , Harry Edmund , 1809-1876 , Vice-AdmiralRecords of the Manor of Edgware Boys, including schedule of houses in the manor; papers relating to quit rents and fines; list of tenants; papers relating to the appointment of a steward; copies of court rolls; and papers relating to property in Edgware.
Manor of Edgware BoysRecords of the Edgware and Hampstead Railway Company, comprising minutes of Board meetings.
Edgware and Hampstead Railway CompanyRecords of Edgware and Little Stanmore Lighting Committee, 1895-1928, including account book, letter books and maps.
Records of Edgware Parish Council, 1888-1928, including valuation list, letter book, account book and councillor's declarations.
Records of Little Stanmore Parish Council, 1894-1931, including minute books, valuation lists and member's declarations on taking office.
Edgware and Little Stanmore Lighting Committee Edgware Parish Council Little Stanmore Parish CouncilRecords of Edgware Synagogue, consisting of an undertaking to observe the provisions and conditions of the United Synagogue, annual report for 1947/48, and an accounts book.
PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.
Edgware SynagogueAccounts ledger of the Edible Oil Association. It is held off-site and requires 24 hours notice for access.
Edible Oil AssociationRecords from the Marine Department of the Edinburgh Assurance Company Limited, comprising registers of vessels, casualty books, loss report books, and salvage books.
Edinburgh Assurance Co LtdCopy of the Act for "Inclosing Lands in the Parish of Northolt otherwise Northall, otherwise Northaw in the County of Middlesex", 1825.
Parliament.Records of Edmonton and Tottenham Hebrew Congregation, consisting of a lease for property in Landsdowne Road.
PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.
Edmonton and Tottenham Hebrew CongregationRecords of the Edmonton Poor Law Union, 1837-1940, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; superannuation registers; registers of persons maintained in institutions and homes; registers of children boarded out; correspondence with the Ministry of Health; financial accounts; reports regarding the establishment of the North Middlesex County Hospital Radium Department; Vaccination Officer's registers; Edmonton Board of Guardians year books; Edmonton Urban District Council Year Books; registers of Edmonton House Workhouse and Enfield House; and matrices of seals of the Edmonton Board of Guardians.
Edmonton Poor Law Union x Edmonton Board of GuardiansChurch Meeting minute book, 1852-1875; minute books including Church Meetings, Deacon's Meetings and Trustee's Meetings, 1877-1924; Building Committee minute book, 1883; statement of the Church principles and practice, 1881 and handbills, tickets, programmes, and so on for Church events such as laying of foundation stone, opening of church, concerts and bazaars, 1884-1886.
Congregational Church of England and WalesBaptism 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.
Congregational Church of England and WalesRecords of Edmonton County Court, 1894-1944, comprising plaint and minute book and ordinary action book.
Edmonton County CourtRecords of the Hospital Management Committee, Edmonton Group (No.3) (North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board) including Committee Minutes (1948 - 1950, 1959 - 1963), Indexes to Committee Minutes not currently deposited (1952? - 1953) and Reports submitted to the Committee by North Middlesex Hospital, St. David's Hospital and Edmonton Chest Clinic, and from committees and sub-committees (1953 - 1955, 1958 - 1959).
Edmonton Group Hospital Management Committee , 1948-1966 x Hospital Management Committee, Edmonton Group (No.3) (North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board)Copy of certificate issued by Richard Hassell to William Spencer of South Mimms relating to the privileges of tenants of the Duchy of Lancaster (including exemption from tolls).
Richard Hassell, Justice of the Peace for Edmonton HundredRecords of the Edmonton Methodist Church, 1841-1966, including register of baptisms, papers relating to Edmonton Central Hall building work (including blueprints and printing blocks), register of membership, Junior Society class book, minutes, financial records, obituaries, pulpit notice books, circuit preaching plans and directories and tenancy agreements.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords relating to poor relief in the parish of Edmonton, 1705-1770, including examinations, warrants and removal orders.
VariousRecords of Edmonton Petty Sessional Division, comprising minutes of summary proceedings held at Watch House and Angel Inn, Edmonton, 2 Jan 1837 - 21 Dec 1838. Cases heard include felonies, assault, larceny, highway offences, retailing beer etc. without licence, obstruction, injury to property etc. Volume records detailed statements by witnesses, statutes governing cases, outcome of each case. At rear of volume is a summary of cases heard with details of fines etc. Name index at front of volume. Volume also includes records of medical prescriptions prepared for named persons, January 1859.
Edmonton Petty Sessional DivisionRecords of Enfield, Tottenham and Wood Green Magistrates Courts, 1848-1911, comprising court minute books and court registers. Also records of Tottenham Magistrates Court, 1911-1993, including court registers, juvenile court registers and court minutes.
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.
Enfield Magistrates Court Tottenham Magistrates Court Wood Green Magistrates CourtNotices of marriage for Edmonton Registration District giving name of church or chapel in which marriage is to be solemnized, 1837-1868.
Edmonton Registration District , General Registry OfficeRegisters of marriages, 1914-1971.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords of Edmund Schluter and Company, general merchants, including letter books; ledgers; cash books; journals; sales books; purchase books; and waste books.
Edmund Schluter and Co , merchantsVarious papers relating to education and educational establishments, 1759-1995, including papers regarding educational committees; reports, bills and acts of parliament regarding education; papers relating to charitable schemes to provide education to the poor; financial papers and deeds from the City of London Corporation School, 1759-1850; publications regarding the history of Morden College; papers relating to Reformatory Schools, 1867-1896; brochures and leaflets and general administrative papers relating to various schools and colleges.
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