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Papers relating to the estate of Mrs Meliora Amelia Walker of 29 Campion Road, Putney. The documents have been disturbed and some inserts have become separated.

The collection includes articles, reports and speeches relating to Trevor Jaggar's work, 1952-2002.

Correspondence and papers regarding the work of the Textbook Colloquium. Includes correspondence between Christopher Stray and John Fauvel; publicity material; papers regarding publications including the Colloquium's journal 'Paradigm'.

Comprises handwriting examples of pupils and teachers; teaching resources; articles; photographs and slides of children writing; papers relating to training provided by Sassoon and conferences in the UK, Australia and the USA; 'Joins in children's handwriting, and the effects of different models and teaching methods', by Rosemary Sassoon - thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Typography and Communication, University of Reading, May 1988; papers regarding back pain in education.

Letters written by Jack Laver to friends in America. Includes hand drawn coloured illustrations of places in London, including Putney. Jack Laver was a Tooting resident.

The collection consists of papers related to the estate of Mrs Mary Ann Brodie and includes trustees' papers, receipts, letters and accounts. There is also material relating to the estate of her husband Frederick John Brodie following his death in 1925.

Records of the Paper Trade Protection Association, comprising a Trade Advisory Committee minute book and prospectuses.

Access is restricted to records less than 30 years old where specified and 24 hours notice is required for access to all the records.

Student notes of Papa's lectures, Naples, 1728-1731.

Papers of Horace Panting, mainly associated with school sport, including handbooks and programmes relating to football, cricket, boxing and swimming, 1912-1980s. Also some papers from Horace Panting's time as a student at the Institute of Education, University of London, 1934-1935 and a handwritten diary relating to the evacuation of Holborn Boy's School to Crudwell, Wiltshire, during World War Two.

Records relating to the Oxford Street Pantheon, comprising counterparts of the shares/leases sold by owner Philip Elias Twist to fund the building, 1774-1788. The leases include a room by room schedule of fixtures, fittings and furnishings, and marginal plans.

Records of the Pandan Tea Company comprising: board minute books, 1933-69; and annual general meetings minutes, 1934-71.

Annual report for Palmers Green and Southgate Synagogue, 1947-48.

Papers of John Linton Palmer. They consist of a medical and surgical journal from HM Sloop DWARF, 1848-1850. A journal detailing the weather and sailors' health from HMS JACKAL, 1854-1860. A sick mess account book from 1866-1869 on board HMS TOPAZE and from 1870-1872 on board HMS RESISTANCE. A journal of 'Instructions for Medical Officers of The Royal Navy Serving Afloat', 1868-1872. Two sick lists, one from HMS TOPAZE, 1868-1869 and one from HMS RESISTANCE, 1870 onwards. The Royal Geographic Society has a collection of his sketches and paintings.

Correspondence and financial details concerning the organisation of the Birth Control International Information Centre (BCIIC) tours (including China, India, Jamaica and the Middle East) along with a series of travel books giving details of meetings contacts and press reports of the work. There is also a collection of publications on birth control and related issues.

Records of Leonard Palmer and his family, including account of Leonard Palmer's life; certificates of birth, marriage and death; school records, 1920-21; property records; papers relating to travel in Africa and the Middle East; diary of Florence Palmer, 1945; obituaries; photographs of Leonard Palmer's military service, 1940s; medals awarded to Leonard Palmer, 1939-66; family photographs including Walter Edward Palmer in Metropolitan Police uniform; and family trees.

Records of the Palatine Insurance Company Limited, comprising Board, annual general meeting and Committee minute books only. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Papers of Sir William Christopher Pakenham. The papers relate to official and personal aspects of Pakenham's life and cover the period 1884-1933, though the main focus is 1904-1922. They are particularly strong on his period as naval attache to Japan (1904-1905), with whom Great Britain had an alliance and include copies of reports to the Naval Intelligence Department; accounts of battles at Port Arthur and Tsushima including position charts and photographs and freqent personal letters to his aunt, Lady Jessica Sykes. They also cover his period in the eastern Mediterranean and role intervening in the Armenian massacre of 1909, including requests from the local population for protection. In the period leading up to and during World War I there are reports and correspondence of both a strategic, technical and operational nature. In the period after World War One, there is a lengthy series of personal correspondence with Admiral David Beatty (1871-1936). Other correspondents include Admiral Charles Beresford (1846-1919); Winston Churchill; Admiral Sir Asheton Gore Curzon-Howe (1850-1911); Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher (1841-1920); Lord Geddes, British Ambassador, Washington (1879-1954); Walter Hume Long, politician (1854-1924) and Sir Claude MacDonald (1852-1915). Includes the dispute between Fisher and Beresford over naval reform and the controversy over the Battle of Jutland. There is correspondence, lecture notes and photographs relating to the tour of the coast of Noth America in 1922 and the later grounding and salvage of his ship HMS RALEIGH.

They consist of two logs, 1758 to 1761 (with additional notes up to 1793) and 1779 to 1782, four signal books, 1778 to 1782, and a presentation copy of Captain Pakenham invention of a substitute for a lost rudder.

Court rolls for the Manor of Paites, East Bedfont. The courts comprise general courts baron and special courts baron; and some out of court admissions.

Miscellaneous papers of Professor Paish, found with his books. They include a box of slides, probably for a series of lectures on the UK Economy; two folders of statistical material; the duplicated text of a lecture by D H Robertson to the Marshall Society, Cambridge, 19 Oct 1961 on 'Mr. Lloyd's Fireworks'; off prints of papers by Paish; photocopy of "War as a Temporary Occupation, First World War Memoirs of a second Lieutenant", Paish's account of his service in the 2nd Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, in France, Aug 1915-Mar 1918.

Records of the Paine family relating to properties owned by the family in Deptford and Forest Hill, with some family papers including certificates and letters.

Recovery between Edward Boodle, demandant and Moses Hoper, tenant, relating to the manors of Hanworth and East Bedfont, 1792 (vouchees: Aubrey Beauclerk, earl of Burford and Aubney, Duke of St. Albans); and conveyances relating to land in Upper Halliford, Sunbury, 1844 and 1857.

Papers of Henry Edwards Paine and Richard Brettell, 1738-1900, including deeds, draft deeds and correspondence (arranged largely by transaction) relating to the sale of the Hanworth Park Estate to Messrs. Paine and Brettell, and the resale to each subsequent purchaser. For example, numbers 29 to 91 deal largely with matters arising from H.E.Paine and R.Brettell's purchase of the Estate and Manor of Hanworth, the mortgage raised on the same, the admission to and enfranchisement of copyholds held of the Manor of Colkennington otherwise Kempton, and the assignment of a right of water from Isleworth Mill River.

Also Estate papers including files largely composed of bills, receipts, accounts, correspondence and memoranda relating to the administration of Hanworth Park Estate while owned by Messrs. Paine and Brettell. The division of the estate brought problems of road repair and maintenance, and fencing, which are well represented amongst the correspondence, and in these and other administrative matters Messrs. Paine and Brettell were involved as arbiters and advisers.

Typescript unpublished memoir of Squadron Leader Harry 'Wacker' Pain, 1937-1978, including descriptions of: training as an Aircraft Apprentice, RAF Halton, 1937; wireless operator training in Wallace and Wapiti biplanes; airborne wireless operator training, RAF Driffield, 1939; working for Special Duties Flight, Coastal Command, as a gunner in long range Sunderland flying boats, 1939-1942, including survivor searches after submarine attacks, escorting convoys, account of destruction of flying boats Cabot and Caribou, Bodo, Norway, Apr 1940, training messenger pigeons, serious injury in crash and subsequent reposting as Signals Instructor, 1942, and retraining as an Air Traffic Control Officer, 1943. Also anecdotes from various postings including Nutts Corner, Northern Ireland, 1944-1946; opening a new Area Control Centre in Gibraltar, 1946; RAF Mingaladon, Burma, 1947, and RAF Negombo, Ceylon, 1948; Area Control Centre, RAF Watnall, UK, 1949; RAF Gutersloh, Germany, 1954-1957; Air Traffic Controller at RAF Coningsby, 1957-1959; assisting with the introduction of radar guided systems and the formation of Border Radar in RAF Bishops Court, County Down, Northern Ireland, 1959-1962 and RAF Boulmer, Alnwick, 1962-1964; RAF Paya Lebar, Singapore, 1964-1967; as controller, Northern Radar, RAF Lindholme, 1967-1970; RAF Patrington, Withernsea, 1970-1971; Senior Operations Officer, Border Radar, RAF Boulmer, 1971-1973.

Papers of Barry Eric Odell Pain, 1907, comprise a letter to Mr Marshall, reluctantly accepting a dinner engagement in Walsall. 'To be perfectly candid, I hate public dinners and am dead sick of being guest-of-the-eveninged'.

Records, reports and correspondence relating to John Page's work in Prisoner of War camp hospitals and Japan during the Second World War, 1942-1953.

Papers of Adml Benjamin William Page. They consist of Page's official and private correspondence 1778 to 1841, contained in three volumes and loose papers.

Records of the Page family relating to property including the Manor of Uxendon, and premises in Wembley, Harrow on the Hill, Preston, Willesden and Kenton.

Records of the Page family relating to premises owned by the family in Wembley, Harrow, and Uxendon, including the Manors of Uxendon and Tokington.

It consists of correspondence, articles, notes, drawings, photographs and ephemera concerning paddle steamers run by various compnaies, including the Caledonian Steam Packet Co Ltd; Cosens Co/Red Funnel Steamers; the General Steam Navigation Co (Eagle Steamers, Eagle and Queen Line and Queen Line); P & A Campbell Ltd/White Funnel Fleet; and Royal Mail Steam Packet Co Ltd/Red Funnel Steamers. There is also material re British Rail (Southern Region); services on the Clyde; Thames steamer launches; and pleasure sailings on the Danube, Lake Lucerne and the Rhine.

Records relating to the Paddington to Wapping Canal, comprising letters applying for stock, 1802; 27 sheets recording a canvass of persons affected asking them whether they were for or against a canal or a canal and railway; and bills of expenses in connexion with the above.

Register of children privately baptised at Paddington Green Children's Hospital; states at beginning of register 'Such baptisms being entered in the Registers of St Mary's Church, Paddington Green', later entries include baptisms by R.C Chaplain, 1887-1977.

Records of the Paddington Estate comprising a survey of the estate and rentals and financial accounts of the estate trustees.

Schedules of trust property, 1941-1955.

Records of the Paddington Chapel (Congregational), including register of baptism, 1853-1859; Deacon's meeting minute books, 1864-1956; Church meeting minutes, [1860]-1954; minutes of other church committees, 1862-1952; papers relating to Chapel membership, 1829-1895; financial accounts, 1870-1990; builders accounts and report on alterations to Chapel and School, 1868-1879; trust deeds and other legal papers relating to properties owned by the church, 1844-1954; letters received by the Chapel, 1867-1872; papers relating to the Sunday School, 1827-1956; issues of the Chapel magazine 'Paddington Monthly', 1908-1930 and 1962-1975; copies of the "Manual for the Church and congregation worshipping in Paddington Chapel", including annual reports and accounts, 1866-1939 (with gaps); printed items including orders of service, 1897-1989 and a history of the Chapel, 1963.

Records of the Paddington Poor Law Parish, 1845-1936, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; standing orders; reports and accounts; orders from and correspondence with Government departments; orders of removal to and from the Union; registers of lunatics and imbeciles; registers for Harrow Road Workhouse; apprenticeship indentures; register of children sent to the Training Ship Exmouth; registers of children sent to the West London District School; registers of children at the Trenmar Gardens Receiving Home; financial accounts and staff records.

Printed posters displaying rules, orders and bye-laws for the preservation and use of Paddington Green; Saint Mary's parish church disused burial ground, and Saint George's Parish Vestry Hall Gardens, Mount Street, Hanover Square, 1890-1894.

Records of Padang Jawa Rubber Estate Limited, comprising annual reports and papers relating to the sale of the Company.

Pacific and European Telegraph Company Limited records comprise of memorandum and articles of association, agreements, minutes of Board meetings, minutes of annual general meetings, minutes of a meeting of debenture holders and prospectus.

Records of P. Wilkinson and Sons Limited including agreements and assignments of business, memorandum and articles of association, certificate of incorporation, account book (1837-1907), order book (1864-1870), mixture and metal book (1853-1897), articles and printed material, premises deeds and papers for Tottenham Street and Tottenham Mews, and 'On National Service' designed brooch.

Records of P G Ward and Company Limited, comprising register of members and shares; certificate of incorporation; share certificates and change of director and company situation forms.

Outgoing letter book of Peter Bond Burgoyne and Company, wine importers.

Secreti medicinali. A collection of medical receipts: the first volume mainly in Italian, with a few entries in Latin; the second volume in Italian and Latin, with additions by other hands. Titles within a pen-drawn ornamental border. Vol. I is entitled 'Secreti medicinali'; Vol. II was apparently originally entitled 'Secreti di medicina', but some additions were written in, so that it now reads 'Experimentati/Secreti de Medicina/Raccolti/Per sanare molti mali e/conservare la Sanità'. A considerable part of this volume seems to be by the same hand as the first volume. Volume I is in four Books, and the compiler's initials are given in Receipt No. 77 of the first book: 'provato de me X.P.' and in the next entry: 'che io X.P. ho veduto l'efetti'. The date 1685 occurs on fol. 10 of Book II, and 1699 on fol. 28 of the last Book. Volume II is in two Books. The second has an engraved historiated title-page, with a blank space inscribed: 'Secreti di Medicina Anno' 1699. This book contains 533 numbered receipts. Facing No. 438 is a rough pen-drawing of a distilling apparatus: opposite No. 438 is an inserted printed broadside advertising 'Il vero Balsamo Aureo di Lorenno, chiamato Balsamo Divino' printed at Modena, but undated. This folio sheet has been cut down and folded. This remedy, and an 'Acqua Triacale' by the same Lorenno, are entered as Nos. 438 and 439 of the MS. The latest date in this volume is 1725, in the margin of Receipt No. 530.

Accounts ledger and cash book of an unidentified furrier, possibly P R Poland and Sons.

Marriage registers for Oxendon Presbyterian Church, Haverstock Hill, Belsize Park, 1960-1969.

Records of Oxendon Presbyterian Church including Court of Session Minute books, 1817-1938; Managers minute books, 1829-1966; Sunday School teachers' minute book including statistical records, 1903-1931; Young People's Guild minute books, 1910-1926; Literary Society minute book, 1911-1919; Communicants' roll books, 1866-1960; register of baptisms, 1836-1969; financial accounts, 1786-1959 and Literary Society talks, 1912-1913.

Papers of Archibald Cochrane consisting of two midshipman's logs, 1890 to 1894.

Papers of Sir Edward William Campbell Rich Owen. They consist of an account, drawn up in 1825, of the mutiny at Spithead in 1797 and of documents and narrative towards a history of the Walcheren expedition of 1809. There is also a letter of Privy Seal appointing Owen Clerk of the Ordnance, 1834.

Papers of William Fitzwilliam Owen. They include a narrative of Owen's naval service, an account of the proceedings in the Cornelia and papers relating to the Africa survey and his work at Fernando Po. There are also papers concerning the settlement founded by Commander Owen, Admiral Owen's father, in Nova Scotia.

Records of the Ouvah Coffee Company Limited, comprising a cash book and notes on the history of the company and of coffee planting in Ceylon.

Records of the Ottoman Bank London office, including: records relating to the formation of the bank and its concession, 1875-1987; minutes, 1856-1969; annual general meetings and annual reports, 1863-1986; financial records, c 1856-1959; share records, 1856-63; internal management records, c 1860-1969; contracts and related papers, 1856-94; correspondence, agreements and related papers, 1889-1966; printed reports, 1948-71; magazines, 1918 and 1940; plans, 1890; photographs, 1892-1958; and miscellaneous items, c 1914-1968.

Papers of Osnabrück war crimes trial and appeal, 1968-1970, comprise a trial judgement against 5 former members of Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, in which the state court of Osnabrück found 3 of the defendants guilty of mass murder and 2 of being accomplices to mass murder in Italy in 1943, 1968, and a trial judgement of the appeal of the 5 defendants, in which the Bundesgerichtshof upheld the appeal on the grounds that the period of 20 years under the statute of limitations had lapsed, 1970.