Records of the Barbican Committee, Corporation of London, 1954-1998, including papers relating to the development and building of the Barbican complex, speeches, reports, committee papers, brochures, newsletters and concert programmes. Please note that access to some of the reports is restricted.
Corporation of LondonThe collection contains the administrative papers of the Barbican Arts Group Trust including policy documents; minutes of meetings; financial records; property records; and artists' details. In addition, the collection includes a range of visual material showing artists and their work as well as printed publicity material for exhibitions. The Trust's outreach work is represented through a number of school packs and booklets.
Barbican Arts Group x Hertford Road StudiosParchment found under the memorial stone of Barbican Congregational Church, Hoxton, listing the name of the minister, deacons, New Building Committee, architects and builders, 1867.
Congregational Church of England and WalesRecords of the Barbican Horticultural Society, mainly comprising correspondence files, but also including a copy of the constitution of the Society, members' returns, and leaflets. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1992.
THE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 30 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from the Society (contact details may be obtained from staff).
Barbican Horticultural SocietyRecords of Barbican Library Users, comprising correspondence, newsletters and other papers.
Friends of Barbican Library x Barbican Library UsersCorporate records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, brewers, including legal case papers; papers relating to the organisation of the company; Board meetings minutes, agendas and papers; financial accounts; reports; papers relating to stocks and shares; mortgages and deeds; registers; investment ledger; articles of association and partnership deeds.
Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewersFinancial records of Barclay Perkins, brewers, including rest books; balance sheets; ledgers; journals; cash books and cash analysis and audit.
Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewersProduction records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including Bottling Department Committee minutes; brewing books; ale brewing books; lager brewing books; summaries of beer gyles (a gyle is the quantity of beer or ale brewed at one time); financial calculations relating to the cost of brewing; sugar and caramel books; stock records; papers relating to the production of lager including laboratory test results and complaint book; plans; and brewers' records.
Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewersProperty records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including schedule of property; inventories and valuations of furniture, plant and machinery; deeds and leases; plans; and papers relating to public houses.
Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewersPublic relations records for Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including papers from the museum and library relating to the history of the brewery, including press cuttings, plans, drawings, photographs, certificates, pamphlets, beer accounts, maps, publications relating to brewing, and papers relating to the Barclay family.
Also memorabilia relating to author Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), friend of the Thrale family (the latter owned the Brewery before selling it to Barclay and Perkins).
Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewersPapers of individual members of staff at Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including papers of chairman E W Giffard; papers of managing director H L Grimston; papers of Company solicitor R Whitmarsh Gray, including legal papers and press cuttings; papers of head brewer J B Binnie, including photographs, posters, advertisements, invitations, cards and programmes; and papers of head brewer Charles Collard, including brewing books.
Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewersSales records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including sales books and ledgers; sales comparisons; gains and losses book; trade sales; sales to Bottling Department; registers of customers; papers relating to the duty on beer; and circulars book.
Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewersStaff records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including clerks' salaries books; staff registers and service books; papers relating to brewing staff, cellar staff, cooperage staff and lager staff; pensioners and invalid payments books; correspondence; papers relating to the staff Social and Athletic Club; issues of the staff magazine "The Anchor", and photographs.
Barclay Perkins and Co Ltd , brewersThis collection consists predominantly of correspondence. This includes letters to Sir Colville Barclay's parents, and letters relating to embassy life and events that occurred during Sir Colville Barclay's various postings. Some folders include photographs. There are also official reports and papers, including Foreign Office confidential circulars concerning peace negotiations, 1918; draft speeches; press releases; notes of condolence collected at the British Embassy in Paris on the death of Queen Victoria; newspaper cuttings; Swedish periodicals; French satirical magazines; and memorabilia, including photographs of official visits from Sweden, Bulgaria and Hungary; magazines and newspapers containing features on King Edward VII's visit to Paris, May 1903; photographs and ephemera relating to Barclay's career in the diplomatic service, particularly his time in Washington, USA.
Barclay, Sir Colville Adrian de Rune, 1869-1929, Knight DiplomatCollection of title deeds relating to ownership of property in Earl's Court Road, Somerset Place, Bath Place and Edwards Square, Kensington. Documents include leases, assignments, mortgages, abstract of title and releases.
Various.The collection includes Robert Hammond's record of service and his survey, when Master of the Society of Pilots of the Cinque Ports, of the southern North Sea in the cutter GEM, 1841. The volumes collected by Barker himself consist mainly of logs of naval ships. They include that of the ORION, in home waters, kept by an Edward Barker in 1794, containing an account of the Battle of First of June; the Clyde, 1796 to 1800, kept by Lieutenant John Smith (fl 1780-1805), in home waters; of the CHALLENGER, 1828 to 1831, East Indies Station, kept by Commander John M R Ince (fl 1808-1850); the CALEDONIA, 1835 to 1836, Mediterranean station; the FLY, 1842 to 1846, surveying Australian waters, and the PILOT, 1850, East Indies station. There is also a journal of a voyage in the merchant ship VESTAL from North America to the West Indies, 1759 to 1760, by the author William Falconer (1744-1824); some of Falconer 's unpublished poems appear at the end of this journal.
VariousDrafts, research notes and correspondence relating to various aspects of the career and life of Professor Theodore Barker, [1950-2000]; including correspondence and papers regarding the glass manufacturing industry, most notably the companies Pilkington and Triplex, airports and research material relating to various aspects of transport history, including correspondence with the Transport History Research Trust. Also includes research material concerning St Helen's, Liverpool, used by Barker in preparation for his PhD thesis and later publication on the area. The papers also contain various conference material and drafts and offprints of papers by Barker and others.
Barker , Theodore Cardwell , 1923 - 2001 , Professor of Economic HistoryMarriage registers for Barking Congregational Church, Upney Lane, 1965-1973.
Congregational Church of England and WalesPapers relating to Barking Road Methodist Church, Canning Town, 1956; correspondence and lists of documents received by the Department of the London Mission, 1 Central Buildings, Westminster, SW1 from Barking Road Methodist Church, Canning Town, 1959; general correspondence, 1956-1959; legal papers and correspondence relating to the Minister's house at 437 Barking Road, Plaistow, 1889-1920 and correspondence relating to the finances of Canning Town Chapel, 1917-1918.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords of the Barking Road Methodist Society, Canning Town, and related churches, 1811-1965: Brunswick Methodist Chapel, Limehouse; Saint George's East Chapel, Cable Street, Poplar; Caledonian Road Chapel; Camden Town; Deptford Circuit; First West London and Second London Circuits; Forest Hill Chapel; Grove Wesleyan Mission; Islington Circuit; Seamen's Mission Circuit; Spitalfields Chapel and Walworth Chapel.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords of Barking Synagogue, consisting of an account book.
PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.
Barking SynagogueRecords of Barnard's Inn civil parish, comprising poor rate assessment book and overseer's book of receipts and payments.
Barnard's Inn , civil parishRecords relating to various London churches, including mortgage and plans for Saint Philip, Clerkenwell; plans of Saint Mary, Greenwich; sales particulars and plans for Holy Trinity, Grays Inn Road, Saint Pancras; and sales particulars and plans for Saint Mary, Charing Cross Road, Westminster.
Various.Notebook containing recipes and some home remedies, 1850-1890.
Unknown.Papers relating to Barnsbury Manor, Islington, including records of the courts baron and courts leet; deeds to the copyhold estate of the manor; surrenders; warrants; deeds of conveyance of land and premises at Holloway; deeds for Tufnell family holdings in Holloway, Manor of Canonbury, and in the Manor of Newington Barrow at Highbury; and deeds for the Tufnell family estates in Ireland.
Manor of Barnsbury , IslingtonLease by the Governors of Saint Bartholomew's Hospital of two houses and building land in Devonshire Buildings, Great Dover Street, Southwark; and conveyance of The Holmewood Estate, Streatham Hill, Lambeth.
Unknown.Plans submitted to the London Borough of Barnet and predecessor local authorities in Finchley, Friern Barnet and Hendon, 1879-1986. The plans show examples of a diverse range of architectural styles in domestic housing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are also many shops, factories and workshops, as well as public buildings such as schools, cinemas and churches, many of which still exist today.
The files are interesting for the insight they give to the planning process, showing what was and was not acceptable from a design and structural point of view. And as many of the earlier plans are for the most part hand drawn and coloured, they can be very decorative.
London Borough of BarnetPersonal papers of Canon Samuel Augustus Barnett, social reformer. The papers comprise correspondence, sermons and lecture notes, and miscellanea. The bulk of the correspondence consists of weekly letters from the Canon to his brother, Francis G. Barnett and, after the latter's death, to his widow and her daughter and sons. For the years before 1883 there are no letters at all, and before 1889 there are fewer than for the later years of the correspondence. Normally the Canon wrote every Saturday, but there are frequent periods when there was no correspondence, when the Canon was in residence at Bristol during the summers of 1893-1906, and when the two families were holidaying together. There are also large groups of letters written by the Canon to his mother and family in the form of travel journals during his trips to Egypt in 1879-1880 and round the world in 1890-1891.
There are very few in-letters. The letters to F G Barnett are almost always four octavo pages in length. They were bundled in one or two year periods by Dame Henrietta when preparing her biography of her husband. On several letters there are editorial instructions, deletions and emendations by Dame Henrietta. These were made in pencil and were, at some subsequent period, erased. Within each bundle Dame Henrietta also numbered the letters. Her numbering has not been indicated in the list, nor has it been followed, as several of the letters were in fact misplaced.
There is a series of bound sermon notebooks and miscellaneous lecture notes amongst these papers. Although the sermon notes are basically complete for the St. Jude's period, 1875-1888, the lecture notes are only a fraction of the Canon's output.
Some miscellaneous documents and in-letters were kept by the Canon for their intrinsic importance, e.g. formal documents relating to his benefice at St. Jude's, and these have survived. There are, in addition, miscellaneous photographs, mostly of the Canon, but also of his wife and of his family.
These papers will be of interest to historians for the information they give on Canon Barnett's life, and for the frequent and lengthy discussions of the political, social and intellectual life of the day. They are enhanced in value by the fact that Dame Henrietta was avowedly unable to do them more than scant justice in her life of the Canon (see Canon Barnett: his life, work and friends vol I, p.377), and that the records of Toynbee Hall have been decimated by war damage and destruction.
Barnett , Samuel Augustus , 1844-1913 , Canon of Westminster Social ReformerPapers of Dame Henrietta Octavia Weston Barnett, 1930, comprise a letter to Mrs [?Helena] Normanton. Discussing the speech Mrs Normanton was to make at the annual meeting of the State Children's Association on 12 November 1930.
Barnett , Dame , Henrietta Octavia Weston , 1851-1936 , social reformer and authorThese records comprise Dame Henrietta Barnett's Autobiographical Memoirs together with autograph letters and other papers in manuscript and typescript by Henrietta and her friend and literary agent Marion Paterson. Most of the records concern travel to the USA, Japan, India and Italy.
Barnett , Dame , Henrietta Octavia Weston , 1851-1936 , social reformer and authorThis collection consists of 186 letters sent to or written by Samuel and Henrietta Barnett. The correspondence is from public figures, including authors, poets, artists and other social reformers.
Various.Minutes of Church meetings, 1885-1903.
Congregational Church of England and WalesRecords of Ipswich Presbyterian Church comprising Sunday service sheets; correspondence; marriages, 1912-1925; and deaths and funerals, 1912-1924.
Presbyterian Church of EnglandPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including fines (right hand indenture) and feoffments (livery of seisin endorsed) for lands at Upper Halliford, Sunbury, 1598-1630; papers relating to members of the Piper family of Sunbury and their property at Upper Halliford, Sunbury, 1702-1749; papers relating to members of the Dench family and their property at Upper Halliford, Sunbury, 1751-1776; papers relating to members of the Harris family of Sunbury, 1777-1786.
Barre and Morton , solicitorsPapers of Rear Admiral Robert Barrie, comprising 120 documents, mainly letters from Robert Barrie to his mother, with a few to his step-father and to his half sisters, Fannie and Eliza, written between 1797 and 1812. There are also a few official and semi-official letters received and drafts of letters sent and a collection of documents relating to Lucien Bonaparte.
Barrie , Sir , Robert , 1774-1841 , Knight , Rear AdmiralMaterials relating to Barclay Barrowman's work on malaria control, also more generally on his activities in the Federated Malay States and other parts of South East Asia, 1925-1978.
Barrowman , Barclay , 1896-1978 , malariologistMinute book of the Bartholomew Calvinist Chapel.
Bartholomew Calvinist ChapelMinutes books of the Bartholomew Club, discussion group.
Bartholomew Club , discussion groupRecords relating to Bartholomew Fair, inclduing pie powder court book, 1790-1854; historical notes, press cuttings and other notes, ca. 1641-ca. 1848; and accounts of receipts and expenditure for Bartholomew Fair, 1671. They were catalogued at various dates by members of Guildhall Library staff.
Bartholomew Fair , market and entertainments at SmithfieldPapers, 1868-1913, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to numbers 24, 26, 28, 30 Tranton Road (formerly Francis Road) and numbers 21, 22, 23, 24 Whitstable Street (formerly Prince Street), Bermondsey; including leases, mortgages, assignments of leases, articles of partnerships, conveyances, declarations, abstract of title, covenant to produce deeds and burial certificates.
Bartlett and Gregory , solicitorsRecords of Bartlett and Hobbs Limited, wine merchants, comprising register of directors and secretaries; register of members; share certificates and annual return.
Bartlett and Hobbs Ltd , wine merchantsRecords of the Barton family relating to the manors of Ealing and Hampton Court, including property transactions, bankruptcy papers, family papers and court minute books (view of frankpledge and court baron).
Manor of EalingRecords of John Barton relating to the trust of Thomas Woodrouffe Smith. Apart from property in Essex, Surrey, Norfolk and the City of London, T. W. Smith was the owner and lord of the Manor of Teddington, and the bulk of the material in this deposit relates to that manor, including a series of court rolls. Throughout the Middle Ages the manor was the property of Westminster Abbey, being granted to Henry VIII in exchange for other lands in 1536, who then made it part of the Honour of Hampton Court. In 1603 it was granted to John Hill {1246/019} and its subsequent ownership can be seen from the deeds in this deposit {1246/019-082}. Between 1802 and 1863 John Barton's trustees sold the manor and demesne lands off in parcels, which heralded the beginning of Teddington's urbanisation. This and a previous deposit of manor court books {see ACC/0363} came from the solicitors who had acted for the trustees in the 1860's.
Barton , John , 1789-1852 , landowner in TeddingtonPapers of Dr William Barton, 1960s-1970s, contain Barton's collection of reel to reel audio tapes and reflect his professional interest in the work of Professor George MacDonald. Tapes notably include recordings of lectures made by MacDonald on subjects including yellow fever, malaria and health services, 1960s; broadcast series of lectures 'The Road to Hell', featuring Barton speaking on bilharzia and schistomiasis, 1960s, and an interview with a Mrs Barton on Girl Guides, in the Government Information Studio in St Vincents, 1970s.
Barton , William , b 1923 , lecturer in tropical medicineCareer papers working for Strauss, Turnbull and Company, stockbrokers and Consolidated Gold Fields PLC, Queens Road; Walthamstow redevelopment campaign correspondence and cuttings; and personal cookery recipes.
Bartram , Betty E M , b 1930 , typistBASF plc Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets; 'Staff Supperannuation Scheme' (1982) [facsimile]; 'Investing in ourselves and our future' (1997) and 'Defined Contribution Section: your member guide' (2007).
BASF plc , manufacturers of chemicalsRecords of Bassishaw Ward, Corporation of London, including minutes and accounts, rate assessments, and other administrative papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.
Bassishaw Ward , Corporation of LondonRecords of the Bassishaw Friendly Association, later known as Bassishaw Ward Club, comprising rules, minutes, correspondence and accounts. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff in 1989 and 1991.
Bassishaw Friendly Association x Bassishaw Ward ClubMinutes of meetings of the directors and of general meetings of those insurance companies known as the Java Companies.
Batavia Sea and Fire Insurance Co Veritas Insurance Co Ardjoeno Insurance Co Java Sea and Fire Insurance CoPapers, 1900-1934, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Bethnal Green, Hackney, Shoreditch, Walthamstow and Ealing; including leases, releases, tenancy agreements and assignments.
Batchelors , solicitors