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Records of the City of London Coroner's Court, 1300-1995, including coroner's accounts; inquests; depositions; inquisitions; fire inquests; fire brigade daily fire reports and police reports sent to the City Coroner to inform him about City of London Fires under the provisions of the London Fire Inquests Act, 1888, and prison inquests for Bridewell, Newgate, Fleet and Ludgate Prisons and Whitecross Street, Poultry, Giltspur Street and Southwark (Borough) Compters.

Papers of the Commissioners of Sewers, City of London, covering the regulation, planning and financing of works to maintain and improve drainage, sewers, paving and lighting in and around the City of London. The papers reflect ninteenth century concerns about the pollution of the River Thames.

The collection includes plan books, 1835-1900; plans c 1770s-1840s; administrative records, 1863-1899; deeds, 1680 onwards; Journal of the Commissioner of Sewers, 1680-1898; Proceedings of the Commissioners of Sewers, 1765-1797; minute books, 1827-1898; report books, 1696-1885; printed reports, 1832-1899, including accounts and reports on sewers, pavements, housing, sanitary matters, slaughter houses, food, gas, electric lighting, water, cemeteries, cholera and tramways; letter books, 1768-1851; papers relating to street paving, 1718-1913; papers relating to the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Sewage Discharge, 1853-1903; record of air raid damage to sewers, 1940-1947; financial records, 1667-1918.

Records of the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, 1852-2000. Mainly administrative records including the Registers of Private (Purchased) Graves 1856-1949 (each volume is indexed). Some people purchased graves as they were needed, and in these cases, the date of burial corresponds fairly closely with the date of purchase of the grave. However, other people purchased a grave decades before they died, so the date of burial is not always enough to enable the registers to be searched. It is often useful to refer to the burial registers first (still held by the Cemetery), to obtain the grave number and grant number, which can then be used to locate the relevant Register of Private (Purchased) Graves in CLRO. These registers record who purchased each grave and when, who was interred in it (name, age and date of burial, for each person buried in that particular grave), and the numbers of the grave, grave grant, square, plot and register entry.

Also Cremation Registers from the date of the first cremation to 1943 (later registers remain at the Cemetery); registers of niches and of grants of niches in the Columbarium, 1930-1948; registers of monuments, 1870-1948, arranged in grave number order, and giving the name of the purchaser of the grave, together with very brief details of memorial stones; financial records relating to the cemetery, cremation and minister's fees, 1856-1997; inventory of the plant, fixtures, fittings, office furniture, stores and vehicles at the cemetery, 1960; cemetery ledgers, 1856-1931; general administrative reports relating to the establishment of the cemetery, 1853-1873 and crematorium 1899-1905; histories, leaflets, guides with tables of charges 1858-1936; photographs of the cemetery from [1929] to 1997 showing the grounds, monuments and the interior of chapels and an extensive series of plans including the site at Little Ilford 1853-1856; contract plans for the cemetery, catacombs and chapels 1854-1876; later plans of extensions to the cemetery and alterations to the chapel; crematorium 1903-1905 and new crematorium, 1967 and lodges, houses, mausoleums, memorial and memorial gardens. A portfolio of Haywood's earliest designs and ideas for cemetery buildings, mostly undated but believed to be 1853 to 1854 is also available.

Records of the City of London Poor Law Union, 1763-1930; including minutes of meetings of the Boards of Guardians for the East London Union, West London Union and City of London Union; minutes of various Committees; Union year books; correspondence with Government departments; plans of Union buildings including the Homerton workhouse; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers of lunatic admissions; registers for the Bow Road Workhouse and Infirmary, Bow Institution and Infirmary, Homerton Workhouse, Lower Clapton Workhouse and Thavies Inn Infirmary; apprenticeship indentures and registers; registers of children at the Central London District School; financial accounts; staff records and papers of the West London Union, including minutes, correspondence, financial accounts and inventories of Thavies Inn Workhouse and Holloway Workhouse.

Records of the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Company, comprising share certificates, 1843-1865.

Registers and day books of burials in consecrated or church ground and unconsecrated or chapel ground, 1841-1952, showing name, abode, when buried, age, place of burial, when and by whom buried, private vault or grave, purchased monuments and where placed (registers are not available for consultation, please use microfilms X64/1-41); fee books, 1902-1966, including remarks, registrar, sub-district, date of certificate, digger, stone, bill number, name of deceased, age, time, depth, received by, minister, undertaker, secretary's signature, price, description of graves, square position (not always), size of coffin, undertaker's commission, amount; registers of private graves, 1841-1941, showing number of graves, description of place of burial, date and consideration of grant, names and addresses of purchasers, name and description of person interred, year and number (registers are not available for consultation, please use microfilms X64/42-46); registers of public graves, 1900-1965, showing number, date, name, age and time of burial (registers are not available for consultation, please use microfilm X64/47); register of private grave transfers, 1938-1966, showing transfer number, date, grave number, transfer from/to, address and remarks; correspondence relating to private graves; incumbents' account book, divided parish by parish, 1922-1966, and plans of the graves.

Also deeds and legal papers, 1841-1898; report to Directors by Committee of Proprietors appointed by an Extraordinary Court, to investigate expenditure and general state of the Company's affairs, 1843; report to Directors by Henry George Haywood on proposals for draining the cemetery, 1857; correspondence relating to staffing, sewers and the East London Eastern Extension Railway, 1849-1871; bills, 1841-1897; specification for sewers and roads, with sections, 1884; plans of cemetery including proposed southern extension, 1800s; impression in red wax of seal of Company, 1841; legal records, 1844-1942.

Notebook containing extracts from various City of London records.

Minute book of the City Parochial Lay Agency Association, later known as the City Lay Agency Association.

Papers of the City Lands Estates, including legal and financial papers, 1669-1758; contracts, 1779-1838; grant books, 1589-1923; leases and deeds, 1629-1842; papers relating to individual properties, and papers relating to the Conduit Mead estate; 1628-1988.

Records of the City Imperial Volunteers, 1900-1984, including contemporary publications relating to the Volunteers; financial records of the Volunteers Fund; press cuttings and published accounts; photographs and postcards; campaign diaries; service records for No. 1. Mounted Infantry Company; insignia (buttons and badges); medals and ribbons; equipment and ammunition, including a cannon ball, bullets, a pair of spurs, a wallet and a writing case; menus and programmes from 'welcome home' dinners and menus of reunion dinners.

Records of the City Glee Club comprise: minutes, accounts, registers of members and performances, and records relating to the centenary.

Minute book of the City Clerical Society.

Records of the City and South London Railway (formerly the City of London and Southwark Subway Company), comprising Board meetings minutes and General meetings minutes; volume of monthly reports giving Operating Statistics of the City and South London and Central London Railway Companies and volume of monthly reports relating to the generating stations at Stockwell (City and South London Railway) and Shepherds Bush (City London Railway).

Records of the City and Liberty of Westminster Coroner's District, comprising case papers, 1927-1928.

Records of the City and Guilds of London Institute. The records comprise those of the Institute itself and those of its constituent parts, including the Central Institution, Finsbury Technical College, South London Technical Art School and the Leather Trades School.

The records of the Institute and its constituent parts are now arranged as follows:

1. RECORDS RE CONSTITUTION AND REGULATION: Ms 21810-11
2. MINUTES: Ms 21812-34, 38278-84
3. ANNUAL REPORTS: Ms 21834-6
4. FINANCIAL RECORDS: Ms 21837-48
5. LETTER BOOKS: Ms 21849-53, 35814
6. ADDRESS BOOKS: Ms 21854-60
7. HEAD OFFICE PAPERS:
   i) General:
   a) foundation and management of the Institute: Ms 21861;
   (b) presidents, governors, hon. officers and professional advisors: Ms 21862-7, 38289-90;
   (c) staff: Ms 21868-9;
   (d) Corporation of London: Ms 21870;
   (e) Livery companies: Ms 21871, 38293;
   (f) other institutions: Ms 21872-94, 38293;
   (g) Royal commissions, government departments and Parliament: Ms 21895-903;
   (h) technical education: Ms 21904, 38291-2;
   (i) general administrative papers: Ms 38286-8.
   (ii) Examinations department/department of technology: Ms 21905
   (iii) Central Institution/ Central Technical College/ City and Guilds College: Ms 21906-9
   (iv) Imperial College: Ms 21910
   (v) Finsbury Technical College: Ms 21911-24
   (vi) Art School: Ms 21925
   (vii) Leather Trades School/ Cordwainers' Technical College: Ms 21926
   (viii) Scholarships, medals, prizegiving and articles: Ms 21927-34, 38294
8. HEAD OFFICE FILES: Ms 21935
9. PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: Ms 21936
10. PROGRAMMES FOR COLLEGES AND EXAMINATIONS: Ms 21937
11. EXAMINATIONS DEPARTMENT/ DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY:
    (a) annual reports and examiners' and inspectors' reports: Ms 21938-41;
    (b) financial records: Ms 21942-3;
    (c) correspondence: Ms 21944, 38295;
    (d) programmes: Ms 21945;
    (e) candidates' records: Ms 21946, 38296-8
12. CENTRAL INSTITUTION/ CENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE/ CITY AND GUILDS COLLEGE:
    (a) annual reports: Ms 38285;
    (b) financial records: Ms 21947-50;
    (c) programmes: Ms 21951;
    (d) candidates' records: Ms 21952;
    (e) plans: Ms 21953;
    (f) old students' association and students' magazines: Ms 21954-9; 21985-6
13. FINSBURY TECHNICAL COLLEGE:
    (a) financial records: Ms 21960-6;
    (b) correspondence: Ms 21967-9;
    (c) programmes and prospectuses: Ms 21970-1;
    (d) students' records: Ms 21972-84, 35815;
    (e) old students' associations: Ms 21985-7
14. ART SCHOOL:
    (a) annual reports and enquiries: Ms 38299-301;
    (b) financial records: Ms 21988-91, 35816-17, 35819, 35821;
    (c) correspondence: Ms 21992, 35818-19, 38302;
    (d) programmes: Ms 21993;
    (e) students' records: Ms 21994-6, 35820;
    (f) press cuttings: Ms 38303
15. LEATHER TRADES SCHOOL:
    (a) correspondence: Ms 21997
16. "PRIDEAUX PAPERS": Ms 21998

17. LIST OF CONTENTS OF ARCHIVE FILE BOXES COMPILED BY T. G. BUNCE: Ms 21999.

    Catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff in 1985, 2004 and 2006.

Etchings showing reconstructions of the City of London, the Palace of Westminster, and Cheapside in the 1540s.

Records of the London Central Mission Circuit of the Methodist Church, 1925-1960, including Circuit schedule books; Quarterly Meeting minutes; Executive Committee minutes; financial accounts; Local Preacher's Meeting minutes; Trustees' correspondence and papers; correspondence regarding staff; Methodist Missionary Society financial accounts and papers of the Circuit Youth Council.

Records of Harrow Methodist Circuit, 1921-1995, including administrative papers; financial accounts; papers, correspondence, circulars and publications relating to Circuit Property Committee; circulars and leaflets; Circuit archivist's papers; Quarterly Meeting statements and agendas; correspondence; issues of Bulletin, newsletter of The Women's Fellowship of the Methodist Church; Circuit preaching plans and directories; issues of Harrow Circuit Outlook, newsletter of the Circuit; photographs of Ruislip Methodist Church, North Harrow Methodist Church, South Harrow Methodist Church, Pinner Methodist Church, Cannon Lane Methodist Church, Pinner, Eastcote Methodist Church and Circuit manses; agreements and correspondence regarding Performing Rights Society and correspondence regarding Manse Trust.

Records of Churchill and Williams Limited, wine importers, including minute books of Directors' meetings and annual general meetings; register of members and share certificates.

Records of wood brokers Churchill and Sim Limited, primarily diaires kept by Charles Churchill senior (1785-1844), and Charles Churchill junior (1823-1905), but also a letter book. The entries in the diaries relate to the timber trade, City politics and private affairs.

Papers relating to the administration and management of various London churches, 1394-1985, including general reports, correspondence, and printed acts; papers relating to individual parish churches, including Saint Andrew Undershaft, Saint Bartholomews, Saint Bartholomew the Great, Saint Benet Link, Saint Botolph (without) Aldgate, Saint Dunstans, Saint George Southwark, Saint Giles, Cripplegate, Saint John the Evangelist, Brownswood Park, Saint Katharine by the Tower, Saint Lawrence Jewry, Saint Maquis, Saint Margaret Pattens, Saint Peter Cornhill, Saint Martin's le Grand, Saint Olave Old Jury, Saint Mary Aldermanbury, Saint Mary, Colechurch, Saint Mary-le-Bow, Saint Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, Saint Olave, Hart Street, Saint Olaves, Silver Street, Saint Pancras, Saint Peter's, Cornhill, Saint Saviour, Southwark, Saint Stephens Walbrook and Saint Brides; papers relating to burial grounds and reports, correspondence, minutes, orders of service and programmes, staff lists, account books, orders, inventories and agreements from Saint Paul's Cathedral.

Records of the Church of the Resurrection, Bucharest, Romania, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; banns book; service registers; and financial accounts.

The register MS23634 refers to baptisms, marriages and burials in places outside Bucharest. It is possible the ceremonies recorded in the registers MS24118, MS24119 and MS24120 likewise took place outside Bucharest, although this is not clear from the volumes.

Records of the Church of the Holy Redeemer and All Saints, Viareggio, Italy, comprise: register of burials, service register, minutes, correspondence and accounts. They were catalogued in 1989 by a member of Guildhall Library staff.

Service register for the Church of the Holy Ghost, Genoa, Italy.

Register of baptisms, marriages and burials at the Church of the Holy Cross, Palermo, Italy.

Service registers for the Church of the Ascension, Stresa, Italy.

Records of the Church of the Ascension, Seville, Spain, comprise: registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1865-1936 (Ms 21028) and chaplain's book, 1948-78 (Ms 21029). They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1984.

Records of Saint Peter and Saint Sigfrid Anglican Church, Stockholm, Sweden comprising register of services, 1855-1907, with notes and certificates of baptisms, marriages and burials 1856-1907 (Ms 22402), and register of baptisms, 1916-60 (Ms 23642). They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff in 1987-8.

Church of England Life and Fire Insurance Trust and Annuity Institution records consist of deeds of settlement, minutes and some financial material.

Marriage registers for the Church of Christ, Hornsey, 1967-1969.

Records of the Church Commissioners, 1903-1908, comprising photographs of property owned by the Church, possibly in the East End of London.

Map, prepared by the Church Commissioners, showing proposed boundary changes to parishes in Lee, Blackheath, Eltham and Mottingham.

Records of the Church Commissioners, 1902-1926, including issue of 'Illustrated Church News', 1902; annual reports of 'The Home Club and Work', for the attempted cure of 'hooliganism' in North and East London, 1903-1904; annual report of Christ Church, Spitalfields, 1903; annual report of Saint Mark, Whitechapel, 1911; bazaar catalogues and magazine from Saint Etheldreda, Fulham Palace Gates, 1911-1913; annual report of Stepney Council of Public Welfare, 1912; article on the history of Saint George in the East, Whitechapel, 1912; and article on the work of City churches, 1926.

Records of the Church Commissioners, comprising plans of parsonage houses.

Records of the Church Commissioners, 1799-1949, comprising maps of ecclesiastical districts, mostly showing parish boundaries, and papers relating to the construction and maintenance of parsonage houses throughout London.

Records of the Church Commissioners, 1814-1907, including a glebe exchange award, Ruislip, with map [a glebe is a portion of land assigned to a clergyman as part of his benefice]; documents relating to altered apportionments of corn rents, Ruislip; plans of the Parish of Enfield and the Parish of Edmonton; architect's drawings of houses and shops-cum-residences on Hornsey Clebe Estate; "Plan of Land near Harrow on the Hill, adjoining the Station on the London and North Western Railway, showing the proposed arrangement of the Sites for Villas, the Roads, etc." and plan of the District of the Hornsey Local Board.

Records of the Church Commissioners, 1948-1960, comprising papers relating to Diocesan reorganisation schemes in Bethnal Green, Chelsea, Finsbury, Fulham, Hackney, Holborn, Islington, Kensington, Paddington, Saint Marylebone, Saint Pancras and Stoke Newington parishes, including maps of parish boundaries before and after reorganisation and explanatory memoranda.

Records of the Church Commissioners, 1837-1912, comprising architect's drawings, specifications and correspondence relating to parsonage houses in various parishes including Saint Anne, Brondesbury; Christ Church, Ealing; Holy Trinity, Finchley; Saint John the Baptist, Isleworth; Holy Trinity, Northwood; Christ Church, Roxeth Park; Saint John, South Mimms; Saint Michael and All Angels, Stonebridge and Saint John, Wembley.

Personal papers of Wong Ying Chung including Chinese passport; oral history transcript entitled Life in the Laundrette, and family photographs.

Currently (as of April 2014) only the following records are available for consultation with 48 hours notice:

Chubb and Son Limited (CLC/B/002/01-11):

Memoranda and articles of association, minutes and agendas, annual reports and accounts, registers of directors and secretaries, seal registers, prospectuses, share transfer registers, annual returns, balance sheets and accounts, ledgers and day books, lock and safe order books and lock and safe number registers (from 1819), manufacturing minutes and papers, patents including specifications, staff salaries (1877-1940), films and videos, and 'Chubb Collectanea' scrapbooks;

Records of subsidiaries and associated organisations:

British Security Industry Association Limited: memorandum and articles of association, minutes and reports (1966-1974) (CLC/B/002/BS);

Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe Company Limited: memorandum and articles of association, share register, correspondence, donated employee records (1951-1982) (CLC/B/002/CLS);

Chubb Fire Security Limited: films and videos (CLC/B/002/CFS);

Chubb Security Services Limited: films and videos (CLC/B/CSS);

Hobbs Hart and Company Limited (fully catalogued): partnerships, minutes and other corporate records, share records, administrative records, financial records, production records including lock and safe order books, patents, marketing and advertising printed material and photographs, staff records, premises and histories (1887-1985) (CLC/B/002/HH);

Chatwood Safe Company Limited: lock and safe registers and progress books (1864-1956) (CLC/B/002/CH);

Chatwood-Milner Limited: order books and safe progress book (1955 - 1971) (CLC/B/002/CHM);

Milner's Safe Company Limited: day book, depot and sale ledgers, lock and key registers (1857-1954) (CLC/B/002/ML).

The lock and safe number and order books are of particular value for dating locks and safes and related products fitted into antique furniture from the late Georgian to mid 20th century.

Further records including those of other subsidiary companies remain uncatalogued and are part of a long-term cataloguing project. Please contact staff for further information on access to uncatalogued records.

Records of Christ's Hospital, the Blue Coat School. IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.

Records include: constitutional records, 17th-19th centuries; court records, 1552-1915; financial records, 1552-1960; administrative records, 1546-1930; records relating to carmen, 1582-1837; children, 1563-1980; general records of charities and endowments, 1546-1957; the original endowment and sites of Christ's Hospital, 1342-1964; maps and plans, 1597-1934; records of individual charities, late 12th century-1982; properties purchased, 1537-1971, and deeds and other papers relating to properties of unknown status, 13th century-1958.

PLEASE NOTE: Permission to photocopy or photograph items, or for access to CLC/210/F/MS22551, should be sought from Christ's Hospital (contact details may be obtained from staff).

The maps and plans are arranged as follows: plans of City of London properties, 17th century-1846; plans of City of Westminster properties, 17th century-[1913?]; plans of properties within Greater London, 17th century-1881; maps and plans of Christ's Hospital site in London, [1650]-1883; maps and plans relating to the exchange of properties between Christ's Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1796-1818; maps and plans relating to properties outside London, including the school sites at Hertford, Ware and Horsham, 1597-1934.

Records of Embroiderers' Almshouses, 1587 - 1890: David Smith, an embroiderer of London, bequeathed money to Christ's Hospital for the building of six almshouses for six poor widows. After the almshouses were sold in 1863-5 it appears that the widows continued to receive financial support. These records comprise: contemporary copy will of David Smith, [1587]; ordinances and rules, [1587]; correspondence and other papers relating to arrears in payments, boundary disputes etc, [1678]-1687, 1711-12, 1718; correspondence and other papers concerning the sale of the almshouses and investment of money, 1863-5, 1887; letter concerning payment of rates, 1857; and register of people receiving pensions, 1825-1908. Further references may also be found in other Christs' Hospital records such as minutes and accounts.

Records relating to estates owned by Christs Hospital in East Bedfont, including letters, reports, leases, deeds and valuations.

Records of Christ's Hospital, 1535-1971, including constitution of Christ's Hospital with orders made by Governors, 1557; copy of the first patent of Charles II for founding the Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital, 1673-1676; report by Samuel Pepys to the President and Governors of Christ's Hospital upon the state of the Hospital with an appendix of accounts relating to the Mathematical Foundation, 23 March 1697/8; papers relating to a scheme by the Charity Commissioners for the administration of Christ's Hospital, 1880-1885; newspaper cuttings of the laying of the foundation stone of the new school at Horsham, 1897; papers regarding legacies; rules, orders and regulations; staff appointments; petitions; financial accounts and papers relating to management of the estate.

Records relating to auction houses Christie's and Robson Lowe Limited, comprising sales catalogues for the sale of the Corsini mercantile correspondence.

Collection of papers relating to land tenures, including leases, feoffments, quitclaims, grants and bonds; for premises in London, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Essex and Devon.

Publications of the Christian Economic and Social Research Foundation, on subjects as diverse as drink offences; theft and the victims of crime; taxation; shopping centres; violence; social problems of youths; family problems; alcohol advertising; road safety; and licensing legislation. The majority of the publications are concerned with alcohol and the control of drinking.

Minute book of the Christian Dutch Seamen's Association of London.

Records of the Christian Brotherly Society, including minutes, financial accounts, membership records, correspondence, Parliamentary Acts relating to Friendly Societies, menu and programme for Annual Dinner, 1883.

Records of Christ Church Mission Church, Harlington, comprising registers of church services; correspondence relating to the construction of the new church and administrative files.

Records of the parish of Christ Church, West Green, near Tottenham, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and church services; Churchwardens' financial accounts; Parochial Church Council minute books and financial accounts; papers of the Sunday School; parish magazines and published history of the church.