Papers of Frank Smallwood relating to the history of Sir Walter Saint John's School, Battersea. These papers mainly relate to the history of the school, although some do contain extensive information about the St John family and Battersea. They show how a historian set about working on the subject and what a great variety of sources exist.
Sem títuloPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease of two cottages on Williams Farm, Crews Hill, Enfield, by Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux to Crews Hill Club, 1920; agreement between Crews Hill Club and C A Whitcombe for latter to act as professional golfer to club, 1926; lease by Trinity College, Cambridge to Crews Hill Club of land forming part of Rectory Farm, Enfield, 1927.
Also agreement and lease by Earl of Lucan to Captain Edgar Archer of Church Farm, Laleham, 1921 and 1924 and assignment of lease of the same property by Captain Archer to Charles Norris, 1928.
Sem títuloRecords of the Parish of Saint Thomas, Southwark, comprising an account book of the Overseers of the Poor, 1739-1775.
Sem títuloRecords of the Assistant District Surveyors' Association, including Secretary's correspondence and papers; and subject files relating to building regulations and proposals affecting District Surveyors.
Sem títuloPapers, 1852-1949, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties at 35-41 King David Lane, Shadwell and at James Smith's Estate at Peckham; including leases, mortgages, probates of wills, assignments, declarations, certificates, plans, abstracts of title, conveyances, deeds of covenant and death certificates.
Sem títuloStaff 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.
Sem títuloPublic 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).
Sem títuloSales and production records for Blue Nile Brewery Limited, including wine and spirit trade files; sales files and technical consultancy agreement.
Sem títuloStaff records of Blue Nile Brewery Limited, including papers relating to appointments, trainees and head brewers; papers relating to salaries; papers relating to trade unions; and records relating to the Institute of Brewing.
Sem títuloRecords of Camwal Limited, soft drinks manufacturers, including volume of press cuttings and photographs of staff and premises.
Sem títuloStaff records for Style and Winch Limited, brewers, including papers relating to the pension scheme; and staff record sheets.
Sem títuloProduction records for Courage and Company Limited, brewers, including lists of amounts brewed; lists of malt consumed; records of ingredients used; brewing books; mashing books; registers of beer; diaries of brewing; costs; papers relating to raw materials; licences; plans and sketches of brewing equipment.
Sem títuloRecords of Courage (Central) Limited, brewers, including Properties Committee meeting minutes; auditors' correspondence and reports; financial accounts; petty cash book; medical centre daily analysis reports and visitor's book for public exhibition at Reading's New Brewery.
Sem títuloRecords of Farnham United Breweries Limited, including Directors' meeting minute books; press cuttings; agenda book; lists of properties purchased; financial accounts; registers of mortgages and probates; register of sealing.
Sem títuloProduction records of Hodgson's Kingston Brewery Company Limited, including gyle book; stock book; schedule and valuation of plant and machinery.
Sem títuloStaff records of Hodgson's Kingston Brewery Company Limited, including book of wages sheets; papers relating to compensation to employees on closure of Kingston Brewery and distribution of staff including proposals and offers; and papers relating to the staff Benevolent Fund.
Sem títuloProduction records of Noakes and Company, brewers, including preliminary report on the brewery by consulting chemists and brewing book.
Sem títuloRecords of Arthur Cooper (Wine Merchant) Limited, including correspondence; share transfers; papers regarding mergers and name changes; papers relating to financial matters; memorandum and articles of association and annual reports with accounts.
Sem títuloCorporate records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, including Board and general meetings minute books; agenda books; register of members; register of mortgages; register of seals; articles of association; annual reports; and papers relating to the acquisition by Courage.
Sem títuloSales records of Reffells Bexley Brewery Limited, including sales ledgers and clubs journals.
Sem títuloRecords of Yardley's London and Provincial Stores Limited, including minute book; seal register; annual general meeting minutes; certificate of incorporation; and papers relating to the take-over and liquidation of the company.
Sem títuloRecords of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including papers relating to pension funds; copies of staff circulars and memoranda; papers relating to the British Institute of Management and the Brewer's Society; correspondence; reports; staff publications and journals; papers relating to the introduction and development of computers and electronic data processing; papers relating to office equipment.
Sem títuloRecords of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including precis of news reports about the brewing industry; examples of advertising including a gramophone record; papers relating to public houses; and publicity department correspondence and subject files relating to various events, company activities and aspects of the brewing industry.
Sem títuloProperty records of Charles Beasley Limited, brewers, including rent and loan ledgers; deposit ledgers; premises' insurance books.
Sem títuloPremises records of Charles Beasley Limited, brewers, comprising purchase journals (repairs).
Sem títuloRecords of Clinch and Company Limited, brewers, including Board and general meeting minutes; annual reports with accounts; papers relating to shares; memorandum and articles of association; register of seals; and rent ledgers for public houses and other premises.
Sem títuloSales records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including daily and weekly sales summaries; stock books; Board of Trade census of production; correspondence with suppliers; order delivery schedules and gallonage table.
Sem títuloRecords of Shepton Mallet Town Street Investments Limited, property developers, comprising papers and correspondence about creation and liquidation of company; cancelled share certificates; memorandum and articles of association and Directors' report and accounts.
Sem títuloRecords of the Bournemouth Wine Company Limited, comprising register of seals; papers and correspondence, including those relating to change of name and memorandum and articles of association.
Sem títuloRecords of Santovin Limited, wine and spirits merchants, comprising Directors' and general meeting minutes; copy minutes of Yardley's London and Provincial Stores and of Santovin about withdrawal of authority to sign cheques; copy special resolution of extraordinary general meeting and certificate of incorporation.
Sem títuloRecords of H and G Watts (1935) Limited, comprising Directors' and general meeting minutes and Customs certificate.
Sem títuloRecords of York Mineral Water Company Limited, including Directors' and general meeting minutes; Directors' attendance book for board, directors' and annual general meetings; certificate of incorporation; correspondence leading to liquidation, including memorandum and articles of association, 1958, with copy certificate of incorporation, 1898, and agreements.
Sem títuloGeneral records of H and G Simonds Limited, brewers, comprising publication Tables of Simple Interest by William Stenhouse, Edinburgh, 1806, signed by author 'Sydney J. Mills'.
Sem títuloRecords of the Bristol Brewery Georges and Company Limited, including Board of directors minute book; Directors' report and statement of accounts; rules and list of fixtures, Bristol Brewery Georges and Co. Ltd. Athletic Club; papers relating to wages and salaries; memorandums; correspondence; loan stock registers and report and valuation of properties, including those of subsidiaries (thus Bristol United Breweries, Charlton, Oakhill, Dunlop Mackie, Crocker, St Vincent's Hotel, Lewins Properties).
Sem títuloRecords of Ashton Gate Brewery Company Limited, comprising general meeting minute book.
Sem títuloRecords of the Sir Walter Saint John's Schools Trust. The records reflect the above history and activities of the Trust which was responsible for the running of both Sir Walter St John's School in Battersea High Street and Battersea Grammar School in Abbotswood Road, Streatham. In this collection, the bulk of the material refers to Sir Walter St John's School, although any Trust records may refer to either school. Those records relating solely to Battersea Grammar School are listed separately towards the end of the list. Highlights include a set of Trust minutes from 1827-1974, Admission registers from 1872-1946, the original Foundation Deed of 1700, and the school magazine from 1892-1978.
List of records:
Trust Property;
Trust Schemes;
Trust Administration;
Trust Correspondence;
Trust Accounts;
Trust Financial Administration;
Trust History;
Sir Walter St John's School: Pupils;
Sir Walter St John's School: Curriculum;
Sir Walter St John's School: Exam Results;
Sir Walter St John's School: Special Events;
Sir Walter St John's School: Former Pupils;
Sir Walter St John's School: Staff;
Sir Walter St John's School: Headmasters' Reports;
Sir Walter St John's School: Buildings;
Sir Walter St John's School: Printed Material;
Sir Walter St John's School: Photographs;
Sir Walter St John's School: Illustrations;
Sir Walter St John's School: Artefacts;
Sir Walter St John's School Old Boys Association;
Sir Walter St John's School Parents Association;
Battersea Grammar School;
William Blake School;
St John Family.
Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising mortgage for the leaseholds on 20, 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 Whittingstall Road, Fulham, 8 Jan 1897; assignment of the residue of the leasehold terms of 28, 30 and 32 Whittingstall Road, Fulham, 2 Jan 1928; acknowledgement of right of production and delivery of a will 2 Jan 1928.
Sem títuloPapers, 1904-1979, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in 163 St Margaret's Road, (formerly 35 The Broadway, St Margaret's Road, Twickenham), including leases, contracts, abstract of title, and conveyances.
Sem títuloCircular from the "Society for Erecting and Maintaining A Building in the Metropolis For the Meeting of Religious, Charitable, and Scientific Institutions", including plans of the proposed building between Exeter Street and the Strand [later called Exeter Hall, 272 Strand], 1829 and copy of the Ninth Annual Report of the Society For Erecting and Maintaining A Building Called Exeter Hall For the Meeting of Religious, Charitable and Scientific Institutions, 1834.
Copy of the report of the London and Greenwich Railway, read at the first General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street, on 9 February 1841.
Sem títuloRecords of architects Cubitt Nichols, Sons and Chuter, comprising plans and drawings of shops and offices, mainly on Glasshouse Street, Brewer Street and Air Street, 1902-1918.
Sem títuloPapers, 1909-1954, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to "Hazeldean", 8 Princes Road, Teddington, including abstracts of title and conveyances.
Sem títuloPapers, 1889-1938, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to West View House, Haliburton Road, St Margarets, Isleworth, including conveyances, mortgages and assent to vesting of freehold property.
Sem títuloPapers, 1891-1955, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in County Street (formerly Adam Street), Newington, in the borough of Southwark; including conveyances, leases, plans, licences, abstract of title and schedules of deeds.
Sem títuloRecords of the London Transport Executive [later known as London Transport], 1933-1956, comprising member's attendance books, 1933-1947 and photograph album of 'A Centenary Bus Exhibition 1856-1956', celebrating 100 years since the founding of the London General Omnibus Company.
Sem títuloRecords from the Lee Conservancy Board Engineer's Office at Enfield Lock. The engineer appears also to have been responsible to the Lee Conservancy Catchment Board (for example, see Acc 2423/062).
The collection consists of nineteenth and twentieth century plans, papers and volumes concerning the Lee Conservancy Board, the Lee Conservancy Catchment Board, and the British Waterways Board, covering many aspects of maintenance work on waterways and administration. The papers comprise:
- Plans 1760-1954 (ACC 2423/P/0001-3786) A large proportion of the collection consists of plans, many reused with annotations. Items relate to repair work on sewers and buildings, improvements to rivers and pumping stations, and the purchase of land for new projects.
- Parliamentary Plans 1840-1965 (ACC 2423/PP/001-041) Plans produced for or submitted for Parliamentary Sessions to illustrate forthcoming work on waterways, for example, sewerage work, or waterways affected by the construction of railways.
- Specific Plans 1867-1964 (ACC 2423/R/001-076) A set of plans illustrating large projects, which seems to have been kept as a set distinct and separate from the main ACC 2423/P plan series by the placing of the letter `R' before each original plan number.
- General Plans 1828-1974 (ACC 2423/X/001-300) A collection of more general plans relating to projects focusing on improvements to the Lea River and Navigation, the Stort River and Navigation, the Bow Back Rivers and the Grand Union Canal.
- Ordnance Survey Maps 1838-1955 (ACC 2423/05/001-139) Maps used to plan forthcoming work, with frequent annotations, particularly for the drafting of courses for sewers.
- Engineers' Reports and Letter Books 1858-1961 (ACC 2423/001-136) Sets of volumes and files recording reports, contracts and specifications, and other maintenance records.
- Administrative and Legal Documents 1829-1977 (ACC 2423/AL/001-119) Administrative files relating to accidents and damage, together with inventories of assets, minutes of meetings, and engineers' reports. Legal documents include material on agreements for sale and tenancy, the conveyance of property, and contracts.
- Engineering and Maintenance Records 1892-1978 (ACC 2423/EM/001-097) Records relating to the maintenance and improvement of waterways, including development plans, moratorium surveys, pumping records, and related graphs and operation sheets.
Records of the Surrey Tabernacle Benefit Society, including Management Committee minutes; subscriptions and benefits books; sick pay books; audited accounts; register of deaths; correspondence; and death benefit nominations.
Sem títuloRecords of Smith Kendon Limited, 1826-1987. The collection mainly comprises the papers of Donald Smith and his capacity as Managing Director and Chairman of Smith Kendon Limited, including papers relating to the formation of the business such as articles of partnership and certificates of registration; deeds and other legal documents relating to property owned by the company; insurance policies; inventories; correspondence; minutes of meetings; Donald Smith's business diaries; sales figures; financial accounts; papers relating to stock and stock control; papers relating to sales; papers relating to products including recipe books; advertising; reports; staff records and papers relating to the Second World War.
Sem títuloRecords of London County Council midwife Agnes Morris. These registers, printed by the London County Council Public Health Department, include the name, address and age of the mother, the date and hour of the child's birth, its sex and whether it was a live or dead birth, with other information about the attendances of the midwife and other doctors or nurses and remarks of a medical nature of the birth. With few exceptions the mothers concerned lived in Peckham until 1952. From 1953 to 1956 the cases were in Balham and Tooting and from 1956 to 1957 in Woolwich.
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Sem títuloRecords of the Central Women's Section of the Ilford South Labour Party, comprising minutes and a register of members.
Sem títuloRecords of the Southwark Diocesan Council for Wel-Care, 1948-1986, including Diocesan Office files; Saint Mary's House minutes; local association records including Wandsworth Association minutes and reports and Caterham and Godstone Association case records and other papers.
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