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Records of Cannon Lane Methodist Church, Pinner, comprising pamphlet concerning building development scheme and fundraising, 1963 and article of agreement between G E Cowie and C Laurier for tenancy of furnished house known as 68 Love Lane, including related correspondence and income tax and land tax forms 1942-1947.

Records of North Harrow Methodist Church, comprising Golden Jubilee booklet, 1977; Diamond Jubilee booklet, 1987; letter of thanks from Buckingham Palace for royal Silver Jubilee message, 1977; Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society certificate, 1930?; Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School certificate, 1927 and correspondence regarding Manse Trust, including a copy of the lease, 1939-1948.

Records of South Harrow Methodist Church, 1935-1992, including membership roll; Leader's Meeting minutes; general correspondence; financial accounts; annual reports; papers regarding Trustees; papers regarding the construction of a new building; correspondence regarding staff members; pulpit notice book; Missionary Committee minutes; Women's Committee minutes; Youth Council minutes; Sunday School minutes and registers; Church newsletters and magazines; orders of service, programmes, leaflets and circulars; newspaper cuttings and an audio tape recording of the old organ being played.

Staines Urban District Council general accounts ledgers, 1921-1974.

Marriage registers for Kingdom Hall, Balvernie Grove, Wandsworth, 1957-1991.

Annual reports of the West London Methodist Mission: "The Work of a Year in Pictures", 1929-1930 and "West London: Its Glory and Tragedy", 1930-1931. Both reports are well illustrated with photographs showing the work of the Mission.

Also typescript document entitled "Church Story: A history of Holly Park Methodist Church, Crouch Hill (Highgate Circuit)" outlining the history of the Church from 1875 to 1927.

Deeds for a property owned by London County Council at 86, West Street/Braintree Street, Bethnal Green, 1814-1911.

Correspondence (with some administrative and financial papers) between the Methodist Church Home Mission Division and the individual circuits and missions within the London districts (London South-East District, London South-West District, London North-West District and London North East District).

Records of Staines Poor Law Union Board of Guardians, 1905-1930, comprising relief order book containing lists of out-relief cases; financial accounts and registers of persons undertaking nursing and maintenance of infants.

Records of Willesden Poor Law Union, 1896-1930, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians; standing orders, rules and regulations; orders for removal to and from the Union; apprenticeship indentures; financial accounts; correspondence, tenders, contracts and agreements for construction work and provision of utilities; orders of the Local Government Board; legal correspondence; building plans including Willesden Parish Infirmary and Park Royal Hospital; maps of Willesden Urban District showing boundaries.

Records of the Brentwood School District, 1877-1886, including signed mintues of the Board; claims upon the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund; letters and orders of the Local Government Board; creed registers from the Brentwood Industrial School; admission and discharge register of Harold Court School, Harold Wood; list of officers and servants and papers relating to the appointment of staff.

Records relating to the Court of Orphans, City of London, including Common Serjeant's Books, 1586-1773 (series CLA/002/01), Orphans' Inventories, [1600]-1773 (series CLA/002/02), Inventories: Indexes and Transcripts, 1666-[1926] (series CLA/002/03), Orphanage Bonds and Deeds, 1599-1704 (series CLA/002/04), Recognizances, 1590-1747 (series CLA/002/05), Satisfactions, 1548-1702 (series CLA/002/06), and Miscellaneous items including receipts and other papers regarding orphans, 1619-1697; legal customs including precedents in orphanage matters and divisions of estates; accounts, 1671-1728; committee papers and statements of the Orphan Fund, 1690-1750, custody of goods by orphans, 1401-1448 and journal articles based on the Court of Orphans records, 1934 and 1970 (series CLA/002/07).

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.

Bridge House Estates papers including bridgemasters' accounts rolls, 1381-1398; bridgemaster's annual accounts and rentals, 1404-1850; weekly payments, 1404-1445 and 1505-1849; bill books, 1745-1789 and 1815-1889; receipt books, 1598-1851; cash books, 1602-1784; fair cash books, 1713-1851; rough cash books, 1713-1810, miscellaneous ledgers and cash books, 1787-1819; materials sold, 1614-1682; corn and granary books, 1568-1714; rent and arrears books, 1707-1941; papers relating to individual properties owned by the Trust, particularly leases and grants, and administrative papers.

Papers of Leadenhall Market comprising administrative papers including letters, petitions, superintendent's reports and clerk's books, 1686-1978; and financial papers including rents and returns, 1913-1948, collector's books, 1779-1825, tenancy agreements, 1881-1913, weekly cash receipts, 1934-1966, disbursements, 1927-1947 and various accounts and dues, 1826-1889.

Records of Newgate Market, City of London, 1671-1878, including administrative papers (petitions, court orders, letters) and financial papers (accounts, rental accounts).

Records of the Metropolitan Cattle Market, Islington, 1553-1964, including general administrative papers (inspector's report books, letter books, correspondence, report books, registers of drover's licences, bye-laws); posters; newspaper cuttings; photographs; annual reports of the Superintendent and Chief Veterinary Officer; legal papers; regulations regarding cattle driving; papers regarding the prevention and control of disease in cattle; papers relating to the City Meat Inspectors; accounts books; tenancy and rental agreements; rental ledgers; weighing and storage charge books; chill room charge books; lairage books and slaughtering charge books.

The collection (with the exception of CLA/017/LC/05/001 which dates from 1630) dates from 1859 onwards and includes:-

Records of the Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market, Smithfield, 1859-1898 (CLA/017/MP) : administrative and financial records.

Records of London Central Markets, Smithfield 1863-2009 (CLA/017/LC) : annual reports submitted to the Court of Common Council by various Markets Committees; annual and monthly reports from the Superintendent to the Central Market's Committee; details of tonnage received at the market; analysis of supplies; monthly and weekly reports; rental and tenancy agreements; account books; average prices; Acts of Parliament relating to the market; porter's licences; reports; brochures, handbooks, photographs and audio-visual material. Also papers relating to the investigation by civil engineers B L Hurst & Peirce into the cause of the movement of cracks which appeared in Entrance 20 of the market building.

Records of the Bridge House Estates Committee relating to Tower Bridge, City of London, 1870-1994. Records include memoranda, Acts of Parliament, accounts, staff records, contracts, pamphlets, photographs, reports and printed material.

Records of the Bridge House Estates relating to London Bridge, 1553-1995. Papers include deeds; sale notices; accounts, receipts and payments; warrant books; fund raising; proceedings for compensation; papers and accounts relating to the design and building of the 1831 bridge; acts and statutes concerning the bridge; committee reports and minutes; tidal observations and reports on the river Thames; correspondence; histories of the bridge; papers and brochures regarding the demolition and reconstruction of the bridge, 1967-1980; plans and photographs. Also papers relating to the sale of stonework from the 1831 Bridge to McCulloch Properties Incorporated for re-erection at Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

Records of the Sherriff's Court, City of London, 1318-1867, including court rolls; records of court proceedings including minutes, reports, registers, plaints, accounts and bonds; procedures and regulations and administrative papers.

Also records relating to Poultry Compter, 1769-1857, including minutes of actions, compter rolls and indexes; and records relating to Wood Street Compter, later Giltspur Street Compter, 1760-1849, including minutes of actions, compter rolls and indexes.

Records of the Mayor's and City of London Court, 1863-1979, including admiralty suits; defaults, relating to cases of debt where a fixed sum of money is demanded; ordinary summonses; adjournments; originating applications, mainly relating to claims for a grant of a new tenancy on behalf of an existing tenant when the lease has expired; workmen's compensation cases; judges' and registars' notebooks; minutes of judgements and orders; committee orders and rules of the Mayor's and City of London Court.

Records catalogued under this fonds that date from before 1921 may relate to the activities of the City of London Court before its amalgamation with the Mayor's Court.

Records of Giltspur Street Compter, 1785-1850, including administrative papers, rules and regulations, warrants for arrests and papers relating to the rebuilding of the compter, 1785-1794.

Records of Southwark Compter, also known as Borough Compter, 1608-1842, including lists of prisoners, charge books, warrants for arrest, accounts of deliveries of bread and meat and various administrative papers. Also papers relating to the revived magistracy in Southwark, 1814, when it was decided that one of the Aldermen who had passed the chair would sit daily for justiciary business, receiving an annual salary and assisted by a clerk, until c 1840.

Records relating to the London prison system, 1487-1975. Prisons mentioned include the Houses of Correction at Westminster and Cold Bath Fields, the Debtor's Prison, Newgate, Ludgate, King's Bench, Fleet, Marshalsea, Clerkenwell, Bridewell, Holloway, Whitecross Street, Middlesex and Wandsworth as well as various Compters.

The records include accounts and financial papers; statutes and bills relating to gaols and prisons; Acts of the Court of Common Council and the Court of Aldermen; contracts; indentures; various committee minutes and papers, including reports of the Gaol Committee; petitions; regulations; papers relating to prisoner health; reports of the Commissioners of Prisons; papers relating to Compters, particularly the Committee for the rebuilding of Poultry and Wood Street compters, 1783-89 and papers relating to prison charities. Also a PhD thesis by Wayne Joseph Sheehan entitled The London Prison System 1666-1795, submitted to the University of Maryland in 1975.

Records of Ludgate Prison, 1637-1815, including petitions, lists of prisoners, committee papers, writs, orders for payment and bills.

Records of the City of London Sessions, 1517-1993, including administrative records, papers of the Clerk of the Peace, records of the court in session, records of the Justices of the Peace, published material, papers of enrolment, registration and deposit, and records of summary jurisdiction.

Records of the Irish Society, 1613-1983, including Court minute books, Court and Committee minutes, rough minutes, records of the committee to consider purchasing estates in Ireland, 1849, letter books, 1664-1913, letter books (secretary duplicates), letter books (general agent), letter books (miscellaneous), letter books (solicitor), declaration books, charters, records concerning history, constitution and powers, appointments, solicitor's papers, case papers, estate management papers, plans and financial accounts.

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.

This collection contains City of London School for Girls administrative records (1895-2005), various printed material including school magazines (1890s-2006), visual material and artefacts including a large collection of photographs depicting pupils and staff (1890s-2004), records of societies connected to the school (such as Girl Guides and material of the City of London Old Girls' Association).

Records of particular interest are the Leaver's Service programmes which provide a fairly comprehensive list of pupils who attended the school. Also of interest are the prize giving programmes which are also useful for researching pupils and school magazines which provide detailed information on school activities, events and other developments.

Papers of Dorothea (or Dorothy) Crompton, pupil at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1913-1924. The collection, consisting of concert programmes, advertising posters, professors' reports and correspondence, had been found at the School and had been used in an exhibition there. The exhibition, entitled "Who was Dorothea Crompton?", had been mounted to try to establish some details about Crompton as nothing was known about her. As far as can be gathered, no information about Dorothea Crompton was produced as a result of the exhibition.

Papers of Madeline Payne (1879-1962), concert pianist and former student of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, including correspondence, photographs, programmes, articles and newspaper cuttings, 1893-1957.

Papers of London Almshouses and Rogers' Almshouses, 1615-1991, including rules and regulations, financial accounts, reports, Committee of Management minute books, petitions for admission, Trustees minute books, warden's report books, and various other administrative papers.

Papers of various London Hospitals, 1695-1983, including dockets of hospital leases and uses of the Hospital Seal for the Royal Hospitals; financial accounts and case books for the Denton Hospital (also known as the Port of London Sanitary Hospital) and historical information for the Bethlem Royal Hospital, Maudsley Hospital and St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill. Please note that medical records are subject to a 100 year closure from the date of the last entry.

Records of Bethlem Hospital, 1675-1859, including printed notice, issued by the Governors, seeking subscriptions for the erection of a new hospital in St. George's Fields and other papers relating to the removal to St. George's Fields; instructions for persons applying for the admission of patients into Bethlem Hospital, 1859; rules and orders of Bethlem Hospital, 1854; various other administrative papers.

Records of Emanuel Hospital, 1594-1984, including documents relating to the foundation and history of the hospital, financial accounts, papers regarding staff, rules and regulations, weekly reports by the master of the Hospital, title deeds, petitions for admittance to the hospital, committee minutes and papers, papers relating to the management and sale of the Brandburton estates, Charity Commissioner's orders relating to the hospital and papers regarding the admission and care of pensioners at the hospital.

Records of the Coal Exchange and Market, 1696-1962, including papers of the Clerk of the market, Mayor's Court verdicts regarding the market, rentals and tenancy agreements, financial accounts of the Coal Market and Coal Market Fund, photographs, pamphlets and histories of the market.

Records of Eagle Star Insurance Company Limited and predecessors, including policies (fire, marine, motor, life, contingency, pluvius and other insurance types), minutes, prospectuses, registers of directors, annual reports, financial records, papers relating to staff, papers relating to shareholders, property records and publications.

Records of particular interest are the individual life policies. Substantial register series survive for: English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Limited, 1840 - 1863 (CLC/B/005/ESL04/01/01); Sceptre Life Association Limited, 1865 - 1885 (CLC/B/005/SC04/01/01); Star Life Assurance Society Limited, 1843 - 1868 (CLC/B/005/ST04/01/01).

Individual life policies have survived for famous people such as Victoria, Duchess of Kent and Strathearn (CLC/B/005/AL04/01/02/001); Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (CLC/B/005/EA04/01/02/001/010); Charles Dickens (CLC/B/005/EA04/01/02/001/005) and William Henry Smith, founder of W H Smith (CLC/B/005/ST04/01/03/02/001).

Other significant records include Box 1299 (CLC/B/005/PA04/05/03) which is a deed box found in 1944 in a Swansea bank vault containing papers of Swansea agency of Palladium Life Assurance Company. It is noted for its many early stamped letters.

There are many examples of Arthur Frederick Shepherd's pioneering advertising work (e.g. CLC/B/005/ES04/12/01/004-005).

The collection contains a few notable films including 'The Magic Scroll', 1930 (CLC/B/005/ES04/12/03/001) which is considered to be one of the earliest advertising films.

There are varied records relating to staff social activities including the Eagle Dramatic and Operatic Society (CLC/B/005/ES06/04/02), British Dominions Football Club (CLC/B/005/ES06/04/03) and British Dominions Swimming Club (CLC/B/005/ES06/04/04).

Also of significance are the records of Sir Edward Mountain (CLC/B/005/ES01/09/05) including a book signed by 1261 employees and presented to Sir Edward on his silver wedding anniversary in 1922, and papers relating to his famous expedition to find the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland, 1934.

Please note that 48 hours notice is required to consult these records. Access to all records dating less than 50 years requires permission from the donor. Please contact staff for details.

Corporate records of the Albion Fire and Life Assurance Company comprising deeds and Act of Parliament.

Shares records of the Army, Navy and General Assurance Association Limited comprising registers of members, share ledgers, registers of transfers, share transactions, share certificates, dividends record, register of directors' shareholdings, annual returns of shareholdings.

Business records of Army, Navy and General Assurance Association Limited comprising specimen policies and proposal forms.

Corporate records of the Allied Traders Insurance Company including memorandum and articles of association, board of directors' meeting minutes, annual general meeting shorthand notes and report, annual reports and accounts, amalgamation papers and agreement, liquidators' papers and report.

Financial and accounting records of the Allied Traders Insurance Company including journal, private ledger, and liquidator's report.

Business records of the Allied Traders Insurance Company comprising fire policy proposal.

Corporate records of British Crown Assurance Corporation Limited, including board of directors' meeting minutes and agendas, shareholders' meeting and annual general meeting minutes, copy minutes and agreements relating to the sale to Eagle, Star and British Dominions.

Business records of British Crown Assurance Corporation Limited comprising policies and branch standing orders.

Financial records of United Dominions Insurance Company Limited comprising yearly figures and petty cash book.

Share records of Cattle Traders' Insurance Company Limited comprising share certificates book, annual return of shareholders, and registers of directors' shareholdings.

Corporate records of Eagle Insurance Company including articles of agreement on the foundation of company and deed of settlement; Eagle Act of Parliament; certificate of registration; memorandum and articles of association; Board of Directors: minute books, west end board agenda books, printed copy of resolutions of the founding meeting; finance committee agenda book and minute book; Eagle, Star and British Dominions securities committee minute book; annual reports and accounts, engravings, copy death certificates and wills and other papers relating to Eagle directors, amalgamation papers, liquidation minutes and papers.

Corporate records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including Board of Directors' agendas and minute books; memoranda, articles of association, certificates of incorporation and registration, insurance companies regulations; minutes of various committees; index of parties to correspondence and agreements; minute book of shareholders' meetings and annual general meetings; annual reports and accounts; papers of British Insurance Association, Chartered Insurance Association, Insurance Institute of London, Insurance Institute of Ilford and SW Essex; printed histories of Halifax and Temperance Permanent Building Societies; registers of directors; directors' dinners: menu, photographs, programme, table assignments; correspondence files of main board and directors; photographs of and papers relating to Sir Edward Mountain; circular letter regarding setting up of local boards; directories of and files relating to local directors; minutes of local boards and related reports and photographs; minutes, reports and correspondence of regional boards; stationery samples and letterheads; and papers relating to grants of arms to Eagle Star.

Business records of Eagle Star Insurance Company, including papers relating to marine, fire, motor, life, pluvius and general insurance; papers relating to war loan, branches, agents and overseas organisation; and publicity material.