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Minutes and financial records of Lewis and Burrows Ltd, including share registers, 1895-1953.

Carbon copies of typescript quarterly reports, July 1956-December 1957, to the World Health Organisation's Regional Director, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, with some monthly progress reports and more detailed breakdowns of activities. Most of the reports are accompanied by photographs and manuscript maps and statistics.

Papers of Max Nicholson, 1945-1991, including leaflets, correspondence, published and unpublished papers, and reports, on population issues, including Simon Population Trust, and correspondence with Dr C P Blacker.

Papers relating to the Physiological Society consisting mostly of memoirs and miscellaneous correspondence of members of the Society or material of general interest to physiological history, 1828-1993.

Papers of William Sampson Handley including student notebook Guy's Hospital, 1894, with notes on surgical techniques and diagnosis,and notes on cases seen at the Middlesex and Samaritan Hospitals, 1902-1912, with correspondence inserted.

'Fundamental Psychological Conceptions: a report of five lectures by CG Jung, MD, LLD, Professor at the Federal Technical University, Zurich, given under the auspices of the Institute of Medical Psychology, Malet Place, London, WC1, September 30 - October 4, 1935', edited by Mary Barker and Margaret Game for the Analytical Psychology Club, London, 1936.'

Student notebooks, Chelsea College of Pharmacy, 1952-1955. The 'practical' notes are records of experiments, including diagrams and myograph tracings; the histology notes are descriptions and drawings of material seen under the microscope.

Transcripts of discussions between paediatricians and psychoanalysts from various London hospitals, 1975-1977, with memorabilia of David Morris, FRCP (1915-1989).

Papers of Bernard Lewis Williams, 1942-1945, including case book containing patient records, with enclosed memorabilia; the case-book is described by Mr Williams as `my private record of cases of special interest concerning which I requested follow-up information', but was continued for another two months after his departure from the unit.

Follow-up cards for most of the cases were attached to the relevant pages of the volume. For conservation reasons, these and the other enclosures have been removed to separate folders (GC/172/2-3).

Mr Williams also allowed copies to be made of text and photographs from a scrapbook which he had put together of his service with No 6 Field Surgical Unit (FSU), and of loose photographs, including transparencies.

Notebook and photograph album compiled by Albert Hamerton while serving on Sleeping Sickness Commission, Uganda and Nyasaland, 1908-1913.

Royal College of Surgeons Department of Pharmacology Orderbooks: 77 order books of equipment and supplies for laboratory run by WD Paton, 1954-1967.

Records of Fulham Road Pharmacy, Chelsea, including prescription books, 1887-1989, controlled drugs and poisons books, 1939-1978 and loose prescriptions 1953-1980.

Letters to Mary Scharlieb, and testimonials about her, 1890-1912, [n.d.], and 3 letters from her, 1909-1923, on medical, philanthropic, political (women's suffrage) and personal matters. The testimonials are from Sir Frederick Treves, Sir James Paget, and Henry Acland, and correspondents include Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Dorothea Beale, Mary Kingsley, Sarah Grand, Michael Foster, Lord Roberts, and Philip Gibbs. The Herbert Scharlieb items consist mainly of testimonials when applying for the post of Assistant Anaesthetist at the Dental Hospital, 1901, including from J Rose Bradford, H Charlton Bastian, Rickman J Godlee, and Victor Horsley, but there is also a letter to him from his mother while in Madras, 1884, and one from Marcus Beck about the University College Athletic Fund, 1892.

Papers of Professor R A Peters including reports, correspondence, minutes, etc, relating to work on antidotes to chemical warfare agents, development of British Anti-Lewisite, and its clinical uses, 1941-1953.

Two notebooks compiled while a Major in the RAMC; admission of patients to unnamed military hospital, 1941-1942; clinical notes, draft letters and essay on 'Malignant Malaria in the Army'.

Writings of Vernon Hall including an account of the development of anaesthesia in the Far East campaigns, Second World War; autobiography; histories of anaesthesia and of King's College Hospital Medical School, [1946-1990].

Papers of Sir Robert McCarrison including 149 posters illustrating nutrition observations and experiments, 1913-c.1947; memorabilia including notes for speeches and letters received, 1931-1960; correspondence with Nutrition Society and Oxford University Press, 1950s; photograph album of Coonoor including the Pasteur Institute, 1920s-1930s. Letters to McCarrison from his former assistants in Nilgiri District, Mula Singh and Krishnan, on the publication of the Festschrift, can be found in B.5. His interest in deficiency diseases was aroused by his observations of the distribution of goitre and cretinism in Gilgit, where he served from 1904, and the posters in Section A illustrate his observations and experiments on the effects of diet on metabolism. A list in B.1 includes some of the titles of the posters in section A, but also mentions others not found.

Records of Bolingbroke Hospital, including registers of inpatients, minor operations registers, operations registers, casualty registers, registers of nurses and nursing probationers.

Administrative and financial records are uncatalogued as of February 2012, please see staff for further details.

Records of Grove Hospital, including post mortem examinations; staff registers; records of appointments, transfers and promotions; records of resignations; matron's reports; staff rules.

Administrative and financial records are uncatalogued as of February 2012, please see staff for further details.

Records of Pinewood Sanatorium, 1910-1966, including admission and discharge registers, case register, registers of operations, register of death and mortuary registers.

Records of Hackney Poor Law Union, 1770-1939, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; Guardians handbooks; standing orders; correspondence with the Poor Law Board, Local Government Board and Ministry of Health; orders of the Local Government Board; papers relating to property including contracts and deeds; settlement examinations and orders for removal; orders for the reception of lunatics; registers of lunatics; registers for the Hackney Union Workhouse, the Brentwood Branch Workhouse and the Sidney Road Receiving Home; registers of children including apprentices, children adopted by the Union, children at schools and institutions, children at the Brentwood School and at Chipping Ongar Children's Home; financial accounts and staff records.

Papers of the Clare Hall Hospital, 1905-1929, including minutes of the meetings of the Board, Finance Committee, General Purposes and House Committee, Visiting Sub-committee and Farm Sub-committee; annual reports; finance reports; financial papers and papers relating to superannuation.

Records of Hampstead Poor Law Union, 1810-1958, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians; minutes and reports of various Committees; standing orders; correspondence with Government departments; orders for removal to and from the Union; registers of lunatics; registers of emigration; registers for the Union Workhouse; registers of the New End Hospital; apprenticeship and servant registers; registers of children sent to schools and homes; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of the Inner London Education Authority, 1880-1990, including papers of the Education Officer and Chief Executive; Clerk's Department papers, including agendas, papers and minutes of the Education Committee, Development Sub-Committee, Equal Opportunities Sub-Committee, Finance Sub-Committee, Further and Higher Education Sub-Committee, Policy Co-ordinating Sub-Committee, Schools Sub-Committee, Staff Appeals Sub-Committee, Staff General Sub-Committee, Sixteen to Nineteen Review Sub-Committee, Strategic Policy Sub-Committee, Trading and Supplies Sub-Committee; and papers relating to the Communications Unit, External Relations Branch and Members Support Services.

Papers of the Department of Building and Property Services, including the Architecture Branch, Direct Labour Branch, Engineering Division, Ground Maintenance Branch and Quantity Surveying Branch; papers of the Development and Equipment Branch; papers of the Directors of Education; papers of the ten Divisional Offices; papers of the Equal Opportunities Unit; papers of the Finance Department including the Director of Finance; papers of the Inspectorate, including the Inspectorate of the Schools Psychological Service; papers of the Management Services Branch.

Papers of the Personnel Department, including the Environmental Health Service, Employee Relations Branch, Personnel Planning, Monitoring and Financial Control Branch and Recruitment, Pay and Staffing Division; papers of the Post Schools Department, including Area Youth Offices, Community Education and Careers Branch, Careers Service Branch, Further and Higher Education Branch and Sixteen Plus Development; papers of the Research and Statistics Branch.

Papers of the Schools Department including the Education Catering Branch, Domestic Advisers, Educational Social Welfare Service, the Centre for Learning Resources, Medical and Psychiatric Service, Schools Resources, School Management and Government, Provision for under-Fives, Special Boarding Education, Welfare and Health, Sport, Curriculum Support and the Sixteen-Nineteen Section; papers of the Special Education Branch; papers of the Supplies and Transport Services Branch and papers of the Teaching Staff Branch. Also Heritage Collection exhibition boards and photographs; ILEA publications and educational videotapes.

Records of the London County Council, 1721-1983, including the Architect's Department, Chief Engineer's Department, Children's Department, Clerk's Department, Comptroller of the Council's Department, Education Officer's Department, Fire Brigade Department, Housing Department, Legal and Parliamentary Department, Lieutenancy of the County of London, Public Control Department, Public Health Department, Parks Department, Restaurant and Catering Department, Staff Benevolent Society, Supplies Department, Tramways Department, Valuation Department, Welfare Department and Works Department.

The type of records held include committee minutes and papers, administrative records, reports, plans and maps, photographs, log books, registers and samples of case files, examinations, application forms, licences, school report books, publicity material, pamphlets, leaflets and publications. The records deal with various aspects of London governance including the management of schools, hospitals, health centres and other insitutions; the overseeing and regulation of construction work, street improvements, sewers and drains, flood defences and bridges; tax assessments; the construction and maintenance of housing estates; the maintenance of parks and open spaces; the care of children, the elderly and the disabled; the monitoring of legal requirements; licensing and monitoring of establishments including lodging houses, theatres, cinemas, and slaughterhouses; licensing of vehicles and drivers; traffic congestion and transport issues; town planning; financial accounts, estimates and budgets and emergency measures during the First and Second World Wars.

Records of the London County Council Architect's Department relating to the control of buildings and streets under the London Buildings Act 1894 and subsequent Acts. Records include subject and policy files (including procedures, precedents, diagrams, plans, petitions, legislation, sub-committee papers, statistics, bye-laws, reviews, standards and fire reports), 1856-1965; subject and policy files for the District Surveyors, 1856-1936; subject and policy files for new building materials, 1891-1941; returns and abstracts of the District Surveyors, 1889-1954; registers of alterations to names of streets and numbering of houses, 1856-1935; reports, 1889-1965, on matters concerning building regulation, on matters affecting the District Surveyors and on the naming and numbering of streets; Ordnance Survey maps of London amended to show street name changes, proposed new roads, building numbering, borough boundaries and future road positions, 1883-1967.

Map marking the site of Tyburn Tree. Tyburn Tree was the infamous gallows, erected in 1571, at a site near to the modern Marble Arch. The gallows at Tyburn were in the shape of a triangle, allowing several felons to be executed at once. The gallows were last used in 1783; their site is now marked by three brass triangles mounted on the pavement on an island in the middle of Edgware Road at its junction with Bayswater Road.

Records of the London County Council Chief Engineer's Department relating to drainage and flood prevention, including applications to connect drains to sewers, 1889-1936; register of applications to connect drains to sewers, 1886-1909; Chemists' weekly returns from the Barking and Crossness sewage pumping stations, 1890-1905; Engineer's weekly returns from the Barking and Crossness sewage pumping stations, 1893-1905; logs of sludge vessels, 1903-1904; annual returns of treatment and disposal of sewage, and of quantity of sewage pumped and costs of working the Barking and Crossness pumping stations, 1893-1934; further papers and reports relating to London drainage, the purification and disposal of Thames sewage and the Barking and Crossness pumping stations, 1854-1901; reports on Thames flood prevention, 1903-1935; booklet on London's mains drainage, 1960; reports on the pollution of the Thames, 1935-1936; descriptive brochure to mark the completion of new sewage treatment plant at Crossness, 1964; précis of Metropolitan Board of Works and London County Council minutes relating to each main sewer and general mains drainage, 1856-1939; original tide gauge charts for the Thames, taken at various locations, 1882-1953; tables showing the times and recorded levels of high and low tides each day at each of the gauges of the London County Council, the Port of London Authority and the Thames Conservancy Board, 1929-1957; diagrams showing the respective quantities of sea water, inland water and sewage in the various reaches of the Thames on 14th September 1882; cross-section of River Thames at selected points, to accompany the Chief Engineer's report to the Rivers Committee on 28 November, 1900; drawings of sludge vessels, 1920s; diagram of tidal experiments at Sea Reach using floats, 1890; log books of sludge vessels, 1954-1965; engineer's survey notebooks, detailing drainage and levels, 1895-1965.

Records of the London County Council Chief Engineer's Department relating to Emergency Wartime Measures, including prewar subject files relating to air raid and civil defence precautions, 1934-1939, including rescue parties, special devices and inventions, navigation lights on the Thames, sand bags, movement of vehicles, first aid posts, anti aircraft batteries, barrage balloons, warden's posts, blackouts, coordination of road repairs and emergency repair depots; papers relating to the emergency running of the Woolwich Ferry, 1938-1939; papers of the London Regional Council and London Civil Defence Region Coordinating Committee, 1938-1939.

Subject files of the London Civil Defence Region, 1939-1945, relating to bridges, subways, road repairs, river defences, gas installations, sewers, water and gas mains, war debris disposal, plant and materials, water supply, mobile cranes, hurricane lamps, electricity, decontamination, regional exercises, radio security, unexploded bombs, rehousing homeless people, mutual assistance arrangements, invasion defences, labour surveys and dumps for debris disposal; papers of the Technical Advisory Committee on Civil Defence (London Regional Engineers and Surveyors), 1939-1945; papers of the Coordination of Road Repairs Groups, 1939-1944; notes and documents gathered in preparation for a history of the wartime activities of the Chief Engineer's Department (this book was not written).

Home Security Circulars, 1941-1945; Home Security Regional Circulars, 1940-1945; London Region Circulars, 1939-1945; London Civil Defence Regions Operations Circulars, 1939-1945; Air Raid Precautions Service equipment bulletins, memoranda, handbooks and training manuals, 1937-1945; Provisional Code for Air Raid Shelters, 1939; various publications relating to air raid precautions and emergency measures, 1939-1945.

London Civil Defence Region situation reports, 1940-1945; daily situation reports from various LCC departments, 1939-1945; situation reports on the state of London drainage, bridges, gas mains, railway lines, cables and mains, 1940-1945; weekly summaries of roads obstructed, 1940-1945; analysis of situation reports, 1941-1944; Group Engineer log books, 1940-1948; log books of Road Repairs Coordinating Branch of the London Civil Defence Region, 1940-1945; log of Thames flood prevention emergency repairs, 1940-1945.

Records of the London County Council Children's Department comprising individual case files of children in care. Please note that because of the sensitive and personal nature of the information some of these files are closed under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Records of the London County Council Children's Department relating to nurseries, children's homes and residential schools, hostels and family homes; comprising records of individual institutions, including admission and discharge registers, inspection reports, photographs, minutes of the Managing Committee, log books, punishment books, financial accounts, school magazines and other records relating to the day to day running of the institutions.

The institutions include:
Ashford Residential school
Beechholme Residential School (formerly Banstead District School)
The Cliffs Residential Nursery, Dawlish, Devon
Britwell Boys' Hostel and Britwell Family Homes
Westlea Hostel and Boreham Wood Estate Family Homes
Downs Hospital For Children (later Downs Residential Nursery), Sutton
Gorsefield Residential Nursery and Harlow Family Homes
Gresham Place Residential Nursery and Croydon Small Homes
Harecombe Manor and Hollyshaw Residential Nurseries
Henniker House Children's Receiving Home
The Hollies Children's Home (formerly Lamorbey), Sidcup
Hornchurch Children's Home and Harold Hill Family Homes
Hutton Residential School and Ongar Residential School and Family Homes at Aveley and Basildon Estates
Ingleton House After Care Hostel for Boys
Ladywell Residential Nursery, Lewisham
22 Lansdowne Avenue and Langley and Britwell Family Homes
Langley House Reception Home and The Pagoda Children's Home
Larchwood Residential Nursery and Crawley Family Homes
Liskeard Lodge Reception Home and The Pagoda After-Care Hostels
Margaret Mcmillan House
Nanhurst and Annesley House Residential Nurseries and Tudor Lodge
Oak Hall Residential Nursery School
Oranmore Residential Nursery and The Gables Residential Nursery
Penbury Grove Residential Nursery, Penn, Bucks
3 The Ridgeway and Islington and Hackney Small Homes
Saint Margaret's Residential Nursery and Abercorn Place Residential Nursery
Shirley Oaks Children's Home, Croydon (formerly Shirley Residential School)
Stowlangtoft Hall Residential Nursery
Tudor Lodge Residential Nursery and Wandsworth Small and Family Homes
25 Westleigh Avenue and Paddington and Frogmore Small Homes
Wood Vale Children's Home, West Norwood (formerly Norwood Children's Home and Hospital)
Earlsfield House, Wandsworth
Easneye and Widbury Residential Nurseries and Stevenage Family Homes
Fairmile Hatch and Oakdale Residential Nurseries.

Please note that because of the sensitive and personal nature of the information some files are closed. Please see the detailed catalogue for further information.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to civil defence, including papers relating to: air raid precautions and civil defence, 1935-1947; financial arrangements for air raid precautions and civil defence, 1936-1948; the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service, 1936-1947; use of school ambulances by the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service, 1939-1943; emergency fire brigade arrangements, 1934-1945, including accommodation, staffing, water supplies, maps, appliances, the River Service, salvage arrangements, disciplinary code, collective representation and war gratuities; the unification of the London Fire Brigade and London Auxiliary Fire Service, 1940-1946; National Fire Service, 1941-1947, including detailed liaison arrangements with the LCC; emergency hospital service, 1935-1946, including the Civil Nursing Reserve; the Evacuation Scheme, 1938-1947; the Rescue Service, 1938-1947, including accommodation and depots, equipment, staffing, disciplinary code, reorganisation and co-ordination with repair squads; the Rest Centre Service, 1939-1947; War Debris Survey and Disposal Service, 1942-1948; proposed merger of Rescue and Debris Services, 1942-1944; fire prevention and fire watching, 1940-1945, including stirrup pumps, Clearance of Lofts Order and Fire prevention (Business Premises) Order; repair of highways, 1939-1947; organisation of civil defence 1936-1945, including allocation of responsibilities between London County Council and Metropolitan Borough Councils, Regional Co-ordinating Committee, Joint Committee of Officers of LCC and Metropolitan Borough Councils, Civil Defence Act, 1939 and regional and group organisation; decontamination and cleansing, 1938-1945; the main drainage system and gas mains, 1936-1946; bridges, tunnels and ferries, 1936-1947; structural protection and air raid shelters at housing estates, schools, hospitals, County Hall and other LCC premises, 1938-1946; air raid shelters, 1937-1949; requisitioning of property, 1938-1946; transport arrangements, 1938-1948; personal protective equipment and protective clothing, 1938-1945, including respirators, ear plugs, steel helmets and uniforms; equipment, 1938-1947, including hand-lamps, anti-gas equipment and disposal of surplus equipment; training, 1936-1947, including Civilian Anti-gas School, instructors' equipment and fire fighting courses; Civil Defence personnel, 1939-1947, including rates of pay and conditions of service, employment of conscientious objectors, employment of aliens, statistics of personnel killed or injured in duty, training for post-war work, demobilisation and award of Defence Medal and war gratuities; Women's Voluntary Services, 1938-1949; artists' record of civil defence activities in London, 1940-1942; Civil Defence recruitment publicity campaigns, 1938-1941; wartime arrangements for LCC staff and services, 1937-1947; removal of iron railings for scrap, 1941-1947; honours and awards, 1940-1945; air raid warning arrangements, 1938-1945; blackout arrangements and lighting restrictions, 1938-1945; unexploded bombs, mines and rockets, 1939-1946; Emergency Communications Corps and Dispatch Rider Service, 1938-1946; Invasion Defence Scheme, 1942-1944; scheme for evacuation of non-essential civilian population from coastal areas, 1941-1943; recommendations for awards for gallantry, 1940-1945.

Daily Situation Reports for the London Civil Defence Region, 1940-1945; London Civil Defence Region Intelligence Reports, 1941-1942; reports on air raid fires, 1940-1941; papers relating to war damage, 1939-1947, including damage to LCC properties.

Home Security Circulars, 1940-1944; Ministry of Health Circulars, 1939-1948; London Civil Defence Region London Region Circulars, 1939-1945; London Civil Defence Region Operations Circulars, 1939-1945; London Civil Defence Region Operations Memoranda, 1940-1945; London Civil Defence Region Regional Training Notes, 1942-1945; Air Raid Precautions Service (ARP) Memoranda, Handbooks, and Training Manuals, 1936-1944; Public Information Leaflets relating to air raid precautions, 1939-1941; information leaflets and posters relating to gas attacks, catering during wartime, demolition and clearance, road repairs, rescue training, 1937-1943.

County Hall Fire Picket Log books, 1940-1945; County Hall Fire Picket Log book, Incident book and record of tests of alarm circuits, 1940-1944; "A Short Account of the Services of the London County Council during the War of 1939-45", prepared by the Clerk of the Council in connection with the Pictorial Record of the Council's work during the War, 194- and Emergency Pay and Identity Book issued to LCC staff, 194-.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Council Clerk including papers relating to London County Council elections, 1889-1952; papers relating to Council procedures, 1908-1960; papers relating to Members' Expenses, 1946-1952; papers relating to special and commemorative meetings of the Council, 1941-1965, including the last meeting of the Council and papers relating to the reorganisation of local government in Greater London, 1957-1963.

London County Council Pocket Books containing information on Members of the Council, Cabinet, LCC Committees, Parliamentary Representatives for London, Police and Magistrates Courts officials, Central Criminal Court officials and Coroners, District Surveyors, List of Parks, Gardens, Open Spaces, Bridges, pumping stations and so on and list of LCC staff with salaries, rules and conditions of service, 1890-1939; LCC Election Poll Book, giving results of first four elections, 1889-1898; maps showing polling districts for LCC elections, 1961; lists of LCC members, 1889-1943; returns of attendances of members, 1889-1965; LCC election posters, 1889-1913; Members Handbooks, listing members and their addresses and the Committees on which they were serving, 1889-1965 and Rota cards, giving programme of meetings of Council, committees and sub-committees, 1889-1965.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Emergency Committee, comprising papers relating to the 1926 General Strike including Government circulars; LCC circulars; special bulletins broadcast by the Government; LCC notices for inclusion in broadcast bulletins and a letter file.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Finance Committee, 1889-1964, including the Committee Clerk's general papers on loans to Metropolitan Borough Councils; equalisation of rates; county rate precepts; conference papers; relevant legislation including the Rating and Valuation Act; annual budget speeches; rating and valuation of various properties including schools, Crown property and transport property. Also reports and returns including annual estimates; returns of the Council's investments; District Auditor's reports; annual returns of London Debt; annual returns of local expenditure and revenue and report on the effect of the centralisation of local expenditure.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the General Purposes Committee, 1889-1965. Committee Clerk's general papers on a variety of subjects including: advertisements, aerodromes, aircraft, air pollution, airports, the Central Unemployed Body, the Metropolitan Water Board, the Advisory Committee for London Regional Planning, the London War Pension Committee, the Thames Conservancy Board, building control, bye law proposals, care of illegitimate children, care of children neglected or ill treated in their own homes, the Church of England Advisory Board on Spiritual Ministration, control of clubs and all-night cafes, Fair Wages Clause in contracts, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Sadlers Wells Opera School, the Coronation (1911), the Coronation (1937), the Coronation (1953), delegation of powers to Metropolitan Borough Councils, employment of disabled ex-servicemen, Thames flood prevention, inquiry into homelessness, the Joint Committee of members and school keepers, the Joint Committee of members and staff, legislative proposals, licensing planning in London Area, London County Council (General Powers) Bill, London markets, National Health Service, National Insurance Acts, Petty Sessional Divisions and Justices Clerks, Quarter Sessions, redevelopment of South Bank, staff, street trading, the Town and Country Planning Act 1959, the Trade Union Joint negotiating Committee for LCC Staff, Second World War damage, lists of rates of wages and hours of labour recognised and obtained by trades unions, the Port of London Authority, gifts to and from the Council, bequests to the Council, free legal advice centres and the "Cutty Sark".

Papers relating to the arts and arts venues, 1913-1965, including Alexandra Park and Palace, the Advisory Body on Art Acquisition, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Commonwealth Arts Festival, the Crystal Palace, the Festival Gardens, the Festival of Britain 1951, Holland House, Kenwood House, municipal theatres (the Old Vic and Sadlers Wells), the Museum of London, the National Theatre, the Royal Festival Hall, the South Bank Development, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Central School of Arts and Crafts, Covent Garden Opera House, London Festival Ballet and London Music Guild. Also daily summaries of press comment on preparations for the Festival of Britain, 1951.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Improvements Committee, and also of the Bridges Committee (1889-1906) and the Corporate Property Committee (1889-1904) whose functions largely passed to the Improvements Committee on their closure.

Committee Clerk's general papers, 1883-1931, relating to a variety of subjects including the Land Transfer Act, 1897, leasehold redemption policies, auction of surplus land, tramways, arbitration proceedings, "London Street Improvements" pamphlet by Henry Clarke, Improvements Committee Chairman, 1892, LCC (Improvements) Bill 1897: minutes of evidence, speeches, and papers; LCC (Improvements) Bill 1900: minutes of evidence, speeches, and papers. Also papers relating to individual road improvements and widening schemes, and papers relating to the construction and maintenance of individual bridges, embankments and tunnels. Please consult the detailed catalogue for a full list.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Land Charges section, comprising sampled volumes of searches in respect of town planning, statutory orders, highways, housing, environmental health matters and so on relating to specific properties, 1926-1965. The volumes containing the first search, the ten-thousandth search, the fifty-thousandth search and every fifty-thousandth search thereafter, has been preserved as an indication of Council practice.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the passage of Bills in Parliament. Plans deposited with Parliament, 1890-1965, showing bridges, street improvements, parks and open spaces, tramways, road widening, fire stations, offices, courts, mortuaries, markets, subways and tunnels, embankments, aqueducts, water works and reservoirs, housing, railways, schools, electricity supply, public baths, hospitals, post offices, memorials, Festival of Britain sites, burial grounds and pipelines.

Also plans of polling districts superimposed onto the 1894-1896 edition London and Middlesex Ordnance Survey maps; and London Tramways extensions, 1883, superimposed onto maps of London and Kent.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to Committees concerned with public health, 1876-1965. Committee Clerk's general papers on a variety of topics including: hospital stewards and clerical staff; massage staff; medical artist and photographer; pathological laboratory staff; pharmacists; radiographers; veterinary surgeon for the Public Control Department; hospital laundries; statistics of patients and staff at hospital; epileptic hospitals; Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot; Norwood Children's Hospital; Princess Mary's Hospital for Children, Margate; Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup; River Hospitals (Joyce Green Hospital, Orchard Hospital and Long Reach Hospital, Dartford and Southern Hospital, Dartford); emergency arrangements for small-pox treatment; St Benedict's Hospital, Tooting; St James' Hospital, Balham plastic surgery unit and central dental workshop; medical education facilities in LCC hospitals; Hammersmith post-graduate Medical School; venereal disease clinics; spiritual ministration in hospitals and institutions; District Nursing; domiciliary midwifery service; Invalid Meals for London; rag and bone dealers; seamen's lodging houses; food and drugs (including milk); National Health Service Act, 1946; alcoholism; domestic home help service; Health Centres and group practices; maternity and child welfare; distribution of welfare foods; ante-natal care; welfare of children in hospitals; preventive mental health education; services for children with impaired hearing; mentally sub-normal children; problem families; chiropody; day nurseries; child minder service; health education; dental treatment and laboratories; tuberculosis; closure of tuberculosis hospitals; chest clinics rehabilitation of the tuberculous; vaccination and immunisation; infectious and endemic diseases; vital and health statistics; mental health statistics; co-operation between hospital, local authority and general practitioner services; liaison with Regional Hospital Boards; family planning clinics; fluoridation of London water supply; polio-myelitis; effect on Health Committee of reorganisation of local government in Greater London; Woodberry Down Health Centre; London Ambulance Service; return of Sanitary Officers and Staff; Licensing Sessions for Slaughterhouses, Cowhouses and Knackers' Yards; bye laws under Public Health Act, 1891; offensive trades; lodging houses; infectious diseases; vagrancy; flies and vermin; removal of dust and refuse; disinfection; factories, workshops and bakeries; cemeteries and burial grounds and cremation; London County Asylums; conference on measles and verminous conditions in London; papers of the Working party on transfer of Personal Health Services to London Boroughs.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Parks Committee, 1888-1970. Clerk's general papers on a variety of subjects including allotments for the unemployed; agriculture and food production in parks; London Development Plan proposals affecting parks and open spaces; entertainments in parks; fairs; the Circuses and Performing Animals Defence League; Festival of Britain arrangements in parks; Green Belt including legislation, requisitioned lands and papers regarding specific Green Belt areas; temporary housing on open spaces; preservation of London Squares; memorials in parks; playgrounds and playing fields; press notices and publicity concerning activities in parks; railings; requisitioned land; sculptures and open air sculpture exhibitions; grey squirrels; Parks staff; swimming baths; town planning in relation to parks and open spaces; transfer of powers to metropolitan borough councils; victory celebrations; protection of wild birds; Parks bye-laws and regulations; gifts of memorial seats and other items, and tree preservation.

Papers relating to individual parks including Battersea Park (including the Festival Gardens); Blackheath; Crystal Palace; Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich; Hackney Marsh; Hainault Forest; Hampstead Heath; Holland Park; Kenwood House and Park; Marble Hill House, Twickenham and Richmond Hill; Parliament Hill; Streatham Common; Tooting Common; Victoria Embankment Gardens; Victoria Park; Woolwich Common; Wormwood Scrubs; Bethlem Hospital grounds (now Imperial War Museum); Burgess Park (North Camberwell Open Space) and Lee Valley.

Ordnance Survey maps of London (1867-1875 edition) annotated by Mrs Basil Holmes as part of her investigation into London burial grounds and churchyards. The sites of burial grounds are colour coded: those in use - blue; disused - green and those converted into public recreation grounds - green with a red border.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department Press Officer relating to tourism in London, 1954-1965, including papers of the Advisory Committee for a Sculpture Exhibition, 1954; and papers regarding aid to outside bodies including the British Travel and Holidays Association, the London Publicity Committee and the London Tourist Board.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to public assistance, social welfare and welfare committees, including papers relating to training colonies for able-bodied men including Dunton Farm and Hollesley Bay, 1929-1942; papers relating to non-residential training centres, 1903-1945; papers relating to Almoners and almoners' staff, 1930-1948; papers regarding the reorganisation of public assistance administration in local areas, 1934-1935; payment of lunacy fees to relieving officers, 1932-1934; papers relating to Mother and Baby Homes, 1951-1963; papers relating to the welfare of the blind, 1949-1964; papers relating to workshops for the blind, 1948-1965; papers relating to a car badge scheme for disabled drivers, 1961-1963; papers regarding charges for accommodation at welfare establishments, 1949-1965; papers relating to evicted, neglected or ill-treated children, 1961-1964; papers relating to homeless families, including short stay accommodation and statistics, 1953-1965; general papers on the liaison between Health and Welfare Services, 1951-1965; analysis of the effect on the Welfare Committee of the London local government reorganisation, 1957-1965; papers regarding the welfare of old people, including provision of meals, 1949-1965; papers of the Central Consultative Committee on the Welfare of Old People, 1951-1964; papers relating to refugees and others in special need, 1956-1961; papers on the registration of private welfare homes, 1949-1965; statistics relating to welfare services, 1962-1965; resettlement of tuberculous persons, 1949-1962 and papers on Reception Centres for persons without a settled way of living, 1948-1964.

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department, comprising log books for the following schools in the Bethnal Green, City of London, Poplar and Stepney areas:

All Hallows School

All Saints (National) School

All Saints

Alton Street

Approach Road Wesleyan School

Atley Road

Ben Jonson

Berner Street

Bishop Challener Secondary Boys

Blakesley Street

Bonner Lane School

Bow Creek School

Bow Chapel (Wesleyan) School

Bow Secondary School (Girls)

Bow Road School

Bow Brook School

Brewhouse Lane School

Bruce Road School

Burdett Road School

Cephas Street Secondary School

Christian Street School

Coleman Street Ward School

Columbia Road School

Commercial Street School

Cranbrook Road School

Cubitt Town

Culloden School

Cyril Jackson School

Dalgleish Street School

Daniel Street School

Davenant School

Dempsey Street School

Devons Road

Essex Street School

Fairclough Street School

Fairfield Road School

Farrance Street School

Garford Street School

Geere House (Open Air School)

Gill Street School

Glengall Road School

Glengall Secondary School

Globe Terrace School

Grove Road School

Hague Street School

Heckford Street School

High Street School (Bow)

Highway School

Imperial Street School

Isle Of Dogs

Janet Street School

Johnson Street School

Knapp Road School

Lawrence School

London Street School

Lower Chapman Street School

Lowood School

Malmesbury Road School

Mansford Street Secondary School

Marner Street School

Martin Frobisher Secondary School

Millwall School

Montieth Road School

Mowlem Street School

New Castle Street

Nichol Street School

Nicholas Gibson School

Northey Street School

Oban Street School Bromley

Ocean Street

Old Ford School

Olga Street School

Our Lady Roman Catholic School

Poplar Juvenile Unemployment Centre

Portman Place School

Pritchards Road School

Redmans Road School

Ricardo Street School

Robert Montifiore School

Rochelle Street School

Roman Road School

Rutland Street School

Saint Bartholomew's School

Saint Gabriel's School

Saint Georges In The East Central School

Saint Josephs School

Saint Jude School

Saint Leonard's Road School

Saint Mathias Church of England School

Saint Paul's Road School

Saint Paul's School

Saint Saviour's School

Senrab Street School

Settles Street School

Single Street School

Sir John Cass (Foundation)

Smeed Road School

Somerford Street School

South Grove

Stafford Road School

Stepney Jewish School

Stewart Headlam School

Teesdale Street School

Thomas Street School

Thomas Street Central School

Tidey Street School

Tollett Street School

Tower Hamlets

Trafalgar Square

Tredegar Road, Bow

Turin Street School

Upper North Street School

Virginia Road School

Wellington Road School (Way)

Wilmot Street School

Wolverley Street School

Wood Close School

Woolmore Street School

Wrights Road

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department, comprising log books for the following schools in the Battersea and Wandsworth areas:

Aristotle Road Secondary School

All Saints School

Basnett Road School

Battersea Park Road School

Bolingbroke Road School

Bonneville Road School

Brandlehow Road School

Broadwater School

Cavendish Road School

Chesterton Primary School

Clapham Manor School

Defoe School

Deodar Road School

Derington Road School

Eardley School

Eltringham Street School

Ensham Central Mixed School

Ethelburga Street School

Fircroft Road School

Fountain Road

Furzedown School

Garratt Lane School

Gideon Road School

Graveney School

Haselrigge Road School

Hearnville Road School

Hillbrook Secondary School

Hitherfield Road School

Holden Street School

Honeywell Road School

Huntingfield Road School

John Burgess School

Larkhall Lane School

Lavender Hill School

Magdalen Road School

Mantua Street School

Mitcham Lane School

New Park Road

New Road School

Oldridge Road School

Plough Road School

Our Lady Of The Angels

Putney Church of England School

Ravenstone School

Raywood Street School

Richard Atkins School

Riversdale School

Royal Victoria Patriotic School

Saint Anne's National School

Saint George's School

Saint John's School

Saint Mark's School

Saint Mary Putney School

Sellincourt Road School

Shillington Street School

Sleaford Street School

Springwell House School

Surrey Lane School

Stonehouse Street

Swaffield Road School

Telferscot Road School

Wandle School

Wandsworth and Battersea School

Wandsworth Technical Institute

Winstanley Road School

Wix's Lane School

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department relating to teacher training, 1903-1976.

Subject and policy files on a variety of topics including the Departmental Committee on the Training of Teachers; relations between the Universities and Training Colleges; the Central Consultative Committee of Headmasters and Headmistresses; training of art teachers; training of teachers of the blind; training of teachers of building; training of teachers of the deaf; training of domestic economy teachers; training of teachers of educationally sub-normal children; physical training in LCC Training Colleges; arrangements during the Second World War; Emergency Training Colleges; Senior County Teachers' Scholarships; statistics; National Froebel Union (later Foundation); University of Cambridge Certificate of Education; grants regulations; supply and training of teachers for technical colleges; introduction of the three-year teacher training course.

Subject files relating to individual LCC Training Colleges and individual Training Colleges not maintained by the LCC, including papers on buildings, equipment, expansions, reorganisations and closures, staffing, establishment of courses, arrangements and evacuation during Second World War, transfer of colleges to University of London, correspondence, syllabi, pamphlets, prospectuses, college magazines, policies, grants and fees, inspections, Governor's meeting minutes, Students' Union meeting minutes, Staff-Student Consultative Committee minutes, Staff Meetings and Academic Board meeting minutes (please see catalogue for full list of the individual colleges).

Also sample sets of applicants' case-papers for the Loan Fund for Prospective Teachers; sample sets of personal files of Training College students; reports from Annual Conferences of Teachers; handbooks from the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project; sample certificates and student report and record books; National Froebel Union regulations, examination papers and reports of examiners; 'The Government of Maintained Training Colleges', LCC pamphlet (1953).

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department relating to emergency wartime measures, including evacuation, 1908-1954.

Subject and policy files relating to evacuation including historical record of the evacuation operation up to 1943; statutory basis of evacuation scheme; acceleration of civil defence measures; Air Raid Defence League; correspondence with other metropolitan authorities; correspondence with authorities in reception areas; circular letters to schools; Government publications on evacuation; inter-departmental conferences; circulars issued by local education authorities in the reception areas; tests and rehearsals; signals and messages; reports by Inspectors on emergency re-assembly; statistics; staffing and organisation; care and use of gas masks; identification measures and equipment; education of evacuated children; propaganda drive and possibility of compulsory evacuation; communal activities for evacuated women; aliens evacuated to restricted areas; employment of school children on harvest work; railway facilities for visits by parents to the reception areas; visits by relatives in cases of sickness or death; 1940 Scheme for provision of boots and clothing; subsistence allowances for teachers and other staff; billeting arrangements; recovery of expenses from parents in some circumstances; Plan IV, the second large-scale evacuation operation in June 1940; Plan V, the 'trickle' evacuation after June 1940; Plan VI, the large-scale evacuation on advent of heavy bombing; Plan VII, the evacuation of homeless children with their parents; Children's Overseas Reception Scheme; special scheme for evacuation of certain coastal areas; the 'Rivulet' evacuation operation in case of resumption of aerial attacks, put into effect in July 1944 after commencement of fly-bomb raids; refugee students; Christmas parties in the reception areas, Christmas Treats Fund; Advisory Committee on Evacuation of School children (Ministry of Health); Education Officer's Advisory Committee on Evacuation; Confidential Bulletins (Secretariat File); transport arrangements; criticisms of the evacuation arrangements; 'The Schools in Wartime', Board of Education Memoranda numbers 1 to 35; Board of Education circulars; Ministry of Health circulars; LCC Evacuation Bulletins; BBC broadcast talks and announcements concerning evacuation; anecdotes from evacuation period; closing down of evacuation scheme; return arrangements on close-down of evacuation scheme; administration in the reception areas; correspondence relating to the 'Official History of World War II' Education volume.

Subject and policy files relating to the evacuation of special categories of evacuees (special schools, nursery schools, mothers and under-fives, open air schools, mentally disabled children, approved schools and remand homes, diabetic children, hospital schools, blind persons, refugee children, aged and infirm persons, Jewish school children, expectant mothers), including holiday camps used for special evacuees; circular letter concerning evacuation arrangements for special parties; juvenile delinquency on the part of London evacuees; reports by medical inspectors on physically and mentally defective children in evacuation camps; evacuation to Northern Ireland; evacuation to Ireland; and winding up of evacuation scheme for special parties and nurseries.

Subject and policy files on schools remaining in London, including air raid circulars issued to schools during the First World War; census of children in London; children returning to London; steps taken to check drift back to London; weekly estimates of children in London; re-opening of schools in London; emergency schools in London; re-imposition of compulsory attendance; reports by inspectors on school conditions during the period of "flying-bomb" attacks; air raid precautions in schools; adaptations in school premises to provide first aid posts; use of school premises by the Civil Defence services; damage to schools and post-war reconstruction; war production work in technical institutions; war-time day nurseries and play centres; report on the standard of attainment at wartime elementary schools in London; victory celebrations.

Photographs and press cuttings relating to the evacuation of children and schools; school diaries and log books; school magazines; posters (double crown size) connected with various aspects of the evacuation scheme; Directory of London Schools in the Reception Areas; outline map showing distribution of London's evacuated school children; transport schedules prepared by Divisional Dispersals Officers; Ministry of Health handbook on billeting and welfare for the use of Chief Billeting Officers; 'The Schools in Wartime', booklet published by Ministry of Education; publicity material.

Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department relating to welfare services and children's care, 1888-1970.

Subject and policy files on a variety of topics including children's care work; report of Children's Care Organisers and Divisional Superintendents on Unemployment and Distress in the early stages of the First World War; London Juvenile Advisory Committee; employment of children and juveniles; cleansing of verminous children; dietary and clinical investigation into nutritional standard of Bethnal Green school children by the Rowett Research Institute (Carnegie Trust); provision of hot mid-day meals in schools; Children's Play Centres Fund; after-care of school leavers; children's care organisers; proposed integration of children's care service and school inquiry service; Association of Children's Care Organisers; Association of Social Workers; the Young People's Advisory Service Avondale Project; Children's Country Holiday Fund; Youth Employment Service; Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906; School Meals Service; Bateson Report on the employment of children as film actors, in theatrical work and in ballet; smoking and health; Child Guidance Clinic, Maudsley Hospital.

Minutes of the Children's Care Committees of individual LCC schools and minutes of Local Associations of Children's Care Committees. Registers of infringements and prosecutions regarding the employment of children under Education Act, 1921; Summons Books for infringements of school attendance requirements; minutes of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Children's Care Service.

Records of the London County Council Housing Department relating to finance, 1908-1934, including estimates for the Becontree Estate and Old Oak Estate; loan sanctions for local housing operations by Bermondsey Borough Council, Poplar Borough Council, Wandsworth Borough Council and Woolwich Borough Council; subsidy registers, containing copies of reports and Council minutes fixing rents and giving estimated financial results, lists of houses subject to special conditions and copies of completion certificates, for the Becontree Estate, Castelnau Estate, Wormholt Estate, White Hart Lane Estate and Downham Estate.

Minutes and presented papers of London County Council special and joint committees, 1889-1965, as follows:

Allegations (Council Officials) Committee

Special Committee on the Establishment of an Ambulance Service

Special Committee on Building Control

Advisory Committee on the Control on the Construction of Buildings in London

Charing Cross Bridge Advisory Committee

Church of England Advisory Board on Spiritual Ministration

Special Committee on Contracts

Special Joint Committee on the provision of Coroner's Courts and Mortuaries

Council Chamber and Offices Committee

Special Committee on the transfer of County Business

County Hall Luncheon Club Committee

County Rate Committee

Departmental Committees on the Organisation and Working of LCC Departments

Special Committee on the Office of Deputy Chairman of the Council

Advisory Committee on the Design of Consumer Goods

Special Committee on Finance Bill, 1914

Special Committee on Fire Insurance

Greater London Regional Planning Committee

Meetings of Heads of Departments

Special Committee on Health Administration in London

Hospitals Committee

Interim Panel

Juveniles Committee

Lack of Employment Conference

Joint Committee on the working of the Leyton tramways

Loan Fund for Prospective Teachers

Special Committee on Local Expenditure

Local Pension Committee

Special Committee on Locomotion and Transport in London

London Air Terminal

Advisory Committee on the Amendment of the London Building Act, 1930

Special Committee on London Electricity Supply

Special Committee on changes in London Local Government

Special Committee on London Government

London War Pensions Committee

Special Joint Committee on the Control of lunatics, imbeciles and infectious poor

Advisory Committee on combined medical appointments in Division 9 of the LCC Public Health Department

Members and Staff Committee

Joint Committee of Members and School-keepers

Special Committee of Inquiry into certain matters of administration in the Mental Hospitals Department

Sub-committee of the Provisional LCC appointed to confer with a Committee of the Metropolitan Board of Works

Special Committee on the provision of New Offices

Officers (Education) Superannuation Committee

Conference on Open Spaces for recreational purposes

Special Committee on the Organisation of the Council's Service

Poor Law Committee

Procedure Committee

Richmond Hill (Preservation of View) Executive Committee

Committee of Inquiry on Sadlers Wells

Special Committee on Staff Appeals

Conference on regulations in connection with Streets and Street traffic

Special Committee on the allocation of the cost of Street Improvements along Tramway Routes

Survey of London (Joint Publishing) Committee

Teacher's Superannuation Committee

Special Committee on Technical Education

Special Committee on Thames Bridges

Joint Committee on Thames Flood Prevention

Special Committee on Traffic

Tramways Committee

Special Joint Sub-committee on the Typhoid Fever Epidemic in Maidstone and the London Water Supply

Special Committee on the Unemployment

Special Committee on the Valuation of Land

Special Committee on the War Estimates

Special Committee on the Works Department

Please note that copies of these minutes and papers are on open access in the Information Area.