Records of the Waldorf Theatre Syndicate Limited, comprising trust deeds and other legal documents, 1905-1910.
Sans titreGenealogical records of the Pocock family, including personal papers, research notes, photographs and certificates.
Sans titreRecords of the Dunlop Rubber Company, 1901-1965, consisting of a complete set of reports and balance sheets from all the Dunlop national companies and subsidiaries. The reports consist of both printed (for national companies) and typescript (for subsidiaries) financial reports on a yearly basis, predominantly from January to December. These were reports presented to the Board of Directors which controlled Dunlop Rubber Company Limited. They contain audited balance sheets, profit and loss statements and notes on the accounts. However, the extent of detail varies from company to company.
Also printed painting advertising Dunlop (195-) (ACC/2166/108) .
Sans titrePapers 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.
Sans titreRecords of Brooks and Studd, auctioneers and estate agents, comprising particulars of freehold and leasehold properties to be sold by private contract:
Numbers 3, 5, 6, 15 Blenheim Road, St John's Wood; Number 6 Marlborough Hill, St Marylebone; Numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 Fulham Place, Paddington; Number 51 Aldridge Road Villas, Westbourne Park; Number 47 Talbot Road, Westbourne Park; Numbers 2, 3 Inverness Terrace, Bishop's Road, Bayswater; Numbers 29, 31, 33, 35, 37 Arundel Gardens, Kensington Park; Numbers 20-23 Edmunds Terrace, Hammersmith; Bloomfield House, Upper Westbourne Terrace, Paddington.
Sans titrePapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising assignment of two annuities of £20 each on land in Chiswell Street, Grub Street and Bunhill Row, 16 Jun 1788; and grant of an annuity for the same premises, 5 Aug 1789.
Sans titreRecords of Hornsey Parochial Charities, including Chair's minutes and agendas; Trustees minutes; reports; financial accounts; property registers; rent demands; charity schemes; conveyances; gifts and legacies; correspondence; valuations of investments, and other administrative papers.
Sans titrePapers, 1868-1913, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to numbers 24, 26, 28, 30 Tranton Road (formerly Francis Road) and numbers 21, 22, 23, 24 Whitstable Street (formerly Prince Street), Bermondsey; including leases, mortgages, assignments of leases, articles of partnerships, conveyances, declarations, abstract of title, covenant to produce deeds and burial certificates.
Sans titreLease by the New River Company of a water course from a main pipe in Southampton Street, Covent Garden, 1666. Also marriage allegation, 1752. The marriage allegation was the document in which the couple alleged that there were no impediments to the marriage.
Sans titreSales records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including sales books and ledgers; sales comparisons; gains and losses book; trade sales; sales to Bottling Department; registers of customers; papers relating to the duty on beer; and circulars book.
Sans titreProperty records of Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including schedule of property; inventories and valuations of furniture, plant and machinery; deeds and leases; plans; and papers relating to public houses.
Sans titrePapers of individual members of staff at Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, including papers of chairman E W Giffard; papers of managing director H L Grimston; papers of Company solicitor R Whitmarsh Gray, including legal papers and press cuttings; papers of head brewer J B Binnie, including photographs, posters, advertisements, invitations, cards and programmes; and papers of head brewer Charles Collard, including brewing books.
Sans titreRecords of Camwal Limited, soft drinks manufacturers, comprising register of deeds and other documents relating to properties owned by the company.
Sans titreCorporate records of the Royal Brewery Brentford Limited, including Directors' meetings minutes; agreements; share records; registers of seals; articles of association; and annual reports and accounts.
Sans titreProperty records of Royal Brewery Brentford Limited, including quarterly rent journal; insurance register for licensed premises; premises repair order book; tenants' dilapidations ledger and tenancy agreement.
Sans titreRecords of Royal Brewery Brentford Limited, comprising a brief history of the company, undated.
Sans titreStaff records for Courage and Company Limited, brewers, including papers relating to wages and salaries; register of pensioners; papers relating to appointments; papers relating to an insurance policy for war injuries; and bye-laws of The Courage Club, staff association.
Sans titreCorporate records of the Camden Brewery Company Limited, including Board meeting minutes; trust deeds and related papers; articles of association; and statement of affairs with balance sheet.
Sans titreProduction records of the Camden Brewery Company Limited, including brewing book and notes on materials.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titreCorporate records of Hodgson's Kingston Brewery Company Limited, including Directors' meetings minutes, agenda books and attendance books; Kingston Management Committee minutes; registers of directors, members, shares, mortgages and bonds; share records; trust deeds; articles of association; and papers relating to the sale to Courage.
Sans titreRecords of Nevile Reid and Company Limited, brewers, including board meetings agenda book and minutes; seal book; and bound volume of cancelled £5 bank notes from Windsor Bank.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titrePersonnel records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, including papers relating to setting up the pension scheme; Staff Pension Fund Committee minutes; pension fund trust deed; papers relating to membership of the pension fund; financial accounts; and papers relating to the pension fund at the closure of the brewery.
Sans titreRecords of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, comprising memorandum about box 'WRN' and key being sent from Maidenhead to Horsleydown. The box contained company documents, now catalogued as ACC/2305/23/001-005, 008-010, 013-015, 017, 021 and 033 and 042.
Sans titreStaff records of Reffells Bexley Brewery Limited, including wages books for the brewery, coopers, bottling and transport departments, travellers and office staff, and wages summaries (by department).
Sans titrePremises records of Reffells Bexley Brewery Limited, comprising correspondence and papers relating to the Town and Country Planning Act 1947, including war damage claims with schedule of damages.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titreRecords of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including correspondence relating to properties owned by the company; and papers relating to insurance policies.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titreProperty records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including rent books; purchase of property book; estates summary; tenancy records; papers relating to building repairs; rating and valuations records; redemption of land tax certificates; insurance records; deeds; and register of plant and machinery.
Sans titreCorporate records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including Board and annual general meeting minutes; papers relating to the acquisition by Harmans Uxbridge Brewery; general correspondence; papers of the Board; papers of the Company Secretary; and annual reports with accounts.
Sans titreRecords of Horselydown Property Investment Company (Developments) Limited, comprising papers relating to the creation of the company using Camwal Ltd. and changing name.
Sans titreRecords of McManus-Horselydown Limited, property developers, comprising papers and correspondence, including papers regarding the setting up of the company.
Sans titreRecords of Herbert Stebbings and Sons Limited, beer, wine and spirits merchants, including Directors' and annual general meeting minutes; register of members; acquisition papers; financial papers; Stephenson Developments (Holdings) Ltd report and accounts; draft return of allotments and other papers under Companies Acts; agreement about Crown Hotel, High Street, Lowestoft.
Sans titreRecords of Chandlers Limited, brewers, including London committee minutes with agendas; papers about share transfers; list of ordinary shareholders, divided into London, South Africa and other registers; correspondence; memorandum and articles of association; financial accounts; reports and notes on accounts and plant; and forms of proxy.
Sans titreCorporate records of H and G Simonds Limited, brewers, including Board minutes; letter books; records relating to shares and debentures; registers of agreements, seals, directors, directors' holdings and interests; Directors' reports and accounts; papers relating to financial schemes; papers relating to the acquisition and liquidation of other companies.
Sans titreRecords of Charlton Brewery Company Limited, including minute book of board, committee and annual general meetings and register of debentures.
Sans titreRecords of the Oakhill Brewery Company Limited, comprising annual general meeting minute books and agendas.
Sans titreRecords of Plymouth Breweries Limited, including Directors' minute books; annual general meetings minutes; and letters.
Sans titreRecords of Ashton Gate Brewery Company Limited, comprising general meeting minute book.
Sans titreDeeds and other legal documents relating to public houses owned by subsidiary companies of Courage Limited, including Ashby's Staines Brewery; Harmans Uxbridge Brewery; Harris' Knowle Green Brewery (taken over by Ashby's with half of its houses in 1903); Hodgson's Kingston Brewery and H and G Simonds.
Sans titrePapers, 1923-1977, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 45 Fairfax Road, Teddington, including abstracts of title, conveyances and mortgages.
Sans titreRecords 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.
Sans titreLetters to John Burns, 1901-1926, including letters from the London County Council Works Department, letters relating to the collecting of prints and drawings, and letters relating to Burns' library and book collection. Also two letters collected by Burns, comprising a letter from Lord Sidmouth to the Bishop of Raphoe, Co. Donegal, Ireland, 1820 and a letter from Henry Burney to "Smith", 18--.
Sans titreRecords of the Royal Choral Society. The archive is divided into seven sections: administrative records, including a series of individual concert files; financial records; membership records, which include attendance registers and audition files; concert records and programmes; publicity records including posters and newspaper cuttings; files of printed musical scores, arranged by piece, and including programmes for concerts featuring the work; miscellaneous records, which comprise information and programmes relating to other choirs, magazines of the society, or which include articles on the society or choral singing in general, and photographs of choir members, soloists and conductors.
Highlights of the collection include a comprehensive, although not complete, series of concert programmes from 1873-1985, including the programme for the last concert to be held in the Queen's Hall before its destruction during World War II. There are also manuscript copies of "Eryri" by Alun Hoddinott. This piece was composed for the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969 and the collection has a copy both of the original score, for 16 soloists, chorus and orchestra, and the revised version for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra.
Sans titrePapers, 1929-1947, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 1, Victoria Gardens, Heston, including conveyances and a mortgage.
Sans titreRecords of the Parish of Saint Marylebone, comprising an order of removal from Saint Marylebone to Saint Botolph without Aldgate.
Sans titreMeteorological journal kept at Sunbury Vicarage, 1795-1839, by the Revd James Cowe. The introduction includes Sunbury harvest tables, 1799-1839, by R C Bayard; statistical tables of meteorological data; and 2 photographs and a plan of Sunbury Vicarage garden.
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