Minutes of Birmingham Mutual Fire and General Insurance Association.
Central Insurance Co x Birmingham Mutual Fire and General Insurance AssociationTrustees minute book, 1857-1859.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchPapers, 1845-1866, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Harrow on the Hill, including copies of court rolls from the Manor of Harrow Rectory, mortgages, papers relating to wills, deeds of covenant, and sales particulars.
Bircham and Company , solicitorsPapers, 1853-1914, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Bawtree Road, Hillingdon, including conveyances and mortgages.
Bircham and Company , solicitorsPapers, 1864-1875, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease and assignment relating to No. 2 Oxford Villas, Sudbury.
Bircham and Company , solicitorsPapers, 1859-1903, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to Nos 1-2 Oxford Villas, Sudbury, Wembley and No. 20 Essex Road, Acton.
Bircham and Company , solicitorsRecords of Birch and Gaydon Limited, comprising watch books and job books, ledgers, stock books, repair and sales books, and other financial records, as well as some promotional material.
Birch and Gaydon Ltd , watchmakersRecords of Binny and Company Limited, steamship agency, traders, textile mill operators and engineers, including articles of association; annual reports; financial accounts; investment ledgers; correspondence; memoranda; papers regarding company history; and photographs of staff, offices and works.
Binny and Co Ltd , steamship agency, traders and mill operators Binny and Co (Madras) Ltd , steamship agency, traders and engineers Buckingham and Carnatic Co Ltd , textile millsThe Bindloss family papers consist almost entirely of family letters and memorabilia of Reverend Edward Bindloss, his wife Maria Mathilda Bindloss, and Arthur Henry Bindloss. These include many letters from Russia, but little concerning Edward Bindloss' work as an Anglican chaplain.
Bindloss , Edward , d 1883 , chaplainRecords of the Billingsgate Ward School, comprising subscribers' minute books; trustees' minute books and treasurers' journals.
Billingsgate Ward SchoolRecords of Billingsgate Ward, Corporation of London, including wardmote minutes; lists of officers; lists of inhabitants of the ward; tax and rate assessment books.
Billingsgate Ward , Corporation of LondonPapers of Billingsgate Market, City of London, including monthly returns, 1879-1962; tonnage of deliveries of foreign fish, 1935-1939 and 1961-1973; tonnage of deliveries by rail, 1936-1966; tonnage of deliveries by road, 1939-1975; rents and tenancy agreements, 1855-1919; rent ledgers, 1941-1967; dues and tolls, 1827-1889; receipts, payments, statistics and other accounts, 1721-1975; administrative papers including orders, acts, petitions, letters and minutes, 1699-1953; reports of the Superintendent to the Billingsgate and Leadenhall Markets Committee, 1885-1967; porter's licences, c1877-1948; pension fund books, 1893-1968 and disbursements and wages, 1934-1969. Also historical accounts and articles about the market, 1869-1985.
Corporation of LondonRecords of Billingsgate Cold Stores Limited, comprising financial accounts.
Billingsgate Cold Stores LtdRecords of the Billingsgate Christian Mission comprising annual reports and accounts with other financial records, 1901-90, photographs of the mission and dispensary ca. 1953 and an account of the work of the mission and dispensary ca. 1933.
Please note that these records are subject to a 50-year closure period. For further information please ask a member of staff.
Billingsgate Christian Mission x Billingsgate Christian Mission and DispensaryRecords of the Billingsgate and Tower Wards Schools. Tower Ward School records only survive from 1836. The records comprise attendance registers and log books, minutes, estate papers and accounts.
Billingsgate and Tower Wards SchoolsArticles of association for Bah Lias Rubber Estates Limited.
Bah Lias Rubber Estates LtdPapers, 1923-1964, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising printed sales particulars for properties throughout London and the surrounding counties.
Bidwell and Sons , solicitorsDeeds and legal documents, 1765-1909, relating to property in Great Stanmore, including papers relating to the Great House (later known as Hill House) and Charles Fortnum, antiquarian.
Biddle, Thorne, Welsford and Barnes , solicitorsRecords of the Bhooteachang Tea Company Limited, comprising annual reports with accounts.
Bhooteachang Tea Co LtdRecords of Bexley Hospital, including medical superintendent's reports (1907-1916); staff registers (1897-1944); accounts and ledgers (1899-1939); patient admissions and discharges (1899-1972); case books (1899-1951); medical registers (1898-1952); post mortem books (1898-1949); death registers (1907-1982); burial registers (1900-1917); civil registers (1910-1948); mechanical restraint registers (1934-1961); birth registers (1979-1986); equipment books (1901-1902); ward and office inventories (1901-1948).
Bexley Hospital x Heath Asylum x Bexley Asylum x Bexley Mental Hospital x London County Asylum, BexleyRegisters of marriages for Bexley Congregational Church, 1966-1975.
Congregational Church of England and WalesRecords of Bexley Community Health Council (CHC) (1974 - 2003) including Minutes (1974 - 1979), Meeting Papers (1975 - 2003), Annual and Quadrennial Reports (1974 - 2003), Visit and Evaluation Reports (1998 - 2003), Attendance Registers (1982 - 1998) and Publications (199- - 200-).
Bexley Community Health CouncilRecords of Bevington and Sons, 1690-2001, including: partnership agreements, 1837-1946, minutes, 1859-1930, and partnership negotiations; financial records 1803-1949; records relating to types of stock, products and technical processes and innovations, 1879-1946; staff attendance books and photograph album, 1860-1877; records relating to property, 1792-1967; records relating to stock and finance, 1862-1946. Also family correspondence 1690-1837, and publications and articles on the history of the firm. The family correspondence offers insights into business practice, family relationships and domestic concerns, often in a single letter. Correspondents include women in the family, as wives and daughters of the company partners. Accounts for female family members are also represented.
Bevingtons and Sons Limited , leather merchants and manufacturersRecords of Beverlys Limited, including board meetings minute book, register of members, memorandum and articles of association, ledger and inventory. Also records of Northern Tea Stores, comprising register of members and register of transfers; and records of Black and Green, including board meetings minute book, registers of members, share registers and memorandum and articles of association.
Beverlys Ltd , tea and coffee dealers and wine and spirit merchantsRecords of the Bethnal Green Poor Lands Trust including deeds of title; appointments of new trustees; leases and counterpart leases; minutes of the trustees; orders of the Charity Commissioners; accounts; correspondence and case papers; records of pensioners and printed copies of the 1690 foundation deed.
Bethnal Green Poor Lands TrustRegister of electors for Bethnal Green Constituency compiled October 1964, in force February 1965 - February 1966.
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal GreenRecords of the Bethnal Green Poor Law Union, 1836-1935, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; orders and correspondence from the Poor Law Board, Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers and annual returns of lunatics; registers from the Waterloo Road Workhouse, Well Street Workhouse and Infirmary; registers of children at the Leytonstone Home; case histories for pauper children; financial accounts; staff records and plans of Waterloo House and the chapel at Bethnal Green Hospital (the former Workhouse Infirmary).
Bethnal Green Poor Law Union x Bethnal Green Board of GuardiansRecords 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.
Corporation of LondonAdvertisement of John Besford, supplier of patterns and drawings for needlework and netting silk, dated to the 19th century.
Besford , John , needlework pattern supplierPapers, 1877-1970, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to No.1 (formerly No. 10) The Mall, Uxbridge Road, Ealing.
Berwin Leighton , solicitorsPapers concerning the property and estate of Richard Berridge of Bloomsbury, including papers relating to money left to various charities and institutions, and the executorship of Charles Tomkins.
Berridge , Richard , d 1887 , landowner and brewerPapers of the Berney family, comprising deed for the transfer of estates including land in Barbados and slave lists, 1799; and transcript, 2000.
Berney , familyRecords of the Bermondsey Poor Law Union, 1836-1934, including minutes of meetings and reports of the Board of Guardians and various Committees including Visiting Committees; regulations relating to the staff and inmates of institutions; orders of the Board; workhouse dietary tables; orders and correspondence from the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health; contracts, tenders and specifications for building work and supplies; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; orders for the reception of lunatics; notices of death, discharge or removal of lunatics; medical reports on paupers and lunatics; case papers of persons emigrating to Canada; papers relating to medical arrangements; registers for the Rotherhithe Workhouse, Saint Olave's Workhouse on Parish Street, Bermondsey Workhouse on Tanner Street and Saint Anne's Home; registers of children in receipt of outdoor relief; registers of children at schools or homes; papers relating to aid work during the First World War including registration of refugees; financial accounts; staff records and plans of the Bermondsey Workhouse on Tanner Street, the Rotherhithe Infirmary, Shirley Schools and children's home The Hawthorns; map of the parishes in the Union.
Bermondsey Poor Law Union x Saint Olave's Poor Law Union x Bermondsey Board of Guardians Saint Mary Magdalen Board of GuardiansPapers relating to the Berkeley family estates in Middlesex and London. Please note that the original records in this collection are now held at the archives in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire and only microfilm copies can be viewed at LMA.
The documents relate to the Manors of Cranford, Harlington, East Bedfont, and Heston and to property in Harlington and Saint James's Park. They include Court rolls and books, rentals, financial accounts and other papers.
Berkeley , family , of GloucestershirePapers relating to the Berkeley family estates in Cranford and Harlington. Please note that the original records in this collection are now held at the archives in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire and only microfilm copies can be viewed at LMA.
The records include court rolls, minutes, rentals, particulars and other papers for the Manor of Cranford and the Manor of Harlington with Shepiston.
Berkeley , family , of GloucestershirePapers of the Berkeley family including plans of family estates in St George Hanover Square, Cranford, Harlington, and Hillingdon; and pedigree of the Earls of Berkeley and the Barony of Fitzhardinge.
Berkeley , family , of GloucestershireCollection of deeds, correspondence, and plans relating to premises in Kensington and Southwark.
UntitledCollection of deeds, correspondence, and plans relating to premises in Kensington and Southwark.
Various.Papers, 1551-1950, of the Benyon family, including records of the de Beauvoir estate in Hackney, Shoreditch and elsewhere, and including references to several families including the de Beauvoir, Macdougall, Tyssen and Whitmore families.
The first deposit comprises:
Manor of Hoxton and Balmes (Hackney and Shoreditch): deeds, 1551-1723, largely 17th century, also relating to some property in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (Ref: E/BVR/1-28);
De Beauvoir Town (Hackney): rent books, 1830-1950, for properties in the area bounded by Regent's Canal in the south, Kingsland Road in the east, Ball's Pond Road in the North, and Southgate Road in the West, also notebooks concerning rents, 1829-1845, and a Trust account book of the late Rev Peter Beauvoir, 1821-1843 (Ref: E/BVR/29-193);
accounts, 1857-1859, 1867-1950, and associated records concerning the estate and its administration, including correspondence, 1821-1935 (Ref: E/BVR/194-286);
Tyssen estate: manor of Hackney Lordshold, Kingshold and Grumbolds: correspondence, accounts, etc, 1746-1820, concerning administration of the estate, also mentioning Hackney church (Ref: E/BVR/287-346);
Piccadilly estate (St Martin in the Fields): deeds (copies), 1623-1676 (Ref: E/BVR/347-358);
Haymarket properties (St Martin in the Fields): deeds: Macdougall family papers, 1632-1821 (Ref: E/BVR/359-399);
Pall Mall properties (St Martin in the Fields and St James, Westminster): deeds, 1660-1812 (Ref: E/BVR/400-411);
Redcross Street (St Giles, Cripplegate) properties: deeds, 1669-1755, including one item, a note c1700, relating to property in Acton (Middlesex) (Ref: E/BVR/412-418);
Vauxhall estate: rental, including record of rents received, 1758-1821, and list of deeds, 1694-1822, concerning this estate, copyhold to the Manor of Kennington (Ref: E/BVR/419);
Maps, plans and engravings, 1831-1879 and undated {19th century}, including printed, manuscript and lithographed items, largely of Hackney and Shoreditch, including De Beauvoir Town, some including details of settlement and other information as well as property ownership (Ref: E/BVR/420-428).
The second deposit comprises:
Manor of Hoxton and Balmes (Hackney and Shoreditch): deeds, 1627, 1773 (Ref: E/BVR/429-431);
'Essex' rental, 1839-1907, including also De Beauvoir Town, Haymarket and Vauxhall (Ref: E/BVR/432);
De Beauvoir Town: estate papers etc, 1869-1900 (Ref: E/BVR/433-437);
correspondence and papers, 1867-1906, relating to St Peter's Church parish matters and church fabric, and an original watercolour of the church, 1842 (Ref: E/BVR/438-446);
Piccadilly estate: case for opposition to rate for cleaning Piccadilly and Park Lane, 1809 (Ref: E/BVR/447);
Haymarket: rentals, 1903 (Ref: E/BVR/448).
The third deposit comprises:
Hoxton: deed, 1551 (Ref: E/BVR/449);
Manor of Balmes: deeds, 1626, 1634 (Ref: E/BVR/450-453);
Estate accounts: De Beauvoir Town vouchers for various payments, 1831-1852, including work on the new church, De Beauvoir Town; vouchers for repairs etc, 1921-1933; correspondence and statement of accounts of the estates' London solicitor and agent, 1838-1917 (Ref: E/BVR/454-496);
No 27 Grosvenor Square: lease, 1911 (Ref: E/BVR/497);
West Hackney Church: correspondence with the Bishop of London re proposed church, 1838 (Ref: E/BVR/498).
The fourth deposit comprises: Valuation and accounts for the De Beauvoir Town estate (Ref: E/BVR/499-501).
Benyon , family , of Hackney and EnglefieldRecords of R. A. Bennett and Company, stockjobbers, comprising credit balance sheets, 1899-1924, and copies of annual revenue accounts, 1934-1947.
R. A. Bennett and Co , stockjobbersPapers relating to property ownership for premises in London, Middlesex and Westminster, 1689-1875 and papers relating to court proceedings, 1776-1869, including King's Bench and Chancery.
Various.Records of Benledi Street School Chapel, Poplar, comprising Trust Treasurer's account book 1933-1940.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords of the Benevolent Society of St Patrick, including annual reports; newspaper cuttings; correspondence and drawings.
Benevolent Society of St PatrickMinute book of the Benevolent Slop Cutters' Burial Institution.
Benevolent Slop Cutters' Burial Institution x Clothier Cutters' SocietyRecords of the Belmont Synagogue, covering the whole range of activities undertaken by the Synagogue. In particular, the administration is well represented with minutes, agendas and correspondence from all the main committees; the Council of Management, Membership, Building Fund, Ladies Guild, Parents Association, Education and Social Activity Group.
Information on the religious life can be gleaned from files on Rabbi selection, Bat Chayil Ceremony, Yom Naroim and the Sefer Torah as well as from the substantial photographic collection which also presents a good picture of the social side of the community.
PLEASE NOTE that written permission from the depositors is required to access this collection.
Belmont SynagoguePapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deed to receive royalties on manufacture of bricks on land near Southall, Hayes, with plan, 1877.
Belmont and Lowe , solicitorsRecords of the Belgravia Dairy Company, comprising financial ledgers, 1925-1931.
Belgravia Dairy CompanyInventory of Lady Anne Belasyse's goods and monies taken in her houses in Whitton, Middlesex, Great Queen Street, St. Giles in the Fields, and St James's Square, Westminster, on 13 and 14 September 1694 and on 5 February 1694/5.
The remainder of the volume is an incomplete inventory, ca. 1612 to 1642, of the goods of an un-named sheep farmer. The location of his property is not disclosed but from internal evidence it is unlikely to be in Middlesex and probably is in north west Berkshire.
Belasyse , Lady , Anne , d 1694 , noblewomanPapers, 1821-1847, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease for parcel of ground (measurements and abuttals given) at north west corner of White Conduit Fields, Islington and declaration of trust for the same premises at White Conduit Fields as well as a parcel of land and two messuages on north side of Speldhurst Street, Sandhills, Saint Pancras, both premises owned by George Dawe and Mary Margaret Dawe, of Saint Petersburg; and administration with will annexed of Samuel Serle, late of Brentford, commander in maritime service, East India Company.
Beechcroft, Hay and Ledward , solicitorsThis collection contains Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets from Bedfordshire County Council . 'Local Government Pension Scheme summarised report and accounts 1998/99' and 'Bedfordshire Pension Fund summarised report and accounts for April 2006 to March 2007'.
Bedfordshire County Council