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This archive contains the records of Guy's Hospital Group as it was in 1948, when it was formed. It does not include the New Cross and Saint Olave's Hospitals, which were added to the Group in 1965. However, it does contain the records of the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, which was never part of the Guy's Hospital Group.

There are both administrative and clinical records for the Group in this collection, including minutes, accounts and correspondence, in addition to a large number of visual items such as photographs, library material and ephemera.

Records of the Evelina Hospital, including Court of Governors minute book, 1893-1948; Committee of Management minutes, 1869-1939; Medical Committee minutes, 1894-1928; House Committee minutes, 1912-1948; constitution and rules of the hospital, 1903-1934; standing orders and duties of medical staff, 1907-1948; general reports, 1887-1902; annual reports, 1871-1948; correspondence, 1882-1963; guard book kept by the Secretary containing circulars, memoranda and press cuttings regarding the hospital and its administration, 1875-1899; papers regarding repairs and improvements to the operating theatre and the cleaning of the ward floors, 1901-1903; statements of income and expenditure, 1879-1921; staff registers, 1875-1949; papers and plans relating to building work, 1876-1951; patients' case register, 1874-1877; medical registers, 1889-1904; in-patients register, 1918-1926; case books, 1911-1939; death register, 1908-1912; ward report books, 1936-1939; operation books, 1909-1940; post mortem report books, 1892-1948; out-patients registers, 1896-1948; baptism register, 1935-1975; housekeeping records, 1882-1948; register of trainee nurses, 1896-1914; financial records, 1869-1948; registers of donations, 1881-1939; histories of the hospital, 1969; articles and pamphlets relating to the founder of the hospital, 1959-1968; articles and pamphlets relating to other children's hospitals, 1939-1972; photographs of the interior and exterior of the hospital, 1907-1969; press cuttings, 1871-1896 and leaflets and prospectuses printed by the hospital, 1888-1948.

Records of the Guy's Hospital School of Physiotherapy, including Education Committee minutes, 1932-1975; Staff Meeting minutes, 1985-1992; prospectuses, 1923-1970; list of graduates, 1949-1992; Massage and Actino-therapeutic Association staff records, 1918-1960; Massage Association staff records, 1917-1947; Student Registers, 1916-1945; Student Record Cards, 1914-1992; Certificate from the Society of Trained Masseuses, 1907; memorial for Hester Scudamore Angrove, the first principal of the School of Physiotherapy, 1957 and photographs of the School and its activities, 1952-1992.

Records of the York Clinic, Guy's Hospital, including Council of Management minutes, 1938-1948; Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Clinic, 1939; register of members, 1939-1948; design for the Clinic gates, 1956; financial records, 1939-1948 and photographs of staff and patients, [1945].

Records of the British Lying-In Hospital Group comprising papers of the British Lying-In Hospital, 1749-1914, the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, 1905-1984 and the Council for the Promotion of the Higher Training of Midwives, 1903-1941. The papers include committee minutes, diaries, patient records including admission registers and case notes, rules and regulations, histories of the hospitals and financial records.

Records of the Council for the Promotion of the Higher Training of Midwives, comprising council minutes, 1903-1938 and cash books, 1916-1941.

Records of the Saint John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, comprising Board of management minutes, 1880-1948; Board of Governors minutes, 1948-1977; Medical committee minutes, 1904-1975; General purposes and finance committee minutes, 1948-1976; annual reports, 1876-1939 and Saint John's Hospital Pharmacopoeia, 1888-1952.

Records of Saint Leonard's Hospital, 1884-1940 and Saint Matthew's Hospital, 1879-1986. Papers include patient registers, minutes, reports, inventories, plans and staff records.

Records of Horton Hospital, including Medical Superintendent report books, 1900-1917; Horton Hospital Management Committee (later Management Team) minutes, 1948-1985; Hospital Committees' and Sub-Committees' minutes, 1948-1984; admission, discharge and creed registers, 1907-1984; general registers and indexes of patients, 1902-1971; post mortem registers, 1902-1951; death registers, 1931-1971; operation registers, 1944-1964; patient case books, 1902-1937; Chest unit case files, 1940-1945; Chest Unit admission book, 1944-1947; staff records, 1902-1939; financial records, 1927-1965; maps of the hospital site, 196-; papers of research projects, 1978-1983; glass negatives of patients, 20th century and draft manuscript copy of J.R.Lord's Story of the Horton (County of London) War Hospital, 1920.

Records of Saint Lawrence's Hospital, 1870-1990 and Caterham Emergency Hospital, 1940-1944. Papers include patient records, minutes, reports, staff magazines and papers regarding the history of the Hospital.

Records of the Caterham Emergency Hospital, 1940-1944, consisting of admission and discharge registers, registers of deaths and casualty registers for patients treated at the hospital.

Records of the Annie McCall Maternity Hospital comprising minute books for the House Committee, 1949-1959.

Records of the Clapham Maternity Hospital comprising committee minute book, October 1888-June 1939.

Records of the Chelsea Hospital for Women, 1871-1948, and Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, 1989-2007. Papers include committee minutes and agendas; reports; laws; correspondence; medical registers and patient records; case books; staff records; financial records; nursing reports; student nursing papers and plans.

Records of Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, 1749- 2001, including board and commitee minutes and papers, records of the Ladies Association, registers of patients, admission and discharge registers, charts, operation registers, pathology records, correspondence, financial records, nursing reports, pupil midwives and pupil nurses registers, and plans of the hospital.

Records of Saint Pancras' Institution including Master's Weekly and monthly reports, 1928-1938; Master's half-yearly and yearly reports, 1927-1938; Medical Officer's reports, 1923-1931 and offences and punishment book, 1914-1937.

Records of Saint Pancras Hospital including Steward's reports, 1924-1938 and 1946-1948; daily numbers book, 1940-1944; female patients' admission and discharge register, 1925-1939; magistrates book, 1948-1958; record of mechanical restraint and seclusion, 1940-1953; registers of baptisms, 1857-1940 and Chaplain's report books, 1893-1933.

Records of hospitals in the Royal Northern Hospital Group, 1835-1991, comprising Hornsey Central Hospital, Mildmay Memorial Hospital, Maternity Nursing Association, North London Medical and Chirurgical Society, Royal Chest Hospital, Royal Northern Hospital and Santa Claus Children's Home.

The papers include committee minutes, reports, financial papers, newspaper cuttings, leaflets and publications, histories, staff registers, regulations, plans and photographs. Patient records survive only for the Royal Northern Hospital.

Records of the Mildmay Memorial Hospital, comprising Council minutes, 1917-1948 and minutes of the McCall Maternity Hospital committee, 1941-1945.

The records of the Maternity Nursing Association, 1908-1949, comprising council and committee minutes (4 volumes), annual reports (9 volumes), wages book (1 volume), analysis of expenditure (1 volume) and a book of newspaper cuttings and copies of leaflets concerning the association.

Records of the Santa Claus Children's Home, comprising council minutes, 1898-1935; Home committee minutes, 1891-1898; House and Finance committee minutes, 1925-1935; Linen League committee minutes, 1946-1953 and one account book, 1937-1946.

Records of Chase Farm Hospital comprising plan of Edmonton Union New Schools showing layout of buildings and soil drains; plan of drains showing infirmary, cottage homes and infants school only and plan of drains, including ground floor plans of main building, infants school, cottage homes and infirmary, 1885-1889.

Also includes patient records (1938 - 1974), Medical School publication (1969 - 1990), staff recruitment display boards and redevelopment photographs (195- - 197-) and patient information booklets (1962 - 1972).

Records of the West Middlesex University Hospital and associated hospitals, 1841-1993, including Brentford Hospital, Chiswick Maternity Hospital, Hounslow Hospital, Saint John's Hospital, Twickenham, South Middlesex Hospital and the South West Middlesex Hospital Management Committee. Papers include committee minutes, reports, admission and discharge registers and other patient records, nursing and staffing records, rules and regulations, financial records, photographs, prospectuses and leaflets.

Records of Brentford Hospital including Committee minutes, 1841-1948; annual reports, 1902-1949; correspondence, 1927-1958; Property Appraisal Survey, 1987; admission and discharge registers, 1969-1974, operations register, 1967-1975; registers of road accident cases, 1939-1973 and South West Middlesex Hospital Management Committee illustrated booklet describing Brentford Hospital training scheme for enrolled assistant nurses, 1950s.

Records of Saint John's Hospital, Twickenham, including register of operations, 1957-1972; physiotherapy department treatment register, 1940-1949; papers belonging to the Sector Administrator, Hounslow District Health Authority relating to Saint John's including information on history, security, building management and equipment, 1976-1986 and League of Friends correspondence, 1976.

Records of West Middlesex University Hospital, including annual reports, 1961-1976; administrative files on subjects including the redevelopment of the hospital, staffing, information for patients, medical committees, research ethics, procedures and correspondence, 1939-1992; registers of admission, 1946-1948; registers of creed, 1942-1944; registers of birth, 1896-1976; registers of deaths, 1946-1956, registers of operations, 1920-1971; matron's report books, 1896-1931; registers of sisters, staff nurses, probationers and assistant nurses, 1896-1968; School of Nursing prospectuses, 1960-1970; Isleworth League of Nurses journals, 1923-1957 and photographs of the hospital, staff and patients, 1940-1985.

Records of Saint Alfege's Hospital including Medical Staff Committee minutes, 1958-1964, a report on the use and condition of the buildings with particular reference to demolition and reconstruction, by the Regional Architect for the Greenwich and Deptford Hospital Management Committee, 1957; operations registers, 1938-1939 and nurses' registers, 1913-1961.

Records of the Greenwich and Bexley Area Health Authority comprising Area Health Authority minutes, 1973-1982; Area Team of Officers minutes, 1974-1981.

Records of Tooting Bec Hospital, including Hospital management committee and sub-committee minutes and papers, 1948-1967; London County Council Tooting Bec Hospital sub committee papers, 1907-1948; Medical Superintendants report book, 1903-1911; Steward's report books, 1912-1948; admission and discharge books, 1930-1936; register of admission (male and female), 1948-1954; register of admission (male), 1936-1951; register of admission (female), 1936-1949 and 1957-1961; register of transfers, discharges and deaths (male), 1936-1962; register of transfers, discharges and deaths (female), 1936-1950 and 1962-1964; register of male patients, 1973-1977; creed register, 1938-1947; registers of deaths, 1944-1963; post mortem registers, 1932-1959; card index of patient deaths, 1960-1980; registers of staff, 1902-1909 and 1930-1965 and The History of Tooting Bec Hospital by Sue Simmons, 1995.

Records of the Battersea and Putney Hospital Management Group, comprising Management Committee minutes and correspondence, 1948-1972.

Records of the South West Metropolitan Hospital Management Group, 1962-1976, including minutes of the Management, Finanice and General Purposes, Medical Advisory, Staff, Medical Records and Catering Committees, and various administrative files.

Records of the Wandsworth Hospital Management Committee comprising minutes of the Building, Catering, Finance, Group Medical, Management Group, Nursing Advisory, Staff, Supplies and Visiting Committees, and staff cards.

Records of Moorfields Eye Hospital, 1860-1993, including minutes of the Committee of Management and Board of Governors, Building Committee, Building and Planning Committee, Drug Committee, Ethical Committee, Finance Committee, House Committee, Medical Committee, Medical Establishment Committee, Planning Committtee, Staff Committee and Trustees Committee; papers relating to amalgamation with the Central London Opthalmic Hospital; annual reports; statistics; staff records; issues of magazine 'The Hospital' and issues of the Hospital Yearbook.

Records of the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, 1948-1974, including Management Committee minutes; Finance sub-committee minutes; Group Medical Advisory Committee minutes; papers of the Medical Council; Staff Consultative Committee minutes; Nursing sub-committee minutes; Medical Staff Committee minutes; General Purposes Committee minutes; House Committee minutes; registers of death, operations, admissions and poisons; money book; requisitions; financial records, and research papers from the Devonport Pathological Laboratories and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases.

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.