Records of Legal and General (Unit Assurance) Limited, comprising memorandum and articles of association, annual reports and accounts.
Sin títuloRecords of Legal and General International Limited, comprising annual reports and accounts.
Sin títuloRecords of the Gresham Fire and Accident Insurance Society, including memorandum and articles of association; minutes and agendas; annual reports and accounts; registers; financial records; papers regarding foreign and overseas business; specimens of forms and policies; and staff registers.
Sin títuloRecords of the Levant Company, comprising English translation of the Company charter of 1661.
Sin títuloRecords of the Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society, including minute books; annual accounts; annual reports; correspondence; reports; press cuttings; legal case papers and papers relating to court proceedings; financial records; advertising leaflets; and papers relating to staff pensions and employment matters.
Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Liverpool Victoria (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Sin títuloLondon Fish Merchants' Assocation (Billingsgate) Limited records comprise minutes, registers of directors and of members, accounts and the memorandum and articles of association.
Sin títuloRecords of the Federation of British Wholesale Fish Merchants' Associations, comprising minutes of meetings of the inland section.
Sin títuloThe archive comprises records of London Life Association Limited, 1806-1953; Clergy Mutual Assurance Society, 1829-1935; and Metropolitan Life Assurance Society, 1834-1933.
London Life Association Limited records comprise minutes and accounts 1806-1944 (Ms 19634-41), policy registers 1873-1953 (Ms 19642-4) and scrapbook of printed forms 1891-1923 (Ms 19645).
Clergy Mutual Assurance records comprise minutes and accounts 1829-1924 (Ms 19646-50); policy and claims registers 1830-1935 (Ms 19651-3); and miscellaneous items 1891-1914 (Ms 19654-6).
Metropolitan Life Assurance Society records comprise minutes, accounts and regulations 1834-1933 (Ms 19657-67), policy registers 1835-ca. 1928 (Ms 19661, 19668-72).
Access to records which are closed for 80 years should be sought from London Life Association (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Sin títuloRecords of the London Provident Institution, savings bank, comprising: book of rules, 1817-99 (Ms 24521) and depositors' signature books, 1857-1901 (Ms 28944).
Sin títuloRecords of Morgan Grenfell and Company Limited, merchant bankers, their predecessors, and companies they took over; comprising ledgers, journals, letter books, correspondence and other papers.
Access to all the records is restricted to persons with written permission from the depositor (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
Sin títuloRecords of Yule, Catto and Company Limited comprising financial accounts, correspondence and a brief history of the company.
Sin títuloRecords of the National Mutual Life Assurance Society and predecessors the National Life Assurance Society and the Mutual Life Assurance Society. The records include constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, seal books, reports, policy records and other administrative papers.
24 hours notice is required for access to this material. The records are subject to a 30 year rule: the permission of the depositor is required for access to material less than 30 years old (ask a member of staff for further information).
Sin títuloRecords of the predecessor companies of stockbrokers Quilter Goodison and Company Limited; comprising a day book and ledgers.
Sin títuloRecords of Read, Hurst-Brown and Company, stockbrokers, comprising ledgers and associated papers, 1952-1969 and a general ledger and balance sheets of Read, Hurst-Brown and Company Service Company, 1957-1963.
Please note that the archive is subject to a 40-year closure rule which means that permission must be sought from the donor for access to material less than 40 years old. Readers wishing to consult restricted material should consult a member of staff.
Sin títuloRecords of Sun Insurance Office Limited as well as companies which merged with Sun Insurance, such as Alliance Assurance Company Limited; and subsidiary companies such as Bath Sun Fire Office, Patriotic Assurance Company of Dublin and London Assurance. The records include policy registers; administrative papers; minutes; reports; financial records; deeds; publications and photographs.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sin títuloRecords of the Alliance Assurance Company Limited, comprising constitutional documents; board minutes and various committee minutes; life policy registers; reports of foreign visits, 1863-1965; agents' instruction books, 1868-1963, and other financial and administrative records.
'Life' material is subject to a 75 year closure period. Other material is subject to a 50 year closure period.
Sin títuloRecords of the Bankers Guarantee and Trust Fund, comprising Trustees minute books.
Sin títuloRecords of the Bath Sun Fire Office comprising Directors' meeting minute book, also used as an out-letter book.
Sin títuloRecords of British Fire Insurance Company Limited, comprising minutes of general meetings and directors' meetings.
Permission to publish any material must be obtained from the Company Secretary (further information is available from staff).
Sin títuloRecords of the Colonial and Foreign Banks Guarantee Fund, including Council and committee minutes, 1919-1955; attendance book, 1903-1963; ledgers, 1878-1946; and register of claims, 1868-1930.
Sin títuloCrown Life Assurance Company records comprise: deed of settlement, 1853; conveyance of assets, 1867; agreement for amalgamation, 1891; rules and regulations, 1825-1873; minutes, 1825-92; and report books, 1870-1890.
Permission to publish any material must be obtained: ask a member of staff for further information.
Sin títuloThe Farmers and General Fire and Life Insurance and Loan and Annuity Company collection primarily comprises minutes, but also includes some constitutional documents, examples of policies and other administrative records.
Sin títuloThe Imperial Insurance Company (also known as the Imperial Fire Insurance Company) collection comprises constitutional documents, minutes, and financial and administrative material.
Sin títuloThe Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company records comprise: deed of settlement and related papers, 1803, 1850-1858; committee minutes and reports, 1803-1922; financial records, 1803-1927; policy records, 1823-1884; "Million Fund" records, 1860-1909; registers of dividends and sureties, ca. 1830-1884; muniments of title, 1710-1913; and correspondence and other papers relating to property, 1821-1908.
Sin títuloThe London and Lancashire Insurance Company Limited records comprise constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, seal books, policy registers and other administrative papers.
They may be freely consulted with the exception of a few items less than 30 years old which may only be seen with the permission of the depositor, from whom permission must also be sought to publish any material.
Sin títuloThe London Assurance Corporation records comprise: corporate and share records, 1719-1955; committee minutes, 1720-1927; administrative records, 1883-1967; investment books 1831-1926; policy records, 1721-1967; risks books, 1832-54; ship charter records, 1720-1853; fire charter records, 1721-1854; financial records, 1721-1958; staff records, 1906-63; property records, 1703-1923; plans, 1747-8, 1882-4; and other miscellaneous records, 1725-1932.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE ASSURANCE MATERIAL IS CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sin títuloThe Reading and District Mutual Plate Glass Insurance Company records comprise a policy register 1896-1918; and a ledger 1896-1926.
Sin títuloThe Rock Life Assurance Company records comprise: deed of settlement and related papers 1807-1901; minutes, prospectus and circulars 1806-1937; miscellaneous papers relating to directors, auditors and agents 1812-1909; records relating to the company's emblem c 1807; elevation of the company's offices, 1807; dinner menus 1868-1906 and volume relating to the Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships 1762-1817.
Permission to publish any material must be obtained from the depositor.
Sin títuloPapers of the Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to meetings; including General Committee minutes; Directors' meeting minutes; Management Committee minutes; annual general meeting minutes; minutes of the Accounts Committee, Finance Committee, Town Committee, Country Committee, and Building Committee; minutes of special committees such as the Committee of Inquiry relating to firemen, fire engines and water supply; report books; and resolutions book.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sin títuloRecords of Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to agencies, both UK and abroad; including instructions to agents; lists and registers of agents; scrapbooks and notebooks containing notes, press cuttings and notices about agencies; foreign agency memorandum books; and foreign instructions books for Africa, Central and South America, Asia, Australasia, Europe and Russia.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sin títuloRecords of the Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to staff, including firemen's bonds; questionnaires relating to local fire-fighting forces in the UK; correspondence relating to branch staff and salaries; and papers relating to staff who died in the First World War.
From about 1696 there is evidence that the Fire Offices were employing watermen as firemen. The Sun appointed firemen (i.e. watermen) from the time of its establishment in 1710. In 1711, 30 firemen were maintained. In 1833 the independent bodies of firemen maintained by the Fire Offices were amalgamated into the London Fire Engine Establishment. These records include only a few records relating to firemen (many of whom served an apprenticeship in the Company of Watermen and Lightermen).
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sin títuloRecords of the Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to finance; including annual accounts; summary of income; quarterly accounts and statements; ledgers; cash books; reports; and profits book.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sin títuloRecords of the Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to premises and property, including plans of London offices; photographs; and correspondence.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sin títuloPapers of the Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to other organisations; including copy minute books of the Accident Offices Association, Fire Offices' Committee (Foreign), London Continental Fire Insurance Committee, and Fire Offices' Committee.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sin títuloRecords of George G Sandeman, Sons and Company Limited, wine shippers and cotton merchants, comprising financial records 1799-1812 and 1838-9; an order book 1792-1809; merchant bankers' ledger 1817-1819; letter books 1795-1797 and 1885-1887; shipment register 1869-72; trade circulars 1840-2; private account books of stocks and shares 1821-60; and a copy of a letter by George Sandeman dated 1790.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of St John the Baptist, Earl Rise, Plumstead, comprising registers of baptisms and registers of marriages.
Sin títuloParish magazines for the parish of Saint Luke, Westmount Road, Eltham Park.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Margaret, Vicarage Road, Plumstead, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; altered apportionments of tithe rent charges; certificates of redemption of tithe rent charges; Parochial Church Council minutes; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; and papers relating to parish charities.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Mark, Old Mill Road, Plumstead Common, including registers of baptisms and marriages; registers of church services; minutes of the Parochial Church Council; and parish magazines.
Sin títuloRegisters of baptisms and marriages for the parish of Saint Saviour, Middle Park Avenue, Eltham.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Thomas, Maryon Road, Charlton, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; papers of church societies; papers relating to parish boundaries; faculties; and papers relating to parish schools.
Sin títuloRecords of Brentford Magistrates Court, 1840-1976 and Ealing Magistrates Court, 1919-1988.
Records of Brentford Magistrates Court comprise:
- PS/B/B/01/001-246: Court Registers, 1880-1958, 1965-1976;
- PS/B/B/02/001: Court Minute Books, 1840-1841;
- PS/B/B/04/001-012: Juvenile Court Registers, 1933-1959;
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PS/B/B/08/001-018: Court Administration, 1902-1976.
Records of Ealing Magistrates Court comprise:
- PS/B/E/01/001-576: Court Registers, 1919-1988;
- PS/B/E/02/001-004: Justices' Attendance Books, 1919-1961;
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PS/B/E/03/001-017: Juvenile Court Registers, 1933-1966.
Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.
Records of Holborn Petty Sessional Division, 1845-1956, including court minute books, court registers and licensing registers.
Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.
Sin títuloThis collection contains records of South Mimms Magistrates Court, 1880-1923 and 1929-1941, and consists of Court Registers. Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.
Sin títuloRecords of Marylebone Magistrates Court, 1905-1994, including court registers; means registers; legal aid registers and licensing registers. Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.
Sin títuloRecords of the Newington Petty Sessional Division, 1775-1966, including court minute books; licensing calendars and registers; registers of rates recovery, registers of weights and measures offences and registers of Fire Brigade Act offences.
Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.
Sin títuloRecords of Stoke Newington Magistrates Court, 1890-1956, including court minutes; court registers; licensing registers and Justices' attendance books. Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.
Sin títuloRecords of Westminster Magistrates Court, 1896-1943, including court registers; rates registers; means enquiry summonses; summonses indexes; Married Women Act orders; bastardy complaints and letter book.
Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.
Domestic proceedings: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.
Sin títuloPapers, 1877-1880 and undated, relating to Cleopatra's Needle, comprising two photographs of the ship Cleopatra at Alexandria {1877}; drawing of the Cleopatra by John Dixon, undated; manuscript copy of memoranda made on board the SS Olga towing Cleopatra, 1877; letters concerning the abandonment of the Cleopatra, 1877; cuttings from The Times concerning the salvage of the Cleopatra {1878} and the erection of Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment, 1878; two copies of an account of expenditure incurred in transporting and re-erecting the Needle, 1880; Cleopatra's Needle visitors' book, 1878; drawing, undated, of hieroglyphs, and tracing, 1877, of Greek and Latin inscriptions on the Needle; two copper plates apparently formerly attached to the monument relating the story of the transhipment etc, 1878; offprint of a paper on Cleopatra's Needle delivered to the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1880.
Sin títuloPapers of George Pepper, surveyor, comprising notebooks detailing measured work for masons, carpenters and joiners, bricklayers, plasterers, painters, glaziers at houses in London and elsewhere, with occasional sketches; 1 notebook detailing costing of such work, 1780-1806. Also other papers relating to building work including accounts, bills, plans for building work in London and elsewhere, 1661/2-1889; carpenter and cabinet-makers' bills, 1781-1802; bills for horse hire, saddlery, carriage of goods, etc., with occasional letters, 1774-1828 and accounts relating to building Vauxhall Bridge, 1810-1822.
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