Records of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including printed cases in which the bank was involved at appeal level.
Sans titreRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including information on individual bank staff, hierarchy structures, staff rules and procedures and leisure activities for staff.
They also include an incomplete set of staff registers (dating from 1891 to 1894 for Cape Town branch only, and 1913 for a general list of branches and staff) and annual assessments of staff performance, rules and handbooks for staff and office procedures, photographs of individual members of staff, correspondence on senior appointments, a staff memorial for the Second World War and documents relating to two London-based staff leisure societies; The African Banks Athletic Club and the Springbok Musical and Dramatic Society. Sadly, the collection does not retain records of leisure societies and activities for staff based abroad.
Sans titreRecords of T Wiggin and Company, merchants, comprising ledgers 1858-74; waste books 1864-72; out-letter book 1865; correspondence and accounts 1865-72.
Sans titreRecords of various property companies, all associated with Trafalgar House Developments Limited. The records include constitutional documents; annual reports and accounts; financial material; minutes; correspondence; registers of leases and rents; lists of shareholders; deeds and papers relating to property.
Sans titreRecords of William James Barnsdale and Son, watch and clockmakers, comprising order and repair books and accounts, as well as a pedigree of the family from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
Sans titreA. Hunt and Company records comprise a general ledger and an out-letter book.
Sans titreMinutes of meetings of the directors and of general meetings of those insurance companies known as the Java Companies.
Sans titreJournal of business and private expenditure of John Bridgman, West India merchant.
Sans titreMinute book of the trustees of the Central Bahia Railway Trust.
Sans titreLiquidator's accounts for DL Thomson and Company, stockbrokers.
Sans titreThe Dry Docks Corporation of London Limited records comprise the minute book of the board of directors and finance committee, and accompanying index. The whereabouts of any other records is not known.
Sans titreRecords of the Emma Silver Mining Company, comprising annual report and accounts for 1879, notice of AGM 1880 and blank voting forms.
Sans titreRecords of insurance brokers Fenning and Shepard, comprising annual abstracts of balances, which were drawn from company ledgers 'A' and 'B' (whereabouts now unknown).
Sans titreRecord and account book of Nicholas Geffe, relating to properties including Glastonbury Place in West Smithfield; houses in the parish of St Antholin Budge Row, and a tenement in Cheapside.
Sans titreBoard minute book of the Guarantee Insurance and Investment Company.
Sans titreDay book of Holmes and Pyke, coachbuilders.
Sans titreLetters sent to Hurrell and Mayo, solicitors, including receipts, commission notes, authorisations for the purchase and sale of stocks and shares and for making payments on behalf of clients; the correspondents are chiefly commercial companies, but include some individual clients.
Sans titreLetters to William Hurt from Thomas Rogers, writing from Surrat (Surat), Mesulapatam (Masulipatam) and Gulcondah (Golconda, now Hyderabad).
Sans titreLedger of the International Council of Hide Sellers' Association.
Sans titreExecutive committee meeting minutes of the International Submarine Telegraph Memorial.
Sans titreOrder book of Stephen Jackson, wine and spirit merchant.
Sans titreClient ledger of Jenings, Bolton and Jenings, attorneys.
Sans titreRecords of Lindsay, Greenfield and Masons, solicitors, comprising correspondence with Eden Fisher and Company, manufacturing stationers and printers.
Sans titreOut-letter book of Lister, Beck and Company, wine merchants.
Sans titreDeeds of settlement of the Llantysilio Slate Company.
Sans titreDay book of a Northamptonshire wool broker, recording purchases and sales.
Sans titreRecords of the Ouvah Coffee Company Limited, comprising a cash book and notes on the history of the company and of coffee planting in Ceylon.
Sans titreDaybooks of Sir Charles Peers, relating to his business as London partner of William Morley and Company, of Malaga, merchants and importers.
Sans titreParticulars of expenses incurred on the account of Thomas Pengelly, merchant of London, by the purchase of broadcloths at Aleppo [Syria], 8 Dec 1656.
Sans titreAccount book of an unidentified Dutch merchant in London, apparently trading mainly with Antwerp, Belgium.
Sans titreJob order books of Edwin Robert Sills, watch and chronometer finisher.
Sans titreAccounts ledger of Sills, Ramsay and Gray, wharfingers.
Sans titreAccounts ledger, journal and waste book, possibly belonging to John Simmons, wine merchant.
Sans titreRecords of the South Sea Company comprising correspondence and receipts.
Sans titreLetters from Thomas Laugher to the manager of his colour manufacturing business about the progress of the business in Laugher's absence.
Sans titreFinancial accounts ledger of Toye and Bromley, yarn, hemp and fibre merchants.
Sans titreAgreement between Abel Wilkinson and John Timbrell concerning their partnership as linen drapers.
Sans titreBusiness papers of Willis, Fairthorne and Clarke, solicitors and attorneys at law.
Sans titreNote, account and estimate book of Thomas Wood, carpenter. He worked on the almshouses and school of the Drapers' Company in Mile End left to them by Francis Bancroft in 1728: a substantial portion of the volume contains detailed notes and calculations on the erection and fittings of the buildings to the design of Henry Barratt, architect.
Sans titreRecords of the Candlewick Ward Club, comprising: minutes, 1739-1990 (Ms 02641, 32757); membership records, 1876-1914, 1958-89 (Ms 08538, 32758); financial records, 1933-97 (Ms 32759-62); and correspondence and other papers, 1968-88 (Ms 32763-8).
Sans titreRecords of the Gresham Club, a City of London dining club. The majority of the records presented to Guildhall Library on the liquidation of the Club in 1991/2 (catalogued as Mss 28834-28864) relate to the Club's time at Abchurch Lane. All Victorian records of the Club, excluding the deed of settlement of 1844 (Ms 28834) and a single notice of annual general meeting of 1845 (Ms 28837), appear not to have survived. The records include constitutional documents, minutes, accounts, records of membership, legal papers, photographs and miscellaneous administrative papers.
The Club's archives also include records of Gresham Club Trustees Ltd (Mss 28861-864), formed in 1915 to administer the lease of the premises at 15-17 Abchurch Lane. It was created to deal with all subsequent property transactions entered into by the Club, and enabled to borrow money, where appropriate, on the strength of the Club's property holdings. For a short history of the Club, written in 1943 for its centenary, see Ms 28856. The background papers used for this history have been catalogued as Ms 28857.
Most of the records are subject to a 30 year closure rule.
Sans titreRecords of the Metropolitan District Nursing Association, formerly the Metropolitan Nursing Association for Providing Nurses for the Sick Poor. The records comprise: minutes and annual reports, 1873-1974 (Ms 14618-24); correspondence and reports, 1876-1974 (Ms 14625-7); agreements 1917-38 (Ms 14628-31, 14811-12); financial records, 1924-74 (Ms 14632-6, 14891-3); and staff records, 1875-1974 (Ms 14637-51). They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff in 1973-4. The whereabouts of any further records is unknown.
Sans titreRecords of the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths, bell-ringing society, comprising: name books, 1747-1999 (Ms 21658, 33995); peal books, 1748-1989 (Ms 21659, 34393); minutes, 1887-1989 (Ms 33996), rules, 1931 (Ms 33997); and notebook of ringing methods, [1924-35?] (Ms 33998). They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff between 1986 and 2006.
Some of the records were microfilmed in 1985 and Mss 21658-9 are positive copy microfilms deposited in the Library on indefinite loan by the Society which has retained the master negatives. The originals of Ms 21658 and Ms 21569/1 were deposited on 21 July 2003 (USE OF MICROFILM COMPULSORY), but the Society retains the original manuscript of Ms 21659/2. Permission to take reproductions from the films or to publish extracts from the records should be sought from the Society (enquire at the information desk for contact details).
Sans titreMinute book of the Amicable Debating Society, 1843-45.
Sans titreIndex of the register, 1669-1849, of the Hamburg Lutheran Church on the site of Holy Trinity the Less. The index was compiled by Mrs Pam Freeman and Len Metzner of the Anglo-German Family History Society.
Sans titreRecords of the Association for Promoting the Equalization of the Poor Rates, comprising: minutes, 1857-67 (Ms 1088); report of the inaugural meeting, 1857 (Ms 1089); and rough cash book, 1857-60 (Ms 1090).
Sans titreRecords of Barbican Library Users, comprising correspondence, newsletters and other papers.
Sans titreMinutes books of the Bartholomew Club, discussion group.
Sans titreRegisters of baptisms, marriages and burials for the British Factory at Oporto, 1716-1807.
Sans titreRegisters of members of the Centenary Club dining society, 1695-1872.
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