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Papers of Sir Henry Francis Oliver, they include papers relating to the establishment of the Navigation School, and to the Dardanelles Operations, 1915 to 1917; included in the latter are minutes and notes by Churchill. There is also a Report of the Grand Fleet Committee on Officers' Pay and Prospects, 1919. Other letters and papers span Oliver's career, 1914 to 1965, although thinly. There is a diary, 1925 to 1927, a draft autobiography and official service documents.

They consist of two logs, 1758 to 1761 (with additional notes up to 1793) and 1779 to 1782, four signal books, 1778 to 1782, and a presentation copy of Captain Pakenham invention of a substitute for a lost rudder.

Papers of Allan Thomas George Cumberland Peachey. They contain collections of signals relating to Jutland and to the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet in 1918; a log, 1936 to 1938; signals, 1939 to 1942; papers and signals relating to the Delhi, 1942 to 1944, and to the reoccupation of Malaya, 1945, and Peachey's papers as Commodore, 1947 to 1948.

Papers of Adml Edward Pellew, consisting of letterbooks, 1804 to 1807, 1815 to 1816, order books, 1810 to 1814, admiral's journals, 1804 to 1807, 1815, and promotion lists, 1804 to 1809.

Papers of Adml Robert Stewart Phipps Hornby, comprising official letterbooks, memoranda and other papers 1900-1913. There are a diary, a rough journal and papers for his second command from 1914 to 1915. Finally, there are papers relating to his work on torpedoes and reports from the various Admiralty committees on which he served,

Papers of Windham Mark Phipps Hornby. Some of them relate to his cadet days, and are mostly printed magazines and programmes; there are also two gunnery notebooks, 1914, and a report on the organization of the Ramillies. The collection contains some items relating to other members of the family.

Papers of Captain Murray Thomas Parks, including official service papers 1876 to 1878; letters sent home 1878 to 1890; and a midshipman's log for the INVINCIBLE and CRUISER 1881 to 1882.

General Records: This group contains a large vellum-bound volume of Spanish diplomatic papers, mainly dating between 1603 and 1672, but with a section dealing with the Armada, 1587 to 1588; two English documents relating to the expedition to Cadiz, 1596; an enquiry into the loss of ships in the convoy guarded by Sir George Rooke (1650-1709) and the Streights Squadron, 1693; a gathering of Italian papers relating to the capitulation of Malta, 1799 to 1807. There are also a number of items relating to Lord Nelson and his family, 1805 to 1845. (PHB/: PHB/P: 2 vols: 3 items) Merchant Shipping Records: relating to merchant shipping, including the journal of the Blackham on a voyage to Constantinople, 1696 to 1698; the log of H.E.I.C.S. Ceres, 1743 to 1745; of H.E.I.C.S. Wager, 1745 to 1746; and an account in verse of H.E.I.C.S. Ceres, 1812 to 1814, on a voyage to China. There is also a memorial of 1774 by a Harwich pilot to the Treasury, seeking to establish an excise cutter there. Among the documents are Bills of Sale, 1651, 1695, 1775; Letters of Marque, 1780, 1799. (PHB/: PLA/P: 4 vols: 12 items) Royal Navy: Administration: This group consists of nineteen volumes and four documents relating to the administration of the Navy. It includes the naval accounts from 1422 to 1427 of William Soper (fl.1410-1459), Clerk of the King¹s ships; a list of ships' stores 'wasted' in the Prymrose after the Rochelle expedition, 1573; a volume of the records collected by Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), the antiquarian and collector, containing summaries of papers on naval matters and defence from the time of Henry III to Elizabeth I; a copy, dated 1638, of the first 'Discourse of the Navy of England' by John Hollond (fl 1624-1659); regulations for the Ordnance Office, 1683; an account, written by a clerk, of the dispute between Samuel Pepys and Colonel Middleton (d 1672) about the importation of cottons and kerseys, 1667 to 1668; two lists of official documents transferred by Pepys to his successor on leaving the Admiralty, 1689; two volumes of Navy Board orders to Deptford and Woolwich dockyards, 1644 to 1722; and eleven volumes of papers, bound by Phillipps in no particular order, relating to general administrative matters, including sea-men's pay, 1711 to 1790; however, among these papers are three letters from Vice-Admiral Benbow (1653-1702) written from Jamaica, 1699. Finally, there are a number of lists; of Admiralty Commissioners, 1673 to 1782; of ships, 1625 to 1636, 1705, 1706 to 1745, and of foreign navies, 1755 to 1778 (PLA/: PLA/P: 2 1/2ft: 76cm) Royal Navy: Law and Prize Money: This group consists of a volume, 1658 to 1673, containing a collection of sentences and decrees made at the Court of Admiralty; a volume of 1685 chiefly concerning the powers and rights of the Lord High Admiral, with an abstract of the judgements of Oleron, translated from the French; a further seventeenth-century volume concerning maritime customs and law from the time of Henry III; a French treatise of maritime law, 1690; a volume containing bound letters from senior naval officers expressing their opinion on the prize money dispute between Lord Nelson (q.v.) and Lord St Vincent (q.v.), 1801 to 1802; vindication of the conduct of Surgeon D.T. McCarthy, court-martialled 2 lines 1 field in 1804.

Papers of John Platt, including a number of logbooks, orders and instructions, signals, watch/quarter/station bills, material relating to impressment, victuals and a number of sketch books and miscellaneous papers. Not all of the material belonged to John Platt, with one notebook being signed by a Charles Platt, 50th regiment and other documents signed by a G E Platt and an Edward Platt.

These include two early works on shipbuilding: Matthew Baker's 'Fragments of English Shipwrightry', c 1586, and Sir Anthony Deane's 'Doctrine of Naval Architecture', 1670, held in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Other examples include copies of two letters written by Sir Francis Drake, ([1540]-1596) 1587 and 1589, a copy of his will, 1595, and one of his 'Pilot of the Caribbean and Azores', 1596; copies of the will of Captain Cook, made in 1776, and of fifty-six letters by or about Lord Nelson, 1780 to 1805, and the personal papers of Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1813), Astronomer Royal.

Papers of Sir James Porter, almost entirely comprising letters to his family, 1889 to 1913, and include accounts of various battles during the South African War. There are some Gallipoli signals and letters arranging for hospital trains, 1914 to 1917. Also included in the collection are about one hundred letters relating to the family, into which Porter married, of Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets M W Cowan (1830-1903).

Papers of John Sprat Rainier. They consist of logs, 1795 to 1800, 1802 to 1805 and 1808 to 1811, and a few loose papers.

Papers of Cpt Peter Rainier, containing a log of the CAROLINE, 1802 to 1803, a signal book, 1803 to 1804, a letter from Admiral Rainier to his son, 1805, and loose papers relating to Rainier's service, 1803 to 1814 and 1831 to 1835.

Papers of Adml John Harvey Rainier, comprising a series of logs, 1862 to 1897, with a gap between 1874 and 1884, and loose papers about the relief of Kandanos. There is also a volume of copies of letters relating to the promotion to commander of J.H. Rainier's uncle by marriage, Captain William War Percival Johnson, 1831 to 1835.

This class contains thirty-one volumes, bound collections of documents and scrapbooks relating to specific events or collections of documents of a general nature. Among those relating to specific events the earliest is a volume of 1582 which contains intelligence of Spain and Portugal, arranged in tabular fashion by Wyllyam Lyllestone. There are also a volume of documents relating to the attack on Martinique and the capture of Guadeloupe, 1758 to 1759; drafts of sections of the Narrative of the second voyage, 1772 to 1775, of Captain Cook (1728-1779) in Cook's hand; a volume of documents relating to a case of 1783 in the Court of King's bench involving the ship ZONG in which 132 negro slaves died; a list of English prisoners of war at Longwy in 1812; a volume of press cuttings relating to the loss of the P and O steamer TASMANIA in 1887 and to the ensuing Board of Trade enquiry. Among the volumes of a general nature is one of 172 naval documents, 1583 to 1778, fourteen of which date from the sixteenth century, including a comparison of the expenses of the Navy, 1579 to 1584; papers relating to abuses in the Navy, 1608 to 1618; a survey of the King's ships, 1633; and papers relating to the debts and condition of the Navy, 1660 to 1668. Another, bearing the stamp of John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), contains 107 seventeenth century copies of documents from the reign of Edward III to 1639, the majority being late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It includes instructions to Martin Frobisher (1535?-1594) for his voyage to the 'North West Parts', 1578; instructions to Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) for a voyage to the Spanish coast, c 1590; a list of the fleet engaged against the Spanish Armada, 1588; a declaration of abuses committed in the provisions of cordage and masts, 1635; and a table showing arrears of ship money, 1635. A third volume contains one hundred documents from c 1600 to 1715; they are mainly reports dealing with such subjects as victualling, manning, discipline and health and include one concerning the abuses of seamen, c 1602; a discourse on the 'former and present state' of the Navy by Sir Robert Slingsby (1611-1661), Comptroller of the Navy, 1661; a table showing the monthly wages of officers, seamen, and dockyard workers, 1689; an appointment of four Commissioners for the Sick and Wounded, 1689; proposals for more effective treatment of sick and wounded seamen on shore, 1689, by Dr Richard Lower (1631-1691); an essay by Richard Gibson, clerk in the Navy Office (fl 1667-1694) giving reasons for the continuance of victuralling the Navy by commission and not by contractor, 1694; and a summary of the accounts of Greenwich Hospital, 1696 to 1703, by John Evelyn (1620-1706). There is a further volume of copies of treaties and trade agreements, 1640 to 1742, including the marriage treaty of Charles II with Portugal, 1671. There is one volume containing general documents relating to Germany in the Second World War: it includes orders concerning thecapture of enemy vessels and their cargoes, 18 August 1939, signed by Hitler and other German leaders; the log of the submarine U47, September to October 1939 containing a detailed account of the attack on the ROYAL OAK, together with other documents relating to U-boat activity, 1939 to 1942; and instructions for the preparation of the invasion of England, signed by Hitler, 16 July 1940.

Records of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. The records cover the life-time of the College from its establishment in 1873 to its closure in 1998. The records are varied, but many relate to the staff at the College. They include pay rolls, volumes detailing staff leave and discharge and service registers. There are also accounting records - bills, receipts, expenditure, imprest books etc. One of the more interesting groups of records are the volumes of "reports", covering the period 1877-1922, which include miscellaneous records relating to Sub-Lieutenants passed, awards, sick leave, discharge, stationary demands, applications to join the College, letters to the Admiralty etc. The collection also includes registers of correspondence and letters-out for the period 1873-1947. Relating to the students, there are a few registers of students on courses 1873-97 and also volumes of Acting Sub-Lieutenants' examination results and passing certificates 1873-1911. These records duplicate those held by the National Archives and further records relating to students can be found there. The more modern twentieth century records mainly relate to courses ran by the College. They include lists of students on courses, Board of Studies minutes, course syllabuses etc, but are not complete. The collection also includes a large photographic archive.

Papers of Robert Roddam, comprising an almost complete service record from 1746, including a log, 1759 to 1778, together with letter and order books, 1746 to 1783, 1789 to 1792, and two signal books. There is a very full administrative correspondence during the American War of Independence and the 1790 crisis. There are no personal papers in the collection.

Papers of the Royal Seamen's Pension Fund. Included are minutes of the Governing Body, 1919 to 1977 and the Finance Committee between 1930 and 1977, ledgers 1920 to 1972, reports of the Governing Body and Reports of the Seamen's Advisory Committee 1912 to 1979, including cash books 1920 to 1965, register of seamen's pension 1944 to 1987.

The papers consist of five volumes of Sandwich's appointment books, 1771 to 1782. These were purchased from the Montagu family in 1957. The remainder of the collection consists of transcripts. In 1956 and 1960 the Secretary of the Navy Records Society deposited on loan transcripts of Sandwich's papers, 1771 to 1782, not included in the Society's publication. The Heritage Lottery Fund has supported the purchase of additions to this collection.

Papers of Adml Sir James Scott, comprising logs, 1834 to 1839, a night order book, pay book, sick book and other documents relating to the running of the PRESIDENT.

Pendant and vane lists are included in this category; amongst these is a sheet of distinguishing signals issued by Lord Howe, 1794; a number of sheets of signals which were issued in addition to the printed signals, which include two recognition signals issued by the Admiralty for naval vessels and East Indiamen, 1778 and 1780.

Signals: Foreign. There are three printed sheets of French signal flags, 1766, in this category.

Merchant Shipping: Signal Books and Signals including a Vane List c 1810 and a pendant board of the same date.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to highways, 1902-1965, including papers relating to improvements to roads and footpaths; papers relating to light railways (tramways); index cards made as part of measures to restrict ribbon development, describing applicants with details of building, access, material and works; papers relating to rivers including the River Brent, River Thames and the Duke of Northumberland's River; rainfall statistics for the county and list of bridges and main roads maintained by the MCC. Also plans of highways, rivers, bridges and sewers.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Joint Thames Bridges Committee, 1891-1919. Papers relating to King Edward VII Bridge (Kew Bridge), including copies of relevant legislation; resolutions; reports of the Surveyor and Solicitors; correspondence; plans; specifications for tender and papers relating to the opening ceremony, including photographs.

Papers relating to Kingston Bridge, including copies of relevant legislation; plans; correspondence; instructions for tendering; reports; acquisition of land and sale of land.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to supplies, 1948-1965, including papers relating to members allowances and expenses; papers regarding central repair depots and transport depots; papers relating to stores; lists of approved contractors and investigations into monopolies and restrictive practices; papers relating to chauffeurs and drivers, and tenders for supply of various goods.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Legal Department relating to the West Middlesex Drainage scheme, 1929-1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to planning, 1926-1946, comprising maps and plans showing town planning schemes in Acton, Brentford, Chiswick, Ealing, Edmonton, Enfield, Feltham, Finchley, Friern Barnet, Harrow, Hayes, Harlington, Hendon, Heston, Isleworth, Hornsey, Potters Bar, Southall, Norwood, Southgate, Staines, Tottenham, Twickenham, Uxbridge, Wembley, Willesden, Wood Green and Yiewsley.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department relating to finances, 1919-1966, including papers relating to school fees; papers relating to financial aid for pupils; budget estimates and correspondence relating to the estimates; and abstract books for teacher salaries and superannuation.

Publications produced by the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department, 1899-1965, including Technical Instruction directories; directories of secondary schools, technical institutes and evening schools; lists of public elementary, secondary, junior technical and art schools, polytechnics, colleges, evening schools and youth employment bureaux; issues of the 'Schools Gazette'; The Middlesex Book of Verse' collected poems by students of Middlesex secondary schools (1929); booklet 'Further education in Middlesex: A review of the thirty years 1933-1963' (1964); 'Guide to courses of further education in Middlesex' (1964); and pamphlet 'Middlesex County Libraries Silver Jubilee, 1922-1947' (1948).

Records of the Middlesex County Council Education Officer's Department relating to the Youth Employment Service, set up in 1910 to guide young people into the occupations for which they were most suited. It contains files on administration, correspondence and reports, lists of staff and school leavers, regional committee files, apprenticeship schemes and papers of individual youth employment bureaux.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Engineer and Surveyor's Department relating to civil defence, 1949-1963, including Home Office civil defence circulars; Middlesex civil defence circulars; notes for instructors; training notes and technical notes.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Engineer and Surveyor's Department, 1914-1964, comprising administrative files relating to the day to day work of the Department. The subject matter of this series is wide ranging and includes information on road widening, road improvements, maintenance of highways, bridges and sewers, provision of road signs, accident reports and town planning schemes.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Estates and Valuation Department, 1897-1960, including County rate basis registers of returns from clerks to assessment committees and from clerks to commissioners of taxes; objections to rate assessments; rating schedules for MCC properties, including special properties, out county assessments, analysis of variations in assessment, and register of proposals and proceedings; Middlesex Review Order maps; papers relating to special properties including railways, canals, sewers and parks; review and alteration of county boundaries and circular letters issued by the Department.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Fire Brigade Department Auxiliary Fire Service, 1948-1965, including policy and administration files relating to: civil defence, planning, repair depots, personnel management, staff regulations, conditions of service, minutes of meetings of officers, tactical studies, tactical instructors, competitions, recreational facilities, and liaison with other authorities.

Files relating to recruitment and training including: recruitment policy, recruitment publicity including films, courses at civil defence training schools, rescue training, training films, exercises, promotions, women's section, allowances and expenses, medical examinations and long service medals.

Files relating to appliances and equipment including housing of vehicles and appliances, motor cycles, Bedford self propelled pumps, equipment for water relaying, stores and provisions, extension ladders, and training pamphlets.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Health Department relating to local health services, 1934-1965, including papers regarding co-operation between local health authorities, hospital authorities and general practitioners; policy on day nurseries and crèches; policy relating to the care of mothers and babies; policy relating to birth control; papers relating to the midwifery service and general childbirth; papers of the Family Help Service relating to problem families; policy on homeless families; policy relating to welfare foods; policy on health visiting and home nursing; papers regarding vaccination and immunisation; policy relating to the care of the aged; policy on nursing homes; papers relating to research, investigations and trials.

Maps from the Middlesex County Council Planning Department, 1920-1961, including map of London Airport (Heathrow); map showing allotments in Middlesex; maps of bye-passes, roads and highways; maps of school sites and playing fields; map of land liable for flooding; nature conservancy map; maps of drainage and sewerage; map of the Thames Riverside Walk; maps of the Central, North, South and West Planning Areas and map of parishes, unions, rural and urban sanitary districts.

Aerial photographs from the Middlesex County Council Planning Department, 1944-1964, taken by the Royal Air Force on behalf of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. The photographs were numbered and need to be used in conjunction with the index maps.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Public Assistance and Welfare Department, 1940-1965, including general files on a variety of topics including government legislation, administrative instructions, financial accounts and budgets, people in receipt of domiciliary relief, survey of physically disabled persons, welfare visitors, chronic sick people in residential accommodation, young chronic sick persons, liaison with regional hospital boards, mother and baby hospitals, abandoned children, and neglected children.

Register of old people's homes; registers of moveable property; case registers and index cards of elderly persons. Please note access to the case registers and index cards may be restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Papers of the Middlesex Advisory Committee and the Middlesex Area Advisory Committee on Justices of the Peace, 1911-1982, including minute books and papers relating to committee matters; and files on individual justices, 1960-1979.

Records of Chelsea Congregational Church, Markham Square including volume containing roll of members, 1884-1952; Church Book, 1856-1939, including historical account of Church, 1902, minutes of Church Meetings, 1867-1887, register of marriages, 1892-1939 and register of baptisms, 1868-1939; minute books of Church Meetings, 1856-1867 (includes account of foundation) and 1888-1930.

Records of the Ebenezer Chapel, King Street, Hammersmith, later the Albion Congregational Church, Dalling Road, Hammersmith, including volume, 1784-1849, containing articles and rules for faith and practice, 1784, roll of church members, 1784-1849 and register of events such as admission of new members, resignation of and invitations to pastors and so on, 1785-1819; Church book, 1881-1938, containing historical account of church covering period 1774-1938, minutes of Church Meetings, 1881-1886, roll of members, 1857-1938, register of marriages, 1881-1938, register of baptisms, 1881-1938, register of burials, 1881-1886; register of baptisms, 1875-[1880]; volume containing minutes of Church Meetings, 1923-1938, history of church covering 1774-1932 and note on the closure of the church, 1938.

Records of West Hampstead Congregational Church including register of baptisms and marriages, 1907-1939; roll of members, 1894-1933; register of applications for 'Fellowship', 1896-1904; minute book of Church meetings, 1894-1913; minute book of General Purposes Committee, 1906-1911; minutes of Joint Committee of Lyndhurst Road and West Hampstead Churches, 1911-1915; minute book of Joint Committee, known from April 1918 as 'the Committee' and from August 1919 as 'Meeting of Church Officers', 1915-1923; financial accounts, 1896-1934; printed programme of 'special events' and regular weekly meetings, 1923-1924; Church engagements and notices, 1937; certificate of enrollment of West Hampstead as member of League of Nations Union, 1938; drawing of detail of organ front, 1895 and plan of seating.

Records of Arundel Square Chapel, Westbourne Road, Barnsbury, Islington, including register of marriages, 1899-1916 and declaration of trust, 1868.

Records of New Road Meeting House, Stepney, comprising register of baptisms, 1785-1817.

Minutes of Church meetings, 1885-1887.

Church book containing minutes of Church meetings, 1859-1863, roll of members, 1859-1880, register of baptisms, 1860-1882 and minute book of Church meetings, 1892-1903.

Records of Turnham Green and Gunnersbury Congregational Church, including volume containing minutes of Church meetings, lists of baptisms, marriages and members, 1888-1897; minutes of Church Meetings, 1897-1957; papers of Turnham Green Sunday School, 1871-1886 and 1933-1940; minutes of Committee meetings, 1887-1961; financial accounts, 1891-1894.

Minutes of Church Meetings, 1861-1963; minutes of Church Committee, later called Deacon's meeting, 1873-1963; membership roll, 1866-1870; counterfoils of marriage certificates, 1924-1940; documents relating to Church property, 1856-1914; handbill advertising meeting to be held on 18 Aug 1861 in the [small school] rooms "to unite together those friends willing to devote themselves to the establishment of a permanent Religious [Cause] for Protestant Nonconformists at Wood Green, [suited to] the increasing of the village", 1861.

Volume containing entries of burials, roll of members and Confession of Faith, 1821-1894.