This collection consists of title deeds, wills and other property records relating to premises in London and Middlesex. Please use microfilm.
Sans titrePremises records for Whitbread and Company Limited, brewers, including various title deeds and documentation for property owned by Whitbread and Company, ledgers detailing property, rents, repairs and valuations, papers relating to the North Brewery Project and plans of Company premises organised by region.
Sans titreRecords of Whitbread and Company Limited, brewers, relating to advertising, memorabilia and personal records, including substantial albums and guard books with Whitbread and Company advertising and labelling from 1935 through to 1980, newscuttings book of adverts commissioned (1921-1996), photographs of premises (1930-1979) and correspondence relating to advertising campaigns. Also included are published histories of the Company from both the nineteenth and twentieth century. This collection also includes the Whitbread Archivist's research files on public houses in the London area, subsidary companies and individuals associated with Whitbread and Company.
Sans titreRecords of Whitbread Properties Limited, a subsidiary of Whitbread and Company Limited, brewers, including corporate registers, accounts and estate ledgers.
Sans titreRecords of Stowells and Sons, wine and spirits merchants, comprising a range of company records from 1845 to 1976 including records covering corporate and financial business, sales and production, staff, property and advertising, as well as records from companies acquired by Stowells from the 1930s onwards including Ellis, Wilson and Bacon Limited, Findlater, Mackie and Company Limited, E. Robins and Sons Limited and Apain and Albury Limited.
Sans titreRecords of Forest Hill Brewery Company Limited, including corporate minutes and registers, share certificates, accounts, trade books and property ledgers.
Sans titreBoard minutes and financial accounts for the Central Catering Company, dating from 1905-1907.
Sans titreRecords relating to the Bell Brewery, Tottenham, consisting of title deeds for property including documents on the Bell Brewery itself, employee name and wages books from the 1880s through to the 1900s, a claims book (1903-1953) and a summary record of sales from 1934 to 1957.
Sans titreRecords consist of farm accounts (1920-1937) and stud book listing the pedigree of mares from Theydon Hall Farm.
Sans titreRecords of Frederick Leney & Sons, brewers, consisting of printed reports and balance sheets for the period of 1925 to 1959.
Sans titreRecords of Dale and Company Limited, brewers, consisting of accounts sheets from the mid-1920s through to the 1950s.
Sans titreRecords of Douglas Ritchie Limited, construction company, including papers relating to the acquisition of the Company by Flowers Brewery, accounts and annual returns, and correspondence relating to planning and building.
Sans titreThis collection contains two plans drawn by Samuel Robinson relating to Saint Dunstan and All Saints' Church, Stepney and West Ham Abbey, West Ham. Both give detailed depictions and descriptions of the buildings and landscape features in their immediate area.
The West Ham Abbey plan (LMA/4458/01/002) gives very detailed views and notes of garden furniture and planting schemes in the adjacent Spring Gardens. For example the plan refers to: 'a square piece fenc'd with reeds wherein cucumbers are nurished' and 'Beds of tulips, pinks and carnations, French marigolds and sweet williams and other flowers. There are several plots of cabbages and colewerts, carrots and parsnips among the trees'.
Sans titreRecords of the Caribbean Biographical Project, including correspondence from biographers and authors; draft biographies and minutes.
Sans titrePersonal papers of Lionel and Pansy Jeffrey, political activists and race equality campaigners, including material from various organisations and committees including minutes, correspondence, brochures, newsletters, academic papers, draft speeches and reports.
Sans titreRecords of Pembroke and Pembroke, financial recruitment consultants, 1969-2002. Records include candidates' application forms; correspondence with clients and candidates; advertising material; administrative and financial records.
Sans titreAcademic paper written by Wendy Ironmonger that was submitted to and won the Chartered Insurance Institute Morgan Owen Medal Competition in 1986.
Sans titreThis collection contains Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets; 'Rules of the West Somerset and Devon Manufacturing Company Superannuation Fund and Life Assurance Scheme' (1950's); 'Staff Assurance Scheme English Sewing Cotton Company Limited' (1962); 'Pasolds Limited and Subsidiary Companies Retirement Benefits Plan Revised Scheme B' (1969); 'Pasolds Limited and Subsidiary Companies Retirement Benefits Plan Revised Scheme A' (1970); 'Coats Patons Superannuation Fund' (1978) and 'Your Guide Through The Coats Pension Plan' (2007).
Sans titreThe collection contains Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets; 'Central Electricity Authority and Area Boards (Manual Workers) Superannuation Scheme Explanatory Booklet' (1956) [facsimile copy]; 'Electricity Supply (Staff) Superannuation Scheme Explanatory Booklet' (1956) [facsimile copy] and 'Electricity Supply Pension Scheme Northern Electric Group Members Guide (2005).
Sans titreThis collection contains Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets; 'Trust Deed and Rules relating to The Molins Pension Fund' (1936) [facsimile]; 'The Molins Pension Fund' (1962) [facsimile] and 'Explaining your benefits for the future' (2007).
Sans titreExplanatory booklet regarding the 'Friends Provident Pension Scheme', 2000.
Sans titreRecords of the National Association of Pension Funds Ltd, 1917-2009, comprising minutes, agendas, reports and correspondence from various committees; secretary's files; documents concerning membership; publicity and outreach material, including conference publications, yearbooks and published reports and surveys; and audio-visual material, including photographs and promotional videos.
Sans titrePersonal papers of May Flack, owner of a boarding house for the Chinese community in Limehouse, including birth, marriage and death certificates; papers relating to members of Flack's family such as National Service cards, medical cards, letters and so on; family trees and an ancestry by DNA test; family photographs and newspaper cuttings relating to May Flack and Chinatown in Limehouse.
Sans titreRecords of the 'Good View Restaurant' Chinese take-away, comprising weekly acounts and supply re-ordering sheets, dating to the 1980s and 1990s.
Sans titreTranscript of oral history recording Our Laundrette in Birkenhead, describing Mrs Ling's early working life in her father-in-law's laundrette.
Sans titreRecords of Merryweather and Company Limited, fire engine and fire fighting equipment manufacturers, comprising a day book providing details on supplies to customers (1830-1835) with draft letters (1842-1844) and a photograph album of fire equipment annotated with the name of the customer they were supplied to (1920-1921).
Sans titreRecords of the Thomas Martyn Foundation, including minutes of the trustees 1716-1972; correspondence 1887-1939, 1955-1977; accounts 1863-1893, 1904-1947; copy will of Thomas Martyn; reports on the school 1883-1909; apprenticeship register and indentures, 1878-1932; pupils' birth certificates; exhibition items; printed material and photographs.
Sans titreClippings of obituaries for Mr Alastair Ross Goobey, pensions fund manager, from various national newspapers, and photographs of Goobey and other attendees at the inaugural Ross Goobey lecture at The Cass Business School.
Sans titreRecords of Saint James's United Reformed Church, Heather Walk, Edgware. The collection includes minutes of the court of session 1933-1972, elders meetings 1972-2000, committee of management 1933-2001, church meetings 1972-2001 and youth and teachers meetings 1933-1952; baptism register 1933-2001, marriage registers 1948 to 1975 and communicant rolls 1933-1998, appointed persons certificates 1946-1987 and records relating to appointment and ministry of Reverend Geoffrey Holland Williams MA; correspondence, plans and sound recordings relating to new church hall 1950, correspondence, plans and specifications relating to extension of vestry block 1953, correspondence and statements relating to purchase, sale and letting of manse 1986-2000; collection books 1933-1987 and account sheets 1949-1993; annual reports 1933-1949, yearbooks 1951-2001, newsletters 1935-1962, fellowship of youth newsletters 1950-1964 and church magazines 1963-2000; silver jubilee celebratory booklet 1958 and various orders of service commemorating significant milestones within the church's history.
Sans titreRecords of Reader Brothers, builders, 1895-1980. The collection consists of three main types of record: There is administrative material which includes both the 'formal' records of Reader Brothers (Builders) Limited, such as the Memorandum and Articles of Association, Minutes of meetings, Registers of Members and records relating to shares; as well as various accounts ledgers, cash, petty cash and wages books, diaries and notebooks.
Secondly there are files, planning applications and other legal documents - some with plans attached.
Then there are books and other printed material related to the building trade and lastly there are plans and drawing of housing projects undertaken by the company.
Sans titreRecords of London South Bank Careers, 1968-2002. This collection contains the records of the Chief Executive and Executive Director of Education (Operations). It includes management minutes, policy and correspondence files relating to the provision of independent Careers Services for young people in the London Boroughs of Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, and the involvement of the LSBC in national developments in Careers Service provision. Correspondence also includes local projects including work on housing estates, with local schools, and 'Skills for the Millenium' which looked at the employment benefits brought to Greenwich by the Millenium Dome, and Government funded initiatives including the 'Learning Card' and projects such as 'New Deal' which sought to provide career 'Gateways' for disaffected young people.
The Chief Executive and Executive Director's correspondence also highlights the importance which partnerships with local schools, employers, local authorities, other Careers Services and Training and Enterprise Councils, had in supporting bids for funding projects and developing careers provision across the London area.
The collection includes publications and web site pages produced by the company showing the distinctive public image of the company, and the range of services which were available. The photographs cover career service company launch, outreach and party events
The collection also covers former Careers Services which included the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) and South Thames Careers Limited, which operated in the four boroughs prior to the LSBC. The correspondence, photographs and publications detail their work and charts the establishment of LSBC through competitive bidding.
Sans titreRecords of Pioneer Trading Company Limited, comprising minutes of Board meetings and Directors' meetings, 1914-1961.
Sans titreRecords of Beverlys Limited, including board meetings minute book, register of members, memorandum and articles of association, ledger and inventory. Also records of Northern Tea Stores, comprising register of members and register of transfers; and records of Black and Green, including board meetings minute book, registers of members, share registers and memorandum and articles of association.
Sans titreRecords of Valentine Charles (Holdings) Ltd, wine merchants, including directors' meeting minute books; board meeting minute books; combined register of directors, shares and members; and share certificate books including preference shares, ordinary shares and fully paid shares.
Sans titreRecords of Byron Gulliver and Sons Limited, off-licence and wine merchants, comprising one Directors' meetings minute book.
Sans titreRecords of Lings of London Limited, wine merchants, comprising minute book containing minutes of directors' meetings, shareholders meetings, and annual general meetings; and memorandum and articles of association.
Sans titreRecords of Preston Watson and Company Limited, wine and spirit merchants, comprising minute book for directors' meetings, shareholders meetings, annual general meetings and extraordinary general meetings.
Sans titreRecords of A J Smith and Company Limited, off-licence and wine merchants, comprising Board meetings minute book.
Sans titreRecords of Victoria Wine Company Limited, including directors' meetings minute books; agenda books; minutes of Divisonal Management meetings; minutes of Ordinary General Meetings, shareholders meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings; registers of members, directors, secretaries, transfers and annual returns; seal books; registers of shareholders; memorandum and article of association for Victoria Wine Company Limited; annual returns; financial accounts.
Records relating to associated companies including memorandum and articles of association for GEVSO Limited; report of directors for Valentine Charles Limited; financial accounts of Aylward and Sons Limited and financial accounts of Silk and Son Limited.
Also papers relating to the transfer of property between associated companies, including Ind Coope to Victoria Wine-Tyler.
Sans titreRecords of P G Ward and Company Limited, comprising register of members and shares; certificate of incorporation; share certificates and change of director and company situation forms.
Sans titreRecords of Winchester Brewery, comprising documents relating to public houses owned by the company in Stepney, Camberwell and Lambeth.
Sans titreRecords of J and W Nicholson and Company Limited, gin distillers, 1897-1986. This collection contains corporate and premises records. Corporate records comprise a change of name certificate and premises records include documents relating to individual public houses and premises, mortgage information and a plan of The Richmond Hotel, Hammersmith.
Sans titreRecords of Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 1951-2002. There are three series in the collection, the first (LMA/4449/01) covering the administration of the business, and the latter two (LMA/4449/02 and LMA/4449/03) dealing with the auctions and sales, including a series of catalogues.
Sans titreRecords of the Pilgrim Trust, including minutes of Trustees meetings; financial records; papers of the Secretary; correspondence; annual reports; publications; annual accounts; ledgers; cash books; grant payment books; and grant files relating to art and learning, countryside preservation, ecclesiastical preservations, secular preservation and social welfare.
Sans titreStaff records of Whitbread and Company Limited, including salary books and ledgers giving information on weekly and monthly salaries over a range of time periods along with details of annuities, pensions and superannuation funds. There are also lists of employees from as early as 1841 (some of which are organised according to occupation), attendance books and information on ex-servicemen employed after the First World War along with sick pay and accident report books, and papers from the 1960s and 1970s detailing company employment policy.
Sans titreThis is a collection of records of various companies involved in the trading of Ceylon [now Sri Lanka] and Indian teas. It consists of import registers for an un-named company, auction catalogues for private trade teas and photographs of tea plantations, possibly in Ceylon, and the offices and staff of R.M. Holborn and Sons Limited, tea and coffee merchants.
Sans titreApportionment of rent charge in lieu of tithes in the parish of Hendon, with plan, 1741-1903.
Sans titreRecords of the Samuel Lewis Housing Trust and the The Women's Housing Trust, including records of Samuel and Ada Lewis including property records and records of other trusts and societies with which they were involved. There are also oral history tapes and papers relating to the project undertaken in 2001 for the centenary celebration.
Sans titreRecords of DeClermont and Donner Limited, manufacturers, importers and exporters of and dealers in leather, and their subsidiary companies, 1894-1995. The records include minutes, memoranda and articles of association, accounts, papers relating to shares, and correspondence.
Sans titreRecords of Lord Charles Latham, leader of the London County Council, consisting of reports, papers, correspondence, notebooks and diaries including photographs and press cuttings belonging to Lord Latham.
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