Records of Hither Green Methodist Church, 1901-1970, including minutes and other administrative papers; souvenir programmes of entertainments and events such as bazaars; correspondence addressed to Mrs H N Beecher Bryant, particularly from Doctor John Scott Lidgett, Methodist theologian and founder of the Bermondsey Settlement; and photographs of church events, clergy, members of the church and the interior and exterior of the church building.
Sans titreRecords of Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church, Hampstead, comprising Church manuals including reports and Ministers addresses, 1883-1891; Lyndhurst Road Church news sheet, 1935 and Lyndhurst Hall report, 1954-1955.
Sans titreRecords of Putney United Reformed Church and its predecessors, 1885-1972, including trust deeds and agreements relating to property owned by the Church; papers relating to the appointment of new trustees and correspondence regarding building works.
Sans titreRecords of John Knox Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, 1868-1917; Deacons' Court minute books, 1860-1927 and Communicants' roll book, 1877-1939 (with gaps).
Sans titreRecords of Cricklewood Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, 1898-1945; Deacons' Court minute books, 1894-1945; Missionary Association minute book, 1924-1944; annual reports, 1899-1902; Communicants' roll book, 1898-1943; register of baptisms, 1899-1934 and Sunday School attendance register, 1938-1939.
Sans titreRecords of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Manor Park, East Ham, including Court of Session minute books, 1900-1972; Deacons' Court minute books, 1943-1972; Finance Committee minute books, 1900-1920; Literary Society minute book, 1901-1927; Young People's Institute minute book, 1923-1928; Communicants' roll book, 1901-1967 and register of baptisms, 1901-1944.
Sans titreRecords of Saint George's Presbyterian Church, Palmers Green, comprising Literary Society minute books, 1914-1989. Please note that after 1965 the Literary Society was known as the Monday Society.
Sans titreRecords of the Presbyterian Housing Scheme, Poplar, including Ladies Committee minute book (The Committee of the Presbyterian Settlement, East London), 1901-1910; Ladies Settlement Committee minute book, 1910-1912; Committee of the Women's Presbyterian Settlement minute book, 1912-1939; Settlement Committee minute book, 1939-1946; General Committee minute book, 1946-1964; Executive Committee minute book, 1938-1960; Finance Committee minute book, 1954-1958; annual reports of the Presbyterian Settlement (missing years 1938, 1939 and 1966), 1899-1969; annual reports written by the congregation (missing 1961/1962), 1960-1965; architectural plans, 1938-1953; printed material relating to the Presbyterian Settlement, 1924-1968 and correspondence, 1911-1967.
Sans titreRecords of Saint Ninian's Presbyterian Church, Golders Green, comprising Communicants' roll books, 1911-1941. Also a poster for the fighting fund of the Fellowship of Youth.
Sans titreRegister of baptisms, 1820-1823.
Sans titreRecords of Saint James's Presbyterian church, Wood Green, including Court of Session minute books, 1871-1931; Managing Committee minute books, 1879-1931; Annual reports, 1892-1906 and Communicants' roll books, 1895-1943.
Sans titreRecords of Lower Clapton Presbyterian Church, Downs Park Road, including Court of Session minute books, 1901-1935; Deacons' Court minute books, 1907-1935; Communicants' roll books, 1878-1935 (some gaps); register of baptisms (includes Dalston Presbyterian Church), 1854-1934; Disjunction certificate book, 1918-1935; Souvenir book including list of members, 1912 and copy of Indenture and Deed of Conveyance, 1873.
Sans titreManuals containing the annual reports of the several societies associated with the church, 1868-1915.
Sans titreCopy book for correspondence, 1906-1910 and Deacons' Court minute book, 1930-1937.
Sans titreAnnual reports, 1847-1927; Trustees minute book, 1825-1848; Literary Society minute book, 1904-1910; British Women's Temperance Association minute book, 1916-1919; Communicants' roll book, 1933-1946; Disjunction certificate book, 1937-1949; Register of baptisms, 1822-1856; Register of baptisms (including the Caledonian Church, Cross Street, Hatton Garden), 1826; Register of baptisms, 1827-1840; Young Men's Association register, 1841-1911; scrap book regarding the National Scotch Church, 1823-1960 and scrap book regarding events at Regent Square, 1860-1893.
Sans titreCourt of Session minute book for Windsor Presbyterian Church, 1853-1855.
Sans titreRecords of the Emperor's Gate Presbyterian Church and its predecessors South Kensington Presbyterian Church and Belgrave Presbyterian Church, including Court of Session minute books, 1890-1930; Managers minute books, 1887-1930; Communicants' roll books, 1873-1887 and 1900-1928; Communicants' roll book for Belgrave Presbyterian Church, 1912-1922 (members' names were transferred to the new roll book for Emperor's Gate on June 1st 1922); register of baptisms, 1873-1886 and 1922-1930 and Baptismal certificates, 1890-1922.
Sans titreRecords of Highfields Presbyterian Church, Sussex, including Court of Session minute book, 1895-1916; Managers' minute book, 1896-1910; Communicants' roll books, 1882-1947; Treasurer's account book, 1896-1951 and general correspondence, 1938-1950.
Sans titreRecords of the Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cowden, Kent, including Court of Session minute book, 1932-1954; Committee of Management minute books, 1924-1928 and 1933-1955; Communicants' roll book, 1925-1955 and register of baptisms, 1936-1953.
Sans titreRecords of Saint Andrew's Presbyterian Church comprising Court of Session minute books, 1872-1942 and Deacons' Court minute book, 1905-1949.
Sans titreRecords of Christ Church Presbyterian Church including Communicants' roll book, 1928-1938; Court of Session minute books, 1915-1938; Board of Managers' minute books, 1903-1938; Sunday School teachers' minute book, 1924-1928; Register of baptisms, 1923-1938, including a separate note that some Dulwich baptisms from 1921-1923 are in the Camberwell register of baptisms.
Sans titreRecords of Saint Andrew's Presbyterian Church comprising Court of Session minute book, 1878-1908 and Committee of Management minute books, 1923-1956.
Sans titreRecords for Saint Andrew's Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute book, 1917-1929 and Committee of Management minute book (contains annual reports), 1890-1905.
Sans titreRecords of New Road Presbyterian Church, Woolwich, comprising register of baptisms, 1822-1826 and annual reports, 1904-1922.
Sans titreRecords of Saint Cuthbert's Presbyterian Church, West Norwood, including Court of Session minute books, 1892-1968; Deacons' Court minute books, 1894-1944; Communicants' roll books, 1897-1962; Disjunction certificates, 1941-1961 and address book, 1874-1875.
Sans titreRecords of Saint John's Presbyterian Church, Forest Hill, including Court of Session minute books, 1871-1972; Manager's Court minute books, 1870-1972; minute book of the Trustees of Ewart Road Mission Hall, including schedule of deeds, 1902-1919; minute book of the Trustees of St John's Church, including schedule of deeds, related correspondence and a plan of the church and its grounds, 1902-1938; Communicants' roll book, 1880-1957 and Treasurer's account book, 1870.
Sans titreRecords of the Kingston and Surbiton Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, including history of the chapel, 1876-1962; Deacons' Court minute books, 1873-1957; Bazaar Committee minute book, 1938; annual reports, 1879-1938 (some gaps); Communicants' roll books, 1876-1954; register of baptisms, 1873-1875; financial accounts, 1879-1946; and letter book, 1880-1888.
Sans titreCourt of session minute books, 1889-1941; Managers minute book, 1916-1941; annual report for the Verulam Mission Church, 1883; Communicants' roll books, 1882-1941; disjunction certificate book, 1900-1926; register of baptisms for Verulam Scotch Church, Lambeth, 1831-1835 and register of baptisms, 1882-1939.
Sans titreAnnual report, 1879; Year Book 1907 (contains annual report and financial statements for 1906) and Year Book 1923 (contains annual report and financial statements for 1922).
Sans titreRecords of Christ's Church Presbyterian Church, Maidstone, comprising minute book of the Provisional Committee, 1873-1874; minute book of the Committee, 1875-1881 and financial accounts, 1873-1881.
Records of the Presbyterian Preaching Station, London Road, Maidstone, comprising minute book of the Board of Management, 1947-1951 and Women's Missionary Association minute book, 1949.
Sans titreRecords of Holybourne Presbyterian Church, including Court of Session minute books, 1880-1970; Minute book of Ministers and Elders of the Alton Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends), 1848-1856; Communicants' roll book, 1897-1970; register of baptisms, 1879-1893 and Treasurer's cash book, 1918-1944.
Sans titreRegister of baptisms, 1861-1933; specifications and correspondence regarding the re-building of the Church, includes architect's floor plan, 1947-1948; Quarterly meetings minute book of the London Welsh Circuit, 1889-1908; Church committee minute book, 1908-1940; Church committee meeting minutes book, 1923-1955; Church committee meeting minute book regarding post war move of church, 1946-1963; Meeting minutes of the trustees and officers, 1953-1974; Memorandum of the choice and appointment of new trustees, 1950-1950 and Poland Street Trustees Account Book, 1884-1918. Please note that most of the minute books are written in Welsh.
Sans titreRecords of the West London Mission, 1888-1988, including minute books from Staff meetings, Finance Committee meetings, Foreign Missionary Committee meetings, Local Preacher's meetings, Women's Work Committee meetings and Sunday School Committee meetings; financial accounts; general correspondence; annual reports of the West London Mission; annual reports of the Social and Redemptive Work amongst Women and Girls; annual reports of the West London Rehabilitation Centre for Alcoholics; publication Portraits and Pictures of the West London Mission (1893); newsletters and magazines; advertisements and appeals; photographs.
Also Kingsway Hall Trust lettings ledger; Kingsway Hall collection journal and Kingsway Hall Creche Committee papers and promotional brochures.
Sans titrePrivate ledgers, accounts, share records, correspondence, price lists, staff and premises photographs, superannuation fund material, property ledgers. Includes subsidiaries: Clarnico Trust, Clarke, Nickolls and Coomb Properties Limited, Jonathan Edmundson and Company Limited, J and A Buchanan Limited, Charbonnel and Walker Limited, C N Toys, Salter and Company, Altbarn Property Limited, Benfleet, Edmondson's (Canada) Limited and Table Mountain Trust.
Sans titrePapers of the Alexandra Rose Charities, including minutes, correspondence, membership details, advertising and publicity material, photographs of patrons, staff and flag day events, artefacts such as collecting tins and an early 1912 artificial rose. Related charity records include a minute book of 'Their Day' charity and a set of printed reports for 'Our Day' charity.
Sans titreThames Rights Defence Association account book.
Sans titrePapers of Alan Herbert, pensions manager, comprising entries to the Pensions Management Awards 2000 and the Professional Pensions Awards 2007, which typically include a submission paper for the award as well as a variety of communication material produced by the pension scheme for its members, press clippings about the scheme and papers on the administration of the scheme. The collection also contains a discussion paper for the Trustee Code of Conduct Group.
Sans titreCash book giving customer name and amount paid only. Includes references to payments concerning Fry and Hunt, later J S Fry and Sons, chocolate manufacturers; withdrawals by Windover and his brother Arthur Fry up to 1835 and payments concerning work done at Type Street Foundry premises.
Sans titreMAB/1-142: Board Minutes and Agendas.
MAB/143-1448: Minutes, agendas and papers of Committees and Sub-Committees (Special and Joint, Ambulance, Asylums, Casual Wards, Children's, Contracts, Fever Patients, Finance, General Purposes, Hampstead Asylum, Hospitals, Hours and Wages of Staff, Law and Parliamentary, Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, Nursing Staff, Sanatorium (Tuberculosis), Smallpox Patients, Training Ship Exmouth, Works).
MAB/1449-1457: Registers of members.
MAB/1458-1493: Year books.
MAB/1494-1547: Letters from the Poor Law Board, Local Government Board and Ministry of Health.
MAB/1548-1562: Orders of the Poor Law Board and Local Government Board.
MAB/1563-1572: Regulations and standing orders.
MAB/1573-1576: Seal books.
MAB/1577-1684: Annual reports of the Board and its committees.
MAB/1685-1721: Miscellaneous printed reports and papers.
MAB/1722-1735: Legal papers.
MAB/1736-1750: Lists of staff and papers relating to staff.
MAB/1751-1836: Statistics.
MAB/1837-1847: Press cuttings.
MAB/1848-1872: Contracts.
MAB/1873-2247: Financial records.
MAB/2248-2255: Plans.
MAB/2256-2633: Papers, reports, etc., relating to institutions run by the Board.
Index of institutions found in the records with their reference numbers (MAB/xxxx):
Atlas Hospital Ship, 1069
Banstead Road School (see Downs School)
Belmont Asylum, 0239-0242, 2256-2267
Bethnal Green Casual Ward, 2590
Bridge School, 0500-0505, 0600, 2268-2272
Brook Hospital, 0145, 0857-0872, 2273-2280
Camberwell Green Remand Home, 2606-2617
Caterham Asylum/ Hospital, 0145a, 0243-0286, 1855, 2281-2299
Caterham Farm, 0285
Chelsea Casual Ward, 2591-2593
Clapton Asylum, 0801-0802
Cleveland Street Children's Infirmary, 0505-0507, 2300-2305a
Colindale Hospital, 1251-1256, 2306
Darenth School, 0145, 0287-0335a, 1856, 2307-2325
Dartford Institution, 0968
Deptford Hospital (see also South Eastern Hospital), 0144
Downs Hospital, 0509-0514, 0600, 2325-2331
Dreadnought Hospital, 1068
East Cliff House (see also Princess Mary's Hospital, Margate), 0600
Eastern Hospital, 0886-0918, 0968, 1857, 2332-2355
Edmonton Epileptic Colony, 0336-0341
Elm Grove Home for Defective Children, 2356-2357
Endymion Hospital Ship, 1069
for Hospital Ships see Joyce Green Hospital
Fountain Hospital, 0342-0350, 0515, 0792, 0921-0927, 0950-0964, 2358-2362
Fulham Hospital (see also Western Hospital), 0144
Geneva Cross, 1692-1693
Goldie Leigh Homes, 0516-0521, 2373-2375
Gore Farm, 0928-0944, 0967, 1858, 2363-2372
Grove Hospital, 0145, 0945-0964, 2376-2379
Grove Park Hospital, 1257-1258, 2380-2382
Hackney Casual Ward, 2594-2596
Hampstead Asylum, 0801, 0803
Hampstead Hospital (see also North Western Hospital), 0143, 0145a
Hampstead Temporary Hospital, 0143
Hanwell Home, 0522
Harrow Road Remand Home, 2618-2625
High Wood Hospital, High Wood School, 0523-0536, 0600-0601, 2383-2389
Highdown (see King George V Sanatorium)
Hither Green Lodge, 0731
Homerton Fever Hospital (see also Eastern Hospital), 0145a
Joyce Green Hospital Farm, 0968
Joyce Green Hospital, 2390-2391
King George V Sanatorium, 1259-1260, 2392-2394
Kingswood Road, Fulham, 0537-0543
Lambeth Casual Ward, 2597
Leavesden Asylum, 0145a, 0351-0397, 1860, 2395-2407
Lloyd House, 0545-0547, 2408
Long Reach Hospital, 2250
Millfield, 1261-1268
North Eastern Hospital (Tottenham), 0967, 0994-1012, 2409-2410
North Western Hospital, 0145a, 0965, 0966, 1013-1038, 1861, 2251, 2411-2423
Northern Defective Homes, 0600
Northern Hospital (Winchmore Hill), 0969-0993
Park Hospital, 0145, 0548-560, 1039-1044, 1446, 2424-2434
Pentonville Road Remand Home, 2626-2635
Pinewood Sanatorium, 1269-1271, 2435
Poplar Casual Ward, 2598-2601
Princess Mary's Hospital, 1272-1281, 2436-2441
Queen Mary's Hospital (Carshalton), 1045-1061, 1445, 2442-2449
Rochester House, 0398-0401, 2450
Rushington, 0600
Saint Anne's Home, Herne Bay, 0569-0576, 0600
Saint George's Home, 1251-1256, 2451-2452
Saint Luke's Hospital, Lowestoft, 1283-1285, 2453-2454
Saint Margaret's Hospital, 1063-1065
Saint Pancras Casual Ward, 2601
Sheffield Street Hospital, 1066-1067
South Eastern Hospital (Deptford) (see also Deptford Hospital), 0967, 0968, 1116-1140, 2252, 2456-2467
Southern (Carshalton) Hospital, 0145, 0968, 2455
Southern (Convalescent) Home (see also Gore Farm)
Southern Defective Home, 0600
Southern Hospital (see also Queen Mary's Hospital)
Southwark Casual Ward, 2602
Stockwell Hospital ,0145a
Sutton Schools (see Belmont Asylum)
Tooting Bec Asylum, 0412-0432, 1447-1448, 2486-2491
Training Ship Exmouth, 1287-1362, 2492-2581
Western Hospital (see also Fulham Hospital), 0145a, 1201-1223, 2582-2583
White Oak School, 0600, 0603-0617, 2584-2588
Whitechapel Casual Ward, 2603
Witham Schools, 0795
Sans titreRecords of the Middlesex County Council, 1712-1975, including the Architect's Department, Civil Defence Department, Children's Department, Clerk's Department, Clerk's Legal Department, Education Officer's Department, Engineer and Surveyor's Department, Estates and Valuation Department, Fire Brigade Department, County Treasurer's Department, Health Department, Local Taxation Department, and Public Assistance and Welfare 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, publicity material, pamphlets, leaflets and publications. The records deal with various aspects of Middlesex governance including the management of schools, hospitals, health centres, libraries, residential care homes and other insitutions; the overseeing and regulation of construction work, roads and highways, sewers, drains 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 theatres and cinemas; licensing of vehicles and drivers; traffic congestion and transport issues; town planning; financial accounts, estimates and budgets, and civil defence and emergency measures during the First and Second World Wars.
Sans titreRecords of the Middlesex County Council Civil Defence Department, including general files, 1953-1964, relating to civil defence including planning, guidance, memoranda, reports, background information, general correspondence, correspondence relating to air raid shelters, surveys, conferences and papers on the use of the Civil Defence Corps in peacetime emergencies.
Files on training, 1949-1964, including syllabus and instructor notes for training in handling casualties, rescue, wardens, tactics, evacuation, care of the homeless, billeting, rest centres, operational control, cable laying and communications; orders for training exercises; demonstrations and competitions, and plaques presented to the Middlesex Division Civil Defence Corps for completion of training by the Royal Air Force.
Files on tactical studies, 1953-1962, including London tactical study exercise questions; London Region control and deployment study; papers from a London tactical exercise at Park Royal; and papers from a Middlesex County Council tactical study at Hirst Hall, Wembley including programmes, talks and notes.
Sans titreRecords of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department comprising index cards of children in care. Please note access to these records is restricted under the Data Protection Act.
Sans titreRecords of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to staffing, comprising index cards of staff in the Department, 1948-1965. Please note that access to these records is restricted under the Data Protection Act.
Sans titreRecords of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department comprising case files of adoptions, 1943-1947. Access to these records is restricted under the Data Protection Act.
Sans titreRecords of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department comprising plans of works carried out on roads and highways in the Middlesex area, 1932-1939.
Sans titreRecords of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to estates and housing, 1889-1965, including index cards listing MCC properties; index cards of properties in the Green Belt, and files relating to the administration of MCC properties and land, including some deeds, purchase information, correspondence, plans and photographs. Properties and structures include housing estates, a pumping station, an electricity sub-station, fire stations, footpaths, open spaces, playing fields and sports grounds, civil defence training premises, railway extension, hospital, offices, highways and schools.
Also plans of a clinic, housing estates, schools, street layouts, a sports ground, allotments, a police station and a court house.
Sans titreRecords of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to entertainments licensing, 1893-1965, including orders, reports and regulations concerning licences; applications for licensing; reports on the building requirements of premises seeking licences for music, dancing or stage plays; writs, reports and correspondence; prosecutions against unlicensed premises; police reports relating to Sunday opening of cinemas; stage play bonds, and pamphlet 'A short history of the cinema in Middlesex 1910-1965'.
Papers relating to individual premises including cinemas, hotels, music halls, canteens, hippodromes, cafes, arenas, dance halls, lecture halls, sports arenas, restaurants, skating rinks, working men's clubs and theatres.
Sans titreRecords of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Establishment Committee, 1923-1965, comprising papers relating to staff matters including superannuation, grading, appeals against grading decisions, leave, recruitment, expenses, employment of the disabled, departmental reorganisations, salary scales, equal pay, staff inspections, financial aid, training schemes, bonus schemes, advertising and publicity, correspondence, reports, conditions of service and regulations. Also Joint Negotiating Committee papers, Fire Brigade personnel cards, and papers relating to the transfer of staff to other authorities in 1965.
Sans titreRecords of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to finance, 1864-1965, including general papers on a variety of subjects including accounts, audits, estimates, budgets, County stocks, rates, rating and valuation, correspondence, general loans, grants, mortgages, contracts, reports, sale of property, staff salaries, rents, financial regulations, investments, trust funds, borrowing, capital expenditure, war damage, insurance, banking arrangements, housing advances and housing loans.
Papers of the Accounts and General Sub-committee; papers of the Central Purchasing Sub-committee; papers of the Organisation and Method Committee; papers relating to the administration of the Edmonton Latymer Foundation; register of applications to the Local Government Board for consent to borrow loan sanctions; register of applications to the Ministry of Health for consent to borrow loan sanctions; indexes to loan sanctions
Papers relating to rates including correspondence, County rate basis forms of return calculations, revisions of county rate basis, returns by clerks to assessment committees, appeals against rates, calculations for the basis of county rates and revision of county rate basis returns of properties.
Administrative papers of the Finance Department, including office procedures, correspondence, appointment of the County Treasurer and other staff, staff personal files, and superannuation.
Sans titreRecords of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the London Airport Committee (Heathrow), 1948-1964, including correspondence; financial papers; papers relating to noise from aircraft, transport links and road works; papers relating to insurance, and press notices.
Sans titre