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Records of the City of London Gas Light and Coke Company, 1705-1881, comprising deeds of title and co-partnerships and letters, relating to premises in Water Lane, Pigs Quay Wharf and other premises between Tudor Street and Water Street; and deeds relating to premises between Whitefriars Dock, Victoria Embankment and Tudor Street, near to Dorset Street.

General records relating to the supply of gas, 1825-1948, collected by the North Thames Gas Board and predecessor companies. Includes draft Parliamentary reports leading up to the Act for better regulating the supply of gas to the metropolis, 1860; minutes of weekly meetings of a Committee of Chairmen of the Metropolitan Gas Companies in connection with the Parliamentary Committee inquiring into the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860; Bill and relevant papers concerning the proposed amalgamation of all or some of the metropolitan gas companies; drafts, petitions and briefs concerning the London Corporation Gas Bill; report from the Board of Trade on the current Railway, Tramway, Gas and Water Bills, 1870; Gas and Water Facilities Bill, 1870; press cuttings; statistical information about gas companies, 1865.

Also papers relating to individual gas companies including Bill to establish a company for illuminating London and Westminster with oil gas (the London and Westminster Oil Gas Company), 1825; minutes of evidence before the House of Lords' select committee on the Phoenix Gas Bill, 1864; half yearly reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Phoenix Gas Light and Coke Co. to the Proprietors; Bills and Acts affecting the powers of the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company; Bill amending powers of the Surrey Consumers' Gas Light and Coke Association; annual reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Surrey Consumers' Gas Company to the Shareholders.

Records of the Western (Cannel) Gas Light Company, including half yearly reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Western Gas Light Company Limited to the shareholders; certificates of registration of the company; return of schedule to the deed of settlement, showing name, address and profession of shareholders; list of proprietors of the company, showing name, address and number of shares held by each; assignment of debts and shares as security for repayment; contract for lighting part of Notting Hill lighting district; agreements and licences for laying mains in various districts; schedule of deeds, drafts and correspondence for company premises in various locations including Kensington, Westminster, Marylebone and Kensal Green.

Records of the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company, including half yearly reports from the Court of Proprietors to the General Assembly; half yearly reports and accounts from the Directors to the Proprietors; correspondence and memoranda; Parliamentary notices; reports; papers relating to stocks and shares; papers relating to legal actions and lawsuits; contracts and agreements; copies of various Parliamentary acts concerning gas companies and public works; proofs, correspondence, briefs, petitions, bills and drafts in Parliamentary transactions; and papers relating to amalgamations with other gas companies.

Also deeds and papers relating to Company offices in the City of London, Chelsea, Hackney, Islington, Kensington, Lambeth, Paddington, Marylebone, Saint Pancras, Stepney, Westminster, Finsbury, Poplar, Shoreditch and Millbank.

Records of Truman Hanbury Buxton and Co Ltd, 1527-1977, comprising: corporate records, (B/THB/A); accounting records (B/THB/B); production records (B/THB/C); property records (B/THB/D); trade records (B/THB/E); staff records (B/THB/F); family and personal papers (B/THB/G); records relating to the history of the firm (B/THB/H); diaries (B/THB/J); printed material (B/THB/PMT); photographs (B/THB/X); and artefacts (B/THB/Y).

Also records of breweries taken over by Trumans, comprising Burton Brewery (B/THB/BUR); George Wood and Son Ltd (B/THB/GW); Russells Gravesend Brewery (B/THB/RUS); Swansea United Breweries (B/THB/SUB); and Writtle Brewery (B/THB/WRI).

The records include administrative papers, correspondence, stocks and shares papers, deeds, agreements, articles of agreement for partnerships, board meeting papers, monthly reports, order books, ledgers, records of brewing, stock, bottling and cooperage, gyle books, deeds, tenancy agreements, licensing records, papers relating to public houses including visitation registers, inventories, photographs, sales and deliveries records, wages books, staff medical records, registers of employees, recruitment records, historical research, house journals, newspaper cuttings, official publications and souvenir badges.

Records of the Western Gas Light Company, 1821-1860, including deed of settlement, Acts of Parliament relating to the Company, licences, papers relating to property, legal case papers, minutes of Directors' meetings and minutes of Shareholders' meetings.

Records relating to property owned by Powell, Warner and Crowther, stationers, including lease of 101 High Street, Whitechapel; assignment of the business and all stock and books from Powell to Warner and Crowther; assignment of lease of a warehouse in Commercial Street, Stepney, with schedule of deeds of the warehouse. 1871-1882.

Records of the Woolwich Consumers Protective Gas Company, later the Woolwich, Plumstead and Charlton Consumers Gas Company, 1844-1884, comprising minutes of meetings of the Directors and the Proprietors, and deed of settlement.

Report upon Fish Markets, Fish Trade Abuses, etc, 17 Apr 1890; with assignment of premises in Stoke Newington, 1684/5; letter about bills, 1824 and collection of late 18th century receipts.

Records relating to property owned by the monastery and church of Saint Peter, Westminster [Westminster Abbey], including leases, assignments, demise, bargain and sale, and power of attorney.

Records of Bow County Court, 1847-1962, including minute books; plaint and minute books; Workmen's Compensation Act register; and default actions books.

Records of Charles Barker and Sons Ltd, advertising agency, as follows:-
Mss. 19973-19979: Foundation and Constitution: memorandum and articles of association, certificate of incorporation, shares and related papers;
Mss. 19980-19981: Management: minutes and related papers;
Mss. 19982-20007: Finance: private accounts; annual reports and accounts, ledgers, journals, cash books etc;
Mss. 20008-20028: Administration: advertising record and order books, correspondence and miscellaneous papers, clients lists, newsletter of 1824, papers relating to Joint Stock Companies Directory, reports and scripts;
Mss. 20029-20034: Samples of advertising proofs;
Mss. 20035-20038: Scrapbooks of press cuttings relating to clients and bankers;
Mss 20039-20041: Press releases and miscellaneous press cuttings;
Mss 20042-20044: Printed information booklets relating to the company, presentation documents;
Mss 20045-20055: Personnel: records of appointment, remuneration, fees etc. of partners, directors and managers;
Mss 20056-20058: Property;
Mss 20059-20067: Miscellaneous: company history, personal and genealogical papers relating to the Barker family (see also Ms 19982).

Also records of Barker Family (MS 19982, 20007, 20065), 1764-1905. The records comprise private accounts, receipts and notices concerning life assurance policies and investments, and genealogical notes.

Records of William Coare (d 1830), wine and brandy merchant, including Coare's apprenticeship indenture and freedom of the City of London; sales ledger; bonds for money owed to Coare; lists of stock and inventories; correspondence; and legal papers.

Records of the Colombo Gas and Water Company Limited, comprising constitutional documents, minutes and correspondence, share records, accounts and title deeds. It should be noted that CLC/B/054/MS14890 requires proof of identity to see.

Records of Commercial Union Assurance Company Limited, including minutes of the Fire Committee and the Accident Department; and papers of the Marine Department including ledgers, journals, weekly returns, letters, voyage books giving details of ships insured, registers of shipbuilding risks underwritten, register of vessels insured on the American lakes, salvage books, and record of losses in the First World War. Also salvage books of the Century Insurance Company Limited.

Records of the Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society, including cash books, journals, ledgers, minute books, letter books, fire insurance policy registers and indexes, mortality tables, statistics, and deed of settlement.

Records of the Imperial Live Stock and General Insurance Company Limited, comprising Board and general meeting minutes. The records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of the New India Assurance Company Limited, comprising a salvage book giving details of insurance claims on shipping.

Records of the Northern Assurance Company Limited, comprising general minute books, directors' minute books, and Fire Offices' Committee (Foreign) minute books.

Records held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation Limited, comprising Board minutes, Accident Department minutes, Guarantee Department minutes, and annual general meeting minutes.

Records of the Ocean and General Guarantee Company Limited, comprising Board minute books.

They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of the Ocean Marine Insurance Company Limited, comprising minutes and agendas only. These records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of the United Kingdom Life Assurance Company comprising out-letter book and Directors' reports.

Records of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia London office, including ledgers, financial accounts and registers.

Ledger of George Nicholas and Son, wine merchants.

Records of William Coates and Company, wine merchants, consisting of order and voucher books and a book of tables.

Records of the Corporation of Insurance Brokers, comprising constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, financial material, membership records and other administrative papers.

Archives of the Madeira wine merchants Cossart, Gordon and Company. They relate both to its domestic business in Madeira and to its international operations, including its relations with customers and agents in the British Isles, continental Europe, the United States, the West Indies and (from c 1780) India and the Far East.

The documents are chiefly unbound business papers (in bundles, some original) and mostly dated between 1754 and 1898, together with a few family papers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and photocopies of items removed for sale in the late 20th century.

NB SPECIAL CONDITIONS APPLY TO ALMOST ALL OF THE ARCHIVE; READERS REQUIRE PROOF OF IDENTITY INCLUDING NAME, ADDRESS AND SIGNATURE.

Records of E Dent and Company Limited, clock and watch makers. The archives in this collection are the surviving business records, covering mainly the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They are primarily the records of the Strand and Royal Exchange shops - only Ms 18026 and 23823-4 relating to M. F. Dent, 1856-1920, appear to have survived.

They are arranged as follows:
Ownership of company - shares, bonds (Mss 18005-7);
Administration - ledger, balance sheets and accounts, letter books; company management (Mss18008-15);
Business -
(i) stock books and manufacturing books (Mss 18016-26);
(ii) letters patent, specifications and related papers (Mss 18027-40);
(iii) Watch trial certificates, trade mark certificates (Mss 18041-2);
(iv) Drawings of watches, clocks, parts etc. (Mss 18043-52);
(v) Photographs of watches, clocks, parts etc. (Mss 18053-4);
Leases and agreements relating to premises (Mss 18055-64);
Miscellaneous mainly printed (Mss 18065-76);
Records of M. F. Dent (Mss 23823-4).

Records of the East India Company, comprising warrant for the delivery of tea; correspondence and receipts; account book of the ship "Ganges"; and papers relating to an investigation into the alleged sale of a staff position in the Madras establishment.

Records of the Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships, later known as the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The records comprise: minutes 1834-1951, and indexes 1830-89 (Ms 38646-52; financial records, 1831-1972 (Ms 38653-62); policy records, 1803-1976 (Ms 38663-76); correspondence, 1833-61 (Ms 38677); and policy forms and other operational records, [1870]-1931 (Ms 38678-85).

A note at the front of the policy registers states that up to 1891 (policy number 13787), details of policies were entered in five books: policy ledgers; dockets (Ms 38667); ticket books; registers of notices of assignment (Ms 38668); and policy loan ledgers.

In 1908, new policy registers were compiled for all the policies up to number 13787 which were still in force (Ms 38664). These new registers contain all the information for each policy on a single page.

Ms 38664/3-5 are held as a deposit from Equitable Life and enquiries relating to access to these items should be addressed to Equitable Life.

Records of the Reversionary Interest Society, including out-letter books; deeds of settlement; minute books; annual reports; administrative papers; papers relating to shareholders; financial accounts; actuary's reports; legal papers; property deeds; and notes on the history of the Society.

Records of the University Life Assurance Society, including the Royal Charter and supplemental charters; minute books; share certificates; life policy registers; register of deaths of policyholders; letter books; legal case papers and register of probates.

Records of the Federation of Commonwealth Chambers of Commerce, which comprise annual reports, minutes and reports of conferences.

Records of the Foreign Banks and Securities Houses Association including minutes, correspondence, annual reports, circulars and newsletters. Many of the correspondence files concern matters of general interest to the Association members, such as fraud and money laundering, taxation, liquidity, securities, mergers, foreign exchange and currency, supervision and regulation, banking codes of practice, legislation, and so on.

Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from the Association of Foreign Banks (contact details may be obtained from staff).

Records of Franklin Wild and Company, accountants, including letter book and financial accounts, including ledgers and cash books.

Records of G Street and Company Limited, bookseller, newsagent and stationer. The earliest records of the firm date from 1865. There are some earlier share certificates, 1825-54, but these appear to have belonged to John Leathwait, presumably a predecessor of Leathwait and Simmons, an advertising agency and newspaper supply firm, which Streets took over in 1918.

There are also a few records of subsidiary companies : EC Advertising Company Limited/G. Street and Co. (Provinces) Limited (Ms 33953); Streets Public Relations Limited (Ms 33954); Lionel Jackson and Partners (Ms 33955) and W Hopwood and Company (Ms 33956).

Records of Gabriel, Wade and English Limited, timber importers and merchants, including annual reports, financial accounts, sales ledgers and daybook, records of timber imported, property deeds, and photographs of tree-felling, logging and timber constructions.

Records of George Barber and Son Limited, printers, consisting of ledgers and cash books, as well as letterbooks. The records are held offsite, and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.

The records of the National Discount Company Limited, discount bankers, comprise minutes, lists of directors and chairmen, accounts, papers and photographs. The majority of the archives date from the latter years of the company's operations; much earlier material was destroyed in accordance with the company's policy on non-current records (see Ms 18199). However, some classes of record survive complete from 1856.

The records of Gerrard and National Limited, discount bankers, comprise accounts, correspondence and papers.

Records of the Aberdeen, Edinburgh and London Trust Limited. The records comprise the memorandum and articles of association, minutes and members' files, which include correspondence, copies of reports and cuttings.

Minutes of annual general meetings of the China Submarine Telegraph Company Limited.

Minutes of the Companhia Telegrafica Platino Brasileira, later the London Platino Brazilian Telegraph Company Limited.

Records of the Eastern and South African Telegraph Company Limited comprising minutes, Directors' annual accounts, balance sheets, general ledgers, cash books and journals.

Europe and Azores Telegraph Company Limited records comprise minutes of Board meetings and Annual General Meetings, Directors' annual reports and accounts, details of balance sheets, a journal, ledgers and a private ledger.

Marseilles, Algiers and Malta Telegraph Company Limited records comprise minutes of board meetings.

River Plate Telegraph Company Limited records comprise minutes of board meetings, including directors' annual reports and accounts and a ledger.

Share Investment Trust records comprise minutes of meetings of the trustees.

Victoria Embankment Properties Limited records comprise minutes of board meetings and of annual general meetings, papers submitted to board meetings, directors' annual reports and accounts, balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, and directors' annual reports, journals, ledgers, cash books, revenue ledgers, tenants accounts and papers concerning the construction of Electra House, Temple Place, Victoria.

Records of predecessors of the Grain and Free Trade Association, as follows:

Cattle Feeding Stuffs Central Advisory Committee;
Edible Oil Association;
London Oil and Tallow Trades Association;
London Cattle Food Trade Association;
London Copra Association;
London Corn Exchange Importers' Association;
London Corn Trade Association;
London Port Area Grain Committee;
National Association of United Kingdom Oil and Oilseed Brokers;
National Federation of Corn Trade Associations;
United Associations Limited;
National Lubricating Oil and Grease Federation.

The records include minutes and agendas, financial accounts, cash books, ledgers, papers relating to arbitration and appeals, registers of members and samples books.