Records of P & O Banking Corporation including accounts, with some internal correspondence. Much of the material in this sub-fonds was generated during the liquidation of the Corporation.
Sem títuloRecords of P & O Banking Corporation including files on buildings and grounds used by the Corporation that include agreements, contracts and terms of use of those properties.
Sem títuloRecords of Standard Chartered Bank Limited including 'StanChart magazine' Number 40.
Sem títuloRecords of Standard Chartered Bank Limited including many items donated by former employees and members of the Standard Chartered Pensioners' Association. They relate to elements of historical interest from both Standard and Chartered Banks prior to merger and after merger.
There is also a series of photographs of places which were deposited by the bank in 2013.
Sem títuloRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including one register of Directors shareholdings.
Sem títuloRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited covering the main administrative functions and departments of the bank. Records include extensive series of letter books and circulars for the Secretary's, General Manager's and Chairman's departments, as well as general correspondence, minutes, notes and files concerning financial and other organisational matters for these departments.
Records from other departments include letter books and memoranda for the Advances Department, records submitted to the Agency Department from Hamburg and New York Agencies, reports and financial assessments by the Inspection Department, records on the merger with the Chartered Bank from the Organisational and Methods Department and correspondence and reports from the East Africa Department.
Sem títuloRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited reflecting the daily operations, transactions and business of the bank. Includes ledgers and papers relating to customer accounts, operational papers, ledgers of government accounts and charitable accounts and records relating to bullion purchases.
Sem títuloRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including photographs (Africa and Europe), plans, correspondence, deeds, and other administrative records concerning the bank's premises and properties.
Sem títuloRecords of Thorne and Company Limited, merchants, including letter books; financial records; partnership deeds; share certificates; insurance policies and papers relating to land leased by the company in Shanghai.
Sem títuloTurquand Youngs and Company records entirely comprise financial records apart from a few items in Ms 31382 relating to Parr's Bank, for which accountants' notebooks concerning audit, c 1900-1919 also survive (Ms 31381). Unfortunately, the two main series of ledgers, 1858-1910 (Ms 31377) and cash books, 1860-1910 (Ms 31378) are incomplete.
Sem títuloThe records of WH Tindall and Company, tea and coffee growers and exporters, comprise records relating to the Imboolpittia and other estates including managers' and crop accounts, statements of expenditure and receipts, notes of coffee shipments and yields of tea and rubber, and papers relating to the administration of and materials for the estate 1841-1933; report and prospectus regarding land development 1917 and 1920; papers relating to the activities of various company managers and superintendents 1841-56; letters and papers regarding general trading, acquisition of estates and their cultivation 1842-88; papers regarding the Tindall family investments and trusts c 1872-1929; papers regarding the sale of land to W.H. Tindall 1843-55; papers regarding administration of W.H. Tindall's estate 1900-2; map showing coffee estates ca.1860 and notes on the history of the firm 1932-1966.
The records of Cotesworth and Powell Limited, import, export, and general merchants, comprise accounts relating to sugar plantations of Umhlanga Valley (Natal) Sugar and Coffee Company Limited 1866-87; notes in relation to credit arrangements, with other papers c 1870-90.
Sem títuloFormulary and precedent book of a London law clerk or attorney's scrivener, possibly John Ambler.
Sem títuloArticles of co-partnership between John Bates and Thomas Young, stockbrokers.
Sem títuloPresentation volume given to Sir G Rowland Blades by the employees of Blades, East and Blades on his election to the mayoralty. Includes the employees' names.
Sem títuloPapers of Margaret Irving relating to her work as a tea taster at Brash Brothers (Tea) Limited.
Sem títuloJournal of A G R Sutherland, apprentice on the Merchant Vessel "British Renown".
Sem títuloAccounts ledger of Cowley and Hewetson, merchants, 1825-1834; with notes on the company history, 1929.
Sem títuloTwo letters from George Dance the younger; the first relating to preparations for the entertainment at Guildhall of the Prince Regent, the Emperor of Russia Alexander I and the King of Prussia Frederick William III, 1814; the second describing Dance's son as surviving the battle of Waterloo, 1815. With a sheet of verse in Dance's hand, 1810.
Sem títuloThe letters cover 1740-1807 and show Innes and Clerk and successor firms providing many services for their correspondents including paying bills of exchange and arranging credit, and buying, selling and shipping goods.
Ms 3070 comprises in-letters from the Adam brothers, architects; Ms 8031 comprises in-letters, mainly from Scottish correspondents.
Sem títuloBusiness papers of merchant Abraham Jalfon, including various accounts, invoices and receipts, accounts of packing charges on bales and cases, and annotated catalogues of sales at East India House of spices and textiles.
Sem títuloPapers of merchants John Hubbard and Company, including correspondence, reports and financial accounts.
Sem títuloBoard minutes relating to production of the trade magazine Lightning.
Sem títuloHistory of the London Bridge Waterworks, 1780.
Sem títuloLondon Parcels Delivery Company records comprise: board of directors' minutes, 1837-46; and notes concerning the early history of the company, circa 1926-9. No other records of London Parcels Delivery Company are known to survive.
Sem títuloMarine chronometer rating book kept by C Lupton, watchmaker.
Sem títuloPapers of Luxton and Company, fishmongers, mostly letters to John Hawkins Luxton relating to trading and family matters.
Sem títuloOutgoing letter book of Thomas March, merchant trading with Turkey. This is a photocopy made in 1968; the original letter-book was in the possession of Squire de Lisle in 1968. Contains copies of letters concerning general financial matters and his estates at Garendon, Leicestershire.
Sem títuloAccounts ledger and cash book of an unidentified furrier, possibly P R Poland and Sons.
Sem títuloRoger Cunliffe, Sons and Company records comprising partnership agreements 1835 and 1851-83.
Sem títuloAccount book for work done at Greenwich Hospital by Edward Strong, mason and builder, giving detailed descriptions of the work.
Sem títuloCopies of correspondence and memoranda relating to a dispute between the proprietors of the Theatre Royal at Covent Garden and performers.
Sem títuloLegal and business papers of Thomas Vyse and Sons, merchants.
Sem títuloLetters of attorney by John Thornbury, knight and William Thornbury, clerk for Robert Billesdon, gentleman to deliver seisin of two shops with upper rooms in Walbrook, to Robert Ferbras, surgeon, John Dayvile, surgeon, William Sipnam, grocer and Walter Bartlot, fishmonger.
Sem títuloUnited Tanners Federation sub-committee minutes relating to trade after the First World War.
Sem títuloFinancial accounts ledger of Venables, Tyler and Company, wholesale stationers and papermakers.
Sem títuloCopy deeds of the sale, in 1903, of the wine and spirit merchant businesses of WH Tomsett and Company and Sinclair, Birch and Company, which were both owned by William Henry Tomsett (died 1903).
Sem títuloLetter book of BW Bagenal, agent in Australia of WW Pownall and Company, wine merchants, containing copies of his correspondence with Australian wine producers sent out from his offices in Melbourne. It ends in February 1898, when he was recalled to London.
Sem títuloAnnual report and accounts of William T Storer and Company, 1969, with report and accounts of Pinn and Wheeler Limited, a wharfing subsidiary of the company.
Sem títuloRecords of Gresham House Estate Company Limited and subsidiaries Broad Street Estates Limited and Great Winchester Street Estates Limited; comprising minutes and financial material, correspondence, rent rolls and other tenancy material and plans.
Sem títuloGresham House Estate Company Limited records comprise minutes of the committee of management and the board of directors; financial material including investments ledgers; annual reports; letter books; rent rolls and other tenancy material.
Sem títuloGreat Winchester Street Estates Limited records comprise annual reports, accounts, plans, and tenancy agreements.
Sem títuloCaledonian Insurance Company records comprise minutes and agendas, as well as overseas report books. They are held off-site and therefore require 24 hours notice for access.
Sem títuloEssex and Suffolk Insurance Company Limited records comprise board minutes and agendas 1907-1909 (Mss 16193-4) and a register of applications for and allotment of shares 1907 (Ms 16192).
Sem títuloLiverpool and London Plate Glass Insurance Company Board of Directors minutes.
Sem títuloManchester Fire and Life Assurance Company (later known as Manchester Assurance Company Limited) records comprise deeds of settlement 1824 and 1846, and registers of proprietors and/or shareholders 1825-1854 (Mss 16217-221); minutes 1825-1905 (Mss 16222-5); overseas department accounts 1889-94 (Ms 16226) and register of losses 1901-3 (Ms 16227).
Sem títuloMotor Union Insurance Company Limited records comprise board minutes 1920-1936 (Ms 16228) and committee of directors minutes 1930-1941 (Ms 16229).
Sem títuloEssex and Suffolk Accident Indemnity Society records comprise board minutes and agendas 1907-9 (Mss 16193-4) and a register of applications for and allotment of shares 1907 (Ms 16192).
Sem títuloThe surviving records of Hambros Bank Limited include:
Accounts;
There is however a considerable overlap between material in many of the categories mentioned above and a number of documents relate to personal and family as well as business matters. The records of the Hambro family (MS19216- 20B) include baptismal certificates, photographs, papers relating to probate and related items.
Permission for access to records post-1975 should be sought from the depositor. Please ask a member of staff for further information.
Records of Harrison and Legas, ironfounders, gunfounders and ordnance contractors, comprising correspondence, accounts, inventories and an assignment of a lease.
Sem títuloRecords of Harrisons and Crosfield Limited, traders in tea, coffee, rubber, timber, chemicals, and other agricultural products. The catalogue includes: corporate records (including articles of association, agreements, minutes and annual reports and accounts); share records; internal administration records (including directories of operations, directors' and general letter books); accounting records; operational records (including reports on estates); branch records (including correspondence and accounts); insurance department records; papers concerning the careers of directors; staff records; premises and property records; historical notes, photographs and plans; records of subsidiary companies, and companies for which Harrisons and Crosfield acted as secretaries and/or agents.
The archive includes records relating to Harrisons and Crosfield's activities as secretaries and/or agents for other companies. As these records were generated as part of Harrisons and Crosfield's role as secretaries and/or agents for another company, they have been catalogued as records of that particular company. However, they comprise correspondence and other papers of the head office of Harrisons and Crosfield, and supporting papers acquired by Harrisons and Crosfield (e.g. memoranda and articles of association, and annual reports and accounts) to assist in that role. The records of the companies for which Harrisons and Crosfield acted as secretaries and/or agents are arranged so that each company is followed by its subsidiary companies (if any).
Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).
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