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Records of the London Mission (West) Circuit, 1927-1987, including administrative files consisting of material relating to Grove House Hostel for ex-borstal boys, Gilbert Goodliffe House for retired men and women, Saint Luke's and Saint Mary's House for men and women, Emerson Bainbridge House and Hopedene House for Mother and Babies; legal papers concerning legacies; material relating to Kingsway Hall Church including press cuttings and 10 volumes of Orders of Service; slides and photographs; and 106 exhibition boards of photographs and a brief history of the West London Mission created for the centenary exhibition in 1987 along with location maps from 1832 and 1987 showing activities of West London Mission.

Baptism registers, 1948-1967; photographs of events, staff, buildings and residents of the Mother and Baby Home, [1940-1980]; and the text of a presentation written to accompany a slide presentation, providing details of the work of the Women's Fellowship with young mothers, 1971-1972.

Marriage registers for the following Methodist churches:

Acton Green Methodist Hall, Steele Road, Acton, 1934-1935

Methodist Church, Windmill Road, Brentford, 1934-1960

Wesleyan Church, Windsor Road, Ealing, 1900-1972

Ealing Dean Primitive Methodist Church, Uxbridge Road, Ealing, 1912-1958

Wesleyan Methodist Church, High Road, New Southgate, 1914-1971

Wesleyan Methodist Church, Bessborough Road, Harrow, 1905-1971

Methodist Church, Welldon Crescent, Greenhill, Harrow, 1934-1974

Wesleyan Church, Park Lane, Harrow Road, Wembley, 1925-1961

Methodist Church, East Lane, North Wembley, Wembley, 1970

Queen's Hall, Station Road, Hayes, 1930-1970

Methodist Church, Western Road, Southall, 1952-1965

Wesley Central Hall, Thirleby Road, Burnt Oak, Hendon, 1931-1962

Methodist Chapel, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, 1943-1973

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, New Windsor Street, Uxbridge, 1928-1972

Jackson's Lane Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1908-1972

Primitive Methodist Church, Mattison Road, Haringey, 1931- 1963

Methodist Church, Bath Road, Hounslow West, 1960- 1971

Methodist Chapel, Twickenham Road, Isleworth, 1948-1965

Primitive Methodist Church, Hallowell Road, Northwood, 1926- 1965

Trinity Chapel, Trinity Road, Wood Green, 1889-1969

Earlsmead United Methodist Church, High Road, South Tottenham, 1918-1951

Methodist Chapel, Northumberland Park, Tottenham, 1942-1969

Methodist Chapel, West Green Road, South Tottenham, 1961

Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church, corner of Dartmouth Road and Walm Lane, Willesden, 1906-1939

United Methodist Church, corner of Tubbs Road and High Street, Harlesden, 1926-1961

Primitive Methodist Church, High Road, Willesden Green, 1927-1960

Primitive Methodist Chapel, College Park, Harrow Road, Willesden, 1939.

Records of the Metropolitan and District Electric Traction Company, comprising minutes of Board Meetings and General Meetings.

Records of the Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railways, including minutes of the Joint Committee; minutes of Officers' Conferences; reports and papers of the Oxford and Aylesbury Tramroad Company; plans of the line between Harrow and Verney Junction; and financial records including ledgers, journals and cash books.

Records of the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Joint Railway, including Joint Working Committee minutes and indexes; minutes of the Joint Committee (City Lines and Extensions), with reports and statements; minutes of the Electric Traction Joint Committee; minutes of the Joint Committee for working the District Railway, minutes of the Joint Consultative Committee; minutes of the City Lines and Extension to East London Railway Joint Committee; notes of meetings of Board of Works, Corporation of London, Commissioners of Sewers; and guard book of plans (44 feet to one inch) of Whitechapel, Cannon Street, Mansion House, King William Street (now Bank) and Trinity Square (now Tower Hill) Stations.

Records of the Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway Company, comprising minutes of Board and Proprietors Meetings.

Plans and elevations of Metropolitan Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Association buildings at Battersea Park, designed by architect Charles Barry Junior.

Records of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes. The minutes (LMA/4025/01) describe in detail the foundation of the Association, its aims and objectives. They document its development from a well-intentioned philanthropic organisation to a major provider of housing (12 substantial blocks by 1873). The activities recorded range from fund-raising to land acquisition and from collections of mortality statistics to estate management.

The visitors book (LMA/4025/03) records the important visitors to Old Pancras Road including Prince Albert, Lord Shaftesbury, Mr Gladstone, Charles Kingsley and Dr Southwood Smith.

These manuscripts have not been accessible to researchers before and are an exciting discovery. They were purchased with assistance from the Purchase Grant Fund administered by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Photograph of Training Ship Exmouth II off Grays, Essex, 19--.

MAB/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

Staff regulations for attendants on the patients at Metropolitan Asylums Board imbecile asylums, 1905.

Records of the Metropolitan Benefit Societies Asylum, later known as the Metropolitan Benefit Societies Almshouses, including:

Administrative Records include minutes of the General Committee 1828 to 1965, Donors and Subscribers half yearly meetings 1844 to 1861, Monthly meetings 1883 to 1902, the Management Committee 1959 to 1984, House Committee 1839 to 1973, and Building committees 1853 to 1866 and 1953 to 1955.

Finance Records consist of Annual Statements 1963 to 1981, Accounts both income and expenditure 1831 to 1983, Registers of Donors and Subscribers 1835 to 1981, Annual returns 1975, 1979, 1980, and a rent book for Balls Pond Road 1905 to 1930.

Printed Material contains publications such as rules of the Almshouses 1855, 1926 and 1955, The Almshouse Gazette 1965 to 1990, and typescript notes about the history of the MBSA, plans of the Almshouse 1956 to 1980's and some ephemeral items which include a Warden's Diary from 1945 and a schedule of deeds and documents handed to trustees on 17th December 1878.

Records of the Metropolitan Benefit Societies' Asylum, later known as the Metropolitan Benefit Societies' Almshouses, comprising Committee minute book and Life donor's certificate with a view of the Asylum.

MBW/1901-1908: Thames Floods (estimate of works required to repair damage caused by floods and estimates of works for defence against future flooding)

MBW/1909-1910: Redistribution Of Vestrymen (cuttings from minutes)

MBW/1911-1913: Water Supply (reports on the metropolis water supply)

MBW/1914-1916: Letters (in-letters, petitions, applications and out-letters)

MBW/1917-1919: Advertisements

MBW/1920-1924: Newspaper Cuttings

MBW/1925-1928: Staff Lists (including duties of officers)

MBW/1929-2309: Finance (including registers of contracts and agreements, salary books and rate books)

MBW/2310-2420: Printed Reports (including annual reports of the Board and Committees, architect's, engineer's and fire brigade reports, papers circulated to Board members, Bills and Acts of Parliament)

MBW/2421-2445: Contracts And Specifications for work on sewers, drains and embankments.

MBW/2446-2653: Plans (plans submitted to Parliament, plans of local improvements arranged by parish, plans of artisan's dwellings, plans of the metropolis water supply, plans of Thames floods, plans of parks and open spaces, plans presented to the Board and to various Committees to accompany reports, memorials and proposals for improvements, creation of parks, drainage, bridges, roads and tunnels, plans of railways)

MBW/2654-2656: District Surveyor (monthly returns and drainage applications)

MBW/2657-2663: Bridges (Accountant's Department papers concerning claims of the bridge companies whose bridges were acquired under the Metropolitan Toll Bridges Act 1877 and the Metropolitan Bridges Act 1883)

MBW/2664-2682: Thames Floods (volumes of duplicate copies of notices served on riparian [situated on the banks of a river] owners under the Metropolis Management (Thames River Prevention of Floods) Amendment Act 1879 and Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1882, with associated plans and riverfront elevations)

MBW/2683-2685: Financial Records (Accountant's Department papers)

MBW/2686-2807: Thames Floods (plans and estimates for flood prevention works and plans of river frontage with elevations of riparian [situated on the banks of a river] properties)

MBW/2808-2812: Thames Soundings

MBW/2813-2830: Specifications (volumes of specifications for housing, fire stations, bridges, drainage, parks, embankments and sewers)

MBW/2831-2837: Contract Books and Registers

MBW/2838-2840: Rate Books

MBW/P: Plans

MBW/OW: Office of Works (papers relating to the Chelsea Bridge and Embankment, Westminster Bridge, Battersea Park, Kennington Park and Victoria Park)

MBW/BC: Bridge Company (papers relating to Vauxhall Bridge)

This catalogue includes minutes of the Metropolitan Borough and the Council committees. The collection also includes deeds of properties purchased by the Borough Solicitor, rate books, records of the Surveyors Department, including drainage plans for the Borough as well as files of the Town Clerk.

This catalogue includes minutes of the Metropolitan Borough and the Council committees. The collection also includes rate books, records of the Town Clerk and records of the borough's libraries.

District Surveyors Returns, 1844-1855, providing lists of notices, information and complaints, the results of notices and fees paid for works. The Districts covered were City of London; Tower Division (Tower Hamlets and the East End); Edmonton Hundred Division (Tottenham); Finsbury Division (Islington, Stoke Newington, Hornsey, Clerkenwell); Holborn Division (Bloomsbury, Saint Pancras, Paddington, Marylebone, Hampstead); Kensington Division (Chelsea, Fulham, Hammersmith); City of Westminster Division; County of Surrey (Lambeth, Camberwell, Bermondsey, Rotherhithe) and County of Kent (Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, Lewisham).

Building plans of a variety of buildings and features including houses, offices, embankments, hospitals, chapels and churches, chimney shafts, warehouses, taverns, dockyards, public rooms, lecture halls, colleges and schools, factories, workhouses and asylums, stables, gardens and shop fronts.

General office papers including registers of approvals; approvals of buildings; cases of Special Supervision; cases of ruinous buildings; registers of awards; registers of reports; enquiries about fires and fire reports; lists of Surveyors; papers on drains and sewers; staff records; circulars and notices; correspondence; parish and ordnance maps; press cuttings; forms and instructions; financial accounts and copies of Acts and Bills relating to building and construction regulations.

Records of the Metropolitan Cattle Market, Islington, 1553-1964, including general administrative papers (inspector's report books, letter books, correspondence, report books, registers of drover's licences, bye-laws); posters; newspaper cuttings; photographs; annual reports of the Superintendent and Chief Veterinary Officer; legal papers; regulations regarding cattle driving; papers regarding the prevention and control of disease in cattle; papers relating to the City Meat Inspectors; accounts books; tenancy and rental agreements; rental ledgers; weighing and storage charge books; chill room charge books; lairage books and slaughtering charge books.

Letters patent appointing the commissioners; orders of court; minutes of various Committees including the General Purposes Committee, By-laws Committee, Committee on Claims, Disposal of Refuse Committee, Finance Committee, Trial Works Committee, Sewage Manure Committee and Ordnance Survey Committee; original contracts for the construction of new sewers, including plans, sections and elevations; registers of in-letters; letter books for out-letters; drainage applications; registers of applications to construct sewers and drains; registers of proposed drainage of buildings; registers of house drainage; register of complaints; applications for private works on sewers and drains; registers of streets showing existence or absence of sewers and drains; surveyor's report books; staff records; financial accounts; rate books; printed items bound into volumes, including reports (several written by Joseph Bazalgette), papers, resolutions, prospectuses, surveys and inspections on various subjects including sewers and drains, cesspools, sewage, manure, waterways, flushing operations, public health, industrial sites, public conveniences, subterranean surveys, tides and water supply; minutes of the Commissioners and plans and maps of sewers, drains and waterways.

Records of the Metropolitan Committee for War Savings, comprising a minute book of the Committee, 1917-1918. The book had first been used (reversed) to record details of the war savings situation (local committee, local activities, facilities available, etc.) in 60 districts, one by one, in alphabetical order, in the metropolitan area, some as far afield as Barking and Kingston. The last seven entries, at the end of the alphabet, are covered by the later minutes of the executive committee (pasted in), running across them from the other end of the book.

The meetings recorded in the minutes were held at the Mansion House and the Lord Mayor was normally in the chair. Attendance at the first two meetings was large and included a number of mayors and a sprinkling of senior council officers. Attendance at the executive committee meetings was usually nine or ten. It appears that this is the only main minute book of this body. It does not, however, contain the minutes of its various sub-committees and ancillary committees.

Records of the Metropolitan District Nursing Association, formerly the Metropolitan Nursing Association for Providing Nurses for the Sick Poor. The records comprise: minutes and annual reports, 1873-1974 (Ms 14618-24); correspondence and reports, 1876-1974 (Ms 14625-7); agreements 1917-38 (Ms 14628-31, 14811-12); financial records, 1924-74 (Ms 14632-6, 14891-3); and staff records, 1875-1974 (Ms 14637-51). They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff in 1973-4. The whereabouts of any further records is unknown.

Records of the Metropolitan District Railway, including minutes of Board Meetings, General Meetings, the Traffic, Way and Works Committee, the Law, Parliamentary and Lands Committee, Stock Holders Meetings, Executive Officers Meetings and Standing Joint Committee; guard books containing copies of agreements with other railway companies and non-railway companies; volumes of statistics; financial ledgers; volumes of monthly reports; notices issued jointly with Piccadilly Line of London Electric Railway, concerning track and signal alterations and the bringing into use of new lines in connection with the extension of Piccadilly Line trains to Hounslow, South Harrow and Enfield West and Shareholders' Association circulars, newspaper cuttings and so on.

Revised rules book owned by A. Curtis.

Records of the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association, later known as the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association; including minutes; agendas; constitution; annual reports; records relating to property and structures (fountains); correspondence; bequests and trusts; staff; financial accounts; plans; photographs; printed material including press cuttings and histories, and case files relating to individual fountains.

Records of the Metropolitan Electric Supply Company Limited, comprising plan of land lying in Fulham between West Kensington Station (marked as Barons Court Station), North End Road (marked as 'Barons Court Road late North End Road'), Greyhound Road (marked as Old Grey Hound Road), Hammersmith Cemetery, and the District Line Railway (marked as the Metropolitan District and Hammersmith Extension Railway), 1876; site plan showing the position of Marylebone Passage Sub-Station between Marylebone passage and Eastcastle Street (marked as Castle Street East), St Marylebone, 1904; site plan showing the M.E.S. Co. Generating Station between Manchester Street, Aybrook Street (marked as North Street) and Blandford Street (marked as South Street), St Marylebone, 1914 and plan of Woods Place, Bermondsey, 1914.

Records of the Metropolitan Electric Tramway Company, including minutes of Board meetings; minutes of General meetings; minutes of the Directors' Committee; and reports.

Records of the Metropolitan Free Bridges Association, comprising committee minutes and a cash book.

Comprises: Administrative records; Estate and property records; Nursing records; Medical records; Pathology records; Radiography records; Nurses League records; Staff records; Operating theatre records.

Records of the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund. The archive comprises: minutes and meetings papers of the Council, annual general meetings and various committees, 1872-1984 (Mss 30585, 30587-94); annual reports and accounts, 1873-1994 (Ms 30586); other financial records, 1934/5 (Ms 30595); correspondence and papers, including papers concerning bequests, 1871-ca 1989 (Ms 30596-609, 616); posters (Ms 30610); and photographs with associated papers, 1959-95 (Ms 30611-15).

Metropolitan Pawnbrokers' Protection Society records comprising: annual general meetings minutes, 1863-1913, and miscellaneous printed items, 1905-40. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1987.

Records of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, comprising: minutes, 1882-1972 (Ms 11097, 22284-5); subscription books, 1884-1957 (Ms 11098); financial records, 1884-1965 (Ms 11099-103); correspondence and related papers, [1857?]-1914 (Ms 21670-1); deeds, surveys and plans 1883-1958 (Ms 22286-8); reports and other papers, 1920-51 (Ms 22289-92); financial records relating to the wartime allotment gardens scheme, 1939-43 (Ms 22293-4); and records of London Children's Gardens Fund, 1921-62 (Ms 22295-7). They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff between 1963 and 1987.

Records of the Metropolitan Railway Company, comprising mortgage for premises at Bishopsgate Street and 3-6 Devonshire Street, 1870; lease for premises at Bloomfield Street, 1831, and lease for premises at Moorfields, 1840.

Records of the Metropolitan Railway Company, including minutes of Board meetings; General meetings; Finance Committee meetings; Electric Traction Committee meetings; Law and Lands Committee; Parliamentary, Law and Lands Committee meetings; Stores Committee meetings; Traffic Committee meetings; Officer's Monthly Conferences; reports; agreements; registers of accidents and special occurrences; guard books of circulars; books of diagrams; instructions to signalmen; petitions from users of the line; papers of the General Manager relating to various matters including construction of stations and line improvements, daily operations and personnel management; and publications.

Records of the Metropolitan Railway Company, comprising plan, sections and elevations of proposed new railway bridge over road at North Harrow Station.

Minute book of the Metropolitan Red Lion Club, with letters from members and some verses, menus and sketches. Press cuttings give resumés of the Club's activities and its connection with the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Auctioneer's recognizance and bond in High Court case Reffell v. The Metropolitan Rifle Range Company, 1902.

Minute books of the Commissioners and Committee minute books, including:

Committee for Repair of Water Carts and Pumps,
Committee to examine Loss of Tolls on Kensington District,
Finance and Account Committee,
Committee to inspect encroachments on New Road and City Road,
Committee on Improvements at Kilburn,
Committee at Stamford Bridge,
Committee to confer with Hammersmith Bridge Company,
Committee to make arrangements for lighting part of Fulham Road with Gas,
Committee to regulate Watch and Patrol on Stamford Hill District,
Committee to receive deputation from County Magistrate on subject of County Bridges,
Committee to consider Tenders for Watering Roads,
Committee on proposed road from Shepherds Bush to Hammersmith,
Committee on proposed road from Seven Sisters to Camden Town,
Committee for opening Tenders for Road Materials and Seven Sisters Road,
Committee to view portion of New Road to Camden Town,
Committee to consider tenders for bricklayers and carpenters works,
Committee to view new road from Earls Court to Hammersmith Bridge,
Committee to watch progress of Bill for making railway from London to Birmingham,
Committee to protect interests of public as regards proceedings of Great Western Railway with Metropolis Roads.

Also registers of letters received and actions taken; letter books; cash books; bank account books; annual reports of the Commissioners; reports by the Surveyors; copies of Acts of Parliament regarding roads; correspondence and financial accounts.

Records of the Metropolitan Tower Construction Company, comprising minutes of General Meetings and minutes of Board Meetings.

Printed list of gross and rateable values of valuation lists for Metropolitan parishes and unions, 1875.

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board, comprising a certificate of long service issued to Thomas Scarth, employed as collector by Chelsea Water Works Company from 1896 and retired from Metropolitan Water Board in 1937.

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board, 1950, comprising photographs of Grinling Gibbons' Oak Room and postcards of a portrait of Sir Hugh Myddelton and a view of London in 1754.

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board Chief Engineer's Department, including letter books of the Chief Engineer; personnel papers; contracts; Chief Engineer reports; volumes relating to districts of the Board (Southern District, Northern District, Kent District, New River District, Eastern District, Western District); papers relating to the Staines Reservoir Communications Works; reports on reservoirs and equipment trials. Also Registry files on a variety of subjects including accidents, burst mains, contracts, pumping stations, British Waterworks Association, chemical treatment, complaints, drownings, filtration, examination of water, hydrants, water supply, the Institution of Water Engineers, computers, mains distribution, Parliamentary bills, sewage, recreational use of reservoirs, statistics, improvement of supply and floods.

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board Clerk's Department. Apart from the principal file registries, there are also series of plans, photographs, signed contracts, parliamentary papers and a collection of 'exhibits' culled from the archives of the predecessor companies by a Thames Water officer. The files relate to various subjects including water supply, water mains, property, staff, use of reservoirs, water treatment, water fittings, ceremonial openings, tenders, agreements, claims, air raid precautions, finances, maintenance and predecessor companies.

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board relating to the Croydon Corporation Waterworks, comprising plans from the Engineering Department including Croydon Corporation Waterworks; Waddon Pumping Station; Stroud Green Waterworks; Surrey Street Pumping Station and water mains, ponds, wells and rivers.

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board, including minutes and related papers for the Board; the Appeal and Assessment Committee; the Works and Stores Committee; the Stores Account Sub-committee; the Special Co-ordinating Committee and the Special Arbitration Committee.

Records of Metropolitan Water Board predecessors, 1870-1969, comprising contracts, tenders and specifications for construction, improvements and other works.

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board Solicitor's Department, including claims files; dispute files; legal case papers and Parliamentary papers. Also Registry files relating to a variety of topics including conveyancing, litigation, Parliament, contracts and tenders, accidents, land sales and purchase, leases, licences, mortgages and loans, staffing, inventions and patents.

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board Survey Department, including terrier volumes; registered dockets; files on land acquired; deeds registers; and files regarding rates assessments.

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board Treasurers and Comptrollers Department, including detailed balance sheets; Water Fund general ledgers; general journals; cash accounts ledgers; superannuation volumes; capital ledgers; borrowing powers volumes; investments volumes; mortgage sinking fund volumes; stock volumes; audit files; files relating to stocks and shares; mortgage loans files; registers of bankruptcies and liquidations and salary records.