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Records of H Cohen and Company Limited, flour merchants, comprising minutes of directors' meetings.

Log book kept by Austin Brewer, headmaster of Shillington Street Boys School, while school was evacuated to Cranleigh, including newspaper cuttings and leaflets regarding local events, 1939-1943.

Papers from Kilburn Grammar School including pamphlet of general instructions for parents, 193-; booklet "History of Kilburn Grammar School, 1897-1967" and photographs of staff, pupils, sports teams and wartime activities, 1936-1940.

Papers from Salusbury County Secondary School including souvenir magazine "Salusbury County Secondary School Golden Jubilee, 1902-1952: the first 50 years"; photographs of staff and pupils, 1904; photographs of pupils, staff, Speech Days, events and sports teams, 1948 - 1959; portrait photograph of William Rollinson, 1950s and letter of reference for William Rollinson from the Director of Education, Willesden, 1956.

Records of the Bermondsey Poor Law Union, 1836-1934, including minutes of meetings and reports of the Board of Guardians and various Committees including Visiting Committees; regulations relating to the staff and inmates of institutions; orders of the Board; workhouse dietary tables; orders and correspondence from the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health; contracts, tenders and specifications for building work and supplies; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; orders for the reception of lunatics; notices of death, discharge or removal of lunatics; medical reports on paupers and lunatics; case papers of persons emigrating to Canada; papers relating to medical arrangements; registers for the Rotherhithe Workhouse, Saint Olave's Workhouse on Parish Street, Bermondsey Workhouse on Tanner Street and Saint Anne's Home; registers of children in receipt of outdoor relief; registers of children at schools or homes; papers relating to aid work during the First World War including registration of refugees; financial accounts; staff records and plans of the Bermondsey Workhouse on Tanner Street, the Rotherhithe Infirmary, Shirley Schools and children's home The Hawthorns; map of the parishes in the Union.

Records of the City of London Poor Law Union, 1763-1930; including minutes of meetings of the Boards of Guardians for the East London Union, West London Union and City of London Union; minutes of various Committees; Union year books; correspondence with Government departments; plans of Union buildings including the Homerton workhouse; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers of lunatic admissions; registers for the Bow Road Workhouse and Infirmary, Bow Institution and Infirmary, Homerton Workhouse, Lower Clapton Workhouse and Thavies Inn Infirmary; apprenticeship indentures and registers; registers of children at the Central London District School; financial accounts; staff records and papers of the West London Union, including minutes, correspondence, financial accounts and inventories of Thavies Inn Workhouse and Holloway Workhouse.

Papers of the Markets Committee, City of London, 1666-1999, concerning the administration and regulation of markets in the City of London area. Papers include financial records, reports, petitions, committee papers and papers relating to individual markets including Brookfield Market, Columbia Market, Covent Garden Market, Cutler Street Market, Dowgate Market, Farringdon Market, Fleet Market, Hay Market, Honey Lane Market, Shadwell Market, Stocks Market, Southwark Market and Tylor's Market.

Papers of Billingsgate Market, City of London, including monthly returns, 1879-1962; tonnage of deliveries of foreign fish, 1935-1939 and 1961-1973; tonnage of deliveries by rail, 1936-1966; tonnage of deliveries by road, 1939-1975; rents and tenancy agreements, 1855-1919; rent ledgers, 1941-1967; dues and tolls, 1827-1889; receipts, payments, statistics and other accounts, 1721-1975; administrative papers including orders, acts, petitions, letters and minutes, 1699-1953; reports of the Superintendent to the Billingsgate and Leadenhall Markets Committee, 1885-1967; porter's licences, c1877-1948; pension fund books, 1893-1968 and disbursements and wages, 1934-1969. Also historical accounts and articles about the market, 1869-1985.

Records of the Foreign Cattle Market at Deptford, 1864-1988, including general administrative papers (letter books, committee papers, petitions, reports); printed copies of bye-laws, privy council orders and reports; machinery and equipment catalogues and inventories; posters; plans, drawings and maps; general financial papers (tenancy and rental agreements, rent ledgers, statements of income and expenditure, accounts, cash books, acquittance books). Also articles regarding the use of railways at the Market, particularly the Grove Street Tramway.

Records of Smithfield Market, City of London, 1633-1997, including proposals for enlargements and removals; rules, orders and regulations; petitions; reports; correspondence; publications on the history of the market; account books and records of dues and tolls collected.

Records relating to the management of bridges in London, 1664-1990, including petitions; reports; financial papers; legal papers; publications; press releases; papers relating to building and maintenance; title deeds relating to Staines Bridge and papers relating to proposals to build 'St Paul's Bridge', abandoned at the outbreak of World War One.

Also papers, 1868-1890, relating to the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Metropolitan Bridges which worked to free all bridges over the Thames and Lea from tolls, including papers on the Staines Bridge, Walton Bridge, Hampton Court Bridge, Kingston-on-Thames Bridge, Kew Bridge, Chingford Mills Bridge, Hellyer's Ferry Bridge and Tottenham Mills Bridge.

Records of Wood Street Compter, later Giltspur Street Compter, 1667-1829, including lists of prisoners; ducie books recording prisoner transfers; care of sick prisoners and apothecaries bills, accounts and other administrative papers.

Records of the Port of London, Thames Conservancy and Thames Navigation, 1505-1994.

Port of London records include administrative papers, committee reports, accounts, annual reports, bye-laws, papers of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the best mode of increasing the accommodation of the Port of London, 1796-1799, city tonnage dues cash books and canal boat registration.

Thames Conservancy records include papers relating to the City's claim to the Thames soil, shores and bed; correspondence; reports; maps; acts and bills for the Conservancy of the River Thames; papers regarding the boundary stones marking the limits of the jurisdiction of the City of London; minutes of the Navigation Committee and Parliamentary papers.

Thames Navigation records include accounts, bye-laws, petitions and reports.

Also papers relating to fishing including conservation of fish stock and issue of licences; Parliamentary papers relating to the Thames and the Embankment; papers relating to maintenance of embankments and wharves; publications regarding various aspects of the history of the Thames.

Records of the Court of Requests, City of London, 1595-1853, including committee reports; petitions; regulations; appointment of Commissioners; accounts ledgers; cash books; record of fees; summons books; warrant books; bonds and promissory notes, and other administrative papers.

Records of the Finsbury and Halliwell Estates, 1618-1985, including committee minutes; Acts of Parliament; bye-laws; bonds; papers relating to the lease of the Finsbury Estate; bills for highway maintenance work; receipt books for duty on rented property payable by the City; receipt books for granting Her Majesty Queen Victoria duties and profits arising from property; accounts ledgers; cash books; rentals and surveys. Most of the papers relate to the Finsbury Estate.

Records of the City of London Police, 1520-2000, including papers of the Chief officer and Police Commissioner; orders and regulations; papers relating to the building and maintenance of police stations; correspondence; press cuttings; reports; leaflets and brochures; issues of Citywatch, the City of London Police Magazine; papers relating to the City of London Police Reserve (Special Constabulary); papers relating to the Detective Division; manuals and orders; papers relating to the police force during World War Two, including Police War Duties Committee minutes; papers, including photographs and plans, relating to the Houndsditch murders, 1910-1911; record of the inquest held in 1888 by the Coroner of the City of London on Catherine Eddowes, one of the victims of 'Jack the Ripper', and other correspondence relating to the 'Jack the Ripper' murders; records of predecessors to the City of London Police including constables and watch and ward; and financial accounts.

Records of The City of London Freemen's School, 1849-1996, including rules and regulations; prospectuses; reports of the Headmaster to the Freemen's School Committee; examination papers; papers relating to the purchase of Ashtead Park, Surrey; papers relating to scholarship funds; cash books; staff applications and appointments; pupil application forms; papers relating to apprenticeships; papers relating to prize-giving ceremonies; school magazines; photographs and bonds. The bonds relate to a rule that before a child could be admitted to the school, an engagement had to be entered into by 2 respectable householders resident in or near London to receive the child when removed from the school (on completion of the period of education or on account of misconduct etc) or in case of death to defray the funeral expenses.

Papers of the Morgan family, 1891-1963, comprising papers, reports, photographs, music and other personal memorabilia of Robert Orlando Morgan, R.G.S.M., Professor of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama 1887-1951, of his second son, Cyril Douglas Morgan, Principal Clerk to the Chamberlain of London 1946-1958 and of his son, M.D. Morgan, the depositor of these documents.

Papers of Major Harry Ronald Jacobs and his father Hyman Jacobs acquired during their service as Common Councilmen, including programmes and menus from Corporation and linked functions, 1938-1966; programmes and menus from non-Corporation functions including London County Council 1960, Freemasons 1948-1965, Bassishaw Ward 1962, Portsoken Ward 1946-1963, Livery Companies: Haberdashers' Company 1960-1961, Paviors' Company 1947-1966, Skinners' Company no date [c. 1950s?], Solicitors' Company 1960, Wheelwrights' Company 1964, City Pickwick Club 1962-1966, City University 1966, United Synagogue Orders of Service 1960; official Corporation publications and guides; art, library and museum catalogues 1950-1965; brochures from the Festival of the City of London 1962-1966; and publication The Corporation of the City of London and the First Twelve of the Great City Guilds in the Diamond Jubilee Year of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1897. Also Broker's Medal of Charles Telford, 1841.

Records of Christ's Hospital, 1535-1971, including constitution of Christ's Hospital with orders made by Governors, 1557; copy of the first patent of Charles II for founding the Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital, 1673-1676; report by Samuel Pepys to the President and Governors of Christ's Hospital upon the state of the Hospital with an appendix of accounts relating to the Mathematical Foundation, 23 March 1697/8; papers relating to a scheme by the Charity Commissioners for the administration of Christ's Hospital, 1880-1885; newspaper cuttings of the laying of the foundation stone of the new school at Horsham, 1897; papers regarding legacies; rules, orders and regulations; staff appointments; petitions; financial accounts and papers relating to management of the estate.

Records of Hobbs Hart and Company Limited, locksmiths, including memorandum and articles of association, minutes, and annual directors reports and accounts; share registers and other shareholding records; annual statements of accounts, ledgers, journals, cash books and abstracts; lock and safe order books, work books, cost price records, stores books, registered chains, key and rings books, machine maintenance books; patent specifications and related papers; wage and salaries books including Directors' salaries.

Administrative, sales, marketing and advertising records are being catalogued as of June 2011. Please contact a member of staff regarding access to these types of records.

Corporate records of Army, Navy and General Assurance Association Limited, including incorporation certificates; memorandum, articles of association and guarantee agreements; board of directors' minute and agenda books; committee agenda book; annual general meetings: notice, proposed articles and special resolutions passed; annual reports; registers of directors and secretaries; and seal book.

Share records of British Crown Assurance Corporation Limited comprising register of members and share ledger.

Staff records of British Crown Assurance Corporation Limited comprising employers' handbook.

Share records of United Dominions Insurance Company Limited comprising share ledgers and register of transfers.

Business records of Eagle Insurance Company including indexes of lives assured; individual life policies, assignments and related correspondence; life prospectuses, specimen proposal forms, medical reports and related papers; premium receipts and cheques; Eagle fund annual accounts, quinquennial reports and related papers; fire policies; newspapers, press cuttings and advertisements relating to Eagle Star; prospectuses for foreign business; and correspondence from Bristol branch.

Records of Eagle Insurance Company relating to acquisitions and mergers, comprising papers of the following companies amalgamated with Eagle: Albion, Alfred, City of London, London Indisputable, London Mutual, Mentor, National Mercantile, Palladium, Protector, Solicitors' and General. Includes papers and correspondence relating to amalgamation; papers of directors, shareholders and trustees; accounts; and prospectuses.

Premises records of English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Limited comprising dinner menu on the opening of new offices.

Records of Launderers Mutual Insurance Company Limited comprising specimen proposal forms and policies, and policies issued.

Business records of the London Mutual Life and Guarantee Society comprising policy for Mark Lemon; unused proposal, policy and related forms, and list of medical referees.

Staff records of Navigators and General Insurance Company Limited comprising photographs of staff.

Premises records of Premier Motor Policies Limited comprising photographs of Melbourne House, Aldwych.

Financial records of Sceptre Life Association Limited comprising accounts ledger.

Business records of Star Life Assurance Society Limited including policy registers; policies and papers relating to individual policies; prospectuses and almanacs; endowment rates; specimen bonuses; rate books; fund: accounts, reports, stock exchange transactions, ledgers, journals, correspondence and papers; aircraft insurance policy; diaries; agents' instructions and commission rates; prospectuses for overseas business; Australia: letters and share certificates; South Africa: details of annual bonuses, correspondence, rate books; and Star bookmarks.

Business records of Star Fire Insurance Company including fire policies and Secretary's receipt to agent.

Minutes and financial accounts of the British Life Assurance Trust.

Calendars and historical research relating to the City and Corporation of London, 1252-1999. The collection contains calendars and indexes made by clerks to aid their work including calendars and indexes of wills and deeds entered in the Court of Husting, 1252-1616; calendar to Acts of the Common Council 'Liber Legum' (extracts from the City's Letter Books), 1582 and 1585; calendar of various matters dispersed through the City's books and rolls, 1275-1609 and 1713-1717; index to repertories, 1545-1588; copies of articles from the Charter and Liberties of London, 16--; copies of 126 legal cases made on behalf of the City, 16-- - 1755; papers dating to the 17th and 18th centuries collected by William Turner Alchin, Guildhall Librarian, 1845-1865, including material relating to the Great Fire of London, 1666, the Gordon Riots, 1780, and markets.

Also research notes and reports including the collection of Dr R R Sharpe, Clerk of the Records, 1876-1913; research papers intended to replace the Historical Reports destroyed in 1940 by the Guildhall bombing, consisting mainly of reports made by the City Archivist and his predecessors on the historical aspects of institutions of the Corporation and of the City Companies, as well as reports and articles by others, based on research amongst the Corporation's archives; and some publications of the London Topographical Society, 1945-1999.

Records of the Livery Cloth Committee, Court of Aldermen, comprising minute books, 1863-1924.

Records of the Privileges Committee, Court of Aldermen, comprising minutes, 1846-1954 and rough minutes, 1966-1979. Please note that some records are closed.

Records of the Court of Common Council, Corporation of London, 1272-2002, including journals, 1416-2000; subject index to journals, 1416-1811; index to the repertories, journals and letter books, 1416-1750; indexed printed minutes, 1811-1965; fair minutes, 1788-1880; rough minutes 1866-1970; Public Health Department journals, 1898-1947; Principal Clerk's rough books, 1875-1916; Town Clerk's rough books, 1954-2002; agendas, 1773-2001 (with gaps); papers (reports, letters and documents laid before the Common Council), 1643-2001 (with gaps); Town Clerk's rough papers, 1956-2000; Acts of the Common Council, 15th century - 1806; standing orders, 1880 and 1941; pocket books (lists of members and officers, committees and other information), 1788-2011; extracts regarding committees of the Common Council, 1400-1732; extracts from letter books regarding the constitution of the Common Council, 1272-1327; other administrative papers relating to the Common Council, including petitions, regulations, powers and so on; papers regarding the election of Common Councilmen, 1536-1964; papers regarding porters, 1606-1860; papers regarding fellowship porters, 1607-1934; papers regarding tackle house and ticket porters, 1607-1823; papers regarding byelaws, 1543-1993; modification orders, 1964-1983; closing orders, 1949-1974; papers relating to tree preservation, 1969-1998; stopping up orders (highways), 1963-2002; stopping up orders (public paths), 1981-2000 and papers relating to town planning, 1972-1996.

NB - 'tackle porters' were responsible for loading and unloading ships and a 'fellowship porter' was a member of the fellowship of the Porters of Billingsgate. 'Ticket porters' were members of a body of porters in the City of London who were licensed by the Corporation; originally called street-porters, and distinct from tackle porters. They were entitled to work in the Corporation markets.

Records of the Administration of Justice Committee, Common Council, 1836-1840, comprising minute books and committee papers.

Records of the Airport Committee, Court of Common Council, 1938-1956, comprising minutes, committee papers and various files, including correspondence, particularly regarding use of the land by the Air Ministry during World War Two and the post war sale of land to Ilford Borough Council; relevant Acts and Bills; minutes of meetings of the Aerodrome Owners Association; off-prints and press cuttings; memorandums; sub-committee minutes and surveyors reports.

Also papers relating to the inauguration of the first direct air service between London and Venice, April 1956.

Records of the Accounts Committee, Court of Common Council, 1898-1915, comprising minutes, reports and printed reports.

Also minutes and reports of the Audit Committee, 1889-1898.

Records of the Blackfriars Bridge (Repairing) Committee, comprising journals, 1833-1841; minutes, 1832-1843; rough minutes, 1834-1843 (including proceedings of Committee on 20 Nov 1838 on bringing gas into the City by mains over Blackfriars Bridge); committee papers, 1832-1843 and contracts, 1833-1841.

Records of Bridge House Committee, Court of Common Council, 1599-1968, including journals, 1622-1866; minute books, 1667-1968; minute books relating to Bridge House Committee Excursions, 1861-1894; committee papers, 1599-1957; Bridge Masters' report book, 1881-1914; surveyor's reports to the Bridge House Committee, 1941-1965; orders and resolutions, 1611-1741, 1789-1802 and 1813-1853; warrant books, 1797-1824 and 1885-1913; standing orders, 1867 and 1938; Bridge House rentals, 1897-1950; Tower Bridge Buildings rentals, 1889-1914; advertisements for proposals for leasing land and for tenders for contracts, 1878-1902; bills, accounts and sundry papers, 1629-1826 and papers regarding the never built St Paul's bridge, 1905-1930.

Minute books of the Bridge House Trust Committee (also called the Bridge House Grants Committee), Court of Common Council, 1995-2006. Please note that these records are closed until 2030.

Records of the Civil Defence Committee, Court of Common Council, comprising minutes, 1935-1968; committee papers, 1935-1957; report books, 1935-1947; letter books, 1939-1940; press cuttings and circulars regarding air raid precautions and bomb disposal, 1935-1944.

Records of the Central Market Committee, Court of Common Council, comprising minute books, Central Markets Sub-Committee, 1875-1892; minute books, Central Markets Committee, 1893-2001; minute books, Central Markets Special Sub-Committee, 1909-1913; committee papers, 1875-1957 and applications for space, 1872-1884 and 1886-1889.

Minutes of the City of London (Arizona) Corporation, 1971-1993. These records are closed until 2024.

Minute books of the City of London Education Committee, Court of Common Council, 1970-1973.

Minute books of the Board of Governors, City of London School for Girls, 1973-2003.

Also minute Book for the City of London School for Girls Bursary Committee 1978-2004, a sub committee of the main Board of Governors committee.