Records of the civil parish of Wandsworth. Includes: vestry minutes; vestry clerks letterbooks; minutes of Vestry Hall and Town Hall management committees; minutes of the Churchwardens and Overseers; accounts of the Surveyor of Highways; minutes of the Local Committee; tithe plan reference book and tithe map.
Please contact the Archive for further information.The collection consists of administrative papers of the Wandsworth District Board of Works. These include several duplicate runs of Minutes of Proceedings for the Board's meetings, as well as minutes of the Finance Committee. There are also Annual Reports and Reports of the Sanitary Inspector. The bulk of the collection is made up of agendas and supporting papers collected to be used at the Board's fortnightly meetings. These papers include letters of complaint and petitions from the public, planning approvals and refusals for new buildings, roads and sewers, correspondence from other Vestries, copies of Accounts, lists of Board members, copies of Reports from Board Inspectors, copies of Bills of Parliament and many other administrative papers. There are numerous papers regarding the expansion of the railways and the introduction and expansion of the tramways.
Please contact the Archive for further information.Records of Wandsworth County Court, 1911-1968, including ordinary summons books; default summons books; defended default books; judgement summons books and funds ledgers.
Wandsworth County CourtRecords of Wandsworth Common Conservators, 1872-1888, including signed minutes; printed reports of the Chairman and of the Conservators; bye-laws made by the Conservators; financial ledgers; petty cash books; and register of mortgages.
Wandsworth Common ConservatorsWandsworth Common records, including: minutes and financial statements of the Wandsworth Common Conservators; correspondence, minutes, leaflets relating to the campaign to save the Common from enclosure; copies of the Wandsworth Common Bill and related material.
Please contact the Archive for further information.The collection includes minutes of the Executive Committee, General Management Committee and Women's Section of the Party. There are also accounts, press statements and papers relating to general and local elections which include returns of election expenses. There are also papers relating to the Springfield Ward of the Labour Party.
Please contact the Archive for further information.Burial Registers for the Putney Vale and Wandsworth cemeteries.
Please contact the Archive for further information.Records of the Wandsworth Poor Law Union, 1836-1933, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians; minutes and reports of various Committees including the Assessment Committee, Schools and Institutions Committee and Boarding Out Committee; correspondence with the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health; contracts; orders of the Poor Law Board; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers of the Swaffield Road Workhouse and Saint John's Hill Workhouse; registers of apprentices; registers of children at the Intermediate School, Swaffield Road and the Anerley School, North Surrey; financial accounts; staff records; maps of parishes in Wandsworth; floor plans of Saint John's Hospital; registers of relief given to the wives and children of interned aliens [foreigners], First World War.
Wandsworth and Clapham Poor Law Union x Wandsworth Poor Law Union x Wandsworth Board of GuardiansPapers relating to the Wandsworth Area Social Democratic Party (SDP). Includes material on their alliance and subsequent merger with the Liberals, election information, correspondence, newsletters and other publications.
Please contact the Archive for further information.Records of the Wandsworth and Putney Gas Light and Coke Company, 1834-1912, comprising deed of settlement and series of minute books for Directors Meetings and Shareholders Meetings.
Wandsworth and Putney Gas Light and Coke Company x Wandsworth, Wimbledon and Epsom District Gas CompanyRecords of the Wandsworth and Fulham Circuit including papers of Quarterly meetings, 1958-1969; Circuit Steward's account books and day books, 1949-1969; minute book of the Invitation Committee, later the General Purposes Committee, 1959-1969; financial accounts, 1963-1969; papers concerning closure of the Circuit, 1967-1969; papers concerning administration of the Manse and Roehampton Christian Community Centre, 1963-1969; correspondence, 1962-1969; Circuit preaching plans, 1949-1969; Trustees' meetings minute book, 1928-1968 and Sunday School minute book, 1956-1965.
Also year books of the Wandsworth Bridge Road Church, Fulham, Wandsworth Circuit, 1908-1913.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchPlans of Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Districts in Battersea and plans of air raid shelters in Wandsworth, 1939-1940.
Battersea Metropolitan Borough Wandsworth Metropolitan BoroughMinutes of the Joint Drainage Committee, 1915-1916; minutes of the Wandle Valley Joint Sewerage Board, 1917-1962; minutes of Wandle Valley Main Drainage Authority, 1963-1965; Orders, 1960-1962; Members attendance books, 1928-1965; registers of documents sealed, 1917-1965; register of tenders, 1948-1965.
Wandle Valley Joint Sewerage Board , 1916-1962 x Wandle Valley Main Drainage Authority , 1962-1965Wandle School records: The first series contains several admissions registers and one volume containing school records. These volumes are closed. The second series is comprised of miscellaneous papers such as letters from old pupils, a copy of the Inspectors report on the school in 1959, and papers relating to the history of the school used to organise an exhibition in 2004.
Please contact the Archive for further information.Register of baptisms for ?Walworth Methodist Church, 1850-1897, including people from parishes in Walworth, Newington, Lewisham, Camberwell, Rotherhithe and Bermondsey.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising a lease for a dwelling house with coach-house, stable and outbuildings with garden and adjoining parcel of land at north west corner of Tottenham Green, 1812, and articles of partnership between Stanley James Secker and Thomas Percy Secker to remain partners in the business of pawnbrokers, jewellers and general salesmen at 555 Green Lanes, Haringay, 1897.
Waltons, Bright and Company , solicitorsPapers of Sir Albert James Walton, 1904-1945, comprising a notebook on Botany and Zoology, early 20th century; notebook on Anatomy and Embryology, 1904-c1911; and an album of drawings of gall stones, bile ducts, and stomal ulcers, 1928-1945.
Walton , Sir , Albert James , 1881-1955 , Knight , surgeonRecords of the Walthamstow Technical Institute, later Walthamstow Technical College, 1920-1938, comprising:
Prospectuses, 1920, 1932; 'The Anvil', Magazine of Walthamstow Technical College, 1936-1938.
Walthamstow Technical Institute Walthamstow Technical CollegeRecords of the Walthamstow School of Art, 1902-1908, comprising:
Manuscript minutes of the Walthamstow Higher Education Committee, November 1902-July 1906; manuscript reports of the Headmaster of the School of Art, including press cuttings, lists of prize winners and notices of exhibitions, 1906-1908.
Walthamstow School of ArtRecords of Waltham Forest Community Health Council (CHC) (1974 - 2003) including Minutes (1974 - 2003), Annual Reports (1975 - 2003), Visit Reports (1998 - 2003), Consultation Responses (1991 - 2003) and Publications (1977 - 2003).
Waltham Forest Community Health CouncilRecords of Waltham Abbey County Court, comprising register of orders for the protection of property of deserted married women.
Waltham Abbey County CourtMaterial, 1886-1994, comprising copies of published and unpublished documents including a dedication to the mayor of Koritschen by members of the Jewish community; article by Eric Walters-Kohn, March 1994 on his experiences in Dachau and Buchenwald; copy of an article by Eric Walters-Kohn from Die Gemeinde, (the official paper of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien), 15 March 1994, regarding the life of Dr Louis Poborski, a distant relative, and formerly close friend of Theodor Herzl.
Walters-Kohn , Eric , b 1906 , concentration camp survivorCopy of memoir covering the period 1914-1921, including his service in World War One in the Mediterranean, 1914-1915 and 1917-1918, and the North Sea, 1916-1917, notably the Battle of Jutland, 1916, in the Baltic during the Russian Civil War, 1918, and on fishery duties in the English Channel, 1920, written in [1920-1921].
UntitledPapers of Joseph Walter, c 1964, including essay: 'The History of Radioactive Isotopes and their Medical Applications', bibliography, and curriculum vitae.
Walter , Joseph , 1910-1979 , radiotherapeutic consultantRecords of the Walter Rodney Memorial Trust, including correspondence; publicity material; receipt books; and papers relating to events including photographs and programmes. Also DVD "Remembering Walter Rodney", research and commentary by Dr Margaret Andrews with contributions from Eric and Jessica Huntley, 2010.
Walter Rodney Memorial TrustPapers of Francis Martin Rouse Walshe including correspondence, 1915-1926 and notebook of anatomical notes and drawings, made by Walshe whilst he was a student at University College, 1904.
Walshe , Sir , Francis Martin Rouse , 1885-1973 , Knight , neurologistPapers and correspondence, 1913-1973, of Sir Francis Martin Rouse Walshe. Personal and biographical documents and correspondence, 1913-1965, include certificates and documentation about appointments and honours; photograph of Walshe at Queen Square, 1915; papers, 1915-1920, relating to service in Egypt; papers relating to visits to the USA, 1924-1925, 1959, 1965; caricature of Walshe, 1948; letters of congratulation on Walshe's knighthood, 1953; a manuscript biographical note by Walshe prepared for the journal Brain, 1965; letters containing recollections of Walshe sent by colleagues for a memorial volume, 1973. Drafts and manuscripts of publications, speeches and addresses, some heavily revised and with later annotations and comments by Walshe, date from 1918-1972, and, besides scientific papers, include some publishers' contracts; reviews of Walshe's published works, chiefly Critical Studies in Neurology (1948) and Thoughts upon the Equation of Mind with Brain (1953); and Walshe's earliest discussion of 'miraculism' in medicine, published in the Catholic Medical Guardian, 1938. Manuscripts and printed material relating to various controversies in which Walshe was involved as a leading member of the Roman Catholic medical community include lectures on stigmatization; a letter from Walshe on the duties of lay Catholics; printed works on religious matters, 1926-1938; a memorandum, 1965, correspondence, 1960-1966, and various press cuttings and printed matter on contraception. There is various correspondence, 1922-1927, 1940-1973, some of it scientific, including a postcard to Walshe from J S Haldane, 1921, and copies of correspondence between William B Bean and Walshe, 1950-1973.
Walshe , Sir , Francis Martin Rouse , 1885-1973 , Knight , neurologistText of a lecture on early literary contacts between France and Bohemia by Maurice O'Connell Walshe, c 1955.
Walshe , Maurice O'Connell , b 1911 , German scholarA holograph fair copy of Portraits of the Period by Sir Hugh Walpole, with a letter from the author, 1918-1919.
Walpole , Sir , Hugh Seymour , 1884-1941 , Knight , novelist and man of lettersDissolution of the partnership of Sir Joshua Walmsley, William Allcard and George Frederick Smith, proprietors of The Daily News and The Express, 6 July 1857.
Walmsley , Sir , Joshua , 1794-1871 , Knight , Member of Parliament and reformer Allcard , William , b 1801 , engineerTypescript copy, 1991, by Elizabeth Mardel of journal (1891) of William Walmsley, chronicling his journey to Zanzibar, everyday events, his impressions of customs and life in Zanzibar, including slavery, and his illness. The diary stops a few days before Walmsley's death.
Mardel , Elizabeth , fl 1991 , grandniece of William WalmsleyThe collection centres on Wallich's work on biology, particularly marine biology, and his belief that other figures in the field were ignoring or plagiarising his discoveries. As well as his notes, it includes a collection of offprints by Wallich (MS.4969) and a collection of offprints by other scientists, with Wallich's comments (MS.4970).
Wallich , George Charles , 1815-1899 , physician and marine biologistA sketchbook of William Waller, son of Augustus Desiré Waller, containing pen and ink drawings of rural scenes in Derbyshire.
Waller , William , fl 1907 , son of Augustus Desiré WallerPapers of Wathen Ernest Waller and his sister Dorothy, 1912-1944, notably illustrated typescript account of service in Iraq, 1916-1918; inventory for insurance purposes of house, including contents of surgery; materials relating to Miss Waller's work in the Red Cross and the Voluntary Aid Detachment, 1912-1920.
Waller , Wathen Ernest , d 1958 Waller , Dorothy , d 1986Papers of W Waller, surgeon of Gosport, late 18th century, comprising a manuscript volume of notes taken by Waller at John Hunter's lectures, titled An Abstract of Lectures on Surgery delivered at London by Mr John Hunter.
Waller , W , fl 1784 , surgeon of Gosport, HampshirePapers, 1797-1879, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising leases, a release, an assignment of leasehold, an abstract of title and an extract from a will; relating to properties in Kingsland, Stoke Newington, De Beauvoir Town and Battersea.
Waller, Neale and Houston , solicitorsPapers, 1876-1878, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising assignments of leasehold premises for properties on Osborne Grove, Upper Tollington Park, Stroud Green.
Waller, Neale and Houlston , solicitorsA medical notebook complied by Augustus Desiré Waller in the late 19th century with numerous citations from German medical authorities, a list of Waller's own publications, printed papers by him and other printed notices of his experiments.
Waller , Augustus Desiré , 1856-1922 , physiologistPapers of Dr Mary Désirée Waller, 1908-1969; comprising personal correspondence, photographs and papers relating to her education, research and teaching at Bedford College and the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women (LSMW), 1908-1952, comprising:
note on the establishment of Bedford College Science Demonstration Club, c1908;
papers on the life and work of her father, Professor Augustus D Waller (1856-1922), head of the University of London Physiological Laboratory and lecturer at LSMW, particularly his discovery of the electrocardiogram in 1887, and her mother, Alice (née Palmer) a former student at LSMW;
notes for speeches by Waller, mainly at LSMW Prizegivings and dinners;
scrapbook, 1912-1952, containing notes, offprints of articles, correspondence, press cuttings, including papers on Waller's appearance on BBC Television in 1937 and 1938, giving a demonstration of the properties of frozen carbon dioxide;
correspondence, papers and proofs relating to the posthumous publication of Waller's book Chladani Figures, A Study in Symmetry, 1957-1969; including correspondence between Waller's literary Executor, Dr Bertha Turner and the publishers, G Bell & Sons, London and with the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine on income from the book being credited to the Augustus and Alice Waller Research Fund, 1960-1969;
photographs of the Waller and Palmer families, c1890-1949, figures and illustrations for books.
List of Jewish women prisoners at Walldorf/ Frankfurt, giving prisoner number, name, date of birth, profession, function in the camp, c 1944.
Walldorf 16 Labour Camp authoritiesPersonal and professional correspondence, articles, manuscripts of books, research material, reviews of books, biographical material, Ada Wallas' diaries, and Graham Wallas' engagement diaries.
Wallas, Graham, 1858-1932, political psychologistMemorandum and articles of association for Wallardie Tea Estates Limited.
Wallardie Tea Estates LtdLetter from Wililam Wallace to Rev George Peacock, Dean of Ely, [1833]. Describing Wallace's part in the introduction of foreign mathematical notation to England and 'the Reformation .... the the Mathematical science in Britain'.
Autograph, with signature. Headed 'First Copy'. Inscribed in another hand: 'Found among Mr Thomas Galloway's papers'.
Wallace , William , 1768-1843 , mathematicianPapers of Thomas Wallace, 1719, comprising a volume written in Latin, containing case notes of patients; lists of symptoms, diseases, and treatments; rules and definitions of arithmetical progression; an article describing the volume, by E Muirhead Little, from the British Medical Journal, 8 Dec 1928; and a letter from the donor, W Reeve Wallace, 27 Mar 1934.
Wallace , Thomas , 1680-1763 , physicianAn essay on paper credit and banking, c1758.
Wallace , Robert , 1697-1771 , chaplain and writerCopy of typescript memoir covering the period 1914-1918, including his service with 3 Bn, London Regt in Sudan, 1915, Gallipoli, 1915, and France and Belgium, 1916-1918, notably the Battle of the Somme, 1916, dated 1935. Includes transcript of an extract from the diary of Private W Law covering his service with 3 Bn, London Regt in Gallipoli, Nov-Dec 1915.
UntitledRough draft of a history by J G Wallace of British Law in Northern Nigeria, 1948-1959; research papers and partial drafts of a history of Benue Province, Nigeria, c1959. The latter include copies of works by others, and of official administrative correspondence and reports, c1928-1959.
Wallace , J G , fl 1928-1959 , civil servant, NigeriaAlfred Russel Wallace family papers, [1790]-2000, including personal and related family papers, correspondence, accounts of expenditure, publisher's proofs, reprints, photographs, certificates, pamphlets, press-cuttings, lecture notes and obituaries. The correspondence includes letters from Richard Spruce, and letters written by Wallace to his family from Canada, c 1886-1887, to his son William c 1889-1911, to his daughter Violet, to Herbert Walter Bates, and to the Clarion newspaper. Siblings with whom he corresponded or who mentioned in these papers include older brothers William G [George] (died c 1845), John (c 1819-1895) older sisters Eliza (died 1832) and Frances (Fanny, Mrs Thomas Sims; died 1893) and younger brother Herbert Edward. (c 1829-1851).
Wallace , Alfred Russel , 1823-1913 , traveller and naturalist Wallace FamilyRecords of Wallace Brothers Nominees Limited including board and AGM minute books, annual reports, register of members and share register, and seal register.
Wallace Brothers Nominees LimitedRecords of Wallace Brothers Finance Limited including board minute book and register of members and share register.
Wallace Brothers Finance Limited