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Photograph of staff from the kitchen of the Ritz Hotel, 1925.

Records of Richmond Presbyterian Church, including Court of Session minute books, 1932-1964; Deacons' Court minute books, 1876-1945; Communicants' roll books, 1901-1954; Treasurers' cash book, 1976-1896; Treasurers' account book, 1922-1931; Building fund account books, 1878-1896 and booklets, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and printed material relating to the centenary celebrations of the church, 1927-1976.

Annual reports, 1847-1927; Trustees minute book, 1825-1848; Literary Society minute book, 1904-1910; British Women's Temperance Association minute book, 1916-1919; Communicants' roll book, 1933-1946; Disjunction certificate book, 1937-1949; Register of baptisms, 1822-1856; Register of baptisms (including the Caledonian Church, Cross Street, Hatton Garden), 1826; Register of baptisms, 1827-1840; Young Men's Association register, 1841-1911; scrap book regarding the National Scotch Church, 1823-1960 and scrap book regarding events at Regent Square, 1860-1893.

Marriage registers for Regent Square Presbyterian Church, Bloomsbury, 1905-1938.

Records of the Regent Palace Hotel, London, including:

• Operational records, including Works Manager and Electricians Supervisor files, memorandum books, customer bills and feedback reports, and restaurant menus.
  • Staff handbooks, conditions of employment, and staff attendance statistics.
  • Marketing material, including photographs of the building, guests, staff, and the opening of the Stetson Saloon, newspaper cuttings and advertisements.
  • Plans of the Island Site and Regent Palace Hotel and Annexe, together with copy leases.
  • Historical material compiled by Mr Leigh Smith, Managing Director, including copies of book and journal extracts relating to the hotel, newspaper articles, and original menus from related restaurants.

Staff records of Reffells Bexley Brewery Limited, including wages books for the brewery, coopers, bottling and transport departments, travellers and office staff, and wages summaries (by department).

Sales records of Reffells Bexley Brewery Limited, including sales ledgers and clubs journals.

Premises records of Reffells Bexley Brewery Limited, comprising correspondence and papers relating to the Town and Country Planning Act 1947, including war damage claims with schedule of damages.

Financial records of Reffells Bexley Brewery Limited, including impersonal ledgers; cash books; bank cash books; correspondence and accounts relating to taxation.

Corporate records of Reffells Bexley Brewery Limited, including Board meeting minutes; registers of directors, members, debentures, mortgages, seals and testamentary records; papers relating to shares; articles of association and papers relating to the acquisiton by Courage and Barclay.

Deed transferring "The Redd Lyon" [The Red Lion] public house and land in Gray's Inn Lane from Edward Blount to Thomas Smythe, 22 July 1597.

Legal Records: Charters and Bylaws (1462) - date

Court and Council : Court of Assistants 1745-1827; Council 1827-date; Council in Committee 1963-1989; Revision committee 1981-1987; Nomination Committee 1934-1970; Annual Reports of Council 1884-date

Secretariat: Correspondence, arranged by subject c.1880-1983; Letterbooks 1810-1866, 1900-1925; General Purposes Committee 1808-1962; Joint Secretariat Committee 1961-1974

President: Committee of President and Vice President 1836-1855; Presidential Committee on Examinations 1985; Presidential Committee on the College's Educational Policies for the Future 1981-1982; Presidential Correspondence 1945-1948; President's Conversazione 1899-1934; President's newsletter 1967-1991

Museum: Board of Curators 1800-1844; Museum & Building Committee 1799-1814; Museum Committee 1844-1988; Hunterian Trustees 1805-present; Letter books 1800-1883; Museum Accounts 1800-1832; Annual Reports 1827-1946; Correspondence 1845-date; Special Collections Committee 1989; Donations Registers and Correspondence 1802-1967; Human Remains [archaeological Finds} 1907-1937; Visitors 1805-1989; Odontological Museum correspondence 1943-1989;

Building: Building Committee 1844-1966; Committee on Accommodation 1982; Committee on the Extension of the College Buildings 1885-1891; Furniture & Building 1966-1992; Hospitality & Catering Committee 1956-1988; House Committee 1944-1961; Building Estates Committee 1989-1992; Property Committee 1978-1982; Rebuilding of College 1946-1955; Plans for rebuilding 1957; Correspondence 1910-date, photographs 1880-date.

Examinations: Court of Examiners 1796 -1832; Registers 1745-1983; Committee of Management Conjoint Board 1884-1929; Letters books 1832-1865; Committee on Courses 1981-2; Working Party on Future of Examining Board In England 1972-1981

Membership: Signature books 1800-1970; Apprentices 1800-1846; Death Registers 1800-1889; Membership lists 1788-1970; Discipline Committee 1915-1955; Licentiate registers 1885-1898; Certificates 1850-1870; Register of Certificates 1821-1835

Fellowship; Fellowship Election Committee 1943-1975; Fellows Committee 1988-1999; Overseas Fellows Committee 1986-1989; Honorary Fellows 1900-1978; Fellows & Honorary Fellows photo albums 1840-1968;

Lectureships & Awards: Lectures & Orations 1810-1842; Erasmus Wilson Committee 1879; Jacksonian Lectureship Committee 1800-date; Prize & Medal Committee 1956-1987; Macloghlin Scholarship committee 1965-1975; Joseph Toynbee Memorial Lecture Committee 1988; Lionel College Memorial Fellowship Committee minutes 1982-1985; Norman Capener Travelling Fellowship Advisory Board 1981-1988; Ratanji Dalal Research Scholarship Committee 1963-1990; Tudor Edwards Memorial Fund Committee 1989; Walker Prize Committee 1956-1980; Windsor Prize Committee 1982

Publications: Transactions Committee 1841-1842; Annals Committee 1947-1989; Almanacks 1903-date

Annual Meetings: Annual & Provincial Meetings Committee 1965-1966;

External Affairs: External Affairs Board Minutes 1989-1992; International Relations Committee 1983;

Finance: Accounts 1745-1974 ; Committee of Auditors 1811-1888; Finance Committee 1888- 1977; Cashbooks 1887-1959; Finance & General Appeal Committee 1967-1972; Building Committee Accounts 1806-1838; College Chest 1978-1982; Committee on Income & Expenditure 1868

Fundraising: Appeals Committee 1956-1978; Restoration funds records 1945-1956

Library: Library Committee 1833-1989; Acquisitions 1833-1850; Letter book 1828-1851; Correspondence 1935-1965; Donations 1868-1957; Purchases 1887-1952; Visitors 1889-1946;Binding 1856-1951; Books Received 1839-1951; Periodicals Received 1881-1938; Binding 1951-1964

Media: Audio Visual Techniques Committee 1980-1982;

Surgical Specialities & Training: Examiners in Anatomy & Physiology Minutes 1880-1918 ; Examiners in Midwifery minutes 1852-1857; Board of Examiners In Dental Surgery 1860-1909; Board of Surgical Specialities 1976-1988; Committee on Higher Specialist Assessment in General Surgery 1984; Committee on Training of Surgeons later Surgical Training Board minutes 1959-1971; Courses & Lectureship Committee 1982; Committee on Courses 1981-1982; Special Advisory Committee on General Surgery 1978-1981; Surgical Teaching Films Committee 1985-1986; Joint Committee for Plastic Surgery, Postgraduate Orthopaedic Training 1948-1959; Postgraduate Education Committee 1947-1959

Research Laboratories Committee 1890-1905; Ethical or Research Ethics Committee 1974-1983; Hunterian Institute Board Minutes 1986-1989; Hunterian Institute Academic Advisory Committee 1986-1989; Institute of Basic Medical Research Correspondence & Minutes 1946-1983; Joint General Board 1966-1983; Joint Research Board 1975-1979; Museum & Research Committee 1937-1974; Research Establishment at Downe Management Committee minutes 1974-1977; Research Grants & Development Committee 1979-1985; Research Ethics Committee 1985-1992; Streatfield & MacKenzie Mackinnon Research Fund Committee 1989; Anatomy Correspondence 1948-1980

Club College Council Club minutes, photographs, correspondence 1931-date

Dinner: Hunterian Festival programmes 1881-1975; Buckston Browne 1928-1956

War: Committee of Reference 1916-1919

This collection comprises the following records relating to the parish of Dagenham:

Minute books of Dagenham Parish Council, 1894-1926 (BD75/A/1-3)

Attendance book of Dagenham Parish Council, 1894-1925 (BD75/A/4)

Letter book of Dagenham Parish Council, 1923-1924 (BD75/A/5)

Minute books of Dagenham School Board, 1874-1903 (BD75/B/1)

Ledger of Dagenham School Board, 1894-1900 (BD75/B/2)

Poor rate books for Dagenham, 1839-1879 (BD75/C/1)

Church rate books for Dagenham, 1849-1865 (BD75/C/2)

Sanitary rate books for Dagenham, 1887-1892 (BD75/C/3)

Lighting rate books for Dagenham, 1900-1925 (BD75/C/4)

Highways rate books for Dagenham, 1874-1880 (BD75/C/5)

Poor and sanitary rate books for Dagenham, 1893-1913 (BD75/C/6)

Poor and special expenses rate books for Dagenham, 1914-1922 (BD75/C/7)

Valuation lists for Dagenham, 1893 (BD75/D)

Collection and deposit books for Dagenham, 1907-1928 (BD75/E)

Collectors' statements and books for Dagenham, 1894-1927 (BD75/F)

Receipt and payment books for Dagenham, 1838-1926 (BD75/G)

Allotment ledgers, 1920-1928 (BD75/H)

Dagenham tithe register, 1841 (BD75/J)

The Architectural Association Archives comprise of the administrative and educational records of the Architectural Association Inc. (1847-), encompassing material related to the AA's governance, legal and financial operations, property holdings and educational activities. To date, less than one quarter of all the AA's archival records have been formally catalogued, with the focus of phase one of the cataloguing having been upon basic administrative records, including Council and committee minute books and agendas, constitutional records, Registers of Directors, property leases and vital company documents. Phase two of the cataloguing process is ongoing and is focused upon the educational records of the AA school, its staff and its students.

Records of properties held by Great Ormond Street Hospital, 1869-2003 covering Hospital buildings, plans, budgets, correspondence and reports. Comprising: GOS/4/1: Plans of first purpose-built Hospital building, and correspondence with the architect, E. M. Barry, 1869-1875, including details of proposed alterations; press-cuttings, and correspondence with Dr West about the buildings; GOS/4/2: Volume, "Building and Sanitary Reports", 1873-1895, including correspondence, bills, plans and reports; some relating to Cromwell House; GOS/4/3: Box file, 'Buildings', including sub-files on new buildings, 1887-1949, namely i. General correspondence on Guilford Street property, 1931-1936, ii Plans of North Block by Charles Barry Jnr, 1890, iii. Cromwell House, 1895-1910, iv. Alterations to buildings and boilers, 1899-1947, v. Cleaning of premises, 1887-1921, vi. The Astor Memorial, 1903-1922, vii. Existing buildings, 1912, viii. Valuations, 1914-1916, ix. Proposed convalescent home, 1931-1932, x. Miscellaneous, 1921-1927, xi. St Christopher's Chapel, 1936, xii. Foundling Hospital site, 1924-1929.

GOS/4/4: Schemes for annual cleaning of Hospital premises, 1900-1915; GOS/4/5: Correspondence concerning new boiler house and redevelopment of Powis Place, 1907; GOS/4/6-8: Correspondence concerning new Out-Patient's Department, 1904-1910; GOS/4/9: Works Manager's correspondence, 1914; GOS/4/10: Works Manager's Electricity and Power Readings for Hospital premises, 1918-1923; GOS/4/11: Works Department Estimates, 1922-1923; GOS/4/12: Oliver Chadwyck-Healey's (Vice-Chairman) papers concerning attempted acquisition of the Foundling Hospital site, 1929.

GOS/4/13: Specification and Plans for the Princess Royal Nursing Home, 1932; GOS/4/14: Designs and correspondence for the Warburton-Lee Memorial, 1934; GOS/4/15: Specifications for new Hospital block (Southwood Building), 1936; GOS/4/16: Reports on, and estimates for, new Hospital block, 1938; GOS/4/17: Maps of Foundling Estate and Hospital properties, with attached schedule of Leases, 1955-1956; GOS/4/18: Reports and Plans relating to proposed office accommodation redevelopment, 1956.

GOS/4/19: Plans of Out-Patients Department area and adjacent play shelter site, Almoner's Office; Tennis Courts and Playground, c 1960; GOS/4/2O: Plans for alterations to Casualty Department entrance, 1961-62 ; GOS/4/21: Site Development Steam Generation plan, 1961; GOS/4/22: Sample French Window design, obtained (? by Dr West) from the 'Hospital Napoleon', Paris, c 1870; GOS/4/23: Building reports and related papers of proposed Joint Development (National Hospital, Morbid Anatomy), 1968-1975.

GOS/4/24: Floor-plan of original Hospital premises (48-49 Great Ormond Street), 1872; GOS/4/25: Correspondence concerning leasing and site development of Hospital premises on the Foundling Hospital estate, 1925-1942 (Guilford Street and Lansdowne Yard): i General correspondence on Guilford Street property, 1931-1936, ii. Proposed purchase of Foundling Estate property in Guilford Street, 1925-1927, iii. Correspondence with King's Fund concerning purchase of Foundling Estate property and developments at Tadworth Court, 1926-1927, iv. Correspondence concerning tenancies of property in Guilford Street and Lansdowne Mews, 1930, v. Legal papers concerning tenancy of properties in Guilford Street and Lansdowne Mews, 1927-1932, vi. Correspondence concerning properties in Lansdowne Yard and nos. 40, 42, 45 and 46 Guilford Street, 1930-1932, vii. Plans and Memoranda concerning Guilford Street, Lansdowne Yard, Dolling's Timber Yard site and related land-usage resolutions, 1927-1929, viii. Correspondence concerning tenancies of 34-36 Guilford Street, 1929-1937, ix. Correspondence concerning usage of Hospital's Guilford Street frontage for removal of deceased patients from Mortuary, 1932, x. Correspondence concerning Guilford Street tenancies and move of tenant Mr Bernhard 1932, 1930-1942.

GOS/4/26-109: Records of the building, furnishing and operation of the Southwood Building and the Guilford Street Nurses' Home , 1930-1955; GOS/4/ 26: Sale of Leases of Guilford Street properties, 1930; GOS/4/27: Architect's Report, 'Why the New Hospital is Necessary', 1934; GOS/4/ 28: Correspondence with Stanley Hall, Architect, 1932-1939; includes plan of possible Hospital redevelopment on the Foundling Hospital site; GOS/4/29: Papers concerning the effect of LCC Building Regulations on the Hospital's redevelopment, including site plans, 1935-1944; GOS/4/30: LCC Questionnaire on Hospital rebuilding, 1937; GOS/4/31: Enquiries concerning the GOS Redevelopment Scheme by other hospitals and institutions, 1937-1938; GOS/4/32: Architects' Reports, Plans, Questionnaires for the Building Committee, 1930-1938; GOS/4/33: Plans and correspondence concerning extension to the existing Astor Out-Patients Building, 1932-1946; GOS/4/34-35: Building contracts with, and records of payments to, Sir Robert McAlpine, Contractors, 1936-1940; GOS/4/36: Use of advertising hoardings on the Guilford Street site, 1936; GOS/4/37: Extension to Hospital Laundry, 1937-1938; GOS/4/38: Master-keys for new building, 1937-1938; GOS/4/39: Pathology Laboratory in new Hospital, 1939; GOS/4/40: Obituaries of Stanley Hall, Architect, 1940.

GOS/4/41: Architect's Report and summary description of new Nurses' Home, 1932; GOS/4/42: Correspondence concerning costs of new Nurses' Home, 1932-1936; GOS/4/43: Clerk of Works' Reports on new Nurses' Home building, 1934-1935; GOS/4/44: Matron's Temporary Flat in new Nurses' Home, 1938-1939; GOS/4/45 Nurses' Home 'Sanitary Annexes', 1936; GOS/4/46: Nurses' Home Electricity Supply, 1937-1938; GOS/4/47: Nurses' Home, Architects' Fees (Messrs Hall and Leslie), 1932-1935; GOS/4/48: Nurses' Home Painting and Decoration, 1933-1938; GOS/4/49: Nurses' Home, Maids' Quarters, 1936-1938; GOS/4/50: Nurses' Home Reception Office, 1954; GOS/4/51: Nurses' Home, Nurses and Sisters' Servery, 1951-53; GOS/4/52: Miscellaneous correspondence on Nurses' Home, and part of the site (36 Guilford Street); GOS/4/53: Nurses' Home, Mural Paintings by the Byam-Shaw School of Art, 1934-1937; GOS/4/54: Nurses' Home, Naming after Princess Royal and RIBA Award, 1937-40; GOS/4/55: Nurses' Home, Staff Recreation Room, 1938; GOS/4/56: Nurses' Home site, Dangerous Structures notice on existing properties, 1933.

GOS/4/57: Correspondence with Royal Standard Benefit Society, Guilford Street, concerning light/access effects of new Hospital buildings; GOS/4/58: Temporary transfer of Dresden and Cohen Wards to Nurses' Home building, 1937; GOS/4/59: Splint Store in new Hospital, 1937; GOS/4/60: Temporary accommodation in Nissen Huts during Hospital rebuilding, 1948; GOS/4/61: Resident Medical Superintendent's Quarters in new Hospital, 1935; GOS/4/62: Re-accommodation of Staff during Hospital rebuilding, 1936-1937; GOS/4/63: Ward Units in new Hospital, 1935-1949; GOS/4/64: Architect's correspondence on miscellaneous design details of the new Hospital, 1938; GOS/4/65: Accommodation/space allocation in new Out-Patients Building, including comments by Clinical Staff, 1938-1946; GOS/4/66: Plans of temporary Out-Patients Deptartment in the old Hospital, 1938; GOS/4/67: Equipment for new Out-Patients Dept., 1939; GOS/4/68: Overtime arrangements for construction of new building, 1936-1939; GOS/4/69: Miscellaneous correspondence on equipment and maintenance of the Southwood Building/Nurses' Home, 1937-1950; GOS/4/70: Schedule of Out-Patient accommodation, c 1939; GOS/4/71: Out-Patients Deptartment keys/security, 1954; GOS/4/72: Nurses' home, plans of new bathrooms/WC, 1953; GOS/4/73: Nurses' Home, Matron's Flat, 1951; GOS/4/74: Rubber Furnishings for Southwood Building/Nurses' Home, 1947-1949; GOS/4/ 75: Nurses' Home, furnishings, decoration, Dispensary and Kitchen, 1936-1953, including set of general floor-plans.

GOS/4/ 76: Skin Therapy Dept. in new Hospital, 1936; GOS/4/77: General furnishings for new Hospital, 1939; GOS/4/ 78: Clocks and paging system in new Hospital, 1933-1938; GOS/4/79: Offices and telephone exchange in new Hospital, 1951-1953; GOS/4/80: Out-Patient Dept., repair of damaged walling, 1947; GOS/4/81: Staff Canteen, 1951; includes general plans of new Institute of Child Health and Out-Patients Deptartment buildings; GOS/4/82: Water softener for new building, 1948-1954; GOS/4/83: Hospital workshops during redevelopment, 1935-1950; GOS/4/84: Sterilising equipment for new Hospital, 1937-1950; GOS/4/85 Ward temperatures in new Hospital, 1946; GOS/4/ 86: Building regulations authority correspondence, 1945; GOS/4/87: Equipment and operation of Hospital kitchens, 1937-1948; GOS/4/88: X-Ray Film Storage, 1936.

GOS/4/89: War-Damage; repair of bomb-damage to 5th-7th floors of Southwood Building, 1947-1958; GOS/4/ 90: Solution Room, 1947; GOS/4/91: Ventilating pipes, 1946-1947; GOS/4/92: Museum and Pathology Laboratory in new Hospital, 1946-1949, file also includes general floor-plans of 2nd-4th floors of Southwood Building; GOS/4/93: Operating Theatres, Equipment and Maintenance, 1947-1954; GOS/4/94: Staircases and fire-escape provision in Southwood Building, 1947-1948; GOS/4/95: Traffic Barrier in Hospital Drive, 1954;GOS/4/96: Wall opposite Southwood Memorial, 1953; GOS/4/97: Ventilation Plant on Balconies, 1952; GOS/4/98-99: Treatment Room floors, 1948-1952; GOS/4/100 Temporary Out-Patients' Deptartment, Bills of Quantities, 1948-1953; GOS/4/101: Redecoration, 1947-1948; GOS/4/102: Conversion to Oil Fuel, 1951-1952; GOS/4/103: Oxygen Mains Supply, 1935-1948; GOS/4/104: Ramp and Linen Store, including plans, 1953; GOS/4/105: Ward screens, 1948-1949; GOS/4/106: Refrigerated centrifuge, 1950-1955; GOS/4/107: Repair of Powis Place, 1945-1953.

GOS/4/108: Financial papers relating to costs of war damage repair, School of Nursing building and Barrie Wing, 1955-1963; GOS/4/109: Correspondence concerning Royal Standard Benefit Society premises, 40 Great Ormond Street, 1950-1953; GOS/4/110: Lists and related correspondence of Hospital residential properties, 1948-1973, including list of title deeds, 1948; GOS/4/111: Sketch plan of room usage in the basement of the surviving Victorian Hospital buildings, 1961; GOS/4/112: Old Building accommodation, 1979, Survey and floor plans, also site plan of whole 'Island Site'; GOS/4/113: 1960 Site plan, insurance valuations of Trust Fund properties, 1970, 1978 security report; GOS/4/114: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England report on the Hospital's buildings, including the Italian Hospital, 1994; GOS/4/115: Illustrated project on parental accommodation 'Great Ormond Street Project', by Sydney Sykes, March-September 1985; GOS/4/116: GOSH NHS Trust Site Plan and staff update literature c 2003.

Marriage registers for Ray Lodge Congregational Church, Snakes Lane East, Woodford Green, 1919-1980.

Marriage registers for Raleigh Memorial Chapel, Albion Road, Stoke Newington, 1927-1939.

Records of the Railway Tavern Company Limited, including corporate minutes and correspondence, accounts and property files consisting of title deeds, mortgages and papers relating to stocks and bonds.

Herne Hill Methodist Church, Railton Road: Sunday School Teachers' minute book, 1910-1926.

Records of the Rabbinical Commission for the Licensing of Shochetim, including Commission minutes; general correspondence and correspondence with Shechita Boards.

Staff records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including wages sheets; papers relating to taxation, including income tax; papers relating to the fidelity guarantee policy; correspondence about staff, accounts, remuneration and auditors; papers regarding compensation of staff on the closure of the brewery.

Sales records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including daily and weekly sales summaries; stock books; Board of Trade census of production; correspondence with suppliers; order delivery schedules and gallonage table.

Property records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including leases; papers relating to development of Slough premises; papers regarding redevelopment of Slough High Street; correspondence; papers regarding insurance; rate demands.

Financial records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including correspondence; paid cheques; bought ledger; purchase ledger; general (expenses) ledger; transfer journal; rough balances and price lists.

Corporate records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including Board and annual general meeting minutes; papers relating to the acquisition by Harmans Uxbridge Brewery; general correspondence; papers of the Board; papers of the Company Secretary; and annual reports with accounts.

Minutes of Trustees' Meetings, 1869-1941; minutes of Leaders' Meetings, 1892-1964; minutes of Sunday School Council, 1868-1948 and minutes of Sunday School Teachers' Meetings, 1868-1886.

Court of Session minute books, including annual reports, 1844-1920; minute books of the Diaconate, 1845-1927 and Communicants' roll book, 1863-1913.

Records of Putney and Wandsworth Presbyterian Church including Communicants' roll book (contains entries for Wandsworth from October 4th 1945, when the two churches united), 1942-1955; Court of Session minute book, 1916-1953; Committee of Management minute book, 1894-1949 and annual reports, 1879-1949.

Records of Putney United Reformed Church including baptism and marriage registers, 1907-1992; minutes of the Session, later the Elders Meeting; minutes of the Board of Managers, later the Deacon's Court, later the Church Meeting; minutes of the Stewards' Meeting; minutes of other church committees; Communicant Books which were attested by order of the Session; papers relating to rebuilding work following World War Two bomb damage; newsletters, reports and other publications of the Church, including Church Notes which provides selected sermons given at the Church; war memorials; a file of press cuttings and photographs relating to special events; order of service sheets; histories of the Putney Church and photographs of centenary celebrations.

Collection of photographs of public sculptures including statues, reliefs, fountains and murals in locations including schools, housing estates and old people's homes.

Marriage registers for the Providence Congregational Church, Uxbridge, 1924-1961.

Register of marriages for the Providence Baptist Chapel, 1982.

Records of the Priory of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, comprising Prior's household accounts and cartulary compiled circa 1426 containing a narrative history of the priory and copies of documents.

The surviving records of the Printers and Theatres Rating Committee (Southern Committee) are incomplete. They mostly concern the rating of individual risks. As a result, they contain much information about particular theatres, music halls, cinemas, film production studios, publishers, printers and allied trades (including papermakers), and associated processes and products. Some of the records are indexed by name and/or place. The whereabouts of the records of the Northern and Scottish Rating Committees is unknown.

Records of the Princess Beatrice Hospital, including Board of Management minutes, 1932-1948; Finance Committee and House Committee minutes, 1912-1969; Medical Committee minutes, 1918-1978; minute book of a working party on the conversion of the hospital to a maternity unit, 1970-1972; booklet Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Kensington General Hospital, 1907; bye-laws of the Hospital, 1938; annual reports, 1910-1946; statistics, 1940-1948; offprint from The Architect's Journal on the construction of the Hospital, 1932; record book of maids employed by the Hospital, 1931-1955; financial papers relating to construction work at the Hospital, 1941-1947; register of investments, 1931-1940; register of deeds relating to land owned by the Hospital, 1842-1940; press cuttings and obituaries relating to the Hospital, 1957-1966 and histories of the Hospital, 1957 and 1977.

Trustees' account books, 1869-1966; account book, 1959-1966; general correspondence, 1925-1950 and Trust correspondence, 1940-1958.

Papers of Edgar Prestage, 1881-1949, largely relating to his work on the history of Portugal, 16th-19th centuries. Letters to Prestage from various correspondents, 1886-1948 and undated, relate to a variety of subjects pertaining to his work, publications and translations, sources and interpretation, and also to acquaintances and contemporaries, other publications, and some personal matters such as correspondents' health and families, and include six letters from Fortunato de Almeida, 1917-1933 and undated; 24 letters from Joao Lucio de Azevedo, 1914-1933 and undated; 13 letters from Pedro Augusto de S Bartolomeu de Azevedo, 1910-1927 and undated; six letters from Henrique de Gama Barros, 1908-1925; five letters from Carlos Roma du Bocage, 1915-1918; three letters from Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1888-1889, and 12 letters from Lady Isabel Burton, 1894-1896, relating to Sir Richard's translation of Camoens; 22 letters from Julio de Castilho, 1908-1918; nine letters from Harold Castle, 1903-1906; six letters from Fidelino de Figueiredo, 1911-1918 and undated; eight letters from James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, 1905-1919; five letters from Anselmo Braamcamp Freire, 1905-1919; two letters from Pieter Geyl, 1923, 1926; letter from William Ewart Gladstone, 1893, congratulating Prestage on Letters of a Portuguese nun; ten letters from Edward Heawood, 1922-1933; letter from Benjamin Jowett, 1887, explaining entrance examinations at Oxford; five letters from Margery Lane, 1927 and undated; six letters from Manuel de Oliveira Lima, 1910-1927; two letters, 1928, 1932, from Manuel II, King of Portugal, concerning the monarch's bibliography of early Portuguese books; eight letters from Jacinto Octavio Picon, 1911-1920; seven letters from Jacinto Inacio de Brito Rebelo, 1895-1908; eight letters from Jaime Batalha Reis, 1894-1896, 1904-1905, 1922; 12 letters from Francisco Rodrigues, 1913-1918, 1930 and undated; two letters from John Ruskin, 1886 and undated, on the study of architecture; seven letters from Antonio Maria Jose de Melo Cesar e Meneses, 5th Conde de Sabugosa, 1905-1913; five letters from Luis Teixeira de Sampayo, 1921-1928; letter from Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, 1905, congratulating Prestage on Eca de Queiroz's The sweet miracle; five letters from Georg Schurhammer, 1930-1936; five letters from Wilhelm Storck, 1894-1895; five letters from Herbert Thurston, 1905-1913; ten letters from Pedro Tovar de Lemos, 2nd Conde de Tovar, 1916-1927 and undated; 13 letters from Carolina Michaelis de Vasconcellos, 1895-1896, 1907-1922, and 11 letters from her husband, Joaquim de Vasconcellos, 1897, 1908-1925; six letters from Afonso Lopes Vieira, 1910, 1914, 1927 and undated; five letters from Tomas Maria de Almeida Manuel de Vilhena, 8th Conde de Vila Flor, 1925-1929 and undated; letter from Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, [1892], regretting he cannot send a copy of his unnamed play (perhaps Lady Windermere's Fan) as it has not yet been published. There is also a letter of 1881 from Antonio Candido Goncalves Crespo to Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho (father and mother of Prestage's wife). Ephemera includes signatures of Gomes Eannes Azurara, William Wordsworth, [? Isaac] Disraeli and Samuel Wilberforce; Christmas cards; the visiting card of S T P Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic, 1903; menus, including the House of Commons Coronation luncheon in Westminster Hall, 1902; a ticket to the coronation of Edward VII, 1902; and an invitation to a party at Windsor Castle, 1912. Otherwise the collection comprises research notes and transcriptions on various subjects and sources, including Restoration period Portugal; Sousa Coutinho; Portuguese in Africa, Brazil and Asia; the War of the Spanish Succession; 17th century Portuguese history, including diplomacy; the sermons of Father Antonio Vieira SJ; Portuguese bibliographies prepared by Prestage; annotated typescripts on the Portuguese in Abyssinia down to 1543, aspects and results of Portuguese colonisation, and Portuguese reminiscences (1948); Prestage's 'The Mode of Government in Portugal during the Restoration Period'; photographs of Portuguese fortresses in Morocco; notebook on 'Analyse das "Cartas Familiares" '; copies of letters of F de Sousa, including his embassies to France and Rome; copies of letters of Sir R Southwell, English ambassador to Lisbon; material relating to relations between Spain and Portugal; pamphlets and articles of Prestage; proofs for a chapter entitled 'L'Intevention Anglaise dans la Peninsule Iberique', in an envelope addressed to Prestage and labelled 'D Fernando & the Holy See by E Perroy'.

Plans of the Parker Memorial Hall and Institute, Potters Bar.

This series relates to the conveyance of mail on the railways. In the latter half of the 19th century railway mail services were known as Travelling Post Offices and sorting tenders. During the early 19th century sorting tenders became known as sorting carriages. In general terminology sorting carriages were also often referred to as TPOs. The railway mail service also included bag duties or tenders. TPOs and sorting carriages comprised either special trains run exclusively for conveyance and sorting of mails or carriages on passenger trains hired to convey and sort mails. Bag duties were run solely for transportation of mails.

This series includes papers on the mail bag exchange apparatus, TPO mail circulation and sorting lists, railway rolling stock lists and diagrams, schedules of TPO services, minutes of the TPO Whitley Sub-Committee and files on TPO staffing, during railway strikes and after service alterations.

This series of records comprises the private office papers of Rowland Hill including, Rowland Hill's Post Office Journals, extracts from the volumes of Secretary's minutes to the Postmaster General and some original documentation relating to those minutes, volumes of Rowland Hill's minutes to the Postmaster General, correspondence and general material relating particularly to postal reform and including a copy of all volumes of 'History of Penny Postage' by Sir Rowland Hill, KCB (published by William Clowes & Sons).

This series relates to the establishment and operation of colonial post offices in British North America [Canada], Australia and New Zealand. The records include instructions from the Postmaster General via the Secretary (POST 44/1-12), returns to surveys relating to the volume of mail processed and the costs of running the offices, details of the staff employed at these offices and their duties (POST 44/24-33).

This series consists of a series of quarterly accounts of salaries and allowances due and payable by incidents to the officers, clerks and tradesmen employed by the General, Twopenny and London District Post Offices (the Twopenny Post was replaced by the London District Post in 1844). Items 6/4-6, covering 1794-1799, also include separate quarterly accounts of tradesmen's bills and incidental warrants paid out of the revenue of the Bye and Cross Road Letter Office. Accounts cover a wide variety of items and are arranged under general subject headings, such as 'pensions', 'packets', 'tradesmen' and 'rents'. Entries include what the bill is for, name of person owed and the amount. The date of the Treasury warrant authorising payment is often included at the end of each quarterly account. Volumes are not indexed. The accounts include bills for:

• Pensions, salaries and allowances to chief and senior officers, clerks, sorters, messengers and servants working in London headquarters departments, including offices of the Secretary and Accountant General, and the Foreign, Inland, Express, Mail Coach, Dead Letter, Ship Letter and Bye Letter offices; packet agents; surveyors; postmasters inspectors of mails, letter receivers and carriers and packet ships; commanders and mates of packet ships, or their widows; letter receivers and carriers in London; and mail guards

• Expenses for mail conveyance by sea, including costs incurred by packet ships operating from Falmouth, Harwich, Dover, Whitehaven, Donaghadee, Weymouth, Milford Haven and Holyhead, and in the West and East Indies, notably hire charges, lighting dues, arms and ammunition stores, wages and victualling for captains, officers and crew whilst at sea, out of employ or while the ship is undergoing repairs; and ship letter mails

• Expenses for inland mail conveyance, notably for payments to mail coach contractors; road, bridge and ferry tolls; supply and upkeep of fire arms, time pieces, mail bags and mail guards uniforms; mail coach maintenance; and railway and steam packet company charges

• Compensation for abolished positions or duties

• Items supplied or work done by tradesmen

• Legal expenses notably relating to investigation, detection, capture, and trail of felons

• Rents, taxes and rates for offices in London

• Stationery printing costs

• Transit postage and tonnage dues to foreign post offices

• Travelling expenses, particularly surveyors'

Item 6/11, covering 1805-1809, is different to the rest of the series. It contains certified accounts of the quarterly salaries and allowances paid by incidents upon which the Civil List deduction, or tax, of six pence in the pound is chargeable. Each account lists the 'salaries' and 'incidents' of individual officers and clerks at the General Post Office headquarters in London, including the Postmaster General, Secretary and other senior officers, and the total duty payable each quarter.

These accounts probably originate from the office of the Receiver General, who was in charge of all moneys received and paid out of the revenue of the Post Office.

This series relates to the operation of counters business and services. The majority of the records relate to the policy on the establishment, closure and up-grading of sub-offices and the review of the scale payment sub-office system.

This series comprises material relating to the introduction and operation of agency services provided by The Post Office. It covers: the payment of Old Age Pensions at post offices; the sale of Health Insurance and Unemployment Insurance stamps; the floatation of the 'War Loan', in 1915, to help finance the war; and the payment of money due to public corporations through The Post Office.

Issues of Pathfinder, the magazine of the Poplar Wesleyan Mission, Methodist Church, 1932-1939.

Marriage registers for Poplar Presbyterian Church, Plimsoll Street, East India Dock Road, 1901-1913.

Deeds and copy documents relating to premises in Woodstock Road (later Woodstock Terrace) belonging to Poplar Methodist Chapel, 1874-1956.

Records of Poplar Poor Law Union, 1813-1940, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; annual reports and statements of account; statutes and bye-laws; reports on Guardian's visits to institutions; papers relating to the enquiry by the Local Government Board into the administration of Poplar Union; orders and correspondence from Government departments; contracts; deeds; settlement examinations; orders for removal to and from the Union; applications for relief; registers of lunatics; lunatic reception orders; registers for Poplar High Street Workhouse; registers for Dunton Farm Colony; registers for Forest Gate Branch Workhouse; registers of children, including those at Poplar Training School, Forest Gate and Langley House Children's Home; plans of Poplar Workhouse; financial accounts and staff records.

Manuscript proposal, 1 Sep 1738, for enclosing 100 acres of common in the township of Pool, [Yorkshire], for the benefit of the chapel. The document is endorsed 'Proposal for endowing Pool Chappel. p 184. Mr Whitaker'.

Records of the Ponders End Wesleyan Methodist Church including pulpit notices, 1943-1980; financial accounts, 1942-1977; papers relating to the Sunday School, 1947-1980; papers relating to youth activities, 1937-1969; Regnal League Men's Meeting Minute Book, 1958-1964; newsletters, 1967-1986 and circuit plans for Enfield Circuit, 1974-1986.