Collection of legal papers including bonds, mortgages and settlements; relating to premises or persons in Southwark, City of London, Lambeth, Bermondsey and Battersea.
Sin títuloPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising marriage settlement, on marriage of Mary Anne Beale of Stoke Newington and Richard Baughan Ashby of Manor Road, Stamford Hill, 1850-1878; marriage settlement, on marriage of Emily Sanders of 57 Belsize Park and Harry Waddington Smythies, New Zealand, 1874-1893; and probate, with will annexed, of Mrs Emily Smythies, of 4 Chichele Road, Cricklewood, formerly of Kenmera, Auckland, New Zealand, widow of Harry Waddington Smythies, surveyor, 1887-1892.
Sin títuloPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease of 56 Cambridge Street, Pimlico, 23 Feb. 1850 and demise by way of mortgage, of the same house, 6 May 1853.
Sin títuloBill to Mr. or Mrs. Dear for accommodation etc, at Haxell's Family Hotel, 369-375, Strand, London, W.C. With illustration of hotel in bill-head.
Sin títuloRecords of Victoria Park Cemetery, later known as Meath Gardens, Bethnal Green, comprising lists of names and dates of death, 1847-1879, transcribed from tombstones in April 1893 and plan showing position of graves, numbered, with key to names of persons buried, 1891.
Sin títuloRecords of London Tramways Ltd, consisting of printed circulars, 1881.
Sin títuloRecords of W Barnett and Company, including letter from Messrs Dale and Stretton, Gray's Inn Square, inviting applications for debenture stock of the London Bridge Land Company, Ltd. secured on the freehold estate of the Company at London Bridge, 1865; sales particulars of 9 Fleet Street with rear premises abutting on Hare Court, Temple, 1878; poster and handbill issued by W. Barnett and Company, advertising passages to Australia and other destinations, c 1850-1860.
Sin títuloPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising plan of Grosvenor Estate in Westminster, bounded by Knightsbridge, the Westbourne, River Thames, and Grosvenor Place, showing proposed layout for development, circa 1810-1819.
Sin títuloDocuments donated by the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, including draft marriage settlement between Henry Roberts and Betsy Martyn; draft feoffment between the Amicable Society for a Perpetual Insurance Office and Frances Gardner and probate copy of will of William Rayson.
Sin títuloPapers of Alan Ridge, comprising correspondence and notes for 'All at sea', his paper on baptisms at sea and St Dunstan, Stepney, from Archives, Vol.VI, No.32, Oct. 1964; correspondence and notes for 'A light in the West Indies, 1810', his paper on William Consett Wright, and the Wright family of Wellclose Square, Stepney, from Carribean Studies, Vol.6, No.4, Jan. 1967 and Vol.7, No.1, Apr. 1967 and papers regarding the winding-up of the London Survey Committee, 1963-1967.
Sin títuloPapers, 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.
Sin títuloNewspaper cuttings concerning incidents in the parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden, c 1710-1788.
Sin títuloPapers, 1833-1883, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 15 Duke Street, St James's, Piccadilly, Westminster.
Sin títuloArticles of partnership in the company of Simpson and Thompson, engine makers, 1825.
Sin títuloProgrammes of Dulwich College plays, drama competitions, Commemoration Concerts, and Christmas Concerts; and issues of The Dulwich Scout magazine.
Sin títuloInitial Carrier Company price list, 1933, including descriptions and illustrations of five tricycles, four of which are priced at £30 each. The fifth was "...specially designed by us for the suit pressing and valet service business" and priced at £32 10s.
Sin títuloPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease and assignment for 8 Stanford Street, Pimlico, Westminster, with stable at rear of 9 Stanford Street, 1865-1873.
Sin títuloPapers, 1773-1849, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising mortgage for messuage on Saint Martin's Lane; assignment of a lease for premises at Lamb's Conduit Street; order by Commissioners for Paving, Cleansing, Lighting, and Watching the streets of the Parish of Christ Church, Spitalfields and lease for cottages in Whitton.
Sin títuloRecords of the Suburban Building Land Company Limited, comprising lease of 11 Hawarden Grove, Herne Hill and assignment of 44 Lowth Road, Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell; both documents dated 1898.
Sin títuloRecords of the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Company, comprising share certificates, 1843-1865.
Sin títuloPapers, collected by the estate agents in the course of their work, comprising sales particulars, 1948-1949.
Sin títuloPocket book owned by unknown lady, with manuscript annotations recording details of political, military and naval events, and domestic details such as visitors and laundry.
Sin títuloPapers of the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, 1779-1965. The material includes general papers produced by the Clerk to the Lieutenancy covering the lieutenant's work and organisation of the militia (L); papers from the Advisory Committees which drew up, with the Lord Lieutenant, a list of Justices for appointment by the Lord Chancellor (L/AC); papers from the appointment of special constables following the Chartists' petition and unrest on the continent in 1848 (L/SPC); and the papers of a committee organising a volunteer company to defend the county (L/RV).
Sin títuloRecords of J Lyons and Company Limited, food manufacturers and caterers, comprising correspondence between J Lyons and Co Ltd and Olympia Ltd, 1926-1934.
Sin títuloRecords of the National Temperance Federation, including minutes, correspondence, publications, annual reports and photographs.
Sin títuloRecords of the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), formerly the National Council of Social Service, (NCSS). This is a large archive and one of great interest to those studying both charities and their development and the changing attitudes and ideas of voluntary aid from the early 20th century.
Internal Services records consist of the main series of minutes of NCSS/NCVO committees, Interdepartmental groups, Members' groups and Associated Bodies, regional and central organisation and the histories of various NCSS/NCVO departments. There are also short series of financial material, legal material and documentation from the Advice Unit and Rural Department of the NCVO.
The Membership Division records cover policy and the Research Department while the Public Affairs Division contains the National/International and Overseas Departments, the Press and Parliamentary sections including the Information Department and one of the largest series, that of publications.
Sin títuloMemoirs of Dr Peter Kingsford, pupil at the Ethelburga Street School, Battersea.
Sin títuloRecords 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.
Sin títuloPlan of underground and terrestrial electric railways, showing existing and proposed electric railways in London. Undated, probably between 1900-1919.
Sin títuloRecords of the London Passenger Transport Board, 1867-1919, comprising annotated plans and Ordnance Survey maps of railway lines. Stations, railway lines and certain other buildings have been coloured.
Sin títuloRecords of the Children's Country Holiday Fund, comprising Executive minutes, Council Committee minutes and annual reports.
Sin títuloRecords of the Jews' Free School, later renamed JFS Comprehensive, 1791-1998, including papers of the Governors' Committee, Ladies Committee, Education Committee, Executive Committee, Managers' Meetings and School Council; papers relating to scholarships and prizes; correspondence; financial accounts; pupil admission and discharge records; papers relating to pupil discipline; records of the Headmaster; magazines; programmes; publications; newspaper cuttings; and photographs of pupils, staff, important visitors, school facilities, charitiy activities, sports and buildings.
Sin títuloDay book, 1688-1707, probably belonging to Thomas Arnold, pipe layer and miller. The accounts relate to purchase of pipes, hay, bran, farrier's work; tradesmen appearing in the accounts include plumbers, pipe borer, hayman, paviour, farrier.
Sin títuloRecords of Saint Clement Danes church, comprising report from the London County Council containing a list of coffins removed from the vault, 1955.
Sin títuloPapers, 1843-1886, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising sales particulars of Marshalsea Prison including the Admiralty Prison, Southwark; notice of share issue and prospectus for the South London Tramways Company and notice of share issue with application form for construction of underground line from City to Newington Butts for the City of London Southwark Subway Company.
Sin títuloRecords of the Edgar Quinet School, Paris, comprising roll of pupils studying in England; and views of Paris presented to the London County Council.
Sin títuloDocuments relating to the Westminster Bridge inquisitions, 1739-1746. The documents relate to the acquisition of land in Westminster. For each case there is a precept for summoning a jury, a list of jurymen and their resulting inquisition. The list records the general location of the property and the owner or leaseholder concerned.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of All Hallows, Barking by the Tower, City of London comprising baptisms (1558 - 1937), marriages (1564 - 1995), burials (1558 - 1853), banns of marriage, confirmations, preachers' books, parish visitors' books, lists of inhabitants who have served parish offices, benefice papers, vestry minutes, parochial church council minutes, administration and finance committee minutes, muniments, papers and correspondence relating to administrative issues, annual accounts, ledgers, journals, treasurers' accounts, churchwardens' accounts, church rate and rent roll accounts, tithe rate accounts, church rate assessment books, tithe rate assessment books, wills and leases, rent rolls, registers of recipients of charitable gifts, overseers' accounts, poor rate assessment books, general rate assessment books, valuations of property, lists of inmates at the parish workhouse.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of All Hallows the Great, Upper Thames Street, City of London, including vestry minutes from 1574 and rate assessments from 1586. Other records include registers of baptisms, burials, banns and marriages; Churchwarden's papers; papers relating to charities; and Overseers' receipts and payments relating to the poor rate.
Sin títuloThe records of St Andrew Hubbard include parish registers (baptisms, burials, marriages) from 1538, vestry minutes from 1600, poor rate assessments, and churchwardens' accounts from 1454.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Peter, Westcheap, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Vestry minutes; Churchwardens' accounts; general financial accounts; papers relating to poor relief; poor rate assessments and papers relating to parish properties.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Bartholomew, Battersea, comprising registers of baptisms and registers of marriages.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of Christ Church, Battersea, comprising registers of baptisms and registers of marriages.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of All Saints, Rotherhithe, including registers of baptisms; registers of marriages; register of burials and register of banns.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of St Anne, Bermondsey, including registers of baptisms and registers of marriages.
Sin títuloRecords of the Clare College Mission, Bermondsey (also known as the Church of the Epiphany), comprising registers of baptisms, registers of marriages, and a parish magazine.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Crispin, Bermondsey, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns, confirmations and church services; faculties; preachers' book; parish magazines and Sunday School register.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Luke, Bermondsey, including registers of baptisms, marriages and confirmations; and Parochial Church Council minutes.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; registers of preachers; church services registers; papers relating to the parish school; faculties; papers relating to the churchyard; Easter Vestry meeting minutes; Parochial Church Council meeting minutes; cash book; and parish magazines.
Records relating to civil functions including copies of Acts of Parliament; bye-laws of the Directors of the Poor and Overseers of the Poor account books.
Sin títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Olave, Bermondsey, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; register of apprentices; and register of settlement and bastardy examinations, minutes books, financial records, papers and correspondence relating to Flemish Burial Ground and closure of site.
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