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Records of the Nalek Rubber Estate Limited, including articles of association, board minutes, correspondence and annual reports.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of Padang Jawa Rubber Estate Limited, comprising annual reports and papers relating to the sale of the Company.

Records of Pataling Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, minute books, annual reports, circulars, correspondence, statistics, and photographs of the production of rubber, crepe and latex.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of Anglo Malay Rubber Company Limited, comprising articles of association, circulars to shareholders, annual reports and accounts.

Records of Pataling Royalties Limited, tin dredging company, comprising articles of association and circulars to shareholders.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of Strathisla (Perak) Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, annual reports and circulars to shareholders.

Records of the Portland Rubber Company, including articles of association and correspondence with Harrisons and Crosfield Limited.

Records of the Robur Tea Company Limited, including articles of association, annual accounts, and summary of balances.

Records of Rubber Securities Limited, investment company, including articles of association, minutes of meetings, annual reports, circulars to shareholders, papers relating to the acquisition of the Company and statement of investment holdings.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of Seaport (Selangor) Rubber Estate Limited, including articles of association, annual reports, and circulars to shareholders.

Records of Couldrey Motors Limited, 1932-1948, including memorandum and articles of association; director's meeting minutes; trading and profit and loss accounts; correspondence; sales returns; stock lists and property costs. Also records of the Couldrey Commercial Motor Company, comprising balance sheets and trading and profit and loss accounts.

Records of the Knott and Legg families including papers relating to the naval service of Stephen Knott, 1849-1905; marriage and death certificates, 1858-1933; burial records and undertakers' bills, 1905-1912; paying-in books, 1897-1923; and family photographs.

Papers, 1892-1963, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Chelsea and Harrow; including leases, mortgages, conveyances and building agreements.

Personal papers of Sir Alexander Young Spearman of Hanwell, including marriage settlement and related papers; appointment of trust funds; will and related papers; some papers relating to the Bracken family; and documents relating to property in Grosvenor Place, Mayfair and Hanwell.

Records of the West London Synagogue of British Jews, 1840-1973. The archive consists mainly of financial records such as cash books, ledgers, journals, accounts books and financial statements, with two scapbooks containing advertisements, news cuttings, programmes and tickets for special events.

PLEASE NOTE: written permission from the depositors is required to access these records. Contact the Executive Director, West London Synagogue, 35 Seymour Place, London W1H 6AT.

Legal and property records of the Flower family. The records are in the form of bound volumes containing the initial deed followed by schedules which include lists of Philip Flower's property, personal and real, lists of mortgages and copies of accounts kept by trustees. The property records relate to 17 and 18 Dover Street, Piccadilly (knocked together to form one property in 1876) and the legal records comprise deeds of release and indemnity for Cyril Flower.

Papers, 1870-1934, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 178 and 180 High Street, Deptford; including leases and mortgages.

Personal papers of James Barr, employee of Trumans Ltd, including Transport and General Workers Union cards and papers, Truman's Sports Club rules and fixture lists, and papers relating to the company including redundancy scheme, annual excursions, regulations and agreements, 1939-1989; handbooks, programmes, rules, fixture lists and posters for the London Breweries Amateur Sports Association and the Highgate Harriers Athletic Club, 1951-1979; issues of company publications including 'The Black Eagle', the 'Truman Times', '1666', 'Truman News', 'Truman Topics', 'Watney Truman News' and 'Stag and Eagle' (Watney Combe Reid publication), 1948-1989; annual reports and pension scheme information, 1977-1989; and issues of 'The Master Brewer' and 'The National Brewery Museum Chronicle', 1968-1986.

Papers, 1888-1943, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising abstract of title and conveyances for No 10 Hillside Gardens, Edgware.

Papers, 1877-1970, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to No.1 (formerly No. 10) The Mall, Uxbridge Road, Ealing.

Papers, 1931-1978, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to No. 211 Harrow View, Pinner.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising copy memorandum of agreement between Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital and Colne Valley Water Company, relating to land at Stanmore, 1931.

Papers of Howard Lansell relating to Hampton Grammar School, including school prospectus, 1934; school reports, 1939; school photograph, 1938; The Lion school magazine, 1936-1990 (with some gaps); and papers relating to the Old Hamptonian Association, 1939-1990. Also school photograph for Twickenham County School, 1947.

Records of Lugg and Company Ltd, brick merchants, comprising financial ledgers, day books and financial account books.

Records of the Sherborn family of East Bedfont. The main part of the collection consists of family, estate and parish documents. Most refer to land and events in East Bedfont and the surrounding parishes. There are some fine estate plans (most notably the 1694 plan of Pates Manor, ref ACC/3259/SE2/001) and complementary records concerning enclosure and tithe apportionment. Family correspondence includes the letter book of William Sherborn 1846-1870 (ref ACC/3259/SF3/001) and letters signed by Sir Edward Sherburne, royalist and poet 1684-1687 (ref ACC/3259/SF3/003-005). In addition, there are many references to incidents in local history which will bear interesting comparison with records already deposited in the archive. The artificial collections consist partly of title deeds and partly of correspondence, which includes communication news concerning industrial developments in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1806-1822 (ref ACC/3259/AX/042-046).

Records of Prior Burners Ltd, comprising directors' report, balance sheet, and statements by chairman, 1941 - 1942.

Records of Watney Combe Reid and Company Ltd, comprising chairman's speech, directors' report, and balance sheet, 1941.

Records of Associated Coal and Wharf Companies Ltd, comprising directors' report and statement of accounts, 1943.

London related material from the Bryson Collection of Business Archives and Ephemera, 1760-1951:

• Records of Morgan Crucible Co Ltd comprising working instructions for Morgan's Coke Fired Tilting Furnace type "CCA" 400 lbs capacity, with drawings of furnace, 1942.
  • Lease for 18 years from William Scott to Walker Norwood, mealman, of Twelve Acre Close (now 2 closes) in Hampton Wick, endorsed with agreement to let barn and rickyard, 1782 Mar - 1784 Apr.
  • Duckham's Digest "Links", Vol X, No 2, published by Alexander Duckham and Co Ltd, with Festival of Britain guide, 1951.
  • Probate copy of will of Samuel Myers of Golden Lane, colourman, proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1777 Aug.
  • Marriage settlement between Sir Matthew Blakiston and Annabella Bayly relating to mansion at East Hill and other houses and lands in Wandsworth and Battersea, 1760 Mar.
  • Deed poll by Charles Robert Edward Bell, match manufacturer of Albert House, Wandsworth, changing his surname from Grubb to Bell, with extract from The Times attached, 1880 Dec.

Records of Samuel Fisher, local government officer. The collection reflects the range of his interests and involvement in public life. There are a large number of photographs and press cuttings as well as some family papers. The photographs show Fisher's activities as Mayor and as Chairman of the London Labour Mayors Association, and include pictures of visits to Geneva, Australia, Gibraltar, New York, Israel and Belfast.

Records of Municipal Mutual Assurance Ltd, 1900-1990, including articles of association, policy registers, claims registers, files on important case law litigation (e.g. Municipal Mutual V Royal Insurance Co. Ltd. 1911), reinsurance files, annual reports, photographs and press-cuttings.

Records of Ridley and Houlding Limited, fruit merchants, comprising anniversary dinner menus and invitations, 1950-1970.

Reminiscences of John Burt, prison warder at H.M. Prison Wormwood Scrubs. Includes newspaper cuttings relating to the prison, 1890-1936.

Records relating to the estate of William Willett, including records relating to properties in Hammersmith, Belsize Park, St John's Wood, Earl's Court, Kensington, Marylebone, Mill Hill, Brighton and Hove; and papers of the trustees of the estate including reports, financial accounts and statements, receipts, and allocation of income.

Papers of Beryl Loveridge, comprising Headmistress' log books for Starcross School and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School. Please note that the log-books are closed under the Data Protection Act.

Records of Joshua Ashby and Sons, millers and corn merchants, comprising cash book of "H. Neave, Thornton Heath Round" for Ashby's, providing details of daily deliveries of flour, yeast, wheat, barley, oats, bran, pease etc., to customers in S. Norwood and Croydon districts, and money received, Mar 1905 - Jan 1906.

Records of Holliday and Greenwood Limited, building contractors, 1901-1978. This collection consists of a general file compiled by G Holliday to record contracts, a paper by G Holliday entitled "The Apprentice Master Scheme in the Borough of Brentford and Chiswick, 1947-1950" and a series of photographs recording various buildings worked on by the company.

Records of the Independent Gas Light and Coke Company, 1827-1875, comprising minutes of Directors and Shareholders meetings with some enclosures including letters, notices, circulars, and prospectuses.

Records of J J Lane Limited, engineers, 1873-1957, including letter books, printed catalogues and brochures illustrating the company's products, Sales particulars for disposal of plant, machinery, stores and equipment on winding-up of company and article from journal "Laundry Record and Journal" giving brief history of company.

Records of the Ratcliff Gas Light and Coke Company, including Bill and Act (4 Geo. IV cap. xcviii) for lighting with gas the parishes of St. Botolph, Aldgate, St. Paul, Shadwell, and parts of St. George-in-the-East, St. John, Wapping, Mile End Old Town and Ratcliff, 1823; notices; particulars of sale of shares in the company; agreements and contracts; papers relating to legal actions and lawsuits; correspondence; and papers relating to Company premises in Stepney and Wapping.

Records of the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company, including half yearly report and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Commercial Gas Company to the Proprietors; reports of proceedings of ordinary half yearly meetings; register of stockholders attending ordinary annual meetings of the Commercial Gas Company; original prospectus of the company; bye laws of the company; letters about Robert Jones and copies of articles by and about him; petition presented on behalf of stokers and gas workers; statement of average rates of wages paid during the year to various grades; photograph of the centenary dinner of the company, and two letters from the Rt. Hon. Hugh Gaitskell, M.P., Ministry of Fuel and Power; deed of trust and settlement of the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company; alphabetical list of shareholders recording their receipt of the first dividend; agreement with other companies as to sphere of influence of the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company, and indemnity and map; minutes of evidence before committee of inquiry into the company's proposed bill; Act for incorporating the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company; Act to convert stock of the Commercial Gas Company and insurance policy on the company's works at Jonsons Fields, Stepney.

Records of the Equitable Gas Light and Coke Company, including endorsement to be made on the deed of settlement, 1835; supplemental deed of settlement, 1838; certificate of formal registration of the company, 1844; reports of the Company's Directors; papers relating to legal proceedings and lawsuits; correspondence; agreements and contracts; papers relating to premises owned by the Company in Kensington, Westminster, Pimlico and Chelsea.

Records of G W Scott, basket makers, 1703-1930. The surviving records date from June 1703. They cover not only the infinite variety of baskets, cradles and wooden goods made and repaired but also items such as bugtraps, and the figures of elephants, camels, horses, giants and ghosts made for Drury Lane, Covent Garden and Astley's Circus. Records include day books; bill books; register of accounts; goods received book; wages books and newspaper cuttings and booklet summarizing the history of the firm.

Records of Stephen Green Limited, patent medicine manufacturer, 1780-1930. The records relate to proprietorship of the recipe for "Doctor Johnson's Golden Ointment" including legal documents and legal case papers; and records relating to the manufacture and sale of the ointment including financial accounts, order books, correspondence, sales summaries, testimonials, advertising, legislation involving patent medicines and history of the ointment. Also various family and estate records.

Records of the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company, 1834-1965. The records include the deed of settlement, minutes of the proprietors' and directors' meetings, reports of general meetings, acts and orders in council and items relating to the South Metropolitan Pension Fund Securities Limited.

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.

Records of Wandsworth County Court, 1911-1968, including ordinary summons books; default summons books; defended default books; judgement summons books and funds ledgers.

Staff records of the Chelsea Waterworks Company, including register of employment; wages accounts and wages books.

Corporate records of the East London Waterworks Company, including Court of Director's minute books; legal papers; Committee papers; title deeds; correspondence and letter books; papers relating to stocks, shares and debentures; Parliamentary papers; papers relating to royal commissions on water supply; Secretary's files; press cuttings; and plans.

Corporate records of the Grand Junction Waterworks Company, including Court of Directors minute books; Committee books; Court record books; General Assembly minute books; Directors' reports; correspondence and letter books; registers of shareholders; stock ledgers; mortgage records; and contracts records.

Staff records of the Grand Junction Waterworks Company, comprising staff wages books.

Purchase records of the Grand Junction Waterworks Company, comprising stock books.