Records of the Middlesex Volunteer Development Fund, Harrow Branch, including accounts of subscriptions and donations; minutes of meetings of trustees; correspondence; undertakings; invitations to the opening of Wealdstone Drill Hall; and papers relating to the 5th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers.
Middlesex Volunteer Development FundRecords of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions relating to local administration, 1590-1930. The number of series in MA reveals the wide scope of county administration dealt with at the sessions. A lot of the records date from the nineteenth century when there was an increase in central attempts at the regulation of many aspects of everyday life. MA/W deals with silk weavers' wage rates; MA/MW covers the work of Inspectors of Weights and Measures; MA/RS are reports from county committees and officers; MA/MS deal with military carriage rates; MA/S is concerned with the building and maintenance of the county's sessions houses; MA/MD covers the work of Inspectors of Animal Diseases; MA/C covers the work of the sessions' committees; MA/G is concerned with the building and maintenance of the county's prisons; MA/GS, likewise for Feltham Industrial School; MA/DCP are plans of county properties; MA/D and MA/DC contain deeds and contracts for county properties; MA/B are Bridge Committee papers; MA/A is concerned with the building and maintenance of the county's lunatic asylums; and MA/MN deals with military and naval recruitment in the county.
Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the PeaceRecords of the Middlesex Area Magistrates Court Committee, 1936-1986, including minutes, agendas and papers; papers relating to Petty Sessions and papers relating to court houses.
Middlesex Magistrates' Courts CommitteeProposals prepared by the County Engineer and County Architect, Middlesex County Council, including:
proposed extensions to Willesden Polytechnic, 1902
estimate for a new bridge across the River Colne near the Upper Mill, Stanwell Moor, 1904
alterations to Town Hall, Feltham, 1905
estimate for Magistrates' Court House, Uxbridge, 1906
specification for reconstruction of Colham Bridge over the Grand Junction Canal at Yiewsley, 1906.
MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County CouncilRecords of the Middlesex County Council, 1712-1975, including the Architect's Department, Civil Defence Department, Children's Department, Clerk's Department, Clerk's Legal Department, Education Officer's Department, Engineer and Surveyor's Department, Estates and Valuation Department, Fire Brigade Department, County Treasurer's Department, Health Department, Local Taxation Department, and Public Assistance and Welfare Department.
The type of records held include committee minutes and papers, administrative records, reports, plans and maps, photographs, log books, registers and samples of case files, examinations, application forms, licences, publicity material, pamphlets, leaflets and publications. The records deal with various aspects of Middlesex governance including the management of schools, hospitals, health centres, libraries, residential care homes and other insitutions; the overseeing and regulation of construction work, roads and highways, sewers, drains and bridges; tax assessments; the construction and maintenance of housing estates; the maintenance of parks and open spaces; the care of children, the elderly and the disabled; the monitoring of legal requirements; licensing and monitoring of establishments including theatres and cinemas; licensing of vehicles and drivers; traffic congestion and transport issues; town planning; financial accounts, estimates and budgets, and civil defence and emergency measures during the First and Second World Wars.
MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County CouncilRecords of Hornsey Methodist Church, Middle Lane, 1873-1981, including Leaders' Meeting minute books; correspondence; financial records including accounts and correspondence; Trustees' Meeting minute books, Trustees' account books and Trustee's correspondence; papers regarding building work, alterations and repairs including plans; papers regarding staffing; pulpit notice books; papers relating to the Sunday School; issues of the Church newsletter; orders of service and programmes; pamphlets, including histories of the Church; leaflets, newspaper cuttings and photographs.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords of the Metropolitan Tower Construction Company, comprising minutes of General Meetings and minutes of Board Meetings.
Metropolitan Tower Construction CompanyRecords of the Metropolitan Electric Supply Company Limited, comprising plan of land lying in Fulham between West Kensington Station (marked as Barons Court Station), North End Road (marked as 'Barons Court Road late North End Road'), Greyhound Road (marked as Old Grey Hound Road), Hammersmith Cemetery, and the District Line Railway (marked as the Metropolitan District and Hammersmith Extension Railway), 1876; site plan showing the position of Marylebone Passage Sub-Station between Marylebone passage and Eastcastle Street (marked as Castle Street East), St Marylebone, 1904; site plan showing the M.E.S. Co. Generating Station between Manchester Street, Aybrook Street (marked as North Street) and Blandford Street (marked as South Street), St Marylebone, 1914 and plan of Woods Place, Bermondsey, 1914.
Drivers, Jonas and Company , surveyorsRecords of the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association, later known as the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association; including minutes; agendas; constitution; annual reports; records relating to property and structures (fountains); correspondence; bequests and trusts; staff; financial accounts; plans; photographs; printed material including press cuttings and histories, and case files relating to individual fountains.
Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association x Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough AssociationLetters patent appointing the commissioners; orders of court; minutes of various Committees including the General Purposes Committee, By-laws Committee, Committee on Claims, Disposal of Refuse Committee, Finance Committee, Trial Works Committee, Sewage Manure Committee and Ordnance Survey Committee; original contracts for the construction of new sewers, including plans, sections and elevations; registers of in-letters; letter books for out-letters; drainage applications; registers of applications to construct sewers and drains; registers of proposed drainage of buildings; registers of house drainage; register of complaints; applications for private works on sewers and drains; registers of streets showing existence or absence of sewers and drains; surveyor's report books; staff records; financial accounts; rate books; printed items bound into volumes, including reports (several written by Joseph Bazalgette), papers, resolutions, prospectuses, surveys and inspections on various subjects including sewers and drains, cesspools, sewage, manure, waterways, flushing operations, public health, industrial sites, public conveniences, subterranean surveys, tides and water supply; minutes of the Commissioners and plans and maps of sewers, drains and waterways.
Metropolitan Commission of SewersDistrict Surveyors Returns, 1844-1855, providing lists of notices, information and complaints, the results of notices and fees paid for works. The Districts covered were City of London; Tower Division (Tower Hamlets and the East End); Edmonton Hundred Division (Tottenham); Finsbury Division (Islington, Stoke Newington, Hornsey, Clerkenwell); Holborn Division (Bloomsbury, Saint Pancras, Paddington, Marylebone, Hampstead); Kensington Division (Chelsea, Fulham, Hammersmith); City of Westminster Division; County of Surrey (Lambeth, Camberwell, Bermondsey, Rotherhithe) and County of Kent (Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, Lewisham).
Building plans of a variety of buildings and features including houses, offices, embankments, hospitals, chapels and churches, chimney shafts, warehouses, taverns, dockyards, public rooms, lecture halls, colleges and schools, factories, workhouses and asylums, stables, gardens and shop fronts.
General office papers including registers of approvals; approvals of buildings; cases of Special Supervision; cases of ruinous buildings; registers of awards; registers of reports; enquiries about fires and fire reports; lists of Surveyors; papers on drains and sewers; staff records; circulars and notices; correspondence; parish and ordnance maps; press cuttings; forms and instructions; financial accounts and copies of Acts and Bills relating to building and construction regulations.
Metropolitan Buildings OfficeMarriage registers for the following Methodist churches:
Acton Green Methodist Hall, Steele Road, Acton, 1934-1935
Methodist Church, Windmill Road, Brentford, 1934-1960
Wesleyan Church, Windsor Road, Ealing, 1900-1972
Ealing Dean Primitive Methodist Church, Uxbridge Road, Ealing, 1912-1958
Wesleyan Methodist Church, High Road, New Southgate, 1914-1971
Wesleyan Methodist Church, Bessborough Road, Harrow, 1905-1971
Methodist Church, Welldon Crescent, Greenhill, Harrow, 1934-1974
Wesleyan Church, Park Lane, Harrow Road, Wembley, 1925-1961
Methodist Church, East Lane, North Wembley, Wembley, 1970
Queen's Hall, Station Road, Hayes, 1930-1970
Methodist Church, Western Road, Southall, 1952-1965
Wesley Central Hall, Thirleby Road, Burnt Oak, Hendon, 1931-1962
Methodist Chapel, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, 1943-1973
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, New Windsor Street, Uxbridge, 1928-1972
Jackson's Lane Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1908-1972
Primitive Methodist Church, Mattison Road, Haringey, 1931- 1963
Methodist Church, Bath Road, Hounslow West, 1960- 1971
Methodist Chapel, Twickenham Road, Isleworth, 1948-1965
Primitive Methodist Church, Hallowell Road, Northwood, 1926- 1965
Trinity Chapel, Trinity Road, Wood Green, 1889-1969
Earlsmead United Methodist Church, High Road, South Tottenham, 1918-1951
Methodist Chapel, Northumberland Park, Tottenham, 1942-1969
Methodist Chapel, West Green Road, South Tottenham, 1961
Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church, corner of Dartmouth Road and Walm Lane, Willesden, 1906-1939
United Methodist Church, corner of Tubbs Road and High Street, Harlesden, 1926-1961
Primitive Methodist Church, High Road, Willesden Green, 1927-1960
Primitive Methodist Chapel, College Park, Harrow Road, Willesden, 1939.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords of the London Mission (West) Circuit, 1927-1987, including administrative files consisting of material relating to Grove House Hostel for ex-borstal boys, Gilbert Goodliffe House for retired men and women, Saint Luke's and Saint Mary's House for men and women, Emerson Bainbridge House and Hopedene House for Mother and Babies; legal papers concerning legacies; material relating to Kingsway Hall Church including press cuttings and 10 volumes of Orders of Service; slides and photographs; and 106 exhibition boards of photographs and a brief history of the West London Mission created for the centenary exhibition in 1987 along with location maps from 1832 and 1987 showing activities of West London Mission.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords of the Methodist Church London North East District, 1880-1992, including minutes of the Local Preachers' Committee and the Education Sub-Committee; correspondence with local preachers; a review of book At Satan's Throne: a history of Methodism in Bath; an original Primitive Methodist Circuit plan of 1880; leaflet "The Union Chapel: a famous Islington landmark" and booklet "Chislehurst Methodist Church: An Invitation to look and see for yourself".
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchPreaching plans and directories for Methodist circuits including the Ealing and Acton Circuit, 1978; Enfield Circuit, 1975-1976; Finchley and Hendon Circuit, 1973; Finsbury Park Circuit, 1969; Finsbury Park and Southgate Circuit, 1977-1978; Harlesden Circuit, 1973; Harrow Circuit, 1978; Highgate Circuit, 1977-1979; Teddington Circuit, 1977-1978 and Wembley and Golders Green Circuit, 1977-1978.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchCircuit preaching plans for the following Circuits and Missions, 1959-1979: Blackheath and Lee Circuit; Blackheath and Lewisham Circuit; Broomwood and Clapham Circuit; Hackney Mission Circuit; Hammersmith Circuit; Hinde Street Circuit and Chaplaincy to the University of London Methodist Society; Leysian Mission Circuit; London Mission (North and Central) Circuit; London Mission (North and Central) Circuit; North-West London Mission; Notting Hill Methodist Church and Group Ministry; Shooters Hill Circuit; Tooting Mission; Wesley's Chapel City Road Circuit; West London Circuit; The Whitechapel Mission.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRegisters of marriages for the following Methodist chapels or missions:
Albany Methodist Mission, 1954-1958
Brockley Wesleyan Chapel, 1914-1947
Brunswick Chapel Limehouse, 1900-1954
Calderwood Street Methodist Chapel (Woolwich Methodist Church from 1965), 1939-1977
Cassland Road Wesleyan Chapel, South Hackney, 1900-1940
Charlton Methodist Church, Woolwich Road, Charlton, 1919-1940
Dulwich Road Methodist Church, Herne Hill, 1950-1962
Emery Hall, Augusta Street, Poplar, 1918-1954
Green Lanes Methodist Chapel, Stoke Newington, 1906-1967
Grove Mission, Great Guildford Street, 1889-1913
Highbury Wesleyan Chapel, Drayton Park, Highbury, 1868-1929
High Street Wesleyan Chapel, High Street, Hampstead, 1881-1933
Hither Green Wesleyan Chapel, Hither Green Lane, Lewisham, 1913-1940
Hornsey Road Chapel, Hornsey Road, 1915-1940
Lambeth Wesleyan Chapel, Lambeth Road, 1916-1928
Liverpool Road Chapel, Liverpool Road, 1865-1953
Locksfield Wesleyan Chapel, Rodney Road, Walworth (Lockfeld Methodist Chapel, from 1939), 1926-1955
Lycett Memorial Methodist Chapel, White Horse Lane, 1955-1962
Methodist Chapel, Hackney Road, 1933-1942
Methodist Chapel, Poplar, 1946-1973
Methodist Chapel, St Johns Square, Clerkenwell, 1949-1952
Methodist Chapel (Welsh), City Road, 1933-1940
Methodist Chapel, Westbridge Road, Battersea, 1960-1967
Methodist Church, Crystal Palace Road, East Dulwich, 1940-1942
Methodist Chapel, Grayshott Road, Lavender Hill, 1938-1939
Methodist Church, Herbert Road, Plumstead, 1935-1968
Methodist Church, Lynwood Road, Tooting, 1947-1967
Methodist Church, Waterloo Road, 1935-1941
Mildmay Park Chapel, Mildmay Park, 1862-1963
New Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Road, 1924-1943
Packington Street Methodist Chapel, 1947-1964
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Chrisp Street, Bromley, 1907-1925
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Eglinton Hill, Plumstead, 1920-1935
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Furber Street, Hammersmith, 1916-1954
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Kilburn Lane, 1921-1934
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Robert Street, Plumstead, 1900-1965
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Stoke Newington, 1928-1940
Queensway Methodist Hall, Queens Road, 1902-1958
Roupell Park Wesleyan Church, West Norwood, 1907-1966
St Georges Hall and Schools, Old Kent Road, 1906-1955
St James Church, Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, 1908-1966
Southwark Park Methodist Chapel, Bermondsey, 1937-1955
Sutherland Avenue Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1899-1977
The Edinburgh Castle, Rhodeswell Road, Mile End Old Town, 1936-1951
United Methodist Church, High Road, Lee, 1927-1971
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, The Broadway, Streatham, 1889-1966
United Methodist Church, Bruce Road, Bromley, 1925-1940
United Methodist Church, Charlotte Street, Caledonian Road, 1908-1940
United Methodist Church, Fentiman Road, Lambeth, 1932-1976
United Methodist Church, Paradise Road, Clapham, 1910-1935
United Methodist Church, Pembury Grove, Lower Clapton, 1918-1941
United Methodist Church, Walham Grove, Fulham, 1911-1971
Victoria Hall, Woolwich Road, East Greenwich, 1929-1969
Victoria Wesleyan Church, Barrow Hill Road, St Johns Wood, 1905- 1940
Waltham Green Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Fulham Road, 1904-1964
Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Holborn, 1899-1933 (UNFIT for access)
Wesleyan Chapel, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, 1924-1939
Wesleyan Chapel, Caledonian Road, Islington, 1867-1915 (UNFIT for access)
Wesleyan Chapel, Camden Street, Camden Town, 1931-1938
Wesleyan Chapel, High Street, Sydenham (Dartmouth Road, Sydenham from 1938), 1918-1945
Wesleyan Chapel, London Street, Greenwich (Central Hall from 1906, West Greenwich Methodist Church from 1935), 1885-1969
Wesleyan Chapel, Wauxhall Walk, 1931-1957
Wesleyan Church, Rushey Green, Catford, 1897-1967
Wesleyan Chapel, Oakley Place, Old Kent Road (later St Georges Methodist Church), 1900-1981
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Brockley Rise, Forest Hill (Honor Oak Park Methodist Church from 1934), 1902-1974
Wesleyan Methodist Central Hall, High Street, Plumstead, 1906-1957
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Danty Street, Hackney Wick, 1909-1935
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Denbigh Road, Westbourne Grove, 1911-1940
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Kitto Road, Nunhead, 1901-1972
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, New Cross Road, 1903-1942
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town, 1922-1964
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, The Avenue, Blackheath, 1866-1945
Wesley Hall, Streatham, 1924-1948
William Street, Methodist Chapel, Woolwich, (Calderwood Methodist Chapel from 1939), 1900-1939
Working Lads Institute, Whitechapel Road, 1905-1906
Methodist Church, Westhorne Avenue, Eltham, 1932-1981
Kingsway Hall, Lesley House, Kingsway, 1931-1980.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchMinute book of Church Management Committee and Deacon's Meetings, 1911-1941; minute book of Merton Hall Trustees, 1923-1941, including account of air-raids on Wimbledon and Merton, August 1940, damage to Church and subsequent disposal of property; and correspondence relating to 'New Eltham', ground rent, insurance, and so on, 1911-1912.
Congregational Church of England and WalesRecords of McManus-Horselydown Limited, property developers, comprising papers and correspondence, including papers regarding the setting up of the company.
McManus-Horselydown Ltd , property developersRecords of McGeorge and Heppenstalls Limited, brewers, including register of probates and transfers; shareholder's dividends and share and stockholders legder.
McGeorge and Heppenstalls Ltd , brewersLease, mortgage and reconveyance for land and Church buildings on Maze Hill road and Park Street, Greenwich, 1823-1870.
Congregational Church of England and WalesRecords of the Dalston Methodist Church, Mayfield Road, 1943-1956, comprising correspondence and papers concerning war damage and re-building, and leaflet advertising Sunday School anniversary.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchPapers of Max Lock, 1936-1988, produced and collected by Max Lock and the Max Lock Group, relate to Lock's career as a planner and architect and to wider issues in planning, particularly after World War Two, and comprise working papers (including survey papers) and finished material.
They include correspondence; notes and card indexes; photographs (some aerial), slides, drawings, maps and plans; Bills, Acts, white papers and other official publications; books, articles, reports and other publications (some annotated); typescripts; press cuttings; and conference papers. The bulk of the material dates from the 1940s to the early 1970s. Material relating to Lock's career and projects within the UK includes papers on his time as a Watford councillor and his architectural practice in the 1930s, including a timber house he designed at Stanmore, Middlesex; Hull, 1939-1957, including conflicts between Lock and his superiors; Scalby, 1940-1941; Middlesborough, 1943-1970; Hartlepool, 1946-1970; Portsmouth, 1948-1973; Salisbury, 1949-1969; Sutton Coldfield, 1950-1967; Bedford, 1950-1971; Sevenoaks, 1954-1965; Aberdare, 1957-1959; Stratford (West Ham), 1957-1962; Hackney and Shoreditch, 1960-1971; Woodley, 1962-1969; Oldham, 1962-1971; Covent Garden, 1963-1971; Battle, 1964; Brentford and Chiswick, 1964-1970; Torbay, 1968-1969; Dunstable, 1968-1972; Greater London Development Plan Inquiry, 1969-1971, and other material on GLC planning and transport; Beverley, 1969-1972. Material on projects and visits overseas includes papers on Scandinavia, 1937-1939, 1946-1949; India, Pakistan and Ceylon, 1946-1955; the Netherlands, including the Town Planning Institute Tour (1946), 1946-1957; the Americas, including Brazil, the West Indies and the USA, 1952-1969; Italy, 1952-1970; the Middle East, including Iraq and Jordan, 1954-1958; Australia, 1959-1960; Aden, 1960-1961; Kuwait, 1961; Nigeria, including Kaduna and Maiduguri, 1962-1975.
The collection includes a large volume of accumulated material, 1944-1987, largely printed material by other authors, including other planners, planning bodies and architects, some from architectural and planning journals and from the national and regional press, on planning and related issues both in the UK and overseas, such as planning law and procedures; central and local government and administration; public inquiries; housing; historic buildings; urban development; industry and retail; transport infrastructure, including roads and ports; traffic, noise, and the environment; social and economic issues including employment, labour, and social class; population levels and density; public amenities and utilities; land use and open space; and statistical data. Some papers relate to the affairs, including legal and financial matters, of the Max Lock Group; the architectural work of Max Lock and Partners; premises in Victoria Square, London; and the Max Lock Group Nigeria. Papers of or concerning Lock himself include his notebooks and other papers reflecting the development of his ideas; papers relating to publications and broadcasts; papers relating to professional bodies, including the TPI, RIBA, TCPA and UDAG; personal correspondence; photographs of him and his friends; papers on music and architecture, including lecture notes; articles about Lock, and his obituary in the Independent, 3 May 1988.
Lock , Cecil Max , 1909-1988 , architect and town plannerRegisters of marriages, 1931-1963.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchFamily papers of Charles Frederic Mason and his wife, Mary Rowlatt, 1834-1919, including last will and testament of Charles Frederic Mason (1p), 1 November 1864; marriage certificate of Charles Frederic Mason and Mary Rowlatt, 8 May 1853; manuscript notebook containg handwritten tributes such as poems and songs, written by daughter Isabel Marie Helena Mason and others (c100pp), c1860-1919; bankruptcy proceedings certificate against Richard Rowlatt (Mary's father), 14 April 1836; 'In Memorium' cards for Richard Rowlatt (Mary's father), Eliza Mary Rowlatt, John Ingram Bywater, Eleanor Rowlatt (Mary's mother) and Frances Wignell, 1864-1879; notebook containing handwritten notes and sketches on architecture by Isabel Mason (c100pp), c1905; engagement diary for unidentified person with short entries on the days activities and weather,1878; small handwritten account book for Mary Rowlatt (Mrs Mason), 1876-1879; two receipts for the coffin and funeral arrangement of Patrick Collins (Isabel's husband), 11 January 1912; marriage certificate for William Roberts and Lavinia Rowlatte, 17 December 1859; marriage certificate for Patrick Collins and Isabel Marie Helena Mason, 14 October 1905; statement by Charles Frederic Mason affirming his marriage to Mary Rowlett, 22 March 1867; handwritten accounts of William Jackson Stokes, 1864-1868; handwritten costs of probate for Richard Rowlatt, 1865-1866; five miscellaneous handwritten receipts for Mr Rowlett, 1871-1875; small handwritten payment book for washing services, 1875; City of London certificate for Richard Rowlatt, 1834.
Mason , Charles Frederic , fl 1853-1864Records of Marylebone Presbyterian Church, including Court of Session minute books for predecessor Swallow Street Church, 1734-1806, including a brief history of Swallow Street Meeting House; Court of Session minute books, 1843-1958, including a history; Deacon's Court minute books, 1847-1958; Women's Missionary Association minute book, 1919-1958; House Committee minute book, 1899-1900; Bell Street Mission minute book, 1886-1892; Building Committee minute book, 1844-1847; Finance and Collections Committee minute book, 1922-1933; Teachers' minute book for Lisson Street Sunday School, 1899-1938; Reports of the Four Commissions, special minute book, 1919; Scrapbook containing annual reports, 1847-1873; annual reports for 1912, 1913, 1923 and 1925; Communicants' roll book, 1856-1929; register of baptisms, 1884-1958; list of subscribers to the scheme for raising a sum of money by way of debenture for defraying the expenses of building The Presbyterian Church, Upper George Street, Marylebone, 1846; printed booklet containing lists of elders, members and seatholders, 1934; financial accounts, 1844-1958; Lease arrangement and papers relating to the purchase of a premises on Upper George Street, 1853-1879; monthly journals, 1947-1958 and photograph of W.J.Blunden, former treasurer and elder of the church who died in 1946.
Presbyterian Church of EnglandRecords of the Mary Westby Trust, including trustees' records, records relating to property, volumes of collected documents relating to the Trust, financial accounts, and correspondence with the Charity Commission.
Mary Westby Trust , pensions charityRegister of marriages, 1914-1940.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords of Mary Street Methodist Church, Canning Town, including registers of baptism, 1861-1940; request for a piece of land next to Mary Street Chapel to be registered as a place of worship, 18 Feb 1884 and collection journal and Society Stewards's record, 1930-1940.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchPapers of Bruce Martin, including notes, reports, memoranda and other material concerning the building of a Junior Mixed Infants School at Blindman's Lane, Cheshunt, 1946-1948; printed papers about the design and building of primary schools in Hertfordshire, 1947-1952; a copy of Bruce Martin, School Buildings 1945-1951 (Crosby Lockwood, London, 1953).
Martin , Bruce , b 1917 , architectRecords of Chelsea Congregational Church, Markham Square including volume containing roll of members, 1884-1952; Church Book, 1856-1939, including historical account of Church, 1902, minutes of Church Meetings, 1867-1887, register of marriages, 1892-1939 and register of baptisms, 1868-1939; minute books of Church Meetings, 1856-1867 (includes account of foundation) and 1888-1930.
Congregational Church of England and WalesMemorandum of appointment of new trustees for the Methodist Chapel and School, Maria Street, 1917.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchPapers, 1892-1922, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to Netherleigh Arms Coffee Tavern, Ealing Dean, Ealing .
Maples Teesdale and Company , solicitorsRecords of the Manor Park Brewing Depot, consisting of letter books of outgoing correspondence from the Manor Park site.
Whitbread and Co Ltd , Manor Park Brewing DepotManchester Road (Cubitt Town) Methodist Church Trust Treasurer's account book, 1879-1938.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords of the Majestic Cinema, Stoke Newington, including leases, fire insurance policies, aircraft insurance policy, consent for alterations and correspondence with solicitors, 1916-1940.
Majestic Cinema , Stoke Newington x Vogue Cinema x Vogue Repertory Cinema x Vogue ContinentalThis collection consists of architectural drawings (on paper) of Kneller Hall, Twickenham, by George Mair, 1844-1848. The drawings of both First and Second Series bear the signatures: 'J.P. Kay Shuttleworth' and 'John Kelk'. In addition to the signatures all the drawings bear, in Kay-Shuttleworth's hand and following his signature, a date: 'Feb. 8. 1848' in the case of the First Series, and 'June 17 1848' in the case of Second Series. All the drawings bear, near Mair's inscription, the number 51/1844, which is perhaps his commission number or 'job number'. Moreover, all the drawings bear a circular stencilled stamp reading '1861 R.E. Office London' enclosing a number (either 6, 7, or 12).
Drawings in the First Series are all scaled 1 inch to 10 ft. They are all signed; 'Geo. Mair, architect, 18 Charlotte Street, Bedford Sq, London'. Most have original legends which contain clear indication that they relate to proposed alterations to an existing building. Drawings include: basement plan; ground plan; first floor plan; second floor plan; plan of roofs; entrance elevation; back elevation and side elevation.
Drawings of the Second Series show a very substantially altered building as compared with that depicted in the First Series. They are all signed: 'Geo. Mair, archt., May 1848'. Drawings include: plan of footing and drains; basement plan; ground plan; first floor plan; second floor plan; plan of roofs; north elevation; east elevation; west elevation showing additional buildings over the offices; transverse section C-D on plans and longitudinal section A-B.
Mair , George , fl 1844-1848 , architectRecords of the Maidstone Street Methodist Church, Haggerston, later the Harbour Light Church, Goldsmith's Row, Haggerston, including registers of baptisms, 1897-1944; papers regarding membership of the Church; minute books for Church Meetings, Leader's Meetings and other church committees; Trustees' meeting minutes, correspondence and financial accounts; papers of the Sunday School and leaflets, including a history of the church to 1946.
Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist ChurchRecords of Christ's Church Presbyterian Church, Maidstone, comprising minute book of the Provisional Committee, 1873-1874; minute book of the Committee, 1875-1881 and financial accounts, 1873-1881.
Records of the Presbyterian Preaching Station, London Road, Maidstone, comprising minute book of the Board of Management, 1947-1951 and Women's Missionary Association minute book, 1949.
Presbyterian Church of EnglandLarge bound scrapbook entitled 'Madrid Plans II', and containing prints and engravings of plans and views of Madrid and certain buildings in the city. The material is generally not dated, but depicts scenes from the 15th to the 19th centuries. There are also some 19th century newspaper cuttings relating to buildings in Milan.
UnknownLibro de las vissitas desta Iglesia parrochial d' S. Miguel d'los Octoes desde el Ano de 1524 Asta el d'1576. A record of the inspections of the church, its possessions and finances, made every two years by the 'visitator'.
UnknownThree Archiepiscopal letters making appointments to the Chaplainship of Nuestra Senora de Atocha de Madrid.
UnknownDocuments, including terriers and notarial instruments, relating to the church of Nuestra Senora de Atocha of Madrid.
UnknownLibro de acuerdos de los senores. Testamentarios de la Magestad Cesarea la senora Emperatriz dona Maria, tocantes a la fundacion y detacion que mando hazer en el Monasterio Real de las Descalcas de esta villa de Madrid, que fundo la senora Pincesa dona Iuana Ano de 1626.
UnknownA short history of the poor house Hospicio de San Fernando in Madrid and an account of its present (1747) constitution and administration; copies of documents (1734-1738) relating to the administration of the poor house unders its previous Governor, Gaspar de Molina y Oviedo; a letter of 24 October 1748 to Cardinal Infante, Luis Antonio, asking for financial help to meet increased food prices.
UnknownRecords of Mackeson and Company Limited, brewers, consisting of a series of reports from 1925 to 1959.
Mackeson and Co Ltd , brewersRecords of Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church, Hampstead, comprising Church manuals including reports and Ministers addresses, 1883-1891; Lyndhurst Road Church news sheet, 1935 and Lyndhurst Hall report, 1954-1955.
Congregational Church of England and WalesMarriage registers for Lower Clapton Congregational Church, Downs Park Road, 1930-1962.
Congregational Church of England and WalesDocuments relating to the premises of the Lorival Manufacturing Company, 1840-1927, comprising conveyances, mortgages, leases for premises in Norwood, including Norwood Court; powers of attorney, agreement, release and discharge relating to the dedication of piece of land for widening Norwood Road and copies of Court Roll and conveyances for property in Heston, part of the premises of the Lorival Manufacturing Company.
Lorival Manufacturing Company Limited x United Ebonite Manufacturers LimitedThis series contains details of proposed office accommodation and new garage space, as well as of future requirements for office accommodation and details of the Business Efficiency Exhibition for 1937. Also included are notes on the replacement of office machines, the furniture and office equipment budget for 1938/1939 and notes of equipment expenditure.
Stanley , Albert Henry , 1874-1948 , 1st Baron Ashfield , MP and President of the Board of Trade