Records of E D Sassoon Banking Company Limited including ledgers containing company accounts, deposits and current accounts, acceptances, bills discounted, loans and customer securities, safe registers, insurance claims, and share brokering records including registers of coupons and sold transfers relating to shares.
Sem títuloRecords of E D Sassoon Banking Company Limited including records relating to employee provident fund and retirement benefits plan; and an income tax register.
Sem títuloRecords of E D Sassoon and Company Limited including records relating to the foundation of the company such as memoranda and articles of association, certificates of incorporation and special resolutions; a board minute book and power of attorney.
Sem títuloRecords of E D Sassoon and Company Limited including accounts, balance sheets and reports.
Sem títuloRecords of the National Bank of India including one Directors fees and fixed remuneration ledger.
Sem títuloRecords of the National Bank of Malawi including copies of the minutes of the Board 1971, for July only. No other records survive within this collection.
Sem títuloRecords of the National Industrial Credit Corporation based in Johannesburg, including the memorandum and articles of association, the minutes of the South African Committee based at Johannesburg and the London Committee and the annual reports (with gaps).
Sem títuloRecords of Sissons, Bersey, Gain, Vincent and Company, chartered accountants, comprising articles of partnership and related deeds and papers, 1895-1953, a balance sheet, 1934, menus for staff dinners and other occasions, 1919-70, and correspondence to do with the accountancy careers of Joseph Walter Vincent, 1895-1902.
Sem títuloRecords of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Fire and Life Assurance Company, comprising minutes and instructions to agents.
Sem títuloRecords of the Phoenix Assurance Company including single assurance policy, deeds and deed of covenant and premises plans.
Sem títuloPlanet Assurance Company Limited records comprise notices of annual general meetings, 1921-2, 1924-5; and out-letter books, 1926-51.
Sem títuloReports of the Sun Insurance Office Limited, comprising reports of visits to overseas branches in the USA, Canada, Europe, the Far East, Australasia, Africa, and South America.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sem títuloPapers of the Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to other organisations; including copy minute books of the Accident Offices Association, Fire Offices' Committee (Foreign), London Continental Fire Insurance Committee, and Fire Offices' Committee.
THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.
Sem títuloRecords of the Aldgate Ward, Corporation of London, including minutes and accounts, assessments, lists of voters and officers and watch books. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.
Sem títuloRecords of Bassishaw Ward, Corporation of London, including minutes and accounts, rate assessments, and other administrative papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.
Sem títuloRecords of Billingsgate Ward, Corporation of London, including wardmote minutes; lists of officers; lists of inhabitants of the ward; tax and rate assessment books.
Sem títuloRecords of the Bread Street Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise minutes, accounts, rates, tax and rate assessments, correspondence, jury lists and a First World War roll of honour. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.
Sem títuloRecords of Bridge Within Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise minutes, accounts, rates and inhabitants lists, memoranda, papers relating to the watch and other miscellaneous papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.
Sem títuloRecords of Cheap Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise minutes, rate assessments and accounts, presentments, papers of the volunteer association and other administrative papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.
Sem títuloRecords of the Farringdon Within Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise wardmote minutes and accounts, tax and rate assessments, inhabitants lists and details of ward officers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.
Sem títuloRecords of the Langbourn Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise minutes, rate assessments and inhabitants lists, administrative papers and records of assistance sought from the benevolent fund. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.
Sem títuloRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including balance sheets, ledgers, profit and loss accounts, circulars, records relating to taxation, securities and investment records, head office and branch records, statistics, staff instructions, investment and subject files.
Sem títuloRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including printed cases in which the bank was involved at appeal level.
Sem títuloRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including information on individual bank staff, hierarchy structures, staff rules and procedures and leisure activities for staff.
They also include an incomplete set of staff registers (dating from 1891 to 1894 for Cape Town branch only, and 1913 for a general list of branches and staff) and annual assessments of staff performance, rules and handbooks for staff and office procedures, photographs of individual members of staff, correspondence on senior appointments, a staff memorial for the Second World War and documents relating to two London-based staff leisure societies; The African Banks Athletic Club and the Springbok Musical and Dramatic Society. Sadly, the collection does not retain records of leisure societies and activities for staff based abroad.
Sem títuloLiquidator's accounts for DL Thomson and Company, stockbrokers.
Sem títuloRecords of insurance brokers Fenning and Shepard, comprising annual abstracts of balances, which were drawn from company ledgers 'A' and 'B' (whereabouts now unknown).
Sem títuloLetters sent to Hurrell and Mayo, solicitors, including receipts, commission notes, authorisations for the purchase and sale of stocks and shares and for making payments on behalf of clients; the correspondents are chiefly commercial companies, but include some individual clients.
Sem títuloRecords of Standard Chartered Bank Limited including correspondence relating to Standard Bank of South Africa Limited publicity and Business Guides which include information such as geography, climate, population, language, natural resources, infrastructure, communications, customs duties, exchange import and export, taxation and the banking services offered by Standard Chartered Bank.
Sem títuloRecords of Standard Bank of Sierra Leone Limited including correspondence between Sierra Leone Head Office, Freetown and Director's Office (London).
Sem títuloRecords of Standard Bank of Nigeria Limited including inward and outward letters between Nigeria Head Office, Lagos and Director's Office (London).
Sem títuloRecords of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including records relating to the foundation of the bank, including the memorandum and articles of association; records of the London Board of Directors and Boards based in South Africa, often providing details of advances and general operations; the annual reports and minutes from the Annual General meetings and the signed seal registers.
Sem títuloRecords of various property companies, all associated with Trafalgar House Developments Limited. The records include constitutional documents; annual reports and accounts; financial material; minutes; correspondence; registers of leases and rents; lists of shareholders; deeds and papers relating to property.
Sem títuloMinutes of meetings of the directors and of general meetings of those insurance companies known as the Java Companies.
Sem títuloMinute book of the trustees of the Central Bahia Railway Trust.
Sem títuloRecords of the National Provincial Bank, comprising photograph of the facade of the Bishopsgate branch of the bank, 1865.
Sem títuloRecords of the Metropolitan Benefit Societies Asylum, later known as the Metropolitan Benefit Societies Almshouses, including:
Administrative Records include minutes of the General Committee 1828 to 1965, Donors and Subscribers half yearly meetings 1844 to 1861, Monthly meetings 1883 to 1902, the Management Committee 1959 to 1984, House Committee 1839 to 1973, and Building committees 1853 to 1866 and 1953 to 1955.
Finance Records consist of Annual Statements 1963 to 1981, Accounts both income and expenditure 1831 to 1983, Registers of Donors and Subscribers 1835 to 1981, Annual returns 1975, 1979, 1980, and a rent book for Balls Pond Road 1905 to 1930.
Printed Material contains publications such as rules of the Almshouses 1855, 1926 and 1955, The Almshouse Gazette 1965 to 1990, and typescript notes about the history of the MBSA, plans of the Almshouse 1956 to 1980's and some ephemeral items which include a Warden's Diary from 1945 and a schedule of deeds and documents handed to trustees on 17th December 1878.
Sem títuloRecords of Castle and Company Limited, wine merchants, including minute books of board meetings, directors' meetings and annual general meetings; register of members; memorandum and articles of association; papers relating to shares and share transfers.
Sem títuloRecords of the parish of All Saints, High Street, Wandsworth, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Churchwardens' accounts; plans of the church and faculties; papers relating to parish boundaries, including maps; financial records; papers of the Vestry; papers relating to the benefice and tithes; and papers of the Overseers of the Poor.
Sem títuloRecords of West London Magistrates Court, 1877-2001, including court registers; registers for means enquiries, Small Tenement Act cases, civil debt cases, ex-parte cases, and licence renewals; Married Women Act orders; bastardy orders; domestic court proceedings; maintenance registers and Guardianship of Infants Act orders.
Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.
Domestic proceedings: a married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.
Sem títuloRecords relating to the family of Boyle, Earls of Burlington and Cork, and of the family of Fairfax, Barons Fairfax of Cameron. Papers include notes by Sir Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, on the rise of his family (copy of a document of 1632); commissions of Henry, Lord Fairfax as Colonel of the Regiment of Foot, West Riding, Yorkshire, 1679 and 1685; appointment of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, as Deputy Lieutenant for West Riding and York, 1700; papers of Richard, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, including records of the management of his estates in Ireland and Burlington Gardens, London, legal papers, and correspondence, 1724-25.
Sem títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Matthew, Brixton Hill, Brixton, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; registers of preachers and church services; pew registers; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; Churchwardens' accounts and orders; papers relating to parish charities; papers relating to parish schools; plans of the church; maps of the parish; papers relating to tithes; papers relating to the churchyard, vaults and tombs.
Sem títuloRecords of the parish of Saint John of Wapping, Green Bank, Stepney, inclduing registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; and records relating to local taxation including rate assessment books.
Sem títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Giles, Camberwell, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Churchwardens' account books; legal documents relating to parish properties; papers relating to parish boundaries including maps; faculties; orders of service; papers relating to tithes; and history of the church.
Records relating to the civil functions of the parish including records relating to the poor rates; papers of the Overseers of the Poor; removal orders from and to the parish; settlement examinations; bastardy examinations; Workhouse Committee minutes; workhouse admission and discharge registers; and other papers relating to poor relief.
Sem títuloRecords of the Middlesex Advisory Committee on General Commissioners of Income Tax, 1959-1979, comprising committee papers.
Sem títuloBusiness records of various insurance companies, mainly the Grimsby Steam Fishing Vessel's Mutual Insurance and Protecting Co. Ltd, based in North East Lincolnshire. The records include lists of vessels insured, minute books, and registers of members.
Sem títuloRecords of Goodhews Limited, brewers, consisting mainly of minutes from the meetings of the directors of Goodhews Limited and later the subsidiary companies of Goodhews (Holdings), Goodhews (Caterers), Goodhews (Inns), Goodhews (Castle Richmond) and the Cromwell Hotel (Stevenage) Limited. There are also papers relating to the formation of the Goodhews Company and the sale of R.V. Goodhews' shares in the 1930s.
Sem títuloPapers of George Henry Ross Goobey relating to his career in pensions fund management, investments and related advice to businesses and other organisations, attendance at conferences, benevolent and charity work, sports especially golf and his personal life.
The collection is particularly rich in documenting Ross Goobey's involvement in pensions fund management and investments and related institutes and associations.
LMA/4481/A: Records of Imperial Tobacco pension fund scheme and investments; speeches delivered by Ross Goobey in his capacity as pensions fund manager and director; papers and notes on investment subjects including copy of the paper "The place of Ordinary Stocks and Shares in the portfolio of large Funds"
LMA/4481/B: Records from Ross Goobey's executive directorship at Hill Samuel, including copy of conference presentation 'The Investment Scene'; correspondence and advice based on investment philosophy; reports from Western regional office and correspondence between Hill Samuel and Church of Ireland
LMA/4481/C: National Association of Pension Funds Limited (NAPF) conference programmes including draft copies of speeches and presentations delivered by Ross Goobey as both President and delegate; conference pack for 50th Jubilee conference in 1975; itinerary and reports from visit to South Africa; invitations and personal correspondence
LMA/4481/D: Papers relating to Christ's Hospital School including valuation schedules looking at disposition of investments in equity market; Founder's Day dinner programmes for 1958-1986; drafts of speeches and toasts delivered by Ross Goobey; information booklet on the history of Christ's Hospital; minutes of Property and Investments Sub-Committee meetings and papers of the Amicable Society of Blues
LMA/4481/E: Records of actuarial, investment and pensions bodies including conferences attended by Ross Goobey as speaker/delegate; organisations with which he corresponded as guest and advisor, and papers relating to his appearances in television and print media
LMA/4481/F: Papers of other businesses and organisations with which Ross Goobey was involved, including Livery Companies (mainly Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers and Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders); trade associations and institutions; sports organisations; clubs and charities. Correspondence with organisations including copies of talks given by Ross Goobey and associated notes
LMA/4481/G: Personal papers including general correspondence and household and family documents .
Sem títuloThe collection includes ledgers showing pledges, stock and sales books; balance sheets and accounts; certificates of incorporation or memorandum and articles of agreement; correspondence covering a range of topics including the robbery of the Holloway Branch, letters from customers and matters relating to the closure or liquidisation of branches. There are also a series of auction sale catalogues (a family member was also a director of the London Bridge Auction Rooms) showing lots put for sale by Thomsons.
Sem títuloRecords of the parish of All Hallows, Lombard Street, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns; preachers' books; registers of church services; Vestry minute books; papers of the Churchwardens; accounts, correspondence and papers relating to sequestrations; papers relating to poor relief; church rate assessments; poor rate assessments; tithe rate assessments; Vestry clerk's annual parish accounts; and other papers relating to parochial charities.
Sem títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Andrew by the Wardrobe, Queen Victoria Street, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; preachers' books and service registers; Vestry minute books and notice books; Churchwardens' accounts and vouchers; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; Overseers' papers; rate assessment books, including poor rates and tithe rates.
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