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Volume containing transcripts of earlier Church records, 1735-1824, relating to the appointment of trustees; property ownership; lists of deacons; minutes of meetings and resolutions passed at meetings; financial accounts and statements; ministerial appointments; rebuilding the chapel and the union with the congregation of Saint Thomas, Southwark, in Stamford Street Chapel.

Records of Doctor Spurstowe's Charity, Hackney, including minutes; papers relating to the foundation of the charity and its constitution; correspondence; registers of almswomen and out-pensioners; property records including leases; rentals books; financial accounts; papers relating to war damage contributions; maps; plans; and photographs.

Records of Dodwell and Company Limited, importers, exporters and shipping agents, including board minutes; register of directors; annual reports; financial accounts; private notebooks of George Benjamin Dodwell (relating to the business); correspondence; company handbook; publicity material; newspaper cuttings; photographs; and personal papers of George Benjamin Dodwell.

These records of the Dollond family, optical instrument makers, comprise family and estate papers and business records.

Records of Dominions Development Ltd including a scrapbook containing memorandum and articles of association, annual reports and circulars with enclosures.

Personal papers of painter Andrew Brown Donaldson and his wife Agnes Emily Twining. The main series comprises diaries written jointly by Andrew and Agnes Donaldson. They start on the day of their wedding in June 1872, and end with Andrew's death in 1919, Agnes having died in 1918. The diaries provide a fascinating insight into middle class life in Victorian and Edwardian London, being mainly concerned with domestic matters, with occasional references to external events such as the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, and World War One.

The plays and poems appear mainly to have been written by Donaldson for his children. Many of the plays were performed by the family during Christmas and new year festivities.

The collection also contains a small amount of material relating to the Donaldson's third child, Leonard. He pursued a career in the Royal Navy and was ultimately made an admiral.

Papers, 1869-1903, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Deptford, Lambeth and Paddington including assignments, abstract of title, and sales particulars.

Copy of freedom admissions of the City of London to William Donne senior and William Donne junior, haberdashers, 1810 and 1843; with Letters Patent appointing James and William Chambers to the office of Walter in Port of London, 1761-1785.

Records of the Dooars Tea Company, comprising papers relating to the foundation and constitution of the company.

Records of Doranakande Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, board minute books, annual reports, circulars to shareholders and a prospectus.

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 the Dorian Singers, comprising concert programmes.

Papers of Dorothea (or Dorothy) Crompton, pupil at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1913-1924. The collection, consisting of concert programmes, advertising posters, professors' reports and correspondence, had been found at the School and had been used in an exhibition there. The exhibition, entitled "Who was Dorothea Crompton?", had been mounted to try to establish some details about Crompton as nothing was known about her. As far as can be gathered, no information about Dorothea Crompton was produced as a result of the exhibition.

Papers of Reverend George Bell Doughty, comprising notebooks including sermons, poems and reminiscences, and photographs of church interiors at Saint Stephen Walbrook and Saint Margaret Lothbury.

Records of Douglas Ritchie Limited, construction company, including papers relating to the acquisition of the Company by Flowers Brewery, accounts and annual returns, and correspondence relating to planning and building.

Records relating to the estate of Lord Dover, 1708-1715, and inventory of the goods of Sir Thomas Saunders Sebright, 1736.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising probate copy will of David Aldridge of Church Street, Staines, later of Feltham, carpenter, made 17 Feb 1888, proved 4 Jan 1892. Bequests include cottage in Hythe Road, Egham, Surrey.

Deeds relating to properties owned by Dowgate Properties Ltd in Lanark Mansions, Shepherds Bush, Kingscroft Road, West Hampstead, and Vaughan Road, Harrow. 1906-1923.

Records of Dowgate Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise wardmote minutes, rate assessments and accounts, and petitions. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library at various dates.

Research notes and plans of ancient earthworks in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Brecknockshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, London, Monmouthshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, North Wales, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, and Yorkshire.

Collection of maps, plans and documents relating to Epping Forest and district. The manuscript list, to which the numbers on the maps refer, is inserted in Ms 1371. The collection includes items which relate to the manors of Chigwell (Ms 1367-8, 1394); Loughton (Ms 1375-6, 1404-5); Sewardstone (Ms 1410); and Walthamstow (Ms 1369, 1372, 1378). See also Ms 1649/15 for extracts from Loughton court rolls (1570-1867), compiled ca. 1871-5; and Ms 1660 for and an account of waste inclosed in the Manor of Loughton (1841-72), compiled ca. 1872.

Records of the Drax Charity of Little Stanmore, comprising minute book of the trustees of the charity and account books.

Records of the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, 1948-1974, including Management Committee minutes; Finance sub-committee minutes; Group Medical Advisory Committee minutes; papers of the Medical Council; Staff Consultative Committee minutes; Nursing sub-committee minutes; Medical Staff Committee minutes; General Purposes Committee minutes; House Committee minutes; registers of death, operations, admissions and poisons; money book; requisitions; financial records, and research papers from the Devonport Pathological Laboratories and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases.

Records relating to the Driffield Road Methodist Church, Bow, comprising application to the District Building committee to sanction the appointment of new trustees for the Chapel and school room at Driffield Road, 1933; lists of trustees for Methodist churches in the area including Charles Street Plaistow, 1883, Chrisp Street, 1913, Benledi Street, 1892, Mary Street, 1894, Smeed Road, 1915, Glengall Road, 1924 and London Fields 1901; and correspondence concerning the sale of Driffield Road property to the London Diocesan Fund on behalf of St. Paul (CE) Church, Old Ford, 1933.

Records of Drivers Jonas and Company including partnership and related agreements, partners' correspondence, bound printed auction particulars which are listed to item level for properties across the United Kingdom (and some outside the United Kingdom) auctioned by the firm (1803-1935) (series reference code: LMA/4673/D/01); Business Index books (1862-1972) recording clients and work done (series reference code: LMA/4673/D/04), property estate job files and plans. Records of individual estates across London and counties in England include the Corporation of Trinity House, Holland Park Estate, some manorial records for estates in Surrey (series reference code: LMA/4673/D/09) and records inherited by the firm from G J Brown and Son (series reference code: LMA/4673/D/11).

Further records including marketing material including annual reports used for marketing and property guidance publications (197--2011) (series reference code: LMA/4673/E), family papers of the Driver and Jonas families including the records of Samuel and Henry Jonas of Chrishall Grange, Cambridgeshire relating to 19th century East Anglian farm techniques including notebooks (series reference codes: LMA/4673/G/06-07). Hugh Barty-King's research files for the publication 'Scratch a Surveyor' (1975) on the history of the firm include photographs of partners and premises (series reference code: LMA/4673/H/03).

Records of the Drovers' Benevolent Institution comprise an account of the society, 1890 (Ms 36681) and committee minutes, 1905-53 (Ms 36680).

Documents acquired by the solicitors during the course of their work, comprising plan of Isleworth and part of Twickenham, showing plots and plot numbers, some occupiers' names, roads, buildings, streams and bridges, 1850?; counsel's opinion regarding liability for flooding of Duke of Northumberland's river, 1903 and list of tenants, with rents and terms, of the Whitton estate of Charles Seale-Haynes M.P., 1903?

Document acquired by the solictors in the course of their work, comprising plan of a freehold estate at Ponders End, Enfield, 1872.

Legal documents, acquired by the solicitor's office in the course of their work, relating to the manor of Hanwell, 1739-1869, including deeds and copies of deeds, extracts from court rolls, and mortgage agreements; copies of wills and administrations, mainly for residents of Hanwell; copies of land tax redemption certificates for land in Hanwell; copies of orders in Chancery relating to Hanwell.

Also papers relating to the Coleraine Park Estate, Tottenham, 1880-1883 and Ponders End, Enfield, 1861-1873.

Records of Drury Thurgood and Company, chartered accountants. The records entirely comprise financial records, including private ledgers, 1926-71 (Ms 29896) and clients ledgers, 1936-85 (Ms 29898).

Records of chartered accountants Reads and Company, entirely comprising financial records, including private and expense ledgers, 1924-69 (Ms 29901), clients ledgers, 1929-85 (Ms 29902) and salaries books, 1918-45 (Mss 29913-14). The earliest record is a dividend book, relating to the debts of businesses in liquidation and bankrupts, which dates from 1905 until 1954 (Ms 29910). Most of these records are indexed.

The Dry Docks Corporation of London Limited records comprise the minute book of the board of directors and finance committee, and accompanying index. The whereabouts of any other records is not known.

Records of the du Cane family relating to their estates in London, as follows:

Freehold title:
E/DCA/001-041 Manor or farm of Ballams/Balham, in Clapham and Streatham;
E/DCA/042-049 Ruddocks and 7 Acres Grove, in Croydon.

Copyhold title:
E/DCA/050-099 Land of Manor of Fauxhall, in Streatham;
E/DCA/100-131, 134 Land of Manor of Norbury, in Streatham and Croydon;
E/DCA/132, 133 Land of Manor of Croydon, in [? Streatham or Croydon].

Leasehold title:
E/DCA/135, 136 Houses in City of London;
E/DCA/137, 138 Sheepwalk of Manor of Battersea and Wandsworth, in [? Battersea].

Leases:
E/DCA/139-152 Balham Farm;
E/DCA/153-163 Streatham Farm.

Estate management:
E/DCA/164-189 Valuations, etc.

Correspondence:
E/DCA/190-237 Estate;
E/DCA/238-241 Croydon Inclosure;
E/DCA/242-246 Chancery case relating to Shelley family settlement;
E/DCA/247-250 Family.

Miscellaneous:
E/DCA/251-256 Documents unrelated to those above.

Plans:
E/DCA/257-266 Balham and Streatham Farms, and Streatham Common.

Records of the Duchy of Lancaster Coroner's District, comprising case papers, 1884-1932.

Programmes of Dulwich College plays, drama competitions, Commemoration Concerts, and Christmas Concerts; and issues of The Dulwich Scout magazine.

Letter books of the Dunaburg and Witepsk Railway Company, later known as the Dvinsk and Vitebsk Railway Company Limited.

Records of Duncan Macneill and Company, including partnership deeds; correspondence; financial accounts; annual reports; agreements; and valuations of tea companies managed by the company.

Records of J. B. Barry and Son, including partnership deeds, correspondence and financial accounts.

Records of both companies including articles of association; annual reports; financial accounts; maps of tea gardens; goods ledger; produce ledger; tea companies' ledger; correspondence and legal papers.

Also records of John Mackinnon's trusts and Duncan Macneill's trusts.

Royal Writ of Privy Seal proclaiming Edmund Dunch a rebel because of his non-appearance at the Court of the King's Council at Whitehall, and ordering that he be arrested, 1639.

Records of the Duncombe family relating to their property in London, as follows:

E/DNC/1-10: property, including that of William Lowndes, in Westminster and elsewhere;
E/DNC/11: Duncombe family property: Westminster;
E/DNC/12-25: Duncombe family property: Holborn;
E/DNC/26, 27: Duncombe family property: City;
E/DNC/29-30: Duncombe family property: St Giles in the Fields etc.
E/DNC/31: Duncombe family property: Kensington;
E/DNC/32: Duncombe family property: Hoxton;
E/DNC/33: Duncombe family property: unspecified [perhaps as solicitors].

Records of Arthur William Dunk, Boer War soldier in the City Imperial Volunteers, comprising official papers; letters and postcards written home during his service; notebooks providing itinerary of travels in South Africa; and menu cards and programmes for dinners of the City Imperial Volunteers Old Comrades Association.

Collection of historical research notes on the topography of the counties of Kent and Oxfordshire, by John Dunkin.

Records of the Dunlop Rubber Company, 1901-1965, consisting of a complete set of reports and balance sheets from all the Dunlop national companies and subsidiaries. The reports consist of both printed (for national companies) and typescript (for subsidiaries) financial reports on a yearly basis, predominantly from January to December. These were reports presented to the Board of Directors which controlled Dunlop Rubber Company Limited. They contain audited balance sheets, profit and loss statements and notes on the accounts. However, the extent of detail varies from company to company.

Also printed painting advertising Dunlop (195-) (ACC/2166/108) .

Records of the Manor of Dunsford, Wandsworth, including court books, conveyances, declarations, mortgages, enfranchisements, maps and plans.

Records of Dunstable Synagogue, consisting of an account book.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

Records of the Manor of Durants and Garton, Enfield, 1689-1905, including Court Baron and Special Court book with minutes.

Records of the Durham Chemical Group, including articles of association; annual reports; financial accounts; correspondence; list of products sold and historical notes on the company.

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 Durham Raw Materials Limited, including articles of association, board and general meeting minutes and agendas; correspondence; financial accounts; and sales ledgers.

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).

Papers, 1902-1946, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising conveyances relating to properties in Acton.

Records of the Dutch Church at Austin Friars, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; financial accounts; letter books; lists of members; council and committee minute books; memoranda books; legal papers; property records including title deeds; rules and regulations relating to the governance of the church.

Records of Dyer, Son and Creasey, auctioneers and chartered surveyors, comprising war damage cost of works payments books, only covering properties mainly in South-East London. No other records are known to survive.

Plan of the Dyot Estate, St Giles-in-the-Fields, Bloomsbury, property of Thomas Skip Dyot Bucknall.

Records of the Dyot family relating to their estate in the parish of St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, including deed, lease, abstract of title, and plans.