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GB 0074 LMA/4453/D · Colección · 1746-1976

Production records for Whitbread and Company Limited, brewers, including papers covering all aspects of the production process such as brewing books for ale (1834-1969) and porter (1804-1976), brewing manuals from the 1960s, Head Brewer's reports, butt books (1925-1937) and fermentation books (1802- 1839). Also included are purchase ledgers and stock books for raw materials (1746-1971), sample and sediment reports (1913-1920) and papers relating to transportation and maintenance of the plants including a horse book (1881-1950) along with documentation on general production statistics.

Furthermore a complete series of notebooks belonging to F.G.S Baker are available running unbroken from 1899 to 1925.

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WHITBREAD (LONDON) LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4453/I · Colección · 1964-1971

Records of Whitbread (London) Limited comprising plans and photographs of public houses from the 1960s and 1970s that came under the jurisdiction of Whitbread (London) Limited.

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MACKESON AND COMPANY LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4453/XC · Colección · 1925-1959

Records of Mackeson and Company Limited, brewers, consisting of a series of reports from 1925 to 1959.

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TOP STAR TAVERNS LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4453/XE · Colección · 1970-1975

Records relate to the operation and acquisition of Top Star Taverns Limited including articles of association, minutes, accounts, and correspondence from the 1970s.

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GB 0074 LMA/4459 · Colección · 1841-1991

Records of the School Mistresses and Governesses Benevolent Institution. This collection contains records relating to the administration of the Institution which provide a comprehensive resource for researching the history of the Institution: its functions, buildings and achievements. For example, the records include a complete set of minutes for the Board of Management for 1843-1979, and a richly evocative set of secretary's letter books for 1846-1849.

The collection also contains records of the individuals that benefited from the accommodation, annuities and temporary assistance offered by the Institution. These records are of use to family historians or for those researching the social history of governesses, women teachers at independent schools, charities, and the care of aged women. They include, for instance, a set of candidate lists which record the personal circumstances of retired or needy governesses applying for annuities for 1924-1938.

Although based in London and Kent, the Institution assisted British governesses throughout the UK and Europe. There are a few instances where governesses stationed further afield were also assisted.

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ANANSE SOCIETY
GB 0074 LMA/4462/I · Colección · 1995-2002

Records of The Ananse Society, including minutes, correspondence, programmes, press cuttings and stationery. For detailed introductions to these series please see the individual series descriptions in the detailed catalogue.

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CROSSE AND BLACKWELL LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4467 · Colección · 1830-2003

Records of Crosse and Blackwell Limited, food manufacturers, 1830-2003. The records include business agreements; correspondence; published histories; financial records; papers relating to shareholders; papers relating to production including agreements, ledgers, notebooks, reports, and labels; price lists; papers relating to staff organisations and staff photographs; property records including inventories, leases and photographs; papers relating to advertising including newscuttings, publications, adverts, correspondence and photographs.

Also papers of subsidiary companies including British Vinegars Ltd, Elizabeth Lazenby Ltd, James Kellier and Sons and Allards Wharf Ltd.

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HALL, James (b c 1861)
GB 0074 LMA/4574 · Colección · 1907-1911

Fellowship porter's licence for James Hall, 1907, with his Billingsgate Market porter's badge and a photograph.

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GB 0074 LMA/4590 · Colección · 1940-1957

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.

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ASSOCIATION OF CONSULTING ACTUARIES
GB 0074 LMA/4631 · Colección · 1951-2013

Records of the Association of Consulting Actuaries, 1951-2013, including minutes of the main committee, sessional meetings and annual general meetings, 1951-2003, and various publications, including annual reviews, Parliamentary Pensions Briefs, survey reports, histories and a fiftieth anniversary dinner souvenir programme.

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SWAN, JOHN
GB 0074 LMA/4721 · Colección · 1856

Records of John Swan consisting of ten issues of 'Our Magazine', privately circulated manuscript magazine edited by Swan.

The magazine contains: stories in chapters continued with each new issue including 'Sir John Willows of Hawthornbush', histories including 'Old London, what is was and what remains of it' by Mr Warrington), descriptions of trips made to places outside London, notes on foreign produce and trades including watchmaking, advice on aspects of life such 'the duties of ladies' during Leap Year, 'Q.E.D.' [quod erat demonstrandum] questions and answers, poetry, chess club results, humorous fictitious advertisements and literary notices.

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GB 0074 MA · Colección · 1590-1930

Records 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.

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GB 0074 MXS · Colección · 1907-1982

Records of Middlesex Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1907-1982. Records relating to Justices of the Peace including registers of attendance of justices; Registers of Justices' oaths; Middlesex Victoria funds; Quarter Sessions Society; Chairman's notebooks; Society of Chairmen of Quarter Sessions; Justices' Property Committee; Conferences of Justices' draft minutes; official registrations; Justices' clerks' fees and accounts and lists of Justices of the Peace.

Records of the Court in session, including Sessions rolls; Court minutes; depositions; calendars; registers of cases; registers of appeals; general orders of the Court; probation reports and registers of probation orders; recogizances; Criminal Justice Act papers; County Day papers; records of convictions; register of cases committed for trial; oaths, bibles and swearing aids; case papers and registers under tuberculosis orders and standing orders of court and committees.

Administrative papers of the Quarter Sessions including prison reports; costs papers; maps and plans; accounts of fees and fines; papers of committees including the Parliamentary Committee, Petty Sessional Boundaries Committee, Rota Committee, County Confirming and Compensation Committee, London Area and Advisory Committee and Middlesex Sessions Area Administrative Committee; and Court year books.

Papers deposited with the Clerk of the Peace including highway diversions, register of fines and cost and jurors' books. Papers of the Clerk of the Peace including reference files; papers relating to ceremonial occasions and receipt book. Also financial accounts of the County Treasurer.

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GB 0074 P71/MMG · Colección · 1548-1969

Records 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.

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GB 0074 P83/MRY1 · Colección · 1557-1969

Records of the parish of Saint Mary, Upper Street, Islington, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns; registers of preachers and church services; minutes of Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; Churchwardens' financial accounts and correspondence; statistics; papers relating to the construction and maintenance of the church buildings including plans and elevations, faculties and correspondence; legal documents relating to church property, such as deeds; parish magazines; papers relating to parochial charities and schools; and records of the Mutual Assurance Society and other parish societies.

Church rate books and papers relating to the collection of rates; minutes of various committees including the Trustees of the Parish and committees relating to highways and the workhouse; papers relating to civil functions of the parish, including the appointment of watchmen and constables, regulation of weights and measures, surveyor's papers, sanitation and medical care, workhouse and poor relief, apprentices, settlement examinations and removal orders.

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MORGAN AND SON {SOLICITORS}
GB 0074 O/040 · Colección · 1876-1893

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising account of Godwin and Basley, Auction and Agency Offices, to Mrs. Wyatt, for letting 76 Cadogan Place, Chelsea, 1876-1877; vouchers for rates, repairs, and so on relating to 76 Cadogan Place, Chelsea, 1877 and lease of ground on Hart Street, Covent Garden, 1893, with plan.

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OGDEN
GB 0074 O/140 · Colección · 1750-1807

Collection of various legal and financial records, including papers regarding court proceedings, receipts, notes, assignment, insurance policy, bonds and papers relating to chemists and druggists, including letters requesting supplies and a trade card. The documents refer to locations in Covent Garden and the City of London.

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VOWLES AND JESSOPS {SOLICITORS}
GB 0074 O/175 · Colección · 1776-1850

Papers 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.

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WALLER, NEALE AND HOUSTON {SOLICITORS}
GB 0074 O/289 · Colección · 1797-1879

Papers, 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.

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SIMPSON AND THOMPSON {ENGINE MAKERS}
GB 0074 O/415 · Colección · 1825

Articles of partnership in the company of Simpson and Thompson, engine makers, 1825.

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GB 0074 O/468 · Colección · 1865-1873

Papers 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.

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ABBEY AND LUCAS {SOLICITORS}
GB 0074 O/478 · Colección · 1773-1849

Papers, 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.

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SUBURBAN BUILDING LAND COMPANY LIMITED
GB 0074 O/486 · Colección · 1898

Records 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.

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ARNOLD, THOMAS {PIPE LAYER AND MILLER?}
GB 0074 O/519 · Colección · 1688-1707

Day 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.

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ALL HALLOWS THE GREAT: CITY OF LONDON
GB 0074 P69/ALH7 · Colección · 1574-1954

Records 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.

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GB 0074 P69/BAT1 · Colección · 1558-1954

C 1558-1840 M 1559-1840 B 1558-1838

Records of the parish of Saint Bartholomew by the Exchange, Bartholomew Street, City of London, including parish registers (marriages, burials, baptisms and banns) from 1557; vestry minutes and churchwardens accounts from the late 16th century; poor rate, church rate and tithe rate assessments; and financial accounts of the Overseers.

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HERST LEATHER CORPORATION LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4239 · Colección · 19-- - 1983

Records of the Herst Leather Corporation, [1900]-1983. Administrative papers including material relating to the incorporation of the companies, correspondence to and from suppliers and clients, and details of products and processes at the Avondale Tannery; financial papers including records of sales and purchases along with accounts from Herst, Leading Leathers and Avondale and credit reports of companies they dealt with; and publications and ephemera including directories on the leather trade and surveys of the shoe industry. Also a short series of samples of leather from Herst Leather Corporation as well as samples from Buenos Aires.

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SAINT MARY MOUNTHAW: CITY OF LONDON
GB 0074 P69/MRY11 · Colección · 1711-1908

Records of the parish of Saint Mary Mounthaw, Fish Street Hill, City of London, including registers of baptisms, burials, marriages and banns; Vestry minute books; Overseers' books of receipts and payments; and poor rate assessment books.

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SAINT MARTIN OUTWICH: CITY OF LONDON
GB 0074 P69/MTN3 · Colección · 1508-1961

Records of the parish of Saint Martin Outwich, Threadneedle Street, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns; Vestry minutes; Churchwardens' and overseers' accounts, vouchers and papers; administrative papers; records relating to the repair of the church; poor rate assessments and deeds relating to parish properties.

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SAINT MARTIN POMEROY: CITY OF LONDON
GB 0074 P69/MTN4 · Colección · 1539-1954

Records of the parish of Saint Martin Pomeroy, Ironmonger Lane, Church of England, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Vestry minutes; Churchwardens' accounts; Overseers' payments; and poor rate books.

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GB 0074 P69/MTW · Colección · 1547-1948

Records of the parish of Saint Matthew, Friday Street, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Vestry minutes; Churchwardens' accounts; Overseers' books of receipts and payments; poor rate books and church rate books.

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LONDON ELECTRICITY BOARD (LEB)
GB 0074 LMA/4192 · Colección · 1928-1969

Records of the London Electric Supply Corporation Limited and successor London Electricity Board, comprising plans of Main Transmissions Networks in the London, Essex and Kent areas, 1937 - 1951; and photographs of Grove Road Sub-Station, 195-; Carnaby Sub-Station, 1952; Neckinger Sub-Station, 1958; Horseferry Road Central Bank, 1959; Barnes Substation, 1960; Beech Station 'B' Sub-Station, 1969; Cable Tunnel under Surrey Canal, 195-; and Horseferry Road and Grove Street, 1928.

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GB 0074 P85/MRY1 · Colección · 1538-1972

Records of the parish of Saint Mary at Lambeth, Lambeth Road, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; church services registers; legal documents relating to property ownership; papers relating to parish boundaries and the creation of new parishes and tithes.

Records of the Overseers of the Poor; minutes of the Workhouse Committee and other papers relating to the Workhouse; minutes of the Select Vestry; poor rate books; records of poor relief payments; settlement examinations; removal orders (to and from Lambeth); bastardy examinations; register of poor-law apprentices; minutes of the Surveyors of the Highways.

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BERNEY FAMILY
GB 0074 LMA/4301 · Colección · 1799

Papers of the Berney family, comprising deed for the transfer of estates including land in Barbados and slave lists, 1799; and transcript, 2000.

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J LYONS AND COMPANY
GB 0074 LMA/4306 · Colección · 1930?-1939?

Records of J Lyons and Company Limited, food manufacturers and caterers comprising a 'Nippy' notebook belonging to Ethel Fage, dated to the 1930s. 'Nippy' was the nickname given to waitresses at Lyon's Corner Houses, who wore distinctive uniforms.

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IND COOPE LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4433/A · Colección · 1850-1985

Records of Ind Coope Limited, brewers, 1850-1985. This collection contains corporate records including trading and supply agreements with other organisations such as Wembley Stadium, Pleasure Foods Ltd and various public houses; papers relating to loans and papers relating to income bonds.

Also documents relating to individual public houses and off-licences in Kensington, Poplar, Woolwich, Stepney, City of London, Holborn, Islington, Hackney, Lambeth, Westminster and Newham.

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CURTIS NICHOLSON LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4433/B · Colección · 1938-1958

Records of Curtis Nicholson Limited, brewers, 1938-1958. This collection comprises the Memorandum and New Articles of Association for Curtis Nicholson Limited and a Board meetings minute book for Mile End Distillery Company Limited.

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TAYLOR WALKER AND COMPANY LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4433/C · Colección · 1759-1972

Records of Taylor Walker and Co Ltd, brewers, 1759-1972. This collection contains corporate, staff, premises and miscellaneous records. Corporate records include minutes of directors' meetings, articles of association and copartnership, registers of seals and supply agreements. Staff records include minutes of Employees Representative Committee meetings. Premises records include early title deeds for brewery premises as well as for individual public houses and mortgage records. The miscellaneous series comprises an album of advertising cuttings.

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BARTLETT AND HOBBS LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4434/A · Colección · 1948-1971

Records of Bartlett and Hobbs Limited, wine merchants, comprising register of directors and secretaries; register of members; share certificates and annual return.

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PRINCE BRINDLEY LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4434/D · Colección · 1961-1968

Records of Prince Brindley Limited, wine and spirit merchants, comprising register of members (including share transfers, register of directors and secretaries) and share certificates.

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E A MITCHELL LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4434/O · Colección · 1938-1959

Records of E A Mitchell Limited, wine and spirits merchant, comprising minute books of directors' meetings, annual general meetings, and sealing committee meetings; share certificates; and financial accounts.

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GB 0074 LMA/4434/R · Colección · 196--197-

Records of David Sandeman and Sons (Pall Mall) Limited, wine merchants, comprising minute book for board of directors meetings and annual general meetings; register of members, directors, secretaries and share certificates; change of company situation forms and price list for the 1960-1961 season.

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TAYLORS (WINE MERCHANTS) LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4434/T · Colección · 193--1960

Records of Taylors (Wine Merchants) Limited, comprising minute book for directors' meeting, board meetings and general meetings; register of members, share transfers and directors; and seal book.

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ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON HOSPITAL
H13/EGA · Colección · 1861-1974

Records of the Elizabeth Garret Anderson Hospital, including Annual Reports for 1872-1947; Annual meetings of Governors minutes and papers 1891-1949; Departmental annual reports 1948-1968; Managing Committee minutes 1871-1948; North London Group H.M.C. minutes and papers 1973-1974; House Committee minutes and papers 1890-1961; Building Committees minutes and papers 1888-1939; Maternity Committee minutes 1890-1932; Finance Committee minutes 1892-1948; Drugs, Pathological, and Departmental Committee minutes 1896-1939; Nursing Committee minutes and papers 1898-1913; 1936-1959; Hospital Committee minutes and reports 1948-1966; Medical Council minutes etc. 1935-1967; Rosa Morrison House Committee minutes 1912-1953; Appeals Committees minutes 1916-1929; Coed-Bel Cottage Committee minutes 1898-1932; Various Committees minutes and papers 1922-1967; North London Group H.M.C. minutes and papers 1968-1974; Matron's and Hospital Visitors' report books 1894-1963. Financial Ledgers, 1872-1892; 1922. Papers regarding acquisition of property and extension of hospital 1909-1948; Building of Nurses' House 1936-1940; Oster House, St Albans 1945-1947; Hampstead Children's Hospital 1946-1948; Miscellaneous contracts 1948; Endowments 1885-1954; Centenary celebrations 1964-1967; Complaints 1948-1964; World War II Emergency Hospital Services 1938-1946; Historical papers 1861-1935; Matron's and Secretary's files relating mainly to nursing 1906-1951; World War II Emergency Hospital Services 1939-1950; Formation of National Health Service 1944-1964; Records relating to staff 1955-1966. Registers of nurses 1898-1948; Registers of student nurses 1936-1945; Registers of midwives 1926-1936; Register of sisters and nurses 1941-1946.

Newspaper cuttings 1871-1968; Printing blocks n.d.; Photographs of hospital [1890s]-1966; Photographs of special occasions 1938-1948; Photographs of patients and staff [1930s]-1962; Photographs of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and her family [1890-1936]; Publications 1890-1926; Papers of Dorothy Merrikin, Matron, mostly relating to fund raising 1888-1977; Guild of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital 1908-1933.

Patient records for Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital 1912-1922; Coed-Bel House 1906-1925; Rosa Morrison House 1946-1949; Royal Free Hospital District Midwifery Service 1948-1953 Withdrawn; Gordon Pollock and Chadburn Wards 1959-1960.

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GB 0074 P93/CTC1 · Colección · 1702-2004

Records of the parish of Christ Church, Commercial Street, Spitalfields, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; preachers' books; Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes; financial accounts; legal documents (such as deeds, leases and conveyances) relating to parish property; papers relating to the maintenance of the church fabric; records relating to church personnel; correspondence and working papers of the incumbents; records of the parish school and parish charities; papers relating to parish boundaries and the benefice; parish newsletters and printed items. Also papers of the Overseers of the Poor.

The collection includes a large amount of material relating to the restoration of the church building by the Friends of Christ Church, including minutes, administrative papers, plans and reports; and a set of papers relating to the work of the Spitalfields Crypt Trust including minutes, press cuttings and photographs.

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SOUTH MIMMS PETTY SESSIONS DIVISION
GB 0074 PS/M · Colección · 1880-1941

This collection contains records of South Mimms Magistrates Court, 1880-1923 and 1929-1941, and consists of Court Registers. 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.

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SAINT PANCRAS PETTY SESSIONS DIVISION
GB 0074 PS/PAN · Colección · 1823-1956

Records of Saint Pancras Petty Sessional Division, 1823-1956, comprising court minute books, court registers and licensing registers. 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. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

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THAMES MAGISTRATES COURT
GB 0074 PS/TH · Colección · 1804-1971

Records of the Thames Magistrates Court, 1804-1971, including court registers; clerk's letter books and papers; and wreck enquiry notes. 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.

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GB 0074 WA · Colección · 1713-1883

Papers of the Westminster Quarter Sessions of the Peace relating to administration, 1713-1883. Records relate to the House of Correction, Tothill Fields (also known as Westminster Bridewell and the Westminster House of Correction), including reports, letter book and minute books of the Visiting Justices; papers relating to the Governor of the House of Correction and other staff, including bonds, financial accounts and petitions; bills for maintenance and repair works; inventories; reports; returns of the number of prisoners; lists of prisoners; regulations; warrants and orders; correspondence and plans of the building.

Also minute book of the Committee of Accounts for City and Liberty of Westminster, 1839-1844.

Note on the Quarter Sessions records: Although Westminster has fewer surviving records than Middlesex, the City's sessions would have produced similar records to those of the County, but they would have been smaller in quantity, and have included less administrative material. Also, as with all Quarter Sessions records, "seeing that the Custos Rotulorum was a private gentleman or nobleman and the Clerk of the Peace an attorney with a private practice it is likely that many county records were (if not lost or destroyed) handed down to their families or their professional successors" and many may still remain to be found in private hands (Emmison and Gray, County Records, 1987). Those records that have survived are often difficult to read or understand because of the handwriting, use of Latin (until 1733), or legal jargon and abbreviations; although standardised legal formats were used and printed pro formas introduced by the nineteenth century.

For the Middlesex and Westminster records there may also be confusion over the records' arrangement resulting from the attempts at classification by previous generations of archivists which have left many records split up into unnatural groupings. Originally they would not have been sorted into any cohesive arrangement. These were records that were "kept for administrative convenience rather than as sources for future generations" (G. Jones, Quarter Sessions records in the Leicestershire Record Office).

Because of this overlapping between many classes of record, any study of the Westminster records should include consultation of those for Middlesex. There was in any case a lot of co-operation between the two courts during the period covered by the records. Judicial (Gaol Delivery Sessions for example) and administrative functions were shared, as were court personnel (including justices). Westminster prisoners could elect to be tried at the Middlesex sessions, as these were held more frequently than their own.

The sessions records are a very useful source for family history, studying trends in law and order, and the life of the City and its inhabitants over a relatively long period of time. The capital was an area with high levels of crime, the natural place for riot and conspiracy, and attracted a wide variety of people from the whole country and abroad. The main record of proceedings at the sessions will be found in the sessions rolls (MJ/SR and the uncatalogued WJ/SR - index in WJ/CB); the (partially uncatalogued) sessions books (WJ/SB, MJ/SB); and the (partially uncatalogued) sessions papers (WJ/SP, MJ/SP). City administrative work is in the records of the County Day sessions (WJ/O), and for one particular type, in the records of the street surveyors (WJ/SS). Records of judicial procedure are in the records of court fines (WJ/E), writs to summon juries (WJ/W), and the trial process (WJ/Y); Lists of prisoners made at various times during the trial process are in WJ/CC and WJ/CP.

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GB 0074 WJP · Colección · 1687-1887

Records of the Justices of the Peace for the Westminster Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1687-1887. WJP/C contains the original Commissions of the Peace issued to the Justices of the Peace; WJP/L are lists of the justices in those commissions; WJP/D contains names of justices who had paid subscriptions for dinners held at the Sessions House; WJP/O contains a record of oaths taken by justices upon their appointment to the commission; and WJP/R is a record of the qualifications needed by justices in order to be eligible for appointment

Note on the Quarter Sessions records: Although Westminster has fewer surviving records than Middlesex, the City's sessions would have produced similar records to those of the County, but they would have been smaller in quantity, and have included less administrative material. Also, as with all Quarter Sessions records, "seeing that the Custos Rotulorum was a private gentleman or nobleman and the Clerk of the Peace an attorney with a private practice it is likely that many county records were (if not lost or destroyed) handed down to their families or their professional successors" and many may still remain to be found in private hands (Emmison and Gray, County Records, 1987). Those records that have survived are often difficult to read or understand because of the handwriting, use of Latin (until 1733), or legal jargon and abbreviations; although standardised legal formats were used and printed pro formas introduced by the nineteenth century.

For the Middlesex and Westminster records there may also be confusion over the records' arrangement resulting from the attempts at classification by previous generations of archivists which have left many records split up into unnatural groupings. Originally they would not have been sorted into any cohesive arrangement. These were records that were "kept for administrative convenience rather than as sources for future generations" (G. Jones, Quarter Sessions records in the Leicestershire Record Office).

Because of this overlapping between many classes of record, any study of the Westminster records should include consultation of those for Middlesex. There was in any case a lot of co-operation between the two courts during the period covered by the records. Judicial (Gaol Delivery Sessions for example) and administrative functions were shared, as were court personnel (including justices). Westminster prisoners could elect to be tried at the Middlesex sessions, as these were held more frequently than their own.

The sessions records are a very useful source for family history, studying trends in law and order, and the life of the City and its inhabitants over a relatively long period of time. The capital was an area with high levels of crime, the natural place for riot and conspiracy, and attracted a wide variety of people from the whole country and abroad. The main record of proceedings at the sessions will be found in the sessions rolls (MJ/SR and the uncatalogued WJ/SR - index in WJ/CB); the (partially uncatalogued) sessions books (WJ/SB, MJ/SB); and the (partially uncatalogued) sessions papers (WJ/SP, MJ/SP). City administrative work is in the records of the County Day sessions (WJ/O), and for one particular type, in the records of the street surveyors (WJ/SS). Records of judicial procedure are in the records of court fines (WJ/E), writs to summon juries (WJ/W), and the trial process (WJ/Y); Lists of prisoners made at various times during the trial process are in WJ/CC and WJ/CP.

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