Records of the Drax Charity of Little Stanmore, comprising minute book of the trustees of the charity and account books.
Sem títuloCourt rolls for the Manor of Paites, East Bedfont. The courts comprise general courts baron and special courts baron; and some out of court admissions.
Sem títuloAn Account of the General Nursery or Colledg of Infants set up by the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex containing a list of rules and regulations, proposals for education and extracts from orders of Sessions concerning establishment, published 1686.
Also photocopy of the presentment of the Grand Jury for Middlesex approving the work of the General Nursery, with extracts from orders of Sessions concerning refusal of St. Clement's Danes parish to participate in scheme, and general remarks on benefits of such an establishment.
Sem títuloRecords of the Lake family relating to a property in Hounslow, called the Longhouse, including extracts from court rolls for the Manor of Twickenham; bonds; agreements; and receipts for quit rent.
Sem títuloRecords of the Dixon family, including exemplification of a common recovery for premises in Kensington Square; and marriage settlement relating to premises at Winchmore Hill.
Sem títuloRecords of Truman Hanbury Buxton and Co Ltd, 1818-1905, comprising deeds of public houses including the 'Red Lion', New Brentford, 1818; the 'Red Lion', 'Enfield Arms', and 'Royal Small Arms', Enfield, 1860-1870; and the 'Prince Arthur', Tottenham, 1886-1905.
Sem títuloLegal documents acquired by the solicitors in the course of their work; comprising a right hand indenture of a fine relating to land in the parish of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green, 1790; lease for premises on High Street, Tottenham, 1803 and exemplification of a common recovery relating to land in the parishes of Saint John at Hackney, Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green and Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, 1829.
Sem títuloRecords relating to property, acquired by the solicitors in the course of their work. The records include mortgages, leases, lease and releases, fines, assignments of term, copies from baptism, marriage and burial registers, extracts from wills and correspondence; mainly relating to properties and persons in East Bedfont, but also Hatton, Heston, Egham, Leckhampstead, New Windsor, Wraysbury, Aldgate, and West Ham, 1708-1827.
Sem títuloWrit of enquiry of damages issued to Sheriff of Middlesex; in case brought by Richard Biggs in Kings Bench against Ann Greenly, widow and Gabriel Ailice, executors of William Greenly, for money owed by the latter to Biggs.
Sem títuloLetters of the Lee family, comprising letter from Thomas Martyn to Sir William Lee of Aylesbury thanking him for having recommended him for the living of Edgware, 1788; letter to the Morning Herald newspaper regarding the building of almshouses at Edgware by Charles Day, probably written by Philadelphia Lee, 1828; and letter from Thomas Wall, vicar of Edgware, to John Lee, lord of manor of Edgware Boys, 1859.
Sem títuloBrief for plaintiff in Court of Common Pleas (John Gandar, plaintiff, and Richard Henry Sheldrick, defendant), with note of fees in the case of Gandar v. Sheldrick, an action to recover damages for seizure of household goods and furniture under execution issued from Palace Court in action at suit of defendant v. William Charles Fisher, landlord of plaintiff; and letter from Gandar to attorney enquiring how the case is progressing and commenting on compensation to officers of the defunct Palace Court.
Sem títuloSales particulars for the Lease and Goodwill of the Swan Inn, Tottenham, including a description of the premises, June 1890. In this context, 'goodwill' means 'permission to enjoy the use of a leased building'.
Sem títuloPapers of the Wood family, including records relating to properties in Laleham, Littleton and Shepperton including title deeds, tax assessments, legal papers, rentals, court rolls and plans; family letters, particularly between Edward Wood and his London agent John Pack; family papers such as legal opinions, marriage settlements, wills, and financial accounts; and papers relating to court cases including the Chancery case of Sir Richard Lane versus Charles Wood, 1733, and the Chancery case of Wood versus Wood, 1738-1746.
The material as a whole provides a fascinating picture of the Wood family in the seventeenth century, their personal letters and papers complemented by the deeds of the property they acquired. The material is also interesting from a wider point of view. There are, for example, various references to the Elections of Members of Parliament for Middlesex, including a letter from Henry Spiller of Laleham in 1695 saying, "I have this day sent to particularly and spoken to myself every person in this parish that I thought a freeholder" (March 4th, 1695?). The results of his canvassing are given in detail. Less information has survived on the plague, however, than one might expect. Pack was apparently in the habit of sending down to Littleton the current Bills of Mortality, but unfortunately none of these have survived, although Edward Wood frequently makes pious and sententious comments on them. There are also interesting sidelights on the political scene, including two detailed accounts of the background of the 1688 deposition, and four political and satirical ballads. It is surprising, however, to see how little the family were affected by the enormous political changes taking place. Edward Wood, for example, made his fortune during the Interregnum but did not suffer from the Restoration when he set himself up as a wealthy landowner in Middlesex.
Sem títuloPapers, 1692-1870, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including mortgages, bonds, leases and releases and deeds for properties in Hammersmith, Fulham and Tottenham. Also wills, certificates of baptism, marriage and burial, and marriage settlements for various persons in London, including a marriage settlement in which Reverend Christopher Wordsworth is one of the parties.
Sem títuloPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising release for a parcel of land on side of Bungeys Lane, Enfield, 1710; lease and counterpart lease of one acre of land in common field called Southberry Field, now used as brickground, in parish of Enfield, 1722.
Sem títuloMinutes of the Central Committee for the Unemployed and various sub-committees, 1904-1905.
Minutes of the Central Unemployed Body for London, 1905-1930, with minutes, agendas and reports of sub-committees including the Classification Committee, Emigration Committee, Employment Exchanges Committee, Finance Committee, Hollesley Bay Rota Committee, Women's Work Committee, Local Advisory Committees, Working Colonies Committee, Works Committee and Special and Joint Committees. Also legal papers, 1905-1914, including tenancy agreements, insurance policies, agreements to supply labour for carrying out works and retention of services of clerical staff on war service; file regarding Workmen's Compensation Insurance, 1906; file regarding deputation to the Local Government Board, 1900s; correspondence with the Ministry of Health, 1919-1929; correspondence regarding activities of the Central Unemployed Body, 1905-1928; annual reports, 1906-1930; report on work in workrooms for women, 1915; report on employment of disabled soliders and sailors, 1915; report on Salvation Army Colonies, 1905; emigration and immigration tables, 1914; report on trade and employment after the First World War, 1916; standing orders, 1906-1913; newspaper cuttings, 1905-1930; emigration register, 1909; Sailing Register (giving age, occupation, destination and number of dependents), 1912-1914; emigration loan registers, 1906-1915; financial records, 1905-1930; plans showing a proposed swimming pool at Burnham on Crouch, 1900s.
Papers relating to the Hollesley Bay Labour Colony including particulars of the sale of the Colonial College, report of surveyors and legal papers, 1903-1926; subject files, 1914-1938, on various subjects including emigration, payment of war bonus to staff, schemes of work, employment of discharged soldiers, administration of the Colony, reports of London Boards of Guardians, publicity, Burnt House Farm, accidents, and sale of the Colony to Prison Commissioners; papers regarding staff including salary forms, 1930-1938; individual case notes, cards and registers of inmates, 1930-1938, including register of applications, admissions and discharge registers and creed register; visitor's books, 1922-1938 and cash books, 1907-1930.
County of London Appeal Tribunal (for Conscientous Objectors) minutes, 1916-1918.
Sem títuloRecords of the parish of Saint Paul, Finchley, Barnet. This collection includes parish registers of baptisms, marriages, banns of marriage and confirmation (1886-1991), registers of church services (1886-1989), Parochial Church Council minutes, other committee minutes, annual reports, electoral roll, faculties relating to the maintenance of the church, financial accounts, administrative files, parish societies including Sunday School and Finchley Community Work.
Sem títuloRecords of the Guild of Saint Alban the Martyr, including minutes of the Provost's Court and of proceedings in Common Hall; minutes of the Brotherhood of Saint John the Divine; statements of accounts; circulars; constitution of the Guild; rules and regulations; addresses; publications; photographs; and historical notes.
Sem títuloRecords of the London Aged Christian Society consisting of early minutes of the Gentlemens and Ladies committes and later joint committee minutes; annual reports, financial records and pensioners cases and some historical notes and rules of the Society.
Sem títuloRecords, 1879-1928, of Archbishop Tait's Infants School, relating to administration and finance, and comprising conveyance from the Most Rev Archibald Campbell, Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Trustees of Tenison's School, of land attached to the Archiepiscopal residence in Lambeth, 1879, with an agreement between the National Society and the Trustees, 1880; minutes of the Committee of Management, 1883-1898, and Governors, 1898-1903; cash account books, 1901-1928; inventory of furniture etc in school mistress's residence, Lambeth Road, 1888.
Sem títuloRecords of Morden College, Blackheath, including correspondence, financial statements, and papers relating to a dispute with the Charity Commissioners.
Sem títuloRecords of the National Education Association, including minutes; papers relating to the formation and endowment of the Association; financial accounts; annual reports; correspondence; case files; NEA publications; other publications; Parliamentary publications; circulars from the Ministry of Education; education pamphlets and reference papers.
Sem títuloRecords of the Nightingale Fund Council, including deeds of trust; minutes; correspondence; annual reports; papers relating to St Thomas's Hospital; regulations; financial accounts; fundraising accounts; agreements; registers, prospectuses and syllabi of the Nightingale Training School; papers relating to the registration of nurses and nursing in general.
Also papers of the City Auxiliary Committee of the Nightingale Fund, comprising minutes, correspondence and accounts; and papers of Albert Venn Dicey (a jurist and Professor of Law at Oxford).
Sem títuloRecords of the Badger's Almshouses, Shoreditch, relating to the ownership of property, including bargain and sales, feoffments, deeds, lease and releases, assignments and abstract of title.
Sem títuloRecords of the Slate and Loan Club of Christ Church, North Brixton, including annual balance sheets; rules of the Club; correspondence concerning the dissolution of the Club; and notes by the Secretary and President of the Club on its history.
Sem títuloRecords of Christ Church Parochial Schools, Southwark, including deeds, leases, agreements and other documents relating to school property and the trustees; minute books of the Trustees and the Managers; financial accounts; letter books; school log books; and plans of the school buildings.
Sem títuloRecords of the Cholmondeley Charities, including deeds establishing and regulating Charities; minutes; correspondence; financial accounts; petitions; registers of applications; registers and lists of grants.
Sem títuloRecords of the Working Women's College, later known as the Frances Martin College for Women. The records listed here cover the history of the college from its foundation in 1874 until 1957, a period of 88 years. Minutes of council and AGMs from 1874 onwards, kept in the hand of Miss Frances Martin until 1920 almost without a break, annual prospectuses and an almost complete series of annual reports exist. These, together with college magazines and scrapbooks give a very full picture of the life and activities of the college since its foundation, and reveal the remarkable enthusiasm and dedicated service of all those who have been connected with it which have carried it forward successfully over the years through good times and bad.
Sem títuloSchool reports for Hetty Lee, 1887-1892 and Margery Lee, 1894-1896, pupils at the North London Collegiate School. Some reports bear the signature of Frances M Buss, Headmistress.
Sem títuloRecords of the National Association of Labour Teachers, later the Socialist Educational Association. The records cover the period 1926-1983, although the minutes of the executive committee only continue until 1965. They include Executive Committee minutes; papers relating to annual conferences; constitution of the Association; membership lists; correspondence; files relating to campaigns; press reports; Association publications and newsletters.
Sem títuloRecords of the Pentonville Charity School, comprising minute book of Committee meetings; report and notes on the school and ticket for coal.
Sem títuloRecords of the London Council for the Promotion of Public Morality, later known as the Public Morality Council. Scarcely any of the early records survive, the earliest useful series being the annual reports, 1901-1913 and 1932-1954. Minutes of the council and its sub-committees cover 1940-1965.
Records include constitution of the Council; Council and committees minutes and papers; membership lists for the council and committees; annual reports; papers relating to annual public meetings and Hyde Park meetings; paper relating to conferences and talks; general correspondence; financial accounts; records relating to links with other societies, both national and international; PMC publications and related magazines, films and other publications.
Sem títuloRecords of the New River Company, comprising lease of a watercourse from main water pipe at back side of Saint Clement Danes to the private dwelling house of Thomas Dows, gentleman, 1697.
Sem títuloDescription of the distribution of army patrols in and around London during the Gordon Riots, June 1780.
Sem títuloRecords of the Howard family, including family letters; memoirs of Luke Howard sent to Goethe; poem by Goethe about Luke Howard; accounts of events; notes on the weather; religious writings; pamphlets; obituaries; extracts of the diary of Rachel Lloyd; genealogical notes and family pedigree.
Sem títuloPapers, 1638-1932, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Hendon, Manor of Isleworth Syon, Stoke Newington, Hornsey, Tottenham and Enfield, including wills, fines, conveyances, exemplifications of common recovery, mortgages, bonds, bargain and sales and lease and releases.
Sem títuloLetter books of Robert Bainbridge, Keeper of Hampton Court Park.
Sem títuloPapers, 1870-1950, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Willesden, Edmonton and Southgate, and Friern Barnet, including leases, mortgages, insurance policies, coveyances and correspondence.
Sem títuloRecords of the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway Company, comprising Directors' Meetings minutes; Proprietors' meetings minutes; Wotton Tramway Committee minutes; and Contract Plan and Sections for the Aylesbury - Verney Railway.
Sem títuloRecords of the Hammersmith and City Railway, including Board meeting minutes; General meeting minutes; Board of Trade inspection reports; agreements, tenders and contracts; list of staff; financial accounts and petitions from inhabitants of Westbourne Park for a station between Notting Hill and Bishops Road.
Sem títuloRecords of the London Passenger Transport Board, including minutes of Meetings of the Board; reports to the Board; album of photographs illustrating the catering facilities afforded by the LPTB to shelterers in the London Tubes during the air raids on London; minutes of Accounts Advisory Committee; plans and sections; tenders, specifications and contracts; Traffic Circulars (Central Buses); papers relating to the Passenger Pooling Scheme; diaries; official booklets, pamphlets and leaflets; and appointment books, issued annually (those filed herewith have had the calendar leaves extracted but the interesting photographs which interspersed them are left in position. They give a true contemporary picture of the life of London and its surroundings, including its building and transport).
Sem títuloRecords of the Metropolitan District Railway, including minutes of Board Meetings, General Meetings, the Traffic, Way and Works Committee, the Law, Parliamentary and Lands Committee, Stock Holders Meetings, Executive Officers Meetings and Standing Joint Committee; guard books containing copies of agreements with other railway companies and non-railway companies; volumes of statistics; financial ledgers; volumes of monthly reports; notices issued jointly with Piccadilly Line of London Electric Railway, concerning track and signal alterations and the bringing into use of new lines in connection with the extension of Piccadilly Line trains to Hounslow, South Harrow and Enfield West and Shareholders' Association circulars, newspaper cuttings and so on.
Sem títuloRecords of the Metropolitan Tower Construction Company, comprising minutes of General Meetings and minutes of Board Meetings.
Sem títuloRecords of the Union Surplus Lands Company, comprising minutes of Board meetings and minutes of General meetings.
Sem títuloRecords of the Wembley Park Estate Company, property developers, comprising minutes of General meetings and minutes of Board meetings.
Sem títuloPapers of the Wood family of Littleton. This is a very interesting collection, consisting mainly of family letters, diaries and papers, and also some early account books. These latter items are a primary source in the study of the business ventures of a seventeenth century merchant, and can be augmented by the correspondence between Edward and Thomas Wood and John Pack (ACC/0262). The farm account books provide information about the state of agriculture in a particular area of Middlesex in the eighteenth century. The letters are full of rich detail of everyday family life, as well as touching on wider local and national issues. Of special note are those letters describing student life at Oxford at the end of the seventeenth century (ACC/1302/51-55, 57-67), and the early stages of the Crimean War as witnessed by an officer (ACC/1302/213-41). Distinguished nineteenth century correspondents include Queen Adelaide, Emperor Napoleon III, Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington.
The collection includes:
Accounts, 1654-1821;
Notebooks and diaries, 1721-c 1832;
Pedigree, 1694-1726;
Correspondence and family papers, 1639/40-1924;
Papers formerly mounted in album, 1639/40-1924;
Correspondence mainly of Colonel Thomas Wood, 1812-55;
Letters from Thomas Wood to his wife Fanny, 1852-69;
Correspondence of Sir David Wood, 1857-69;
Letters from Thomas Wood to his son Tom, 1862-72;
Letters from Tom Wood to his mother Fanny, 1882-87;
Family letters, 1854-93;
Parish of Littleton-Rates, 1743-92; and
Miscellaneous items, 1631-1876.
Records of the Metropolitan Railway Company, comprising plan, sections and elevations of proposed new railway bridge over road at North Harrow Station.
Sem títuloPapers of the Shadbolt family relating to property in Edmonton, including conveyances, releases, mortgages and agreements.
Sem títuloPapers, 1814-1923, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Chiswick, Kingsbury, Ruislip and Willesden, and of family papers of Birkett, Dawson, Feilden, Rawson and Palmer families. Papers include copies of court rolls from Manor of Sutton Court, mortgages, probate of wills and papers relating to bequests and inheritance, marriage settlements and correspondence.
Sem títuloRecords of R.F. Fuggle Limited consisting of employment agreements, an underlease and correspondence, 1924-1928.
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