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Collection of documents relating to the parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southwark, including faculties, bills, receipts, notices, Vestry minutes, bonds and certificates. Also deeds, wills, and other legal documents relating to property ownership for other areas of London and Surrey.

Records of the Queen Adelaide Fund, including letter books, financial accounts, minutes, and history of the Fund.

The Special Collections fonds comprises four important collections of graphic material: prints and maps from the Guildhall Library; Ordnance Survey maps; the photograph library and a collection of prints.

The Guildhall Library Prints and Maps collection is a diverse collection of graphic material relating to the City of London and surrounding areas, 1553-2008; including prints, sketches, drawings, engravings, etchings, panoramas, photographs and lantern slides of various subjects including streets and buildings, Second World War bomb damage, churches, people, City of London Corporation personnel and events including the Lord Mayor, statues and memorials, the Thames, and markets. Also maps, plans and surveys of London and surrounding counties, London streets, parish boundaries, railways, tramways, and sewers. With a collection of ephemeral items including posters, bills, cuttings, printed menus, invitations, exhibition ephemera, playing cards, trade cards, booksellers' labels, satires, and theatre playbills and programmes.

Ordnance Survey maps of Kent, 1894-1939; London, 1848-1940; and Middlesex, 1863-1914.

The prints collection is arranged by area of London, including views of streets and buildings in Bermondsey, Bethnal Green, Battersea, Chelsea, Camberwell, City of London, Deptford, Finsbury, Fulham, Greenwich, Holborn, Hackney, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Islington, Kensington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Paddington, Poplar, Shoreditch, Saint Marylebone, Stoke Newington, Saint Pancras, Stepney, Southwark, Wandsworth, Tower of London, Westminster, and Woolwich; 1508-1988.

The photograph library, 1890-1986, includes photographs of streets organised by borough, including Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Hammersmith and Fulham, City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth and Westminster. Also photographs of subjects including London County Council and Greater London Council personnel, buildings and services; parks; statues; events and visits; important buildings; schools and educational services; rivers; fountains; industrial sites; healthcare services; museums; almshouses; lodging houses; youth clubs; social problems; docks; transport; churches and chapels; emergency services; libraries; restaurants and public houses.

Records of Hammersmith and Fulham Community Health Council (CHC) and predecessors (1975-2002). Includes Minutes (1977-2002), Policies (1998-2001), Annual Reports and Project Reports (1995-2002), Visit Reports (1975-2002), Consultation Responses (1977-2002) and Press Releases (1977-2002).

Records of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Community Health Council (CHC) and predecessors (1993-2003). Includes Meeting Papers (1993-2003), Policies (1998-2000), Work Plans (1999-2003), Annual Reports (1995-2003), CHC Reports (1997-2003), Visit Reports (1993-2000), Focus Groups (1998-2002), Project Papers (1995), Consultation Responses (1995-2000) and Publications (1995-2002).

Records of Hounslow Community Health Council (CHC) and predecessors (1994-2003). Includes Minutes (1994-2003).

Records of Cave Austin and Company Limited kept by the Stamp Family, comprising director’s report and printed material including Christmas brochures issued to staff, articles and event material. The survival of other records is unknown.

Minutes, 1875-1958; Chairman's papers, 1928-1929; Committee papers, 1926-1938; rule book, 1936; annual reports, 1878-1957; correspondence with the Ministry of Health, 1920-1957; correspondence with the Board of Education, 1921-1947; correspondence with Kent County Education Committee, 1920-1937; case papers, 1929-1946; orders for goods placed by the Army Ordnance Department, the Blind Employment Factory, the Port of London Authority and the Office of Works, 1915-1928; correspondence with Banstead, Holborn and Hackney Poor Law Unions, 1926-1928; advertising handout, 1930; legal papers, 1890-1892; sales particulars, including catalogues, inventories and agreements, 1891-1935; papers regarding the centralization of collections for the blind in London, 1923; correspondence with the Charity Commissioners, 1900s; financial accounts, 1925-1960.

This archive comprises the records of Saint Thomas' Hospital, the Grosvenor Hospital, the General Lying-In Hospital, the Lambeth Hospital and the Royal Waterloo Hospital, 1551-2008. It also includes the records of institutions which were associated with these hospitals, including the Kirchner Convalescent Home, the Babies Hospital, the Medical School, Saint Thomas' Church and parish, the Physiotherapy School, Saint John's House, Saint John's and Saint Thomas' House, Saint Thomas' House and Saint Thomas' Home.

In addition, this includes the Nightingale Training School and documents, which form part of the Nightingale Collection. The remainder of this collection is maintained by the Florence Nightingale Museum Trust.

The records include those generated by the administration of the various institutions which made up the Saint Thomas' Hospital Group, in addition to a variety of patients' and clinical records. There are also visual sources such as photographs and prints and some printed and bibliographic items.

Records of the Princess Beatrice Hospital, including Board of Management minutes, 1932-1948; Finance Committee and House Committee minutes, 1912-1969; Medical Committee minutes, 1918-1978; minute book of a working party on the conversion of the hospital to a maternity unit, 1970-1972; booklet Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Kensington General Hospital, 1907; bye-laws of the Hospital, 1938; annual reports, 1910-1946; statistics, 1940-1948; offprint from The Architect's Journal on the construction of the Hospital, 1932; record book of maids employed by the Hospital, 1931-1955; financial papers relating to construction work at the Hospital, 1941-1947; register of investments, 1931-1940; register of deeds relating to land owned by the Hospital, 1842-1940; press cuttings and obituaries relating to the Hospital, 1957-1966 and histories of the Hospital, 1957 and 1977.

Records of the Battersea General Hospital, including Board of Management minutes, 1905-1955; Court of Governors minutes, 1946-1949; House Committee minutes, 1924-1971; Finance Committee minutes, 1932-1944; Appeals Committee minutes, 1938-1947; Medical Committee minutes, 1935-1971; copy of the Amended Memorandum and Articles of Association of the hospital, 1935; annual reports, 1943 - 1948; registers of managers of the Hospital, 1930-1947; bundle of legal papers relating to the case The Public Trustee v. The South London Hospital for Women and others (regarding the will of Constance Edith Guerrier on which the hospital were making a claim), 1926-1928 and papers and agreements concerning tenancies of hospital properties and services to hospital, 1915-1937.

This archive contains the records of Guy's Hospital Group as it was in 1948, when it was formed. It does not include the New Cross and Saint Olave's Hospitals, which were added to the Group in 1965. However, it does contain the records of the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, which was never part of the Guy's Hospital Group.

There are both administrative and clinical records for the Group in this collection, including minutes, accounts and correspondence, in addition to a large number of visual items such as photographs, library material and ephemera.

Records of the British Lying-In Hospital Group comprising papers of the British Lying-In Hospital, 1749-1914, the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, 1905-1984 and the Council for the Promotion of the Higher Training of Midwives, 1903-1941. The papers include committee minutes, diaries, patient records including admission registers and case notes, rules and regulations, histories of the hospitals and financial records.

Records of Saint Leonard's Hospital, 1884-1940 and Saint Matthew's Hospital, 1879-1986. Papers include patient registers, minutes, reports, inventories, plans and staff records.

Records of Saint Lawrence's Hospital, 1870-1990 and Caterham Emergency Hospital, 1940-1944. Papers include patient records, minutes, reports, staff magazines and papers regarding the history of the Hospital.

Records of the Chelsea Hospital for Women, 1871-1948, and Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, 1989-2007. Papers include committee minutes and agendas; reports; laws; correspondence; medical registers and patient records; case books; staff records; financial records; nursing reports; student nursing papers and plans.

Records of Saint Pancras' Institution including Master's Weekly and monthly reports, 1928-1938; Master's half-yearly and yearly reports, 1927-1938; Medical Officer's reports, 1923-1931 and offences and punishment book, 1914-1937.

Records of Saint Pancras Hospital including Steward's reports, 1924-1938 and 1946-1948; daily numbers book, 1940-1944; female patients' admission and discharge register, 1925-1939; magistrates book, 1948-1958; record of mechanical restraint and seclusion, 1940-1953; registers of baptisms, 1857-1940 and Chaplain's report books, 1893-1933.

Records of hospitals in the Royal Northern Hospital Group, 1835-1991, comprising Hornsey Central Hospital, Mildmay Memorial Hospital, Maternity Nursing Association, North London Medical and Chirurgical Society, Royal Chest Hospital, Royal Northern Hospital and Santa Claus Children's Home.

The papers include committee minutes, reports, financial papers, newspaper cuttings, leaflets and publications, histories, staff registers, regulations, plans and photographs. Patient records survive only for the Royal Northern Hospital.

Records of Chase Farm Hospital comprising plan of Edmonton Union New Schools showing layout of buildings and soil drains; plan of drains showing infirmary, cottage homes and infants school only and plan of drains, including ground floor plans of main building, infants school, cottage homes and infirmary, 1885-1889.

Also includes patient records (1938 - 1974), Medical School publication (1969 - 1990), staff recruitment display boards and redevelopment photographs (195- - 197-) and patient information booklets (1962 - 1972).

Records of the West Middlesex University Hospital and associated hospitals, 1841-1993, including Brentford Hospital, Chiswick Maternity Hospital, Hounslow Hospital, Saint John's Hospital, Twickenham, South Middlesex Hospital and the South West Middlesex Hospital Management Committee. Papers include committee minutes, reports, admission and discharge registers and other patient records, nursing and staffing records, rules and regulations, financial records, photographs, prospectuses and leaflets.

Records of Saint Alfege's Hospital including Medical Staff Committee minutes, 1958-1964, a report on the use and condition of the buildings with particular reference to demolition and reconstruction, by the Regional Architect for the Greenwich and Deptford Hospital Management Committee, 1957; operations registers, 1938-1939 and nurses' registers, 1913-1961.

Records of Tooting Bec Hospital, including Hospital management committee and sub-committee minutes and papers, 1948-1967; London County Council Tooting Bec Hospital sub committee papers, 1907-1948; Medical Superintendants report book, 1903-1911; Steward's report books, 1912-1948; admission and discharge books, 1930-1936; register of admission (male and female), 1948-1954; register of admission (male), 1936-1951; register of admission (female), 1936-1949 and 1957-1961; register of transfers, discharges and deaths (male), 1936-1962; register of transfers, discharges and deaths (female), 1936-1950 and 1962-1964; register of male patients, 1973-1977; creed register, 1938-1947; registers of deaths, 1944-1963; post mortem registers, 1932-1959; card index of patient deaths, 1960-1980; registers of staff, 1902-1909 and 1930-1965 and The History of Tooting Bec Hospital by Sue Simmons, 1995.

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 of the Children's Homoeopathic Dispensary, London Homoeopathic Convalescent Home, Eastbourne, and the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, 1884-1946.

Register of marriages, Kingsland Congregational Church and Institute, Hackney, 1936-1940.

Marriage registers for Lower Clapton Congregational Church, Downs Park Road, 1930-1962.

Marriage registers for Forest Gate Congregational Church, Sebert Road, Forest Gate, 1950-1972.

Marriage registers for Emmanuel Congregational Church, East Dulwich, 1899-1984.

Marriage registers for Park Presbyterian Church, Grosvenor Road, Highbury, 1921-1940.

Marriage registers for Wandsworth Presbyterian Church, Briar Walk, Putney, 1915-1944.

Marriage registers for Canning Town Congregational Church, 1922-1939.

Marriage registers for Harbord Street Congregational Church, Fulham and Fulham Palace Road Congregational Church, Fulham, 1917-1985.

Marriage registers and magazines for Fulham Congregational Church, Dawes Road, 1911-1942.

Marriage registers for the United Church of Saint James-at-Bowes, Wood Green, 1949-1975.

Marriage register for Streatham Hill Congregational Church, Streatham, 1961-1979.

Register of marriages for West Ealing Congregational Church, 1970-1972.

Marriage registers for Stockwell Congregational Church, Stockwell Green, 1956-1984.

Marriage registers for Villiers Road Congregational Church, Southall, Norwood Green, 1932-1970.

Marriage registers for Mitcham Congregational Church, London Road, 1972-1975.

Marriage register for Plumstead Congregational Church, Viewland Road, 1918-1977.

Marriage registers for John Knox Presbyterian Church, Stepney, 1900-1939.

Marriage registers for Ballards Lane Presbyterian Church, Finchley Central, 1950-1971.

Marriage registers for Saint Ninian's Presbyterian Church, Golders Green, 1912-1979.

Marriage registers for Saint Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Woolwich, 1909-1922.

Marriage registers for Hither Green Presbyterian Church, Birkhall Road, Hither Green, 1908-1931.

Print showing view of church and houses, Harrow. Dated Oct 1807, 1805 or 1835.

Records of Wesley's Chapel, City Road, including visitor's books for Wesley's House, 1948-1997; visitor's books, Wesley's Chapel, 1928-1995; visitor's books, Museum of Methodism, 1984-1995; plan of City Road Chapel site; minutes of Wesley's Chapel Circuit local preachers meetings, 1922-1969; Annual Society minute books, 1959-1978; trust schedules, 1876-1914; correspondence, 1951-1969; notes on listed building status, 1973-1976; booklets about Wesley's Chapel, mainly regarding the restoration works, 1976-1986; ticket for meeting of the Wesleyan Tract Society, 1868; flyers, posters and programmes regarding Chapel events, 1899-1985; file of publications of the Methodist Historical Society, 1917-1985; papers regarding Epworth Hall Chapel, 1889-1966; papers regarding the Museum of Methodist History, 1849-1986 and papers regarding restoration work funds, 1908-1980.

Committee minute books, 1970-1997; Performance Review Subcommittee, 1984-1988; Appeals Subcommittee, 1981-1988; Future Management Arrangements Subcommittee, 1992-1995; Staffing Subcommittee, 1993-1994 and Inner London Juvenile Liaison Committee, 1978-1994.

Correspondence, 1969-1994; general files on various topics including community homes, 1970-1994; financial matters, 1970-1979; Barnados, 1971-1986; National Children's Homes, 1970-1981; Intermediate Treatment, 1974-1982; observation and assessment, 1971-1985; Regional Assessment Centres, 1974-1995; secure accommodation, 1972-1994; regional plan, 1971-1984; pooling scheme, 1978-1993; independent homes, 1974-1995; Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Bill, 1982-1986; wind-down and exit strategy, 1991-1997.

Principal Adviser's office files on various topics including Regional Planning Committee, 1979-1990; public relations, 1975-1989; regional homes, 1970-1994; private homes, 1979-1984; research statistics, 1978-1990, statutory and voluntary organisations, 1982-1992; London Borough Social Services Directors Committee, 1989-1994; police authorities, 1989-1992; leaving care, 1988-1993; child abuse, 1984-1990, health and education, 1976-1990 and publications, 1980-1993.

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Records of West Ealing Congregational Church including combined register listing baptisms, 1910-1969, marriages, 1910-1970 and burials, 1937-1968; minute book for Annual Church Meetings, 1942-1962; minute book for Church Meetings, 1915-1924; minute books for Deacon's Meetings, 1901-1959; roll of Church members, 1914-1972 and Finance Committee minute book, 1936-1968.

Records of the Needlework Guild, Congregational Church (later United Reformed Church), including minute books, 1936-1999; gift list, 1983-1999; account books, 1957-1999; expenses, 1969-1999; orders of service for annual dedication of gifts ceremonies, 1962-1998; booklet "The Story of the London Women's League of the London Congregational Union, 1909-1959" by Ann Oldfield, 1959 and typescript notes on the history of the Needlework Guild, 1913-1998, by Guild Secretary Phyllis Mitchell, 1998.