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Programmes and ephemera for the Wandsworth Symphony Orchestra which belonged to cellist Mollie Simmonds. Also includes some miscellaneous material for the West Hill Orchestra and the Putney Orchestra.

Letters written by Jack Laver to friends in America. Includes hand drawn coloured illustrations of places in London, including Putney. Jack Laver was a Tooting resident.

The collection consists of two leases relating to Lower Grove House, Roehampton.

Includes: accounts; letter books; photographs of work done by the firm; articles and publications about the firm or containing subject matter of interest, including news-sheets on the General Strike; family material such as apprenticeship indentures and correspondence.

Papers belonging to Stanley Bollans including personal letters and cards, photographs, papers relating to the Wandsworth Technical Institute Cycling Club, Wandsworth Technical Institute ephemera, and papers, photographs and ephemera from a cycling trip to Europe in 1936.

Letters written from Australia, New Zealand and South America from Jackson, a commercial traveller, to his wife Emily, who was living in Wandsworth. Between November 1891 and August 1892 Jackson travelled to Australia and New Zealand, and wrote home to his wife with his impressions of Melbourne, Ballarat, Launceston, Sydney, Christchurch and Dunedin, as well as details of his journeys and everyday activities. In 1893 he went to Brazil and Argentina and was in Rio de Janeiro during a revolution, being forced to leave the city before travelling on to Buenos Aires, including having to spend time in quarantine on the Isla de Flores. His third trip was between October 1894 and September 1895 and was also to South America, visting Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Mendoza, Valparaiso and Iquique. The letters for this trip include a description of crossing the Andes by road and the effects of the altitude. Many of Jackson's letters refer to how much he misses his wife and children and to his daily routine, although he also regularly refers to concerns over his health and occasionally specifically refers to missing his physical relationship with Emily.

Includes papers and correspondence for: Wandsworth Working Women's Charter Group, 1975-77; Wandsworth Against Corrie's Bill, 1979-1980; National Abortion Campaign local groups, 1975; Wandsworth Women's Aid; Libraries for the Disadvantaged, 1974-75; Holiday Playschemes; Wandsworth Housing Project, 1979-82; County Courthouse development, 1974-78; Law Centres, 1975-77; York Gardens community centre, 1976-78; Wandsworth Housing Aid Society; Wandsworth Poverty Action Group; Channel Tunnel; Wandsworth Against Racism; Wandsworth Rights Umbrella Group papers; Popular Planning Project papers; other correspondence relating to housing, poverty and women's rights.

Most of the documents relate to 1 Solna Avenue (also named as Pimpernel, and later as Padva). This was later subject of a compulsory purchase order by the London County Council to form part of the Ashburton Estate. Some documents relate to the owners (the Roffey family builders) and their own residences at 46 Chartfield Avenue (formerly Chartfield Road), 26 Charlwood Avenue and 71B Dorking Rd Epsom; and to other property at 38 and 40 Charlwood Avenue.

Documents relating to 14 Wakehurst Road, Battersea. Includes a building lease of 1878 for the premises when it was known as plot 730, Clapham Junction Estate.

The collection consists of an indenture of settlement on the marriage of Mrs M Field, 1866, and a copy of the will and probate of Mary Land following her death, 1884.

Documents relating to the estate of James Edward Horne of 8 Earlsfield Road, Wandsworth, following his death in 1908.

Documents relating to The Jolly Gardeners public house, Lacy Road, Putney, and the adjoining Vernon Cottage.

Documents relating to 203 Lower Richmond Road.

Documents relating to the marriage settlement of Edwin James Fairland and Emma Maggie Thomson. The collection consists of the original marriage settlement of 31 October 1870 and various associated papers.

Documents relating to Brockenhurst, Aldrington Road, Streatham Park Estate.

The collection consists of a series of documents relating to 66 Brodrick Road, mostly connected with the Watling family, as well as a series of documents relating to 11 Marius Road, Balham. It is unclear if or how the documents relating to Brodrick Road and Marius Road are connected to each other.

Documents relating to 287 Battersea Park Road.

Documents relating to 43 and 45 Northcote Road, Battersea. The land was originally plots 132 and 133 of the Clapham Junction Estate.

Documents relating to 1-13 Falcon Road, Battersea.

The collection consists of a single counterpart lease of 84 St John's Road.

The collection consists of a single mortgage of 69, 71 and 73 Northcote Road.

Deeds relating to properties in Kathleen Road, Dorothy Road and Latchmere Road.

The records include minutes, membership records, programmes, newspaper cuttings and other publicity material, 1922-1983. The choice of subjects for the debates and lectures, and the press coverage, reflect popular attitudes to issues during this period.The chairman's gavel and printers block with the society logo were deposited with the records. These have been transferred to Wandsworth Museum.

The collection consists of records relating to Battersea Cricket Club including minutes, printed material such as press cuttings, and a photograph.

The collection contains records concerning the financing of house built at Elsenham Street, Southfields.

The collection includes correspondence, deeds and miscellaneous records of Battersea Bridge, along with a number of records from other London bridges. There is also a small amount of material concerned with railways, canals, turnpikes and so on.

Please note that the original order of these items had been considerably disturbed, and whilst efforts have been made to ensure that all items included in the catalogue are still present it has not been possible to do so definitively. Some items may not have been filed with their correct reference number, and additional items may be included but are not on the catalogue.

This is an artificial collection, made up of individual items that relate to the history of the borough but do not form part of a larger collection. It includes account books, single volumes of minutes of local organisations, photographs including photograph albums from the Third London General Hospital, and autograph letters.

Records of the administration of the parish of Putney. Includes: minutes of the parish vestry; minutes of the Overseers of the Poor; accounts and vouchers of the Churchwardens; accounts of the Surveyor of Highways for the parish; accounts of the parish constable; statements of accounts for parish charities; apprenticeship indentures.

This collection relating to Whitelands College consists of minutes of meetings from 1966-1970, as well a copy of the annual report for 1966-1967, and two students handbooks.

The collection is comprised of two parts. The first contains records relating to the administration of the school, such as a series of pupil records cards, accounts, staff handbooks and other material, as well as copies of the school magazine and Old Girls Association newsletters. The second part of the collection contains material belonging to a former pupil Eleanor Roberts, who attended the school between 1928-1936. The records include her school exercise books and diaries.

Battersea Grammar School Old Grammarians' Association including records relating to Battersea Grammar School, Sir Walter St John's Schools' Trust, Sir Walter St John's School, Rosa Bassett School, Streatham Hill and Clapham High School.

Battersea St Mary's Parochial School: Admission registers, school log books and miscellaneous material, including a punishment book and the headteacher's diary for 1968-1969.