Records of Hornsey Methodist Church, Middle Lane, 1873-1981, including Leaders' Meeting minute books; correspondence; financial records including accounts and correspondence; Trustees' Meeting minute books, Trustees' account books and Trustee's correspondence; papers regarding building work, alterations and repairs including plans; papers regarding staffing; pulpit notice books; papers relating to the Sunday School; issues of the Church newsletter; orders of service and programmes; pamphlets, including histories of the Church; leaflets, newspaper cuttings and photographs.
Sans titreClerk's Report Book, 1882-1886; notices to provide cisterns to boilers, urinals and water closets, by regulation of the Board under the 1871 Metropolis Water Act, 1873-1873.
Also Tottenham Urban District Council attendance book, 1907-1912 and Tottenham Parish Rifle Grounds (33rd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers): minutes of Lammas Meetings and Marsh Road Committee, 1861-1867.
Sans titreRecords of the Methodist Church London North East District, 1880-1992, including minutes of the Local Preachers' Committee and the Education Sub-Committee; correspondence with local preachers; a review of book At Satan's Throne: a history of Methodism in Bath; an original Primitive Methodist Circuit plan of 1880; leaflet "The Union Chapel: a famous Islington landmark" and booklet "Chislehurst Methodist Church: An Invitation to look and see for yourself".
Sans titreManuscript transcriptions of Noncomformist sermons given on a variety of Biblical texts, 1848-1858. The sermons were given by different preachers at various chapels including Surrey Chapel; Little Prescot Street Chapel; Hoxton Academy Chapel; New Baptist Chapel, Upper Street, Islington; Poultry Chapel; Weighouse Chapel; Barbican Chapel; London Road Chapel, Brighton; Sion Chapel; City Road Chapel; Holloway Chapel; Bingley, Yorkshire; Abingdon Baptist Chapel; Trinity Chapel, Brixton; Norwood and Margate. The time of day (morning or evening), date, chapel and name of preacher is provided for each sermon and the volumes have both been indexed by the texts being preached on. The first volume is also indexed by preacher.
Sans titreRecords of the London Mission (West) Circuit, 1927-1987, including administrative files consisting of material relating to Grove House Hostel for ex-borstal boys, Gilbert Goodliffe House for retired men and women, Saint Luke's and Saint Mary's House for men and women, Emerson Bainbridge House and Hopedene House for Mother and Babies; legal papers concerning legacies; material relating to Kingsway Hall Church including press cuttings and 10 volumes of Orders of Service; slides and photographs; and 106 exhibition boards of photographs and a brief history of the West London Mission created for the centenary exhibition in 1987 along with location maps from 1832 and 1987 showing activities of West London Mission.
Sans titrePapers relating to the merger of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine with University College London, 1989-1998, including minutes of annual general meetings; papers of Dame Sheila Sherlock's Working Party to consider the memorandum of intent; private Bills; draft of Bill for merger; correspondence; articles and views on the merger; news brief and Royal Free Hospital Medical School appeal.
Sans titrePlans submitted to the London Borough of Barnet and predecessor local authorities in Finchley, Friern Barnet and Hendon, 1879-1986. The plans show examples of a diverse range of architectural styles in domestic housing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are also many shops, factories and workshops, as well as public buildings such as schools, cinemas and churches, many of which still exist today.
The files are interesting for the insight they give to the planning process, showing what was and was not acceptable from a design and structural point of view. And as many of the earlier plans are for the most part hand drawn and coloured, they can be very decorative.
Sans titreBridge House Estates papers including bridgemasters' accounts rolls, 1381-1398; bridgemaster's annual accounts and rentals, 1404-1850; weekly payments, 1404-1445 and 1505-1849; bill books, 1745-1789 and 1815-1889; receipt books, 1598-1851; cash books, 1602-1784; fair cash books, 1713-1851; rough cash books, 1713-1810, miscellaneous ledgers and cash books, 1787-1819; materials sold, 1614-1682; corn and granary books, 1568-1714; rent and arrears books, 1707-1941; papers relating to individual properties owned by the Trust, particularly leases and grants, and administrative papers.
Sans titrePapers of the Markets Committee, City of London, 1666-1999, concerning the administration and regulation of markets in the City of London area. Papers include financial records, reports, petitions, committee papers and papers relating to individual markets including Brookfield Market, Columbia Market, Covent Garden Market, Cutler Street Market, Dowgate Market, Farringdon Market, Fleet Market, Hay Market, Honey Lane Market, Shadwell Market, Stocks Market, Southwark Market and Tylor's Market.
Sans titreRecords of the Court of Husting, 1100-1990, including deeds and wills; Husting books containing records of proceedings; material relating to Pleas of Land including court rolls and writs of right patent and proceedings; material relating to Common Pleas including court rolls, writs and proceedings; charters relating to the Court and offprints of articles about the Court of Husting.
Sans titreRecords of the Mayor's Court, City of London, 1290-1994, including court rolls, original bills, court books, actions, warrants and bails, interrogatories and answers, depositions, court proceedings and court administration papers.
Also papers relating to cases undertaken by James Gibson, attorney of the Mayor's Court, 1691-1705, mainly briefs, correspondence and papers relating to specific suits. Gibson's cases deal with a range of subjects, including the conduct of international and local trade (especially credit), industry and working practices, the value of particular artisan processes and seamen's wages. The papers also reveal the relations between client and attorney, the conduct of cases, and fees charged.
Sans titreRecords of the City of London Court, 1864-1935, including suits and proceedings in equity; suitors accounts books; duties of the office of registrar, roll of attorneys admitted to practice and committee orders.
Sans titreRecords of the Mayor's and City of London Court, 1863-1979, including admiralty suits; defaults, relating to cases of debt where a fixed sum of money is demanded; ordinary summonses; adjournments; originating applications, mainly relating to claims for a grant of a new tenancy on behalf of an existing tenant when the lease has expired; workmen's compensation cases; judges' and registars' notebooks; minutes of judgements and orders; committee orders and rules of the Mayor's and City of London Court.
Records catalogued under this fonds that date from before 1921 may relate to the activities of the City of London Court before its amalgamation with the Mayor's Court.
Sans titreRecords of Ludgate Prison, 1637-1815, including petitions, lists of prisoners, committee papers, writs, orders for payment and bills.
Sans titreRecords of the City of London Coroner's Court, 1300-1995, including coroner's accounts; inquests; depositions; inquisitions; fire inquests; fire brigade daily fire reports and police reports sent to the City Coroner to inform him about City of London Fires under the provisions of the London Fire Inquests Act, 1888, and prison inquests for Bridewell, Newgate, Fleet and Ludgate Prisons and Whitecross Street, Poultry, Giltspur Street and Southwark (Borough) Compters.
Sans titreRecords relating to manors, 1539-1985, including the manors of East Burnham (Burnham Beeches); Finsbury Manor; Isleworth Manor and especially Southwark Manors (Kings Manor, Guildable Manor and Great Liberty Manor). Papers include deeds, surveys, court baron minute book, court leet minute books, verdicts and presentments of leet juries and proceedings of courts leet.
The court leet was a special court of record which the lords of certain manors were empowered by charter or prescription to hold. The Recorder held the Court Leet on behalf of the Corporation as lords of the manor. The legal jurisdiction of courts leet was abolished in 1977.
Sans titreRecords of the Finsbury and Halliwell Estates, 1618-1985, including committee minutes; Acts of Parliament; bye-laws; bonds; papers relating to the lease of the Finsbury Estate; bills for highway maintenance work; receipt books for duty on rented property payable by the City; receipt books for granting Her Majesty Queen Victoria duties and profits arising from property; accounts ledgers; cash books; rentals and surveys. Most of the papers relate to the Finsbury Estate.
Sans titreRecords of the City of London Sessions, 1517-1993, including administrative records, papers of the Clerk of the Peace, records of the court in session, records of the Justices of the Peace, published material, papers of enrolment, registration and deposit, and records of summary jurisdiction.
Sans titreRecords of the Irish Society, 1613-1983, including Court minute books, Court and Committee minutes, rough minutes, records of the committee to consider purchasing estates in Ireland, 1849, letter books, 1664-1913, letter books (secretary duplicates), letter books (general agent), letter books (miscellaneous), letter books (solicitor), declaration books, charters, records concerning history, constitution and powers, appointments, solicitor's papers, case papers, estate management papers, plans and financial accounts.
Sans titreRecords of the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, 1852-2000. Mainly administrative records including the Registers of Private (Purchased) Graves 1856-1949 (each volume is indexed). Some people purchased graves as they were needed, and in these cases, the date of burial corresponds fairly closely with the date of purchase of the grave. However, other people purchased a grave decades before they died, so the date of burial is not always enough to enable the registers to be searched. It is often useful to refer to the burial registers first (still held by the Cemetery), to obtain the grave number and grant number, which can then be used to locate the relevant Register of Private (Purchased) Graves in CLRO. These registers record who purchased each grave and when, who was interred in it (name, age and date of burial, for each person buried in that particular grave), and the numbers of the grave, grave grant, square, plot and register entry.
Also Cremation Registers from the date of the first cremation to 1943 (later registers remain at the Cemetery); registers of niches and of grants of niches in the Columbarium, 1930-1948; registers of monuments, 1870-1948, arranged in grave number order, and giving the name of the purchaser of the grave, together with very brief details of memorial stones; financial records relating to the cemetery, cremation and minister's fees, 1856-1997; inventory of the plant, fixtures, fittings, office furniture, stores and vehicles at the cemetery, 1960; cemetery ledgers, 1856-1931; general administrative reports relating to the establishment of the cemetery, 1853-1873 and crematorium 1899-1905; histories, leaflets, guides with tables of charges 1858-1936; photographs of the cemetery from [1929] to 1997 showing the grounds, monuments and the interior of chapels and an extensive series of plans including the site at Little Ilford 1853-1856; contract plans for the cemetery, catacombs and chapels 1854-1876; later plans of extensions to the cemetery and alterations to the chapel; crematorium 1903-1905 and new crematorium, 1967 and lodges, houses, mausoleums, memorial and memorial gardens. A portfolio of Haywood's earliest designs and ideas for cemetery buildings, mostly undated but believed to be 1853 to 1854 is also available.
Sans titrePapers of the Morgan family, 1891-1963, comprising papers, reports, photographs, music and other personal memorabilia of Robert Orlando Morgan, R.G.S.M., Professor of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama 1887-1951, of his second son, Cyril Douglas Morgan, Principal Clerk to the Chamberlain of London 1946-1958 and of his son, M.D. Morgan, the depositor of these documents.
Sans titrePapers 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.
Sans titreRecords of Bethlem Hospital, 1675-1859, including printed notice, issued by the Governors, seeking subscriptions for the erection of a new hospital in St. George's Fields and other papers relating to the removal to St. George's Fields; instructions for persons applying for the admission of patients into Bethlem Hospital, 1859; rules and orders of Bethlem Hospital, 1854; various other administrative papers.
Sans titreRecords of Christ's Hospital, 1535-1971, including constitution of Christ's Hospital with orders made by Governors, 1557; copy of the first patent of Charles II for founding the Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital, 1673-1676; report by Samuel Pepys to the President and Governors of Christ's Hospital upon the state of the Hospital with an appendix of accounts relating to the Mathematical Foundation, 23 March 1697/8; papers relating to a scheme by the Charity Commissioners for the administration of Christ's Hospital, 1880-1885; newspaper cuttings of the laying of the foundation stone of the new school at Horsham, 1897; papers regarding legacies; rules, orders and regulations; staff appointments; petitions; financial accounts and papers relating to management of the estate.
Sans titreRecords of the Coal Exchange and Market, 1696-1962, including papers of the Clerk of the market, Mayor's Court verdicts regarding the market, rentals and tenancy agreements, financial accounts of the Coal Market and Coal Market Fund, photographs, pamphlets and histories of the market.
Sans titrePapers relating to the administration of religious matters, 1591-1984, including reports and other papers relating to Corporation benefices, 1834-1955; petitions, reports and legal papers relating to tithes, 1817-1981 and precepts and orders issued by the Mayor and others relating to religious matters, particularly the regulation of immoral behaviour, 1669-1818.
Sans titreFinancial and accounting records of Army, Navy and General Assurance Association Limited comprising journal.
Sans titreBusiness records of Army, Navy and General Assurance Association Limited comprising specimen policies and proposal forms.
Sans titreCorporate records of British Crown Assurance Corporation Limited, including board of directors' meeting minutes and agendas, shareholders' meeting and annual general meeting minutes, copy minutes and agreements relating to the sale to Eagle, Star and British Dominions.
Sans titreShares records of British Crown Assurance Corporation Limited (reconstituted) comprising registers of members and transfers, transfer ledger, share certificate books and dividend mandates, and registers of directors' shareholdings.
Sans titreBusiness records of British Crown Assurance Corporation Limited specimen policy and proposal form; contingency policy with premium receipts; board of trade exemption order; agency application; Agency in Belgium and France: government deposit certificate, accounts, cheque books, agreements and papers; Agency in Australia: agreements and papers.
Sans titreRecords of the British Northwestern Fire Insurance Company including collected bye-laws, audited and published accounts, and auditors' schedules.
Sans titreCorporate records of United Dominions Insurance Company Limited comprising certificates and agreement relating to foundation, board of directors' minutes, shareholders' and annual general meeting minutes.
Sans titreBusiness records of City of London Life Assurance comprising policy papers, propectuses, and agency appointment papers.
Sans titreBusiness records of Cattle Traders' Insurance Company Limited comprising specimen policies.
Sans titreCorporate records of English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Limited including deeds of settlement and resolutions; Board of Directors: minutes and agendas; notice and report of annual general meetings; annual reports, quinquennial reports, fund statements and valuations; death and burial certificates of directors; papers relating to amalgamation and liquidation.
Sans titreStaff records of English and Scottish Law Life Assurance Association Limited including salaries and staffing expenses, and general manager's observations on memorandum; analysis of salaries payable; photographs and prints of staff.
Sans titreShares records of the Home and Overseas Insurance Company Limited comprising share register, closed share transaction accounts, correspondence relating to share transacttion and dividends, and indemnity declarations about share transactions and dividends.
Sans titreRecords of Launderers Mutual Insurance Company Limited comprising specimen proposal forms and policies, and policies issued.
Sans titreCorporate records of the National Mercantile Life Assurance Society including deed of settlement, power of attorney, memorials by company secretary as to directors and new trustee, and act of parliament.
Sans titreCorporate records of Publishers and General Insurance Company Limited including management agreement with correspondence about organisation, and notes on published accounts.
Sans titreFinancial records of Publishers and General Insurance Company Limited including general ledger, and preparation of annual accounts.
Sans titrePremises records of Premier Motor Policies Limited comprising photographs of Melbourne House, Aldwych.
Sans titreStaff records of Premier Motor Policies Limited including salaries book, report of the retirement of Rodney Byrne, and 'Premier' house magazine.
Sans titreCorporate records of Removers and General Insurance Company Limited including annual reports and accounts, register of directors and secretaries, and company seal book.
Sans titreFinancial records of Sceptre Life Association Limited comprising accounts ledger.
Sans titreCorporate records of the Security National Insurance Company of Toronto, Canada, comprising audited accounts.
Sans titrePremises records of Star Life Assurance Society Limited including press cuttings and papers relating to company offices.
Sans titreCorporate records of Star Fire Insurance Company including manuscript deed of settlement and board of directors' minute book.
Sans titreCorporate records of Star Assurance Society Limited including memorandum and articles of association, signed agreements with related correspondence, and register of sealed documents.
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