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Records of J G Abraham and Company, property developers, 1880-1978. The records deposited include only a small proportion of the total bulk of records, but enough to represent the geographical location of the estates and the types of housing provided. The records consist of three deed books, a property register, ledgers and several plans. The plans particularly relate to developments in Leyton and Canning Town.

Records of J J Lane Limited, engineers, 1873-1957, including letter books, printed catalogues and brochures illustrating the company's products, Sales particulars for disposal of plant, machinery, stores and equipment on winding-up of company and article from journal "Laundry Record and Journal" giving brief history of company.

Mortgage and lease for Paradise Terrace, Milton Road, Hornsey, 1853 and 1855; leases for property in Shepperton; copies of court roll for Isleworth Syon Manor relating to parcel of land in Grosvenor Road, Twickenham with two messuages, stables, coach houses and buildings known as Grosvenor House and Grosvenor Cottage; and deed of composition and release releasing Joseph Blake of Harrow, linen draper, from his debts.

Records of the Joel Emmanuel Charity, consisting of a minute book.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

This collection consists of legal documents, books, accounts and reports relating to a variety of topics including the construction of the new Palace of Westminster, biblical and religious texts, demographics, the food and lodging of prisoners and religious observances.

Letters to John Burns, 1901-1926, including letters from the London County Council Works Department, letters relating to the collecting of prints and drawings, and letters relating to Burns' library and book collection. Also two letters collected by Burns, comprising a letter from Lord Sidmouth to the Bishop of Raphoe, Co. Donegal, Ireland, 1820 and a letter from Henry Burney to "Smith", 18--.

Records of John Groom's Association for Disabled People and predecessor organisations. This collection contains administrative material for John Grooms Association itself and all its major projects, including minutes and financial material; publications produced by the charity, including appeal literature and advertisements; histories of John Groom and his charity; a large collection of photographs showing all aspects of the association with many photographs of residents, workers, children and others who have benefited from its work; films and videotapes produced by the charity along with video and audio tapes of advertisements and reports on the charity's work featured on television and radio programmes; samples of flowers made by the workers at Edgware and the tools used to make them.

Papers of merchants John Hubbard and Company, including correspondence, reports and financial accounts.

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

Records of John Knox Presbyterian Church including Court of Session minute books, 1868-1917; Deacons' Court minute books, 1860-1927 and Communicants' roll book, 1877-1939 (with gaps).

Records of John Lovibond and Sons Limited, 1896-1973. This collection comprises corporate records including minutes of Directors' meetings and General meetings, registers of shareholders, articles of association and a register of mortgages and charges.

Records of John Marshall's Charity, including administrative records; papers relating to estates and property; papers relating to work in the parish of Christ Church, Southwark; records of funding for education; receipts and bills; acts and legislation; maps and plans. Also papers of the Commissioners of Sewers for Surrey and Kent, the Militia Commissioners for Southwark, and Borough Market.

Records of John May and Company Limited, brewers, comprising Directors' minute book; compensation fund ledger including audited balance sheets and compensation fund accounts with bank.

Papers of John Motteux and Company, merchants, comprising letters from the company's agent in L'Orient (Brittany) and Paris.

Records of John Mowlem and Company Ltd, and subsidiary companies, 1830-1985; including articles of association; minutes; reports; prospectuses; financial ledgers and accounts; records of work done; works order books; inventories; letter books; staff records including wage books; property registers; photographs; awards; shareholder registers and seal registers. Also copy of The History of John Mowlem and Company, volumes 1 and 2, by F Baines.

Subsidiary companies whose records are found in this collection:
John Mowlem and Company Limited U.K. Construction Division
John Mowlem and Company Limited, Guernsey
John Mowlem and Company Limited, Southampton
Mowlem (Africa) Limited
Mowlem (Building) Limited
Mowlem (Scotland) Limited
Mowlem Computer Grid Limited
Mowlem International Division
The Artistic Blind Company Limited
The Cement Supply Company Limited (later called Constructional Services Limited)
Glasgow Stockholders Trust Limited
Grosvenor Engineering Services Limited
Edmund Nuttall, Sons And Company and John Mowlem And Company (Joint) Limited
Nuttall Mowlem Brand and Abboud (Near East) Limited
E. Thomas and Company Limited
Webber and Corben Limited
Improved Wood Pavement and Company Limited (now called Mowlem Construction (Plant Hire) Limited)
Alfred Booth and Co Limited
Booth Concrete Limited
C Evans and Sons Limited
Dixon Building Equipment Limited
Eatons Ladders Limited
Edendal Properties Limited
Ellis Richards Limited
F Parker and Co Limited
Freehold Improvements Limited
Glasgow Stockholders Trust Plc
Gravity Ladders and Randall Limited
Grosvenor Structures Limited
Hire Shops Limited
Johnsons Ladders (Woodworks) Limited
Lomount Construction Limited
Mining and Geophysical Limited
Parcar Utilities Limited
Pierhead Limited
Property Investments Cambridge Limited
Redhill Bodybuilding Industries Limited
Scaffolding (Great Britain) Limited
Sgb Building Equipment Limited
Sgb Canada Limited
Sgb Group Limited
Showex Limited
Soil Mechanics Foundations Limited
Tickner and Emmerton Limited
Thrasyllus Unit Construction Company Limited
Wc Youngman Limited
Welham Plant Limited
Youngman Forktrucks Limited

Records of the John Roan School, Greenwich, and predecessors. This collection contains Roan Estate deeds for property in Greenwich (1473-1955); Governors' minutes, Head Teachers' reports and Clerk and Surveyor correspondence files (1682-1995); Roan Schools administrative records (1866-2002), pupils admissions and discharge registers (1705-1994), various printed material including school magazines (1834-1999), a large collection of photographs depicting pupils and teaching staff (1895-1990), and commemorative trowel, school badges and items of clothing (1876-1979); and school log books (1884-1976) for various schools operating in Charlton.

Records of particular interest are the Roan Estate deeds (LMA/4442/01/01) which are an excellent resource for the research of family and local history of Greenwich from the 15th to the 20th centuries and the admission and discharge registers (LMA/4442/03/02) provide a fairly comprehensive set of details of pupils who attended the Roan Schools. The calendars and prize giving programmes (LMA/4442/03/03) are also useful for researching pupils at the school and the school magazines, prospectuses (LMA/4442/03/03) and head teachers' reports (LMA/4442/02/01) provide detailed information on school activities, events and other developments.

The school represents a good example of the use of increases in charitable gifts and funds in Greenwich from the 17th century and details can be found in the surviving records of the first school, the Grey Coat School, in the Orders of the Feoffees (1682-1716) (LMA/4442/02/01/01/001) and the Register of admissions and discharges (1705-1736) (LMA/4442/03/02/01/001) which includes churchwardens' charity payments to Greenwich poor widows.

The impact of the Second World War on the Roan Schools is documented by a number of records in the collection including the Governors' Clerk and Surveyor's correspondence files which give detailed descriptions of bomb damage in Greenwich.

Information on the school's planning for the evacuation can be found in the Governors' Clerk's files (LMA/4442/02/02) and some lists of pupils evacuated and accounts of the evacuation to Kent and South Wales for four years can be found in reports in the Roan Schools records (LMA/4442/03/01 and LMA/4442/03/03) and Governors' minutes and Head Teachers' reports (LMA/4442/02/01).

Account book of John Smith, 1815-1822, including sections on cash paid, cash received, stocks and shares, leasing arrangements, and (at front) list of birth dates [of his children?]; with enclosures including list of 11 title deeds to properties mainly in Middlesex and Surrey; list of documents held in the large portfolio, 1768-1817; list of accounts and documents; list of some of the precious items, such as jewellery, belonging to the Smith family.

The records of John T Clark Limited, fish factor, comprise financial material only.

Records of Presbyterian Church of England Johnson Road Mission, including Mission Committee minute books, 1904 and 1956-1972; Court of Session minute books, 1907-1972; Mission Finance Committee minute books, 1906-1972; Communicants' roll book, 1918-1937; register of baptisms, 1941-1972; Treasurer's account books, 1919-1974; correspondence relating to the Mission, 1926-1963; correspondence and information relating to the Mission constitution, 1912-1941; correspondence, information, plans and a schedule regarding the demolition and subsequent re-building of the Mission, and the re-development of the area, 1971-1974 and architectural plans and sketches of the new Mission building and site, 1972-1973.

Records of Charles James Johnson, comprising photograph of 1 Cornhill decorated for the coronation of George V, 1910; photograph of Johnson, c 1920; private ledger relating to underwriting marine risks and other business, 1934-65; and personal papers 1922-1974.

Records of Charles Johnston, businessman, including property transactions, probates and administrations; papers relating to Johnston's marriage settlement; correspondence; financial accounts; sales catalogues; papers relating to charities in Cheshunt; papers regarding Johnston's insanity and his financial affairs; letters to Johnston in his capacity as the chairman of the English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank; papers of the New Granada Company including annual reports, prospectus, correspondence, shares and papers relating to liquidation.

Also papers of Edmund Johnston including property transactions, financial records and papers relating to his estate.

Two receipts signed by the deputies of the wards of Bridge and Candlewick for money received towards providing for the poor and list of jurors (inquest men) for the wards of Farringdon Within and Langbourn.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents, copies of court rolls from Ruislip Manor and the Manor of Harrow alias Sudbury, sale particulars, lease and releases, deeds, mortgages, conveyances, marriage settlements and assignments relating to properties in Acton, 1866-1903; Enfield, 1882-1920; Finchley, 1885-1912; Friern Barnet, 1887-1900; Harefield, 1767-1854; Hornsey and Tottenham, 1880-1919; Harrow and Ruislip, 1758-1913; Willesden, 1881-1900, and Stoke Newington, 1892-1910. Also business partnership agreements between Hodson, Smith Gale and others of Tottenham for brickmaking, building, selling and letting of houses.

Records of Annie Horatia Jones, daughter of Sir Horace Jones. The collection contains ten dolls' house dolls dressed by Tamazine Billings (nee Jones) in 1886 for her niece, Annie Horatia Jones, to represent members of Sir Horace Jones' family and household. The dolls' original labels have been sewn onto their clothing to identify the family member they are intended to represent. There is also a photograph album depicting family including Sir Horace Jones, portrait of Annie Horatia Jones in outfit for City of London Mansion House Juvenile Dress Ball, and family at home in Devonshire Place; her correspondence with aunts, housekeeper and friends concerning holidays, her pursuits and interests (1883-1890), a scrapbook of coloured pictures and also a pencil drawing of Tamazine Billings as a girl (circa 1831). The collection presents an insight into Sir Horace Jones' family life. The different heights of the dolls of Sir Horace Jones and Lady Ann Elizabeth Jones and the size of dolls is thought to represent other family members demonstrates Victorian attitudes towards personal status within the family. The clothing on the dolls is also useful for looking at costume and dress during the late nineteenth century.

Records of Joseph Barber and Company Limited, wharfingers and warehouse keepers, comprising constitutional documents, financial material, a list of rates and title deeds. This material requires 24 hours notice for access.

The records of Joseph Preston and Sons, watch, clock and chronometer movement makers, comprise two volumes containing descriptions of parts c 1890-5 and 1892-1914 (Mss 14558, 14560), a cash book 1893-1904 (Ms 14545) and a bank pass book 1907-12 (Ms 14559).

Board of Directors' minute book for the Journeyman Boot and Shoemakers' Pension Society.

Records of the Joyce Green Hospital, 1873-1980, including Visiting committee and Chapel committee minutes; engineer's reports; papers of the Medical Officer; correspondence; administrative files on the River Ambulance service, hospital ships, and the Royal Commission on Vaccinations; case books; operations registers; baptism registers; death registers; cemetery registers; register of staff; nurses records; matron's records; chaplain's reports and journals; plans of hospital buildings; photographs used to aid identification of rashes, glass plate negatives of smallpox patients, stereograph viewer and prints.

Records of Jude Hanbury and Company Limited, brewers, including accounts ledgers and financial reports from the 1940s through the the 1960s along with earlier corporate correspondence dating from the 1920s and 1930s which includes the agreement between Jude Hanbury and Mackeson for the purchase of freehold property in 1934.

Papers, 1877-1899, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Harrow and Stoke Newington, including leases and mortgages. Also probate of will of George Thomas Haughton of 21, Balmoral Road, Willesden Green.

Papers, 1825-1872, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Willesden and Paddington, including leases, mortgages and insurance policies. Also manuscript [handwritten] calendar of Middlesex cases tried in the Court of King's Bench, Michaelmas term; bearing stamp "delivered to Wm. [William] Duncombe, law stationer, by order of Court of King's Bench", possibly for a printed version to be made, 1825.

Papers, 1734-1906, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Ashford, Brentford, Harrow and Teddington.

Marriage registers for Junction Road Congregational Church, Upper Holloway, 1907-1977.

The records of the Jurisdiction of North and Central Europe are those of successive Bishops of Fulham rather than of the Bishops of London and are mainly concerned with the administration of the Jurisdiction, the oversight of chaplaincies and relations with other organisations working within north and central Europe and with other churches on the Continent. With a few exceptions the records date from the 1940s and 1950s.

It should be noted that many of the records are general files and contain information on a variety of topics e.g. administration, finance and chaplaincy. This is especially true of the large series of correspondence between the diocesan administration and the chaplaincies (MS32699/1-624). The latter series is part of the records of the Diocese in Europe but includes correspondence between the Bishops of Fulham and chaplaincies within the Jurisdiction.

Records of Justice and Pattenden, solicitors, 1849-1935. Records of the firm include day books, letter books, bill books and one account book. Clients' papers include deeds relating to property, mainly in London and family and estate papers.

Records of the publishers of the journal Justice of the Peace. The records comprise memorandum and articles of association, directors' and annual general meetings minutes, annual reports and accounts, agreements and correspondence.

Kalline Tea Company Limited records comprise: memorandum and articles of association, 1926-48 (Ms 27771); and accounts, 1927-71 (Ms 27772-4).

A collection of deeds, wills and other documents including a declaration of trust, leases, a licence and a banquet invitation.

Records of the Kashrut Division of the London Beth Din, 1951-1983. The collection consists mainly of financial records together with some material on koshering work at private functions and newscuttings scrapbooks.

PLEASE NOTE: Written permission from the depositors is required to access this collection. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Records of Kasintoe Rubber Estates Limited, including articles of association, circulars to shareholders and annual reports.

Papers relating to the work of Witold Kay-Korzeniewicz, including development plans, photographs and reports for Paternoster Square, Saint Paul's Cathedral, Heathrow Airport, Elephant and Castle, King's Cross Station, Saint Pancras Station, South Bank, Festival of Britain, London Underground, Wembley Stadium, Grand Union Canal, and Warren Street Station.

Papers, 1871-1872, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising an abstract of title for The Woodside, Two Chimney House and properties and freehold lands adjoining Finchley Lodge; and plan of freehold building estate known as Torrington Park, Woodside, Finchley.

Documents relating to the Bentley Priory estate in Harrow and Aylwards estate in Great Stanmore; including mortgage, covenants, surrenders, lease and releases, plans, grants, and conveyances.

Records of Kellas Limited, comprising board and general meetings minute book.

Architectural sketch and notebooks of Richard Kelsey, architect, containing annotated designs for, and sketches of, houses, theatres, prisons, bridges and sewers; plans and elevations of existing buildings by other architects, ancient and modern; drawings of medieval funeral effigies; extracts from writers on architecture and history; accounts for work done for customers; estimates; accounts for materials and workmen employed; and miscellaneous unrelated memoranda.

Court books for the Manor of Kempton alias Colkennington (courts leet and courts baron).

Records of the Manor of Colkennington alias Kempton, comprising court rolls for views of frankpledge and courts baron, and a survey.

Private Act of Parliament for vesting estate in manor of Kempton in trustees for sale to Lady Jane Coke.

Papers, 1843-1886, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising sales particulars of Marshalsea Prison including the Admiralty Prison, Southwark; notice of share issue and prospectus for the South London Tramways Company and notice of share issue with application form for construction of underground line from City to Newington Butts for the City of London Southwark Subway Company.

Records of Kennington National Schools, later known as Saint Mark Kennington Schools, including records relating to the management of the schools such as minutes of the Management Committee and correspondence; financial records; pupils' records including log books and admission registers and a history of the schools.