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Papers collected by the Chief Education Officer for Middlesex, including: An Act for Repairing the Roads in the Parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, and Fulham, and other Parishes, 1726; An Act for repairing the Highways from that part of Counters-Bridge which lies in the parish of Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, to Cranford-Bridge, in the Road to Colnbrooke, 1738; An Act for improving the Navigation of the River Lee, from the Town of Hertford to the new Cut or River made by the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of London; and for enabling the Governor and Company of the New River the better to supply the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Liberties and Suburbs thereof, with good and wholesome Water, 1739; An Act for repairing the Roads in the Parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, and Fulham, and other Parishes; and for repairing some other Roads in the Parishes of St. George, and the said Parishes of Kensington and Chelsea, 1740; An Act for Building a Bridge cross the River of Thames, from Hampton Court in the County of Middlesex, to East Moulsey in the County of Surrey, 1750; An Act of Parliament to continue and render more effectual three Acts for repairing the Highways between Tyburn and Uxbridge, and for amending the Road leading from Brent Bridge to the Great Western Road in the said County, and for lighting, watching, and watering the Highway between Tyburn and Kensington Gravel Pits, 1769; laws relating to the Turnpike Roads, 1772; Brentford-Turnpike Acts of Parliament, with a correct list of the trustees, 1815; The General Turnpike Road Acts, passed 1822 and 1823; and the act passed for repairing the Middlesex and Essex Turnpike Roads, 1824.

Also pamphlets "Istleworth - Syons Peace. Containing Certain Articles of Agreement made between the Right Honourable Algernoone Earl of Northumberland, etc. Lord of the Mannor of Istleworth - Syon, Peter Dodsworth, Hugh Potter and Robert Scawen, Esquires, of the One Part; and Sir Thomas Ingram knight, Sir Thomas Nott Knight, Sir John Syddenham Baronet, and others, Copy-hold Tenants of the said Mannor, of the Other Part", 1657; "The Case of the Taxes and Assessments raised upon the County of Middlesex", 1734; "To the inhabitants of (in and about) Hillington Parish Proposals For forming Charity Children", 17--; "The Case of the Late Election for the County of Middlesex considered", 1769; "A Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill", 1842.

Also maps: Robert Morden map of Middlesex, 1695?; John Seller map of Middlesex, 1700?; R. W. Seale map of Middlesex, 1750?; John Cary map of Middlesex, 1787?; map of Middlesex made to accompany book "The Beauties of England and Wales", by G. Cole (draughtsman) and J. Roper (engraver), 1807; "London and the Suburbs", Edward Stanford, 1862 (20 sheets held in a portfolio).

Records of the London County Council Chief Engineer's Department Drawing Office, comprising Ordnance Survey maps of London, 1894-1896 and 1939-1940. The maps have no significant annotations.

Records of the London County Council Chief Engineer's Department relating to Emergency Wartime Measures, including prewar subject files relating to air raid and civil defence precautions, 1934-1939, including rescue parties, special devices and inventions, navigation lights on the Thames, sand bags, movement of vehicles, first aid posts, anti aircraft batteries, barrage balloons, warden's posts, blackouts, coordination of road repairs and emergency repair depots; papers relating to the emergency running of the Woolwich Ferry, 1938-1939; papers of the London Regional Council and London Civil Defence Region Coordinating Committee, 1938-1939.

Subject files of the London Civil Defence Region, 1939-1945, relating to bridges, subways, road repairs, river defences, gas installations, sewers, water and gas mains, war debris disposal, plant and materials, water supply, mobile cranes, hurricane lamps, electricity, decontamination, regional exercises, radio security, unexploded bombs, rehousing homeless people, mutual assistance arrangements, invasion defences, labour surveys and dumps for debris disposal; papers of the Technical Advisory Committee on Civil Defence (London Regional Engineers and Surveyors), 1939-1945; papers of the Coordination of Road Repairs Groups, 1939-1944; notes and documents gathered in preparation for a history of the wartime activities of the Chief Engineer's Department (this book was not written).

Home Security Circulars, 1941-1945; Home Security Regional Circulars, 1940-1945; London Region Circulars, 1939-1945; London Civil Defence Regions Operations Circulars, 1939-1945; Air Raid Precautions Service equipment bulletins, memoranda, handbooks and training manuals, 1937-1945; Provisional Code for Air Raid Shelters, 1939; various publications relating to air raid precautions and emergency measures, 1939-1945.

London Civil Defence Region situation reports, 1940-1945; daily situation reports from various LCC departments, 1939-1945; situation reports on the state of London drainage, bridges, gas mains, railway lines, cables and mains, 1940-1945; weekly summaries of roads obstructed, 1940-1945; analysis of situation reports, 1941-1944; Group Engineer log books, 1940-1948; log books of Road Repairs Coordinating Branch of the London Civil Defence Region, 1940-1945; log of Thames flood prevention emergency repairs, 1940-1945.

Records of the London County Council Chief Engineer's Department relating to drainage and flood prevention, including applications to connect drains to sewers, 1889-1936; register of applications to connect drains to sewers, 1886-1909; Chemists' weekly returns from the Barking and Crossness sewage pumping stations, 1890-1905; Engineer's weekly returns from the Barking and Crossness sewage pumping stations, 1893-1905; logs of sludge vessels, 1903-1904; annual returns of treatment and disposal of sewage, and of quantity of sewage pumped and costs of working the Barking and Crossness pumping stations, 1893-1934; further papers and reports relating to London drainage, the purification and disposal of Thames sewage and the Barking and Crossness pumping stations, 1854-1901; reports on Thames flood prevention, 1903-1935; booklet on London's mains drainage, 1960; reports on the pollution of the Thames, 1935-1936; descriptive brochure to mark the completion of new sewage treatment plant at Crossness, 1964; précis of Metropolitan Board of Works and London County Council minutes relating to each main sewer and general mains drainage, 1856-1939; original tide gauge charts for the Thames, taken at various locations, 1882-1953; tables showing the times and recorded levels of high and low tides each day at each of the gauges of the London County Council, the Port of London Authority and the Thames Conservancy Board, 1929-1957; diagrams showing the respective quantities of sea water, inland water and sewage in the various reaches of the Thames on 14th September 1882; cross-section of River Thames at selected points, to accompany the Chief Engineer's report to the Rivers Committee on 28 November, 1900; drawings of sludge vessels, 1920s; diagram of tidal experiments at Sea Reach using floats, 1890; log books of sludge vessels, 1954-1965; engineer's survey notebooks, detailing drainage and levels, 1895-1965.

Records of the London County Council Chief Engineer's Department, including reports, correspondence, press cuttings, committee papers, maintenance arrangements, sail plan, rigging plan, site and dock plans, artist's perspective drawings and numbered drawings relating to the installation of the Cutty Sark at dry dock in Greenwich, 1952-1958; pamphlet "Particulars of machinery at L.C.C installations", 1905; pamphlet "Your job of work in the Chief Engineer's Dept", 1953 (revised 1955); and certificates of class and machinery of the Council's ships, ferry boats and sludge vessels, 1889-1965.

Records of the London County Council Chief Engineer's Department comprising annotated maps of London and Middlesex, 1894-1896, from the Public Health Section library.

Records of the London County Council Chief Engineer's Department relating to roads, bridges, tunnels and ferries, including report on the proposed new Battersea Bridge, 1881; report by John Wolfe Barry on the practicality of the Blackwall Tunnel scheme, 1889; further reports regarding Blackwall Tunnel, 1890-1898; Blackwall Tunnel Engineer's Office visitor's books, 1895-1897; reports regarding railway bridges, 1894-1903; reports on LCC bridges, 1890-1960, including Vauxhall Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Charing Cross Bridge, Westminster Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and Hammersmith Bridge; Highway Development Survey, 1937; Strand underpass descriptive brochure, 1964; Chief Engineer's report about new terminals for the Woolwich Free Ferry, 1963; bye laws for the management and regulation of bridges over the River Thames, 1895.

Plans and drawings, 1862-1972, including Woolwich Ferry approaches and piers; Old Lambeth Bridge; Chelsea Bridge; Stanley Bridge, Fulham; steamboat piers; Victoria Embankment; the new County Hall embankment wall; street improvements associated with various 'Artizan's Dwellings Schemes'; Greenwich electricity generating station; road widening schemes; Waterloo Bridge; Surrey Lock Bridge, Rotherhithe; Deptford Creek Bridge and Lea Bridge.

Photographs of the demolition of the old Waterloo Bridge and the construction of the new bridge, 1934-1939.

Correspondence of Chief Rabbi Hermann Adler, 1868-1921, relating to diverse subjects including education, legal cases, Jews College, shechita, charity and relief funds, Russo-Jewish Committee, the United Synagogue, administration, provincial congregations and marriages; and relating to foreign places including Australia, China, Japan, Palestine, Jerusalem, Ireland, Romania, South Africa, Russia and New York.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Records of Chief Rabbi Lord Immanuel Jakobovits, 1913-1992. The records of Lord Jakobovits are the single largest part of the archive, indicative of the large volume of work undertaken and the relative speed with which the records were passed onto London Metropolitan Archives.

Records relating to the Office of the Chief Rabbi and Chief Rabbi's Cabinet including papers relating to social functions and administration. Correspondence with the Board of Deputies, London Beth Din and United Synagogue. Papers relating to Jewish communal organisations including the Kol Nidre Appeal and the Joint Israel Appeal.

Papers relating to education and Chaplaincy Boards including general correspondence, the Education Reform Act 1988, Jews' College, individual schools, colleges and universities, the University Jewish Chaplaincy Board, and the National Jewish Chaplaincy Board. Papers of the Jewish Educational Development Trust including administration, correspondence, financial records, trustees, donors, applications, fundraising and policies.

Papers relating to Jewish religious organisations including Reform, Liberal and Sephardi congregations and the Spanish and Portuguese Community. Papers relating to congregations and ministers in Great Britain including the registration of synagogues, the National Jewish Chaplaincy Board and provincial congregations.

Halacha [a legal decision regarding a matter or case for which there is no direct enactment in the Mosaic law, deduced by analogy from this law or from the Scriptures] and rulings on religious questions including correspondence, rulings relating to burial practices, the participation of women in communities, blasphemy, medical ethics, circumcision, bar mitzvah, marriage, conversions, get [divorce] legislation, High Holy Days and mikvaot. Papers relating to Shechita [slaughtering practices] and Kashrut [laws relating to food] including correspondence and minutes of the London Board for Shechita and the National Council of Shechita Boards of Great Britain, general correspondence, reports, and defence of shechita practices.

Papers relating to bills in the House of Lords. Correspondence with central Government departments and local authorities, including correspondence with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Correspondence with welfare organisations and papers relating to ageing, child abuse, crime, drugs, homelessness, hospice care, disabled people and individual welfare cases. Correspondence with religious leaders, individuals, and organisations relating to Israel, including the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.

Correspondence with overseas congregations including those in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Ireland, Russia, South Africa, and the United States of America and correspondence with the Conference of European Rabbis. Papers relating to Soviet Jewry including correspondence, appeals and reports.

Papers relating to interfaith organisations including the Council of Christians and Jews. Papers relating to medical ethics including abortion, sex education, AIDS, organ transplants, Tay-Sachs disease and abortion. Papers relating to social issues including business ethics, disarmament, homosexuality, inner cities, disasters, and race relations. Correspondence relating to the representation of the Chief Rabbi on various public bodies and patronage by the Chief Rabbi.

Copies of sermons, addresses, publications from the office of the Chief Rabbi, press and publicity, broadcasts and messages from the Chief Rabbi. Personal papers including household accounts, letters of thanks and messages of sympathy. Papers relating to the Chief Rabbinate Fund including the distribution of funds to various causes.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Records from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel Brodie, 1917-1967, including public messages, circular letters, prayers and appeals issued by the Chief Rabbi; orders of service; correspondence with a variety of individuals and organisations including the Anglo-Jewish Association, Aria College, the London Beth Din, the Board of Deputies, the Central Council of Jewish Religious Education, Jewish Day Schools Council, the Jewish Board of Guardians, Jews' College, the London Jewish Hospital; the Kashrus Commission; the Kosher School Meals Service, the London Board of Jewish Religious Education, London County Council, the Rabbinical Commission, the London Board for Shechita, and the United Synagogue.

Correspondence with congregations in Great Britain and Ireland, including arrangements for pastoral tours, and correspondence with congregations abroad including in America, Australia, Canada, France, India, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa and the Soviet Union.

Correspondence on subjects including anti-semitism, kosher food, marriage, relief organisations, congregations, education, yeshivot, refugees, Hebrew pronunciation, Israel, liberal Judaism and reform synagogue, Russian Jews, shechita, sopherim training, and teacher training.

Papers relating to the Committee on Calendar Reform including minutes and resolutions of protest. Papers relating to refugees and post-war reconstruction, including report on Belsen Concentration Camp, reports and correspondence of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Commission on the Status of Jewish War Orphans in Europe, Refugee Rabbis Relief Programme and speeches made at the League of Nations.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Records of Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, 1988-1999, including correspondence and publications predating Sacks' election as Chief Rabbi; correspondence; administrative files; papers relating to the United Synagogue; papers relating to organisations including the Jewish Memorial Council, the Jewish National Fund, the Joint Israel Appeal, the Zionist Association, the Jewish Marriage Council, and provincial organisations; correspondence relating to the patronage of the Chief Rabbi; papers relating to education including papers of the Jewish Educational Development Trust, correspondence with various schools and universities including the Jews' Free School, Immanuel College, Jews College, Anglo-Jewish Youth, and the Union of Jewish Students; correspondence with welfare organisations including Jewish Care and the Central Council for Jewish Community Services.

Papers relating to political issues including community relations, medical ethics, shechita [slaughtering practices], kosher foods, kashrut [food laws], women in the community, Soviet Jewry, circumcision, Middle East peace talks, anti-Semitism and racism, the Shoah and the Holocaust, business ethics and inner cities; papers relating to overseas congregations including Israel, United States of America, Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Europe and Russia; papers relating to the media including correspondence with journalists and broadcasters, copies of articles, interviews, press cuttings, addresses, speeches and lectures, broadcasts, and press statements; papers relating to interfaith organisations including the Council of Christians and Jews, and correspondence with Lambeth Palace, the Islamic community and the Vatican; papers relating to campaigns organised by the Chief Rabbi including the Community Walk for Charity, Jewish Continuity, the Initiative for Developing Education in Adults and the Chief Rabbinate Awards for Excellence; and newsletters from the office of the Chief Rabbi.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Records of Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz, 1899-1946, including correspondence with various individuals and organisations including the Anglo-Jewish Association, Aria College, the London Beth Din, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Conference of Anglo-Jewish Preachers, the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women, the Jewish Chronicle, Jews' College, Central Committee for Jewish Education, the Jewish Historical Society, the Jewish Memorial Council, the Council for Christians and Jews, the Jewish Peace Society, London County Council, the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund, the Mizrachi Organisation, the Provincial Ministers Fund, the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation, associate synagogues of the United Synagogue, the War Graves Commission, Zionist groups, the Talmud Torah Trust and the War Victims Fund.

Also correspondence with Jewish congregations throughout the United Kingdom and in countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Holland, New Zealand, Palestine, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States of America; correspondence relating to matters including shechita, Jews in Ukraine, Germany and Poland, war orphans, rabbinical exams, mikvah, marriages, kabolohs, disarmament, the Coronation of King George VI (1937), and pastoral tours of Wales and Ireland; papers relating to World War One including services for Jewish soldiers, the Kosher Food Fund, correspondence with chaplains, distribution of kosher foods, prisoners of war and Palestine Relief Fund, and copies of publications and sermons.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Correspondence of Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler, 1868-1901. A small number of records survive from around 1868 for the Chief Rabbinate of Nathan Adler and more from the late 1870s onwards - around the time Hermann Adler began to undertake many of his father's duties for him. The records consist of bundles of letters to the Chief Rabbi from communal organisations and individuals in Britain and overseas.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, Office of Chief Rabbi, 735 High Road, North Finchley, London NW12 OUS.

Papers of Sir Walter Eric Chiesman comprising typescript copies of his theses, including his MD thesis The application of Rehberg's filtration re-absorption theory of renal secretion in the study of the excretion of water urea etc by the human kidney in health and disease', andThe treatment of tuberculous pleural effusion by aspiration and replacement with air' [1920s];
file of papers by Chiesman, including off prints of published articles and typescript lectures relating to toxic effects of ethylene chlorohydrin, haemorrhage from peptic ulcers, diagnosis and treatment of lesions due to vesicents, industrial medicine, absenteeism, 1932-1963;
`Wartime papers' file containing mainly papers and lectures of Dr W E Chiesman, Medical Officer of the Ministry of Supply Factories, including papers relating to medical aspects of chemical warfare including health of factory workers and descriptions of individual cases, accident statistics, treatment of toxic burns, first aid in event of gas attack, decontamination of clothing, 1938-1943.

Notes and transcript of [? Brian Willan's] interview of Ignatius Chigwendere, trade unionist and activist, dealing with Rhodesian trade union movement and nationalist politics (1959-1966); partucularly Chigwendere's work as National Organising Secretary for the Tailors and Garment Workers' Union, 1961 and as Disputes Secretary for the Southern Rhodesia Trades Union Congress, 1961-1963; also his involvement with the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), 1962-1963, and his arrest and deportation from Rhodesia in 1963-1964.

The archive consists mainly of the Secretary's correspondence files and the files of the various working parties, plus a broad range of publications.

Records of the Child Development Society, 1942-2004, comprising administrative material relating the management of the Society, including the constitution of the Society, 1942-1994; minutes and circulated papers of meetings of the Executive Committee and Annual General Meetings, 1988-2003; correspondence of Annabel Lewis, Chair of the Society, from members of the Society and external bodies, 1996-2004; membership lists, 1993-[2000]; material relating to events held by the Society including programmes, literature, publicity, and correspondence, 1985-2000; promotional literature including the Society's newsletter and leaflets advertising the Society, 1972-2004; and miscellaneous material, including a note book, press cuttings and articles, 1992-[2002].

A thick file of unpaginated duplicated material entitled 'Child Health and Environment: Bethnal Green', 1960s, apparently course material distributed in connection with a course in, presumably, child health, at St Bartholomew's Hospital (University House). The material is undated but from references within the text and given in the bibliography would appear to have been compiled in the late 1960s. The approach taken in the course would seem to emphasise the environmental aspect of child health and to take a social medicine perspective. Notes circulated in connection with a course on the above given at St Bartholomew's Hospital during the late 1960s.

This collection is divided into 3 sections:

1. Local Bye-laws, 1904 - 1913: copies of local bye-laws governing child labour made under the provisions of the Employment of Children Act (1903), which were sent to the Committee by local authorities, including several licences and some correspondence and ephemera.
2. Questionnaires, 1913: responses to the questionnaire entitled 'Employment of Children Inquiry', distributed to every local authority in Britain in 1913.
3. Miscellanea, c1885 - 1914: the bulk of the material collected by the committee for the report on child labour, including correspondence with local government officials, copies of local bye-laws, sample street trading licences and certificates, statistics on street trading, child labour and juvenile crime, and cuttings from local newspapers relating to the regulation of working children.

Child Poverty Action Group: Council Meeting on Unemployment, mintues and other material and various reports to the Executive Committee.

Includes:

• 'Rent rebates' (3pp) (8 December 1972)

• 'Evicting poor people' (2pp) (12 December 1972)

• 'Students with dependants and the right to supplementary benefit' (3pp) (20 December 1972)

• 'Extra money for homeless single people' (2pp) (11 January 1973)

• 'Tax credits and the rights of women' (5pp) (1 February 1973)

• 'Test case for supplementary benefit for ex-students' (2pp) (3 February 1973)

• 'Poverty and family size' (2pp) (7 February 1973)

• 'Where have all the rent rebates gone?' (3pp) (26 February 1973)

Papers of Edwin Child, 1866-1871, notably relating to his experiences during the Siege of Paris, Franco-Prussian War, Sep 1870-Jan 1871, comprising diaries, 1866-1871, containing daily entries recording events and often weather, part of which is written on copies of Lettre-Journal de Paris: Gazette des Absents, 1870; letters (as balloon post) to his family and 'Mary-Ann', describing conditions under the siege, 1870-1871; papers relating to his service in the Garde Nationale de la Seine, 1870-1871, including record of service, testimonial, passes for safe-conduct, identity papers and bread ration coupons; photographs of Child and of scenes of the Franco-Prussian War; printed journals and books comprising French publications largely relating to the siege, 1870-1871.

Records of Child, Macfarland and Company, export agents, comprising private ledger and sales ledger.

Lecture notes and notes on readings, [1920-1927, dating from his time as a chemistry student at King's College London]; writings, 1913-1932, by Professor Samuel Smiles, Daniell Professor of Chemistry, King's College London, with an obituary of Smiles, 1953.

Letter from Sir Josiah Child of Streatham to the Hon. Sir Thomas Cooke, Governor of the East India Company, 28 Dec 1692. Recommending 'Bearer' [unidentified], who is willing 'to returne to Bombay a leift. In the meane time he is willing to be knowne to his Masters of which you are nowe ye Cheif'.

Autograph, with signature.

Papers of William Henry Childers consisting mainly of family letters describing his experiences, 1850 to 1869, written to his parents in Jersey and their replies. There is a diary, 1867 to 1868, an out-letterbook, 1868 to 1869, and official service documents, 1852 to 1869.

The Children's Society maintained a case file for each child who was admitted to its care between 1882 and the 1970s. These were created and managed by Head Office. Each case file usually contains the application form for admission to one of The Children's Society's Homes. In addition the file may contain correspondence relating to the child's admission, correspondence relating to work placement(s), health and education reports, correspondence with child's mother/father/relatives, and correspondence with the child after leaving the care of the organisation. Occasionally a photograph may be included.

Records of the Children's Country Holiday Fund, comprising Executive minutes, Council Committee minutes and annual reports.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to adoption, including adoption registers, 1926-1965; case files, 1933-1965; memoranda of adoptions notified to Middlesex County Council, 1956 and case files deposited by the London Borough of Ealing, 1948-1965. Please note that access to many of these files will be restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Indexes to adoption cases dealt with by the Middlesex County Council Children's Department, 1933-1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to approved schools and remand homes. Administrative files, 1947-1964, including general files, headmaster's reports, medical returns, punishment returns and training schemes for Saint Christopher's School, Hayes; absconder returns, general files, punishment returns and superintendent's reports for Saint Helena's Remand Home, Ealing; absconder returns, general files, punishment returns and superintendent's reports for Saint Nicholas' Remand Home, Enfield; educational arrangements, general files, headmaster's reports, magazines, medical returns and punishment returns for Pishiobury School, Sawbridgeworth; and general files including papers on diet, Home Office circulars and reports, pamphlets and psychiatrist's research.

Case files of children licensed out or discharged, 1941-1964 and correspondence on children before juvenile courts who require medical and psychiatric reports, 1950-1952. Statistics of cases in juvenile courts, 1945-1953. Registers of admissions to approved schools and out-of-county remand homes, register of admissions to Saint Helena's and Saint Nicholas' remand homes, and approved schools after care register, 1933-1965. Please note that access to these files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to approved schools and remand homes, comprising indexes of children in approved schools, 1941-1965. Please note that access to these files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to foster care, 1930-1965, including notifications of death and removal under the Children Act 1908; notifications of death and removal under the Public Health Act 1936; registers of child life protection; case files on foster parents; applications and correspondence with foster carers. Please note that access to these files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to foster care, 1948-1965, including indexes to children boarded out; indexes to child protection cases; indexes to foster parents and foster mothers.

Records of the London County Council Children's Department comprising individual case files of children in care. Please note that because of the sensitive and personal nature of the information some of these files are closed under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department, 1916-1965, relating to children in care, including case files, family case papers and reports, and registers of children adopted by the Boards of Guardians or the County Council, of children boarded out, of children attending secondary school, of children taken into care, of committals to MCC care, of children adopted from MCC care, of children who died in care and of welfare cases. Please note that access to these files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to case papers of the Public Assistance Department, 1930-1948. Please note that access to these files is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department comprising index cards of children in care. Please note access to these records is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to children's homes, 1930-1965; including papers of individual MCC owned homes and nurseries; papers of privately run homes and nurseries used by the MCC; Medical Officers reports; and general files including papers on heating in homes, holidays, Jewish children and the care of children under five years old.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to children's homes, 1887-1955, including admission and discharge registers; creed registers; medical relief books and attendance books and reports for Children's Homes run by the Middlesex County Council. Some Homes were formerly run by Edmonton Union, the Brentford Union and the Willesden Guardians.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to children's homes, 1930-1955, comprising index cards to children in Middlesex children's homes; index cards to discharged children and index cards to staff who left employment at Middlesex children's homes. Please note that access to these records is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to the Children's Officer, 1947-1965, including the personal files of Jane Rowell regarding adoption policy, apprenticeship of children in care, approved schools, children neglected in their own homes, children ill treated, correspondence with children, correspondence requesting assistance or advice, attendance at conferences, the Family Help Service, health, including mental health, juvenile courts, juvenile delinquency, meeting minutes, press cuttings and publicity, Psychiatric Advisory Service, reports, foster homes, staffing, and voluntary organisations.

Also samples of monthly returns of children, submitted to the County Treasurer, and statistical returns submitted to the Home Office; and publications relevant to the work of the Department including "Report on the services administered by the Children's Department, MCC", 1952.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to staffing, comprising index cards of staff in the Department, 1948-1965. Please note that access to these records is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to problem families, 1954-1965, including case files; register of families in danger of eviction, rents guaranteed by the County Council, and papers relating to the rehabilitation of problem families.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department relating to industrial and reformatory schools, 1882-1923, including register of boys and girls admitted to industrial and reformatory schools; agreements with industrial and reformatory schools for the maintenance of children; monthly returns; and correspondence with industrial and reformatory schools.

Records of the London County Council Children's Department comprising general files relating to various subjects including copies of statutes affecting children; bye laws passed by the LCC; reports regarding changes under the Local Government Act 1929; schools transferred to the LCC in 1930; evacuation and return of children from residential schools and homes during Second World War; boarding out; entertainments, holidays and holiday camps; transfer of Poor Law institutions and responsibilites to the LCC; the Interdepartmental Committee on sex instruction in residential schools; adoption of children and registration of adoption societies; deaths of children in care; the Roman Catholic Liaison Committee; preventative work; children neglected or ill treated in their own homes; homeless families; handicapped and mentally defective children; children in care; fostering and foster homes; statistics; 'Aunts and Uncles' scheme; cooperation with the police; young unmarried mothers; transfer of care services from the LCC to the boroughs; training of nursery students; spiritual ministrations; inspection of homes; Children's Department bulletins and circulars; pamphlets and leaflets about the work of the service.

Please note that because of the sensitive and personal nature of the information some files are closed. Please see the detailed catalogue for further information.

Records of the London County Council Children's Department relating to places of detention including rules and regulations for the management and running of special schools, industrial schools and approved schools, 1909-1949; papers regarding the management of approved schools, 1910-1955; research into juvenile delinquency, 1949-1953; papers regarding the treatment of juvenile offenders including reports and conference papers, 1924-1956; papers regarding juvenile courts, 1933-1963; papers from London Juvenile Courts Consultative Committee meetings, 1933-1964; papers regarding the evacuation of approved schools and remand schools during the Second World War, 1939-1945; copies of legislation relevant to the work of Children's Services, 1947-1963; papers regarding remand homes, 1933-1964; papers regarding approved schools, 1909-1965; papers regarding special services, including neglected children, psychological reports, mentally disabled children and adolescents with sexually transmitted diseases, 1927-1964; aftercare procedures, 1923-1958; Home Office circulars and statistics, 1934-1965; Home Office directory of approved schools, remand homes and special reception centres, 1965.

General registers of cases, including registers of industrial school pupils, 1923-1933; registers of reformatory school pupils, 1919-1935; registers of approved schools, 1935-1945; registers of cases at juvenile court, 1910-1959.

Records of Ardale Approved School, Essex, 1935-1965, including minutes and presented papers of the Managing Committee and photographs.

Records of Cumberlow Lodge Approved School and Remand Home, South Norwood, 1930-1965, including papers regarding rewards and punishment, after-care and an investigation into the school; photographs; minutes and presented papers of the Managing Committee; admission and discharge registers; inspection reports; punishment books and log books.

Records of Gisburne House Industrial (later Approved) School, Watford, 1912-1956, including correspondence; papers regarding staffing; minutes and presented papers of the Managing Committee; registers of admission and discharge; after care registers; inspection reports; log books, diaries and punishment book.

Records of Mayford Approved School and Mythe House, Woking, 1904-1965, including history of school; inspection reports; school magazines; photographs; minutes and presented papers of the Managing Committee; register of leavers; log book and financial accounts.

Records of Mile Oak Approved School, Portslade, near Brighton, 1903-1965, including inspection reports; photographs; minutes and presented papers of the Managing Committee; admission and discharge registers and report books.

Records of Pentonville Road Remand Home, 1910-1929, including admission and discharge registers; letter books and register of children.

Records of Ponton Road Remand Home, Battersea, 1910-1941, including admission and discharge registers; log books and minutes and presented papers of the Managing Committee.

Records of Stamford House Remand Home, Shepherd's Bush, 1931-1965, including rules; policies; complaints; papers relating to Second World War evacuation; excursions and social activities; psychiatric services; photographs; minutes and presented papers of the Managing Committee; registers of admission and discharge; daily report books and financial accounts.

Please note that because of the sensitive and personal nature of the information some files are closed. Please see the detailed catalogue for further information.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department comprising case files of adoptions, 1943-1947. Access to these records is restricted under the Data Protection Act.

Records of the London County Council Children's Department relating to nurseries, children's homes and residential schools, hostels and family homes; comprising records of individual institutions, including admission and discharge registers, inspection reports, photographs, minutes of the Managing Committee, log books, punishment books, financial accounts, school magazines and other records relating to the day to day running of the institutions.

The institutions include:
Ashford Residential school
Beechholme Residential School (formerly Banstead District School)
The Cliffs Residential Nursery, Dawlish, Devon
Britwell Boys' Hostel and Britwell Family Homes
Westlea Hostel and Boreham Wood Estate Family Homes
Downs Hospital For Children (later Downs Residential Nursery), Sutton
Gorsefield Residential Nursery and Harlow Family Homes
Gresham Place Residential Nursery and Croydon Small Homes
Harecombe Manor and Hollyshaw Residential Nurseries
Henniker House Children's Receiving Home
The Hollies Children's Home (formerly Lamorbey), Sidcup
Hornchurch Children's Home and Harold Hill Family Homes
Hutton Residential School and Ongar Residential School and Family Homes at Aveley and Basildon Estates
Ingleton House After Care Hostel for Boys
Ladywell Residential Nursery, Lewisham
22 Lansdowne Avenue and Langley and Britwell Family Homes
Langley House Reception Home and The Pagoda Children's Home
Larchwood Residential Nursery and Crawley Family Homes
Liskeard Lodge Reception Home and The Pagoda After-Care Hostels
Margaret Mcmillan House
Nanhurst and Annesley House Residential Nurseries and Tudor Lodge
Oak Hall Residential Nursery School
Oranmore Residential Nursery and The Gables Residential Nursery
Penbury Grove Residential Nursery, Penn, Bucks
3 The Ridgeway and Islington and Hackney Small Homes
Saint Margaret's Residential Nursery and Abercorn Place Residential Nursery
Shirley Oaks Children's Home, Croydon (formerly Shirley Residential School)
Stowlangtoft Hall Residential Nursery
Tudor Lodge Residential Nursery and Wandsworth Small and Family Homes
25 Westleigh Avenue and Paddington and Frogmore Small Homes
Wood Vale Children's Home, West Norwood (formerly Norwood Children's Home and Hospital)
Earlsfield House, Wandsworth
Easneye and Widbury Residential Nurseries and Stevenage Family Homes
Fairmile Hatch and Oakdale Residential Nurseries.

Please note that because of the sensitive and personal nature of the information some files are closed. Please see the detailed catalogue for further information.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Children's Department transferred from Hornsey and Tottenham, 1930-1952, comprising medical officer notifications of births and deaths in Hornsey; and reports of the Infant Protection Visitor, register of foster mothers and children, index of adoptions, register of approved schools and foster parents and case files for Tottenham.

Hornsey and Tottenham were boroughs which prior to 1948 had run their own child life protection service and through their education committees had been responsible authorities under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, like many other Middlesex local authorities. When these powers were transferred to the MCC Children's Department Hornsey and Tottenham were jointly administered as Area Three. For unknown reasons some records of the previous administration were transferred to the MCC instead of remaining in the boroughs.