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Records of the Metropolitan Cattle Market, Islington, 1553-1964, including general administrative papers (inspector's report books, letter books, correspondence, report books, registers of drover's licences, bye-laws); posters; newspaper cuttings; photographs; annual reports of the Superintendent and Chief Veterinary Officer; legal papers; regulations regarding cattle driving; papers regarding the prevention and control of disease in cattle; papers relating to the City Meat Inspectors; accounts books; tenancy and rental agreements; rental ledgers; weighing and storage charge books; chill room charge books; lairage books and slaughtering charge books.

District Surveyors Returns, 1844-1855, providing lists of notices, information and complaints, the results of notices and fees paid for works. The Districts covered were City of London; Tower Division (Tower Hamlets and the East End); Edmonton Hundred Division (Tottenham); Finsbury Division (Islington, Stoke Newington, Hornsey, Clerkenwell); Holborn Division (Bloomsbury, Saint Pancras, Paddington, Marylebone, Hampstead); Kensington Division (Chelsea, Fulham, Hammersmith); City of Westminster Division; County of Surrey (Lambeth, Camberwell, Bermondsey, Rotherhithe) and County of Kent (Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, Lewisham).

Building plans of a variety of buildings and features including houses, offices, embankments, hospitals, chapels and churches, chimney shafts, warehouses, taverns, dockyards, public rooms, lecture halls, colleges and schools, factories, workhouses and asylums, stables, gardens and shop fronts.

General office papers including registers of approvals; approvals of buildings; cases of Special Supervision; cases of ruinous buildings; registers of awards; registers of reports; enquiries about fires and fire reports; lists of Surveyors; papers on drains and sewers; staff records; circulars and notices; correspondence; parish and ordnance maps; press cuttings; forms and instructions; financial accounts and copies of Acts and Bills relating to building and construction regulations.

MBW/1901-1908: Thames Floods (estimate of works required to repair damage caused by floods and estimates of works for defence against future flooding)

MBW/1909-1910: Redistribution Of Vestrymen (cuttings from minutes)

MBW/1911-1913: Water Supply (reports on the metropolis water supply)

MBW/1914-1916: Letters (in-letters, petitions, applications and out-letters)

MBW/1917-1919: Advertisements

MBW/1920-1924: Newspaper Cuttings

MBW/1925-1928: Staff Lists (including duties of officers)

MBW/1929-2309: Finance (including registers of contracts and agreements, salary books and rate books)

MBW/2310-2420: Printed Reports (including annual reports of the Board and Committees, architect's, engineer's and fire brigade reports, papers circulated to Board members, Bills and Acts of Parliament)

MBW/2421-2445: Contracts And Specifications for work on sewers, drains and embankments.

MBW/2446-2653: Plans (plans submitted to Parliament, plans of local improvements arranged by parish, plans of artisan's dwellings, plans of the metropolis water supply, plans of Thames floods, plans of parks and open spaces, plans presented to the Board and to various Committees to accompany reports, memorials and proposals for improvements, creation of parks, drainage, bridges, roads and tunnels, plans of railways)

MBW/2654-2656: District Surveyor (monthly returns and drainage applications)

MBW/2657-2663: Bridges (Accountant's Department papers concerning claims of the bridge companies whose bridges were acquired under the Metropolitan Toll Bridges Act 1877 and the Metropolitan Bridges Act 1883)

MBW/2664-2682: Thames Floods (volumes of duplicate copies of notices served on riparian [situated on the banks of a river] owners under the Metropolis Management (Thames River Prevention of Floods) Amendment Act 1879 and Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1882, with associated plans and riverfront elevations)

MBW/2683-2685: Financial Records (Accountant's Department papers)

MBW/2686-2807: Thames Floods (plans and estimates for flood prevention works and plans of river frontage with elevations of riparian [situated on the banks of a river] properties)

MBW/2808-2812: Thames Soundings

MBW/2813-2830: Specifications (volumes of specifications for housing, fire stations, bridges, drainage, parks, embankments and sewers)

MBW/2831-2837: Contract Books and Registers

MBW/2838-2840: Rate Books

MBW/P: Plans

MBW/OW: Office of Works (papers relating to the Chelsea Bridge and Embankment, Westminster Bridge, Battersea Park, Kennington Park and Victoria Park)

MBW/BC: Bridge Company (papers relating to Vauxhall Bridge)

Records of the Metropolitan Benefit Societies' Asylum, later known as the Metropolitan Benefit Societies' Almshouses, comprising Committee minute book and Life donor's certificate with a view of the Asylum.

Records of the Metropolitan Benefit Societies Asylum, later known as the Metropolitan Benefit Societies Almshouses, including:

Administrative Records include minutes of the General Committee 1828 to 1965, Donors and Subscribers half yearly meetings 1844 to 1861, Monthly meetings 1883 to 1902, the Management Committee 1959 to 1984, House Committee 1839 to 1973, and Building committees 1853 to 1866 and 1953 to 1955.

Finance Records consist of Annual Statements 1963 to 1981, Accounts both income and expenditure 1831 to 1983, Registers of Donors and Subscribers 1835 to 1981, Annual returns 1975, 1979, 1980, and a rent book for Balls Pond Road 1905 to 1930.

Printed Material contains publications such as rules of the Almshouses 1855, 1926 and 1955, The Almshouse Gazette 1965 to 1990, and typescript notes about the history of the MBSA, plans of the Almshouse 1956 to 1980's and some ephemeral items which include a Warden's Diary from 1945 and a schedule of deeds and documents handed to trustees on 17th December 1878.

Photograph of Training Ship Exmouth II off Grays, Essex, 19--.

MAB/1-142: Board Minutes and Agendas.

MAB/143-1448: Minutes, agendas and papers of Committees and Sub-Committees (Special and Joint, Ambulance, Asylums, Casual Wards, Children's, Contracts, Fever Patients, Finance, General Purposes, Hampstead Asylum, Hospitals, Hours and Wages of Staff, Law and Parliamentary, Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, Nursing Staff, Sanatorium (Tuberculosis), Smallpox Patients, Training Ship Exmouth, Works).

MAB/1449-1457: Registers of members.

MAB/1458-1493: Year books.

MAB/1494-1547: Letters from the Poor Law Board, Local Government Board and Ministry of Health.

MAB/1548-1562: Orders of the Poor Law Board and Local Government Board.

MAB/1563-1572: Regulations and standing orders.

MAB/1573-1576: Seal books.

MAB/1577-1684: Annual reports of the Board and its committees.

MAB/1685-1721: Miscellaneous printed reports and papers.

MAB/1722-1735: Legal papers.

MAB/1736-1750: Lists of staff and papers relating to staff.

MAB/1751-1836: Statistics.

MAB/1837-1847: Press cuttings.

MAB/1848-1872: Contracts.

MAB/1873-2247: Financial records.

MAB/2248-2255: Plans.

MAB/2256-2633: Papers, reports, etc., relating to institutions run by the Board.

Index of institutions found in the records with their reference numbers (MAB/xxxx):

Atlas Hospital Ship, 1069

Banstead Road School (see Downs School)

Belmont Asylum, 0239-0242, 2256-2267

Bethnal Green Casual Ward, 2590

Bridge School, 0500-0505, 0600, 2268-2272

Brook Hospital, 0145, 0857-0872, 2273-2280

Camberwell Green Remand Home, 2606-2617

Caterham Asylum/ Hospital, 0145a, 0243-0286, 1855, 2281-2299

Caterham Farm, 0285

Chelsea Casual Ward, 2591-2593

Clapton Asylum, 0801-0802

Cleveland Street Children's Infirmary, 0505-0507, 2300-2305a

Colindale Hospital, 1251-1256, 2306

Darenth School, 0145, 0287-0335a, 1856, 2307-2325

Dartford Institution, 0968

Deptford Hospital (see also South Eastern Hospital), 0144

Downs Hospital, 0509-0514, 0600, 2325-2331

Dreadnought Hospital, 1068

East Cliff House (see also Princess Mary's Hospital, Margate), 0600

Eastern Hospital, 0886-0918, 0968, 1857, 2332-2355

Edmonton Epileptic Colony, 0336-0341

Elm Grove Home for Defective Children, 2356-2357

Endymion Hospital Ship, 1069

for Hospital Ships see Joyce Green Hospital

Fountain Hospital, 0342-0350, 0515, 0792, 0921-0927, 0950-0964, 2358-2362

Fulham Hospital (see also Western Hospital), 0144

Geneva Cross, 1692-1693

Goldie Leigh Homes, 0516-0521, 2373-2375

Gore Farm, 0928-0944, 0967, 1858, 2363-2372

Grove Hospital, 0145, 0945-0964, 2376-2379

Grove Park Hospital, 1257-1258, 2380-2382

Hackney Casual Ward, 2594-2596

Hampstead Asylum, 0801, 0803

Hampstead Hospital (see also North Western Hospital), 0143, 0145a

Hampstead Temporary Hospital, 0143

Hanwell Home, 0522

Harrow Road Remand Home, 2618-2625

High Wood Hospital, High Wood School, 0523-0536, 0600-0601, 2383-2389

Highdown (see King George V Sanatorium)

Hither Green Lodge, 0731

Homerton Fever Hospital (see also Eastern Hospital), 0145a

Joyce Green Hospital Farm, 0968

Joyce Green Hospital, 2390-2391

King George V Sanatorium, 1259-1260, 2392-2394

Kingswood Road, Fulham, 0537-0543

Lambeth Casual Ward, 2597

Leavesden Asylum, 0145a, 0351-0397, 1860, 2395-2407

Lloyd House, 0545-0547, 2408

Long Reach Hospital, 2250

Millfield, 1261-1268

North Eastern Hospital (Tottenham), 0967, 0994-1012, 2409-2410

North Western Hospital, 0145a, 0965, 0966, 1013-1038, 1861, 2251, 2411-2423

Northern Defective Homes, 0600

Northern Hospital (Winchmore Hill), 0969-0993

Park Hospital, 0145, 0548-560, 1039-1044, 1446, 2424-2434

Pentonville Road Remand Home, 2626-2635

Pinewood Sanatorium, 1269-1271, 2435

Poplar Casual Ward, 2598-2601

Princess Mary's Hospital, 1272-1281, 2436-2441

Queen Mary's Hospital (Carshalton), 1045-1061, 1445, 2442-2449

Rochester House, 0398-0401, 2450

Rushington, 0600

Saint Anne's Home, Herne Bay, 0569-0576, 0600

Saint George's Home, 1251-1256, 2451-2452

Saint Luke's Hospital, Lowestoft, 1283-1285, 2453-2454

Saint Margaret's Hospital, 1063-1065

Saint Pancras Casual Ward, 2601

Sheffield Street Hospital, 1066-1067

South Eastern Hospital (Deptford) (see also Deptford Hospital), 0967, 0968, 1116-1140, 2252, 2456-2467

Southern (Carshalton) Hospital, 0145, 0968, 2455

Southern (Convalescent) Home (see also Gore Farm)

Southern Defective Home, 0600

Southern Hospital (see also Queen Mary's Hospital)

Southwark Casual Ward, 2602

Stockwell Hospital ,0145a

Sutton Schools (see Belmont Asylum)

Tooting Bec Asylum, 0412-0432, 1447-1448, 2486-2491

Training Ship Exmouth, 1287-1362, 2492-2581

Western Hospital (see also Fulham Hospital), 0145a, 1201-1223, 2582-2583

White Oak School, 0600, 0603-0617, 2584-2588

Whitechapel Casual Ward, 2603

Witham Schools, 0795

Staff regulations for attendants on the patients at Metropolitan Asylums Board imbecile asylums, 1905.

Records of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes. The minutes (LMA/4025/01) describe in detail the foundation of the Association, its aims and objectives. They document its development from a well-intentioned philanthropic organisation to a major provider of housing (12 substantial blocks by 1873). The activities recorded range from fund-raising to land acquisition and from collections of mortality statistics to estate management.

The visitors book (LMA/4025/03) records the important visitors to Old Pancras Road including Prince Albert, Lord Shaftesbury, Mr Gladstone, Charles Kingsley and Dr Southwood Smith.

These manuscripts have not been accessible to researchers before and are an exciting discovery. They were purchased with assistance from the Purchase Grant Fund administered by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Plans and elevations of Metropolitan Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Association buildings at Battersea Park, designed by architect Charles Barry Junior.

Records of the Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway Company, comprising minutes of Board and Proprietors Meetings.

Records of the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Joint Railway, including Joint Working Committee minutes and indexes; minutes of the Joint Committee (City Lines and Extensions), with reports and statements; minutes of the Electric Traction Joint Committee; minutes of the Joint Committee for working the District Railway, minutes of the Joint Consultative Committee; minutes of the City Lines and Extension to East London Railway Joint Committee; notes of meetings of Board of Works, Corporation of London, Commissioners of Sewers; and guard book of plans (44 feet to one inch) of Whitechapel, Cannon Street, Mansion House, King William Street (now Bank) and Trinity Square (now Tower Hill) Stations.

Records of the Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railways, including minutes of the Joint Committee; minutes of Officers' Conferences; reports and papers of the Oxford and Aylesbury Tramroad Company; plans of the line between Harrow and Verney Junction; and financial records including ledgers, journals and cash books.

Records of the Metropolitan and District Electric Traction Company, comprising minutes of Board Meetings and General Meetings.

Marriage registers for the following Methodist churches:

Acton Green Methodist Hall, Steele Road, Acton, 1934-1935

Methodist Church, Windmill Road, Brentford, 1934-1960

Wesleyan Church, Windsor Road, Ealing, 1900-1972

Ealing Dean Primitive Methodist Church, Uxbridge Road, Ealing, 1912-1958

Wesleyan Methodist Church, High Road, New Southgate, 1914-1971

Wesleyan Methodist Church, Bessborough Road, Harrow, 1905-1971

Methodist Church, Welldon Crescent, Greenhill, Harrow, 1934-1974

Wesleyan Church, Park Lane, Harrow Road, Wembley, 1925-1961

Methodist Church, East Lane, North Wembley, Wembley, 1970

Queen's Hall, Station Road, Hayes, 1930-1970

Methodist Church, Western Road, Southall, 1952-1965

Wesley Central Hall, Thirleby Road, Burnt Oak, Hendon, 1931-1962

Methodist Chapel, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, 1943-1973

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, New Windsor Street, Uxbridge, 1928-1972

Jackson's Lane Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1908-1972

Primitive Methodist Church, Mattison Road, Haringey, 1931- 1963

Methodist Church, Bath Road, Hounslow West, 1960- 1971

Methodist Chapel, Twickenham Road, Isleworth, 1948-1965

Primitive Methodist Church, Hallowell Road, Northwood, 1926- 1965

Trinity Chapel, Trinity Road, Wood Green, 1889-1969

Earlsmead United Methodist Church, High Road, South Tottenham, 1918-1951

Methodist Chapel, Northumberland Park, Tottenham, 1942-1969

Methodist Chapel, West Green Road, South Tottenham, 1961

Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church, corner of Dartmouth Road and Walm Lane, Willesden, 1906-1939

United Methodist Church, corner of Tubbs Road and High Street, Harlesden, 1926-1961

Primitive Methodist Church, High Road, Willesden Green, 1927-1960

Primitive Methodist Chapel, College Park, Harrow Road, Willesden, 1939.

Baptism registers, 1948-1967; photographs of events, staff, buildings and residents of the Mother and Baby Home, [1940-1980]; and the text of a presentation written to accompany a slide presentation, providing details of the work of the Women's Fellowship with young mothers, 1971-1972.

Records 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.

Records 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".

Preaching plans and directories for Methodist circuits, 1954-1980, including the Blackheath and Lewisham Circuit, the Enfield and Acton Circuit, the Enfield Circuit, the Finsbury Park and Southgate Circuit, the Hackney Mission Circuit, the Hammersmith Circuit, the Highgate Circuit, the Lambeth Mission Circuit, the London Mission North and Central Circuit, the London Streatham and Dulwich Circuit, the Richmond and Hounslow Circuit, the Shooters Hill Circuit, the Sydenham and Forest Hill Circuit, the Teddington Circuit, the Tottenham and Stoke Newington Circuit, the Wembley and Golders Green Circuit, the West London Circuit, the Whitechapel Mission and the London North East District. Also issues of the Methodist Central Hall newsletter, 'Outlook'.

Leases and legal documents relating to properties owned by the Methodist Church, including original lease from the Governors of Saint Thomas' Hospital of land and chapel in Great Dover Street, St Mary Newington (with plan of chapel interior) and with related papers and later declarations of trust, 1835-1895; abstract of title of British Land Company to estate at Shooters Hill, Plumstead, 1861; abstract of title of Reverend J Atkinson to land at Kilburn Park, Willesden, 1875; trust documents and related papers regarding Perry Vale Methodist Chapel, Forest Hill (Trinity Church), 1921-1930 and papers in Chancery Suit regarding the erection of chapel on part of Friern Park Estate, Friern Barnet, 1932.

Records of the London North East District of the Methodist Church including Synod minute books, 1957-1995; District General Purposes Committee minutes, 1948-1957; District Foreign (later Overseas) Committee minutes, 1933-1957; District Ministries Committee minute book, 1973-1996; papers relating to property and investments, 1959-1986; Boundaries Commission Fund District Redevelopment, 1975-1978; East End Mission Management Committee, 1957-1960; papers relating to The Rock - Anglican Methodist Youth Centre, St. Lawrence, Bidwell, Essex, 1978-1992; District Quinqueminal reports and inspections, 1987-1988; Chelmsford Circuit Schedules, 1979 - 1986; report on Ecumenical Affairs, 1971-1975; Report of Study Group of London North East District on remarriage of divorced persons, [1980]; President's Council briefing paper for Synod on Provisional Legislation for restructuring Divisions, and Connexional Offices and Committees, 1994; Circuit Realignment in North London, 1994; Synod Directory, 1949, 1953-1956, 1968-1975; Synod Agendas, 1941-1974; Synod Directories and Agendas for London North District, 1933-1957; Guidelines for District and Circuit Education and Youth Officers, 1985; circulars and publications, 1947-[1970]; financial accounts, 1955-1998; Circuit Social Responsibility Committee - Highgate Circuit, 1974-1989; Division of Social Responsibility publications, 1976-1983; Wesley's Chapel Circuit plan and General Directory, 1937; Hinde Street Methodist Church tape of 95th birthday celebration for Reverend Donald Soper, 1998; Christian Commando Campaign, 1944; "Reflections on Camden Town Mission and other Circuits" by Rev. R.F. Skinner; "The Story of Camden: A Comemorative Souvenir", 1939; Report on the Camden Town Mission, 1953 and Camden Town Mission Annual Report, 1940.

Invitation to a "meeting for the promotion of holiness" conducted by Mrs Booth [Florence Eleanor Booth, wife of General Bramwell Booth] of the Salvation Army in the Regent Hall, Oxford Street, 1897 and programme for the funeral service of General Bramwell Booth, eldest son of William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, 1929.

Willoughby Road Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Official Handbook for the annual bazaar or sale of work, listing the different stalls and describing the work of the Sunday School, 1906. The Sunday School was attached to Willoughby Road Wesleyan Methodist Church, Harringay.

Handwritten letter from the North Balwyn Baptist Church, Melbourne, Australia, to Mr D Kent of Shackleton Road, Southall, Middlesex, regarding a food parcel sent to Mr Kent by the Noth Balwyn Baptist Church and describing the church and its environs, 1948.

Preaching plans and directories for Methodist circuits including the Ealing and Acton Circuit, 1978; Enfield Circuit, 1975-1976; Finchley and Hendon Circuit, 1973; Finsbury Park Circuit, 1969; Finsbury Park and Southgate Circuit, 1977-1978; Harlesden Circuit, 1973; Harrow Circuit, 1978; Highgate Circuit, 1977-1979; Teddington Circuit, 1977-1978 and Wembley and Golders Green Circuit, 1977-1978.

Correspondence (with some administrative and financial papers) between the Methodist Church Home Mission Division and the individual circuits and missions within the London districts (London South-East District, London South-West District, London North-West District and London North East District).

Papers of the London Methodist Choir, comprising posters for annual choral festival, Wesley's Chapel, City Road, 1960; Christmas concert, Kingsway Hall, 1968; concert of sacred music, Kingsway Hall, 1969; carol concert, Kingsway Hall, 1969; and organ recital by David Bell at Gidea Park Methodist Church, 1984.

Press cuttings relating to the opening of Kingsway Hall, part of the West London Mission, Methodist Church, 1911-1912.

Records of various Methodist Circuits, including Blackheath and Lewisham Cicuit preaching plans, 1980-1985; Chelsea and Victoria Circuit preaching plans, 1981-1986; Ealing and Acton Circuit preaching plans, 1966-1981; Ealing and Acton Circuit: Askew Road Church newsletter, 1980; Enfield Circuit preaching, 1970-1984; Finchley and Hendon Circuit preaching plans, 1972-1984; Finsbury Park and Southgate circuit preaching plans, 1980-1986; Finsbury Park and Southgate circuit quarterly newsletters entitled "Link", 1985-1986; Hackney Mission Circuit preaching plans, 1974-1974.

Hammersmith and Fulham Circuit preaching plan, 1983-1983; Hammersmith and Fulham Circuit: Munster Park Methodist Church centenary programme and brief history, 1981; Harrow Circuit preaching plans, 1967-1984; Highgate Circuit preaching plan, 1964-1964; Hillingdon Circuit preaching plans, 1977-1982; Hillingdon Circuit: Christ Church and Hillingdon; "Communicare Look" magazines, 1974-1986; Hillingdon Circuit: Christ Church and Hillingdon; Communicare annual, 1978-1981; Hillingdon Circuit: Hayes Methodist Church "Tidings" magazine, 1981-1981.

London Mission (Bow) Circuit preaching plans, 1972-1985; London Mission (North West) Circuit preaching plans, 1981-1985; South London Mission Circuit preaching plan, 1985-1985; Staines and Feltham Circuit preaching plan, 1979-1979; Staines and Feltham Circuit preaching plan and newsletter, 1984-1984; Staines and Feltham Circuit directories, 1975-1984; Sydenham and Forest Hill Circuit preaching plans, 1982-1986; Teddington Circuit preaching plans, 1970 to 1985; Tottenham Circuit preaching plans, 1980-1986; Tottenham and Stoke Newington Circuit preaching plans, 1960-1980.

Wembley and Golders Green Circuit preaching plans, 1980-1984; Wembley and Golders Green Circuit programmes for Arts Festival, July 1980; Wembley and Golders Green Circuit: Park Lane, Wembley, Methodist Church newsletters, 1980-1982 and orders of service, 1982; Wembley and Golders Green Circuit: Sudbury Methodist Church "Contact" newsletters, 1980-1982 and notices, 1980; West London (Hind Street) Circuit combined preaching plans, newsletters and directories, 1982-1986; Whitechapel Mission Circuit preaching plans, 1976-1986; Tooting Mission Circuit preaching plans, 1983-1985; Putney Methodist Church, Wandsworth: newsletters, 1981-1982.

Circuit preaching plans for the following Circuits and Missions, 1959-1979: Blackheath and Lee Circuit; Blackheath and Lewisham Circuit; Broomwood and Clapham Circuit; Hackney Mission Circuit; Hammersmith Circuit; Hinde Street Circuit and Chaplaincy to the University of London Methodist Society; Leysian Mission Circuit; London Mission (North and Central) Circuit; London Mission (North and Central) Circuit; North-West London Mission; Notting Hill Methodist Church and Group Ministry; Shooters Hill Circuit; Tooting Mission; Wesley's Chapel City Road Circuit; West London Circuit; The Whitechapel Mission.

Baptism registers for Gospel Oak Methodist Church, 1963-1973, (although the title page reads St. John's Wood); Mill Lane Methodist Church, 1858-1977; and the Prince of Wales Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1880-1963.

Registers of marriages for the following Methodist chapels or missions:

Albany Methodist Mission, 1954-1958

Brockley Wesleyan Chapel, 1914-1947

Brunswick Chapel Limehouse, 1900-1954

Calderwood Street Methodist Chapel (Woolwich Methodist Church from 1965), 1939-1977

Cassland Road Wesleyan Chapel, South Hackney, 1900-1940

Charlton Methodist Church, Woolwich Road, Charlton, 1919-1940

Dulwich Road Methodist Church, Herne Hill, 1950-1962

Emery Hall, Augusta Street, Poplar, 1918-1954

Green Lanes Methodist Chapel, Stoke Newington, 1906-1967

Grove Mission, Great Guildford Street, 1889-1913

Highbury Wesleyan Chapel, Drayton Park, Highbury, 1868-1929

High Street Wesleyan Chapel, High Street, Hampstead, 1881-1933

Hither Green Wesleyan Chapel, Hither Green Lane, Lewisham, 1913-1940

Hornsey Road Chapel, Hornsey Road, 1915-1940

Lambeth Wesleyan Chapel, Lambeth Road, 1916-1928

Liverpool Road Chapel, Liverpool Road, 1865-1953

Locksfield Wesleyan Chapel, Rodney Road, Walworth (Lockfeld Methodist Chapel, from 1939), 1926-1955

Lycett Memorial Methodist Chapel, White Horse Lane, 1955-1962

Methodist Chapel, Hackney Road, 1933-1942

Methodist Chapel, Poplar, 1946-1973

Methodist Chapel, St Johns Square, Clerkenwell, 1949-1952

Methodist Chapel (Welsh), City Road, 1933-1940

Methodist Chapel, Westbridge Road, Battersea, 1960-1967

Methodist Church, Crystal Palace Road, East Dulwich, 1940-1942

Methodist Chapel, Grayshott Road, Lavender Hill, 1938-1939

Methodist Church, Herbert Road, Plumstead, 1935-1968

Methodist Church, Lynwood Road, Tooting, 1947-1967

Methodist Church, Waterloo Road, 1935-1941

Mildmay Park Chapel, Mildmay Park, 1862-1963

New Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Road, 1924-1943

Packington Street Methodist Chapel, 1947-1964

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Chrisp Street, Bromley, 1907-1925

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Eglinton Hill, Plumstead, 1920-1935

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Furber Street, Hammersmith, 1916-1954

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Kilburn Lane, 1921-1934

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Robert Street, Plumstead, 1900-1965

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Stoke Newington, 1928-1940

Queensway Methodist Hall, Queens Road, 1902-1958

Roupell Park Wesleyan Church, West Norwood, 1907-1966

St Georges Hall and Schools, Old Kent Road, 1906-1955

St James Church, Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, 1908-1966

Southwark Park Methodist Chapel, Bermondsey, 1937-1955

Sutherland Avenue Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1899-1977

The Edinburgh Castle, Rhodeswell Road, Mile End Old Town, 1936-1951

United Methodist Church, High Road, Lee, 1927-1971

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, The Broadway, Streatham, 1889-1966

United Methodist Church, Bruce Road, Bromley, 1925-1940

United Methodist Church, Charlotte Street, Caledonian Road, 1908-1940

United Methodist Church, Fentiman Road, Lambeth, 1932-1976

United Methodist Church, Paradise Road, Clapham, 1910-1935

United Methodist Church, Pembury Grove, Lower Clapton, 1918-1941

United Methodist Church, Walham Grove, Fulham, 1911-1971

Victoria Hall, Woolwich Road, East Greenwich, 1929-1969

Victoria Wesleyan Church, Barrow Hill Road, St Johns Wood, 1905- 1940

Waltham Green Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Fulham Road, 1904-1964

Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Holborn, 1899-1933 (UNFIT for access)

Wesleyan Chapel, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, 1924-1939

Wesleyan Chapel, Caledonian Road, Islington, 1867-1915 (UNFIT for access)

Wesleyan Chapel, Camden Street, Camden Town, 1931-1938

Wesleyan Chapel, High Street, Sydenham (Dartmouth Road, Sydenham from 1938), 1918-1945

Wesleyan Chapel, London Street, Greenwich (Central Hall from 1906, West Greenwich Methodist Church from 1935), 1885-1969

Wesleyan Chapel, Wauxhall Walk, 1931-1957

Wesleyan Church, Rushey Green, Catford, 1897-1967

Wesleyan Chapel, Oakley Place, Old Kent Road (later St Georges Methodist Church), 1900-1981

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Brockley Rise, Forest Hill (Honor Oak Park Methodist Church from 1934), 1902-1974

Wesleyan Methodist Central Hall, High Street, Plumstead, 1906-1957

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Danty Street, Hackney Wick, 1909-1935

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Denbigh Road, Westbourne Grove, 1911-1940

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Kitto Road, Nunhead, 1901-1972

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, New Cross Road, 1903-1942

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town, 1922-1964

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, The Avenue, Blackheath, 1866-1945

Wesley Hall, Streatham, 1924-1948

William Street, Methodist Chapel, Woolwich, (Calderwood Methodist Chapel from 1939), 1900-1939

Working Lads Institute, Whitechapel Road, 1905-1906

Methodist Church, Westhorne Avenue, Eltham, 1932-1981

Kingsway Hall, Lesley House, Kingsway, 1931-1980.

Meteorological journal kept at Sunbury Vicarage, 1795-1839, by the Revd James Cowe. The introduction includes Sunbury harvest tables, 1799-1839, by R C Bayard; statistical tables of meteorological data; and 2 photographs and a plan of Sunbury Vicarage garden.

Records of the Messina Anglican Chaplaincy, Italy, comprising register of baptisms 1902-1908, and private family letters and papers, 1891-1900. They were catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1988.

Minute book of Church Management Committee and Deacon's Meetings, 1911-1941; minute book of Merton Hall Trustees, 1923-1941, including account of air-raids on Wimbledon and Merton, August 1940, damage to Church and subsequent disposal of property; and correspondence relating to 'New Eltham', ground rent, insurance, and so on, 1911-1912.

Records of Merryweather and Company Limited, fire engine and fire fighting equipment manufacturers, comprising a day book providing details on supplies to customers (1830-1835) with draft letters (1842-1844) and a photograph album of fire equipment annotated with the name of the customer they were supplied to (1920-1921).

Records of Merry and Company, saddlemakers, 1883-1951, including letter books, ledgers, account books, wages books, order books containing clients' names, notes of their requirements (whips, racing equipment, sporting gear, etc.) and many specimens of coloured silks, order book for jockeys' race caps, and correspondence.

Records of Merchant Investors Assurance Company Ltd 1976-1978 including a single file kept by Philip A Knight, Pensions Manager, regarding setting up of the retirement benefits scheme.

Records of the Mercers Company Page Estate, including plans of estate in Eltham, and plans of estate in Crayford.

Records of the Mercantile Fire Insurance Company, comprising articles of association and minute books only. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of the Meppadi Wynaad Tea Company, including circulars to shareholders.

Papers, 1710-1985, collected by the property company in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to the following properties:

29-41 High Street, Teddington and Vicarage Road, Teddington 323, 329, 331 Vicarage Farm Road, Heston; 40 Standard Road, Chase Estate, Acton; 49-65 Kingsley Road, Hounslow Factory; at Rowdell Road, Northolt; Factory at Cambridge Road Factory Estate, Enfield; 14-15 Corinth Parade, Hayes.

The records include conveyances, leases, lease and releases, probates of wills, plans, mortgages, abstracts of title and agreements.

Papers, 1820-1964, collected by the company in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Acton, Chelsea, Ealing, Enfield, Hanwell, Harrow, Perivale, Pinner, Southall, Teddington, Twickenham, and Willesden; including conveyances, leases, building agreements, building licences, assignments of leases, abstracts of title, mortgages, sales particulars, admissions and covenants to surrender.

Papers, 1904-1966, collected by the company in the course of their work, comprising conveyances relating to properties in the High Street, Staines.

Records of the Meniconi family relating to property owned by them at Ashford, Shepperton, Staines and Sunbury. Documents include extracts from court rolls for the Manor of Sunbury; copies of wills; title deeds; plans and abstracts of title.

Records of the Mendes da Costa family, including contracts, wills, certificates, extracts, letters, invoices, certificates, and one drawing document for Emanuel Mendes da Costa and his family. Of note are documents settling the accounts from Emanuel's brother David's involvement in the sale and distribution of bread and other provisions to British troops during King George's War in Flanders, 1743. The bulk of his business-related papers show many accounts in arrears.

Several family members were known by two given names, both a Jewish and a Christian alias. Names are recorded in this catalogue as described in the documents.

Also letters, contracts, burial records, and photographs documenting the life of the Skillman family, including their life involving Hendon Manor in North London.

Records of Mendaris (Sumatra) Rubber and Produce Estates Limited, including articles of association, minute books, annual reports, and deeds.

Access to records less than 30 years old (or records less than 70 years old which relate to staff) should be sought from Elementis plc (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Almost all papers relate to George Meering's experience in World War One. They comprise typewritten contemporary accounts of his war experience and as prisoner held by the Turkish, correspondence (including letter from General Edmund Allenby), newspaper articles, photographs of regiment and nurses, dinner invitation, medals and other memorabilia.

Memorandum and articles of association for Medway Mineral Waters Limited, 1949.

Mediterranean Transport Company Limited records comprise: memorandum and articles of association, 1906-48 (Ms 27896); directors' and shareholders' minutes, 1906-54 (Ms 27897); AGM agendas, 1926-42 (Ms 27898); annual reports and accounts, 1926-58 (Ms 27899;) and accounts 1925-33 (Ms 27902).

Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company Limited records, which comprise minutes and directors' annual reports and accounts.

Minutes of the Council and of Branch Meetings of the Metropolitan Branch of the Society of Medical Officers of Health.