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Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Children's Department and Children's Committees, 1948-1965, including papers, reports and correspondence of Adoption sub-committee meetings; cases reported to the Children's Committee; papers relating to the registration of adoption societies, particularly the Homeless Children's Aid and Adoption Society; papers relating to approved schools, including circulars, returns and the Association of Approved Schools Managers; special enquiries concerning children in care; papers regarding juvenile delinquency and juvenile courts; papers of the Homes Management sub-committee, including members reports on children's homes, schedules of properties in the course of construction or adaptation, and plans of homes and nurseries; papers relating to staff including complaints against staff of children's homes; and papers relating to the reorganisation of the children's home service on the disbandment of the MCC.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Children's Committee, comprising general papers relating to Juvenile Delinquency, 1947-1964 and papers regarding the effect of the London Government Bill and Act, 1963 on the Children's Service, 1960-1965.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to civil defence, including papers relating to: air raid precautions and civil defence, 1935-1947; financial arrangements for air raid precautions and civil defence, 1936-1948; the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service, 1936-1947; use of school ambulances by the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service, 1939-1943; emergency fire brigade arrangements, 1934-1945, including accommodation, staffing, water supplies, maps, appliances, the River Service, salvage arrangements, disciplinary code, collective representation and war gratuities; the unification of the London Fire Brigade and London Auxiliary Fire Service, 1940-1946; National Fire Service, 1941-1947, including detailed liaison arrangements with the LCC; emergency hospital service, 1935-1946, including the Civil Nursing Reserve; the Evacuation Scheme, 1938-1947; the Rescue Service, 1938-1947, including accommodation and depots, equipment, staffing, disciplinary code, reorganisation and co-ordination with repair squads; the Rest Centre Service, 1939-1947; War Debris Survey and Disposal Service, 1942-1948; proposed merger of Rescue and Debris Services, 1942-1944; fire prevention and fire watching, 1940-1945, including stirrup pumps, Clearance of Lofts Order and Fire prevention (Business Premises) Order; repair of highways, 1939-1947; organisation of civil defence 1936-1945, including allocation of responsibilities between London County Council and Metropolitan Borough Councils, Regional Co-ordinating Committee, Joint Committee of Officers of LCC and Metropolitan Borough Councils, Civil Defence Act, 1939 and regional and group organisation; decontamination and cleansing, 1938-1945; the main drainage system and gas mains, 1936-1946; bridges, tunnels and ferries, 1936-1947; structural protection and air raid shelters at housing estates, schools, hospitals, County Hall and other LCC premises, 1938-1946; air raid shelters, 1937-1949; requisitioning of property, 1938-1946; transport arrangements, 1938-1948; personal protective equipment and protective clothing, 1938-1945, including respirators, ear plugs, steel helmets and uniforms; equipment, 1938-1947, including hand-lamps, anti-gas equipment and disposal of surplus equipment; training, 1936-1947, including Civilian Anti-gas School, instructors' equipment and fire fighting courses; Civil Defence personnel, 1939-1947, including rates of pay and conditions of service, employment of conscientious objectors, employment of aliens, statistics of personnel killed or injured in duty, training for post-war work, demobilisation and award of Defence Medal and war gratuities; Women's Voluntary Services, 1938-1949; artists' record of civil defence activities in London, 1940-1942; Civil Defence recruitment publicity campaigns, 1938-1941; wartime arrangements for LCC staff and services, 1937-1947; removal of iron railings for scrap, 1941-1947; honours and awards, 1940-1945; air raid warning arrangements, 1938-1945; blackout arrangements and lighting restrictions, 1938-1945; unexploded bombs, mines and rockets, 1939-1946; Emergency Communications Corps and Dispatch Rider Service, 1938-1946; Invasion Defence Scheme, 1942-1944; scheme for evacuation of non-essential civilian population from coastal areas, 1941-1943; recommendations for awards for gallantry, 1940-1945.

Daily Situation Reports for the London Civil Defence Region, 1940-1945; London Civil Defence Region Intelligence Reports, 1941-1942; reports on air raid fires, 1940-1941; papers relating to war damage, 1939-1947, including damage to LCC properties.

Home Security Circulars, 1940-1944; Ministry of Health Circulars, 1939-1948; London Civil Defence Region London Region Circulars, 1939-1945; London Civil Defence Region Operations Circulars, 1939-1945; London Civil Defence Region Operations Memoranda, 1940-1945; London Civil Defence Region Regional Training Notes, 1942-1945; Air Raid Precautions Service (ARP) Memoranda, Handbooks, and Training Manuals, 1936-1944; Public Information Leaflets relating to air raid precautions, 1939-1941; information leaflets and posters relating to gas attacks, catering during wartime, demolition and clearance, road repairs, rescue training, 1937-1943.

County Hall Fire Picket Log books, 1940-1945; County Hall Fire Picket Log book, Incident book and record of tests of alarm circuits, 1940-1944; "A Short Account of the Services of the London County Council during the War of 1939-45", prepared by the Clerk of the Council in connection with the Pictorial Record of the Council's work during the War, 194- and Emergency Pay and Identity Book issued to LCC staff, 194-.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerks Department regarding the running of the Civil Defence Department, 1939-1965, including Second World War invasion defence plans; Civil Defence Committee papers and general files on a variety of subjects including including policy documents, civil defence premises and buildings, conferences, Home Office training pamphlets and memoranda, circulars, recruitment, budgets, finances, ambulance service, training and equipment, vehicles, tactical studies, instructors, publicity, rescue training grounds, awards, control centres and copies of Middlesex County Council Civil Defence circulars. Also hired premises register listing property, rent and compensation.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department, 1854-1965, including general files on a variety of subjects including ancient monuments, solicitors, pictures at the Guildhall, highways, Poor Law institutions, transport, schools and education, vagrancy, staffing, the First World War, national service, air raid precautions, civil defence, the Second World War, refugees, rationing, the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, prevention and relief of war distress, King George V Jubilee trust fund, parades and ceremonial events.

Personal papers of Sir Clifford Radcliffe, Clerk from 1935 to 1954 and author of the official history of the County Council, including personal correspondence, budget estimates, press cuttings, departmental organisation chart, papers relating to personnel problems, preparations in case of invasion during the Second World War and record of bombs dropped on Middlesex during the Second World War.

Personal papers of Joan Heddle, personal assistant to the Clerk from 1910 to 1965, including general correspondence, copies of relevant Parliamentary legislation, papers relating to legal cases involving the MCC, publicity and press cuttings, ceremonies including Royal events, twinning and visits abroad, papers relating to the preparation of publications about the County, papers relating to staff and personnel matters, papers relating to offices and other properties owned by the MCC, papers relating to departmental organisation, papers relating to Council services including town planning, hospitals, roads, sewers, flood prevention and rivers, papers relating to the Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, papers relating to Justices, papers relating to the County Record Office and papers relating to the Royal Commission on London Government.

Reports and correspondence relating to MCC services and functions including rates, hospitals, public health, judiciary and courts, elections, finances, legislation, maintenance of Council owned buildings, education and schools, roads and highways, open spaces and parks, sewerage and drainage, and transport.

Financial accounts; papers relating to staff; maps of Middlesex showing various information including water companies, unions, parishes, population density, distribution of education, fire, ambulance, health and welfare services, roads, local government boundary changes, drainage and sewers, parks and open spaces; official sealed orders for boundary changes and other purposes; joint orders and other orders.

Publications produced by the Clerk's Department, including Middlesex: the Jubilee of the County Council 1889-1939 by Sir Clifford Radcliffe; The Administrative Work of the County Council and its committee (1949); and Your career in the local government service with the Middlesex County Council (1955).

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to committees concerned with housing. Committee Clerk's papers relating to various subjects including: housing after the war, 1917-1919; housing policy, 1919-1947; slum clearance, 1928-1939; housing development programme; repair of war-damaged houses, 1941-1946; legal decisions relating to housing, 1929-1946; letters and circulars from Ministry of Health and other Government Departments, 1919-1925; housing conferences and congresses, 1936-1946; garden cities and satellite towns, 1925-1939; overcrowding survey and other papers relating to overcrowding, 1926-1936; working class housing in London outside LCC area, 1929-1933; proposed sites for new out of county cottage estates, 1930-1947; advance preparation of sites for post-war housing, 1942-1947; planning of dwellings, 1924-1945; steel houses, 1924-1926; timber houses, 1928-1931; housing of special categories of tenants such as the aged, the disabled and single women, 1934-1944; provision of services including gas and electricity, 1920-1942; community centres on housing estates, 1934-1945; housing estate management and maintenance, 1921-1940; housing by private enterprise, 1930-1938; employment of private architects, 1935-1946; Housing Associations, 1934-1950; open spaces on housing estates, 1936-1957.

Printed papers on a variety of topics including: housing, 1889-1913; housing schemes, 1889-1893; returns of new housing accommodation for the working classes, 1902-1919; municipal lodging houses, 1890-1903; hostels for single men and women in employment, 1958-1965; problem families and homeless families, 1960-1964; Bermondsey Comprehensive Development Area, 1947-1960; Covent Garden Market Area, 1963-1964; Elephant and Castle Comprehensive Development Area, 1956-1967; Stepney-Poplar Comprehensive Development Area, 1960-1965; Lee Valley, 1963-1964; new type dwellings, 1951-1965; erection of high buildings, 1933-1958; works of art for housing estates, 1957-1959; coal supply in London, 1939 and 1942.

Committee Clerk's Papers on individual estates (these files were preserved as examples when those relating to other estates were destroyed). Estates include:
Becontree Estate, Essex
Bellingham Estate, Lewisham
Boreham Wood Estate, Hertfordshire
Chingford Estate, Essex
Clarendon Street Area, Paddington
Debden Estate, Essex
Downham Estate, Lewisham and Bromley
Eversholt Street Estate, Saint Pancras
Hainault Estate, Essex
Hanwell Estate, Ealing
Harold Hill Estate, Essex
Headstone Lane Estate, Harrow
Langley Estate, Slough, Buckinghamshire
Lansbury Estate, Poplar and Stepney
Larkhall Estate, Clapham, Wandsworth
Linden Grove Estate, Camberwell
Merstham Estate, Surrey
Oxhey Estate, Hertfordshire
Roehampton Estate, Wandsworth
Saint Helier Estate, Surrey
Saint Paul's Cray Estate, Kent
Saint Vincent's Estate, Poplar and Stepney
Sheerwater Estate, Woking, Surrey
Tulse Hill Estate, Lambeth
Watling Estate, Edgware
White City Estate, Hammersmith
White Hart Lane Estate, Tottenham
Woodberry Down Estate, Stoke Newington
Edenbridge Estate, Kent
Pepys Estate, Deptford
Thamesmead, Woolwich and Erith
Alton Estate, Wandsworth
Aveley Estate, Essex
Farnborough, Hampshire and Roundshaw Estate (Croydon Airport Site), Surrey.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to Committees concerned with main drainage, rivers and flood prevention. Committee Clerk's general papers on a variety of topics including: atmospheric pollution and fogs in London, 1902-1906; smoke nuisance legislation, 1904-1932; sewage treatment and disposal, 1903-1946; drainage and sewerage of the Lee Valley, 1901-1938; out-of-County drainage through Beckenham, Bexley, Croydon, East Ham and West Ham, 1919-1943; Eltham Relief Sewer, 1937-1939; King's Scholars' Pond Sewer, 1912-1934; ventilation of sewers, 1907-1935; land drainage, 1928-1964; main drainage, 1889-1913.

Royal Commission on Land Drainage, Drainage of the Thames Valley and Thames Floods Prevention, 1932-1934; Thames flood prevention, 1928-1965; storm water flooding, 1919-1946; buildings on low-lying land, 1931-1965; Thames Conservancy Board report on Flooding of Urban and Agricultural Districts in the Thames Valley, 1947; legal position of LCC relating to flood prevention, 1928-1961; proposed Thames Flood Barrage and Barrier, 1936-1966; embankments, 1950-1964; flood prevention works, 1937-1965; flooding in Kensington and West London, 1960-1965; rivers including the Beverley and Pyl Brooks, 1931-1955, the Graveney, 1925-1962, the River Lea (or Lee), 1928-1963, the Ravensbourne, 1943-1964, the Wandle, 1928-1965; the condition of the River Thames, including correspondence with Port of London Authority, 1929-1946; Thames and Lee Conservancies, 1893-1900; Lee Conservancy, 1893-1900.

Bridges including the Albert Bridge, 1951-1965, Battersea Bridge, 1950-1964, Chelsea Bridge, 1951-1962; Hammersmith Bridge, 1950-1965; Lambeth Bridge, 1951-1964, Putney Bridge, 1950-1960, Vauxhall Bridge, 1951-1965, Wandsworth Bridge, 1954-1963, Waterloo Bridge, 1950-1965, Westminster Bridge, 1952-1965; effect on bridges of abandonment of tramways, 1950-1955; tunnels, 1950-1965; Woolwich Free Ferry, 1933-1965; bye laws relating to ferries and tunnels, 1950-1965; Thames Steamboat Service, 1894-1932; Greenwich Pier, 1950-1952.

Port of London, 1872-1908; printed reports and minutes of evidence, Royal Commission on Port of London, 1900-1902; Port of London Bill sessional papers, 1903-1904; maps of Port of London and of River Thames from London Bridge to Warden Point, 1900-1907; Port of London Authority river pollution jurisdiction, 1962-1964.

Greater London Council Joint Committee: Working Party "E" (Drainage, sewerage, flood prevention, etc services transferable to the GLC), 1964-1965.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to Committees concerned with public health, 1876-1965. Committee Clerk's general papers on a variety of topics including: hospital stewards and clerical staff; massage staff; medical artist and photographer; pathological laboratory staff; pharmacists; radiographers; veterinary surgeon for the Public Control Department; hospital laundries; statistics of patients and staff at hospital; epileptic hospitals; Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot; Norwood Children's Hospital; Princess Mary's Hospital for Children, Margate; Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup; River Hospitals (Joyce Green Hospital, Orchard Hospital and Long Reach Hospital, Dartford and Southern Hospital, Dartford); emergency arrangements for small-pox treatment; St Benedict's Hospital, Tooting; St James' Hospital, Balham plastic surgery unit and central dental workshop; medical education facilities in LCC hospitals; Hammersmith post-graduate Medical School; venereal disease clinics; spiritual ministration in hospitals and institutions; District Nursing; domiciliary midwifery service; Invalid Meals for London; rag and bone dealers; seamen's lodging houses; food and drugs (including milk); National Health Service Act, 1946; alcoholism; domestic home help service; Health Centres and group practices; maternity and child welfare; distribution of welfare foods; ante-natal care; welfare of children in hospitals; preventive mental health education; services for children with impaired hearing; mentally sub-normal children; problem families; chiropody; day nurseries; child minder service; health education; dental treatment and laboratories; tuberculosis; closure of tuberculosis hospitals; chest clinics rehabilitation of the tuberculous; vaccination and immunisation; infectious and endemic diseases; vital and health statistics; mental health statistics; co-operation between hospital, local authority and general practitioner services; liaison with Regional Hospital Boards; family planning clinics; fluoridation of London water supply; polio-myelitis; effect on Health Committee of reorganisation of local government in Greater London; Woodberry Down Health Centre; London Ambulance Service; return of Sanitary Officers and Staff; Licensing Sessions for Slaughterhouses, Cowhouses and Knackers' Yards; bye laws under Public Health Act, 1891; offensive trades; lodging houses; infectious diseases; vagrancy; flies and vermin; removal of dust and refuse; disinfection; factories, workshops and bakeries; cemeteries and burial grounds and cremation; London County Asylums; conference on measles and verminous conditions in London; papers of the Working party on transfer of Personal Health Services to London Boroughs.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Council Clerk including papers relating to London County Council elections, 1889-1952; papers relating to Council procedures, 1908-1960; papers relating to Members' Expenses, 1946-1952; papers relating to special and commemorative meetings of the Council, 1941-1965, including the last meeting of the Council and papers relating to the reorganisation of local government in Greater London, 1957-1963.

London County Council Pocket Books containing information on Members of the Council, Cabinet, LCC Committees, Parliamentary Representatives for London, Police and Magistrates Courts officials, Central Criminal Court officials and Coroners, District Surveyors, List of Parks, Gardens, Open Spaces, Bridges, pumping stations and so on and list of LCC staff with salaries, rules and conditions of service, 1890-1939; LCC Election Poll Book, giving results of first four elections, 1889-1898; maps showing polling districts for LCC elections, 1961; lists of LCC members, 1889-1943; returns of attendances of members, 1889-1965; LCC election posters, 1889-1913; Members Handbooks, listing members and their addresses and the Committees on which they were serving, 1889-1965 and Rota cards, giving programme of meetings of Council, committees and sub-committees, 1889-1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to County Councillors, 1882-1965, including papers relating to Middlesex County Council elections including registers of polling places, registers of electors, poll results, and general papers concerning elections; papers regarding Councillors, including records of results of elections, declarations of acceptance of office, attendance books, press attendance registers, biographies of Councillors and the constitution of the County Council. Also year books, diaries and almanacs.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the County Solicitor, 1909-1934, including correspondence; general advice; papers relating to light railways and electric tramways; papers relating to the Small Dwelling Acquisition Act; gas examiners reports; ledgers of the advance for compensation account; ledgers of the petty disbursement account and report on registration of title.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the control of diseases of animals, 1909-1965, including general administrative files relating to veterinary inspectors fees and conditions of service and the appointment of an agricultural analyst; papers relating to diseases of animals including list of livestock owners in Middlesex, handbooks and orders relating to the care of animals.

Papers relating to specific diseases including anthrax, bovine mastitis, atropic rhinitis, cattle plague, epizootic lymphangitis, foot and mouth disease, fowl pest, glanders and farcy, parasitic mange, Johne's disease, pneumonia, rabies, sheep scab, scrapie, swine fever, tuberculosis and warble fly; papers relating to the movement of animals including importation and exportation orders, landing prohibition orders, control of dogs, registers of swine and foot and mouth disease licences and markets and sales orders.

Papers relating to fertilisers and feeding stuffs, including inspections under the Fertilizers and Feeding Stuffs Act 1926, high protein poultry food, infringements and prosecutions; papers relating to pests including watermark disease, wart disease and fruit tree pests; and papers relating to the breeding of horses.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to East Middlesex drainage, 1939-1965, including papers of the East Middlesex Drainage Committee; correspondence with consulting engineers; reports by the County Drainage Engineer; papers relating to personnel; papers relating to the Deephams sewage works, Edmonton, including contracts, administration, photographs and inspections; papers relating to general sludge disposal; papers relating to Rammey Marsh sludge disposal works, the Chingford disposal works, Enfield sewage pumping main and Wanstead and Woodford works; papers relating to sewer construction, including the Cuffley Brook branch sewer, East Barnet sewer, Lea Valley sewer, Tottenham low level sewer, Waltham Holy Cross branch sewer, and Wood Green sewer.

Maps and plans of Cuffley Brook sewer, East Barnet branch sewer, Lea Valley low level sewer, Tottenham low level sewer, Waltham Abbey sewer and Deephams sewerage works.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Emergency Committee, comprising papers relating to the 1926 General Strike including Government circulars; LCC circulars; special bulletins broadcast by the Government; LCC notices for inclusion in broadcast bulletins and a letter file.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to entertainments licensing, 1893-1965, including orders, reports and regulations concerning licences; applications for licensing; reports on the building requirements of premises seeking licences for music, dancing or stage plays; writs, reports and correspondence; prosecutions against unlicensed premises; police reports relating to Sunday opening of cinemas; stage play bonds, and pamphlet 'A short history of the cinema in Middlesex 1910-1965'.

Papers relating to individual premises including cinemas, hotels, music halls, canteens, hippodromes, cafes, arenas, dance halls, lecture halls, sports arenas, restaurants, skating rinks, working men's clubs and theatres.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Establishment Committee, 1923-1965, comprising papers relating to staff matters including superannuation, grading, appeals against grading decisions, leave, recruitment, expenses, employment of the disabled, departmental reorganisations, salary scales, equal pay, staff inspections, financial aid, training schemes, bonus schemes, advertising and publicity, correspondence, reports, conditions of service and regulations. Also Joint Negotiating Committee papers, Fire Brigade personnel cards, and papers relating to the transfer of staff to other authorities in 1965.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to estates and housing, 1889-1965, including index cards listing MCC properties; index cards of properties in the Green Belt, and files relating to the administration of MCC properties and land, including some deeds, purchase information, correspondence, plans and photographs. Properties and structures include housing estates, a pumping station, an electricity sub-station, fire stations, footpaths, open spaces, playing fields and sports grounds, civil defence training premises, railway extension, hospital, offices, highways and schools.

Also plans of a clinic, housing estates, schools, street layouts, a sports ground, allotments, a police station and a court house.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to finance, 1864-1965, including general papers on a variety of subjects including accounts, audits, estimates, budgets, County stocks, rates, rating and valuation, correspondence, general loans, grants, mortgages, contracts, reports, sale of property, staff salaries, rents, financial regulations, investments, trust funds, borrowing, capital expenditure, war damage, insurance, banking arrangements, housing advances and housing loans.

Papers of the Accounts and General Sub-committee; papers of the Central Purchasing Sub-committee; papers of the Organisation and Method Committee; papers relating to the administration of the Edmonton Latymer Foundation; register of applications to the Local Government Board for consent to borrow loan sanctions; register of applications to the Ministry of Health for consent to borrow loan sanctions; indexes to loan sanctions

Papers relating to rates including correspondence, County rate basis forms of return calculations, revisions of county rate basis, returns by clerks to assessment committees, appeals against rates, calculations for the basis of county rates and revision of county rate basis returns of properties.

Administrative papers of the Finance Department, including office procedures, correspondence, appointment of the County Treasurer and other staff, staff personal files, and superannuation.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Finance Committee, 1889-1964, including the Committee Clerk's general papers on loans to Metropolitan Borough Councils; equalisation of rates; county rate precepts; conference papers; relevant legislation including the Rating and Valuation Act; annual budget speeches; rating and valuation of various properties including schools, Crown property and transport property. Also reports and returns including annual estimates; returns of the Council's investments; District Auditor's reports; annual returns of London Debt; annual returns of local expenditure and revenue and report on the effect of the centralisation of local expenditure.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Fire Brigade, 1927-1965, including papers relating to the general administration of the service; copies of relevant legislation; Fire Service training school and training courses; papers on fires of special interest, fire prevention and investigation, fire fighting at airports, authority to enter buildings, communications, supply of water for fire fighting, trade union representation and membership of professional bodies; personnel matters including recruitment, retirement, discipline, regulations, working conditions and compensation; Fire Service building programme and management of fire stations, including papers on individual fire stations.

Papers relating to the Ambulance Service including ambulance service development plan, establishment and initial formation of the service, administration, complaints and appreciation from the public, conferences, trade union representation, vehicle purchase and upkeep, staff conditions of service, establishment of ambulance repair depots and agreements for transport of patients.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Fire Brigade Committee. General papers on a variety of subjects, 1865-1956, including fire alarms, fire telephones and exchange telephone lines, automatic fire alarms, malicious false alarms, annual displays, air raid precautions, the Auxiliary Fire Service, exhibitions, Coronation arrangements (1937), film and photograph service, cost of the Fire Brigade, inventions affecting Fire Brigade equipment, smoke helmets and breathing apparatus, hydrants, water supply, fire prevention, fire stations, serious fires and other incidents, fires on tube railways, the River Service, the Departmental Committee on Fire Brigades in Great Britain, the Royal Commission on Fire Brigades and Fire Prevention, the Departmental Committee on Fire Brigade Services, legislation affecting fire brigades, Fire Service organisation, the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council Joint Fire Prevention Committee, radio and telephone communications, London Fire Brigade publicity (press cuttings and fire prevention film), Fire Brigade circulars, staffing and medals and awards.

General papers of the London County Council Clerk's Department, 1721-1965, including reports by the Clerk of the County Council on general subjects and staff matters; instructions, orders and memoranda for the Clerks of the Council Departments; Committee and General letter books, consisting of carbon copies of outgoing letters conveying Committee (and Council) decisions to outside persons; registers of documents sealed with the Council's seal; register of penal notices and other documents signed by the Clerk of the Council; register of plans presented by committees to County Council; Sealed Orders and other statutory documents; Compulsory Purchase Orders; Bye laws Sealed Orders; sealed directions under Town and Country Planning Orders; Sealed Orders Building Preservation Orders; Sealed Completion Certificates under various private Improvement Acts and Sealed Tree Preservation Orders. Also deeds, leases, conveyances, assignments and mortgages for Council land and properties.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the General Purposes Committee, 1747-1965. General files on a variety of subjects including inspection of weights and measures, ward divisions, parish boundaries, elections and electoral divisions, finance, the County Architect, licensing, refuse disposal and gravel pits, the registration of births, deaths and marriages, Alexandra Palace, building projects and architectural services, Hogarth House, ceremonies, ancient monuments, exhibitions, town twinning, local valuation panels, purchase of motor vehicles for use by staff, the Public Control department, policy and functions of the Supplies Committee, appointment of coroners, local authority boundaries, airports, health services, gas supply, County Council seal and coat of arms, light railways and tramways, plans of Mogden sewer works and maps of Local Board areas.

Orders made by the County Council; minutes of conferences between Middlesex County Council and local authorities on the General Review of County Districts; minutes of proceedings of local enquiry into county electoral divisions; registers of premises storing explosives, registers of licensed employment agencies, registers of performing animals, registers of theatrical employers and registers of poison sellers.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the General Purposes Committee, 1889-1965. Committee Clerk's general papers on a variety of subjects including: advertisements, aerodromes, aircraft, air pollution, airports, the Central Unemployed Body, the Metropolitan Water Board, the Advisory Committee for London Regional Planning, the London War Pension Committee, the Thames Conservancy Board, building control, bye law proposals, care of illegitimate children, care of children neglected or ill treated in their own homes, the Church of England Advisory Board on Spiritual Ministration, control of clubs and all-night cafes, Fair Wages Clause in contracts, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Sadlers Wells Opera School, the Coronation (1911), the Coronation (1937), the Coronation (1953), delegation of powers to Metropolitan Borough Councils, employment of disabled ex-servicemen, Thames flood prevention, inquiry into homelessness, the Joint Committee of members and school keepers, the Joint Committee of members and staff, legislative proposals, licensing planning in London Area, London County Council (General Powers) Bill, London markets, National Health Service, National Insurance Acts, Petty Sessional Divisions and Justices Clerks, Quarter Sessions, redevelopment of South Bank, staff, street trading, the Town and Country Planning Act 1959, the Trade Union Joint negotiating Committee for LCC Staff, Second World War damage, lists of rates of wages and hours of labour recognised and obtained by trades unions, the Port of London Authority, gifts to and from the Council, bequests to the Council, free legal advice centres and the "Cutty Sark".

Papers relating to the arts and arts venues, 1913-1965, including Alexandra Park and Palace, the Advisory Body on Art Acquisition, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Commonwealth Arts Festival, the Crystal Palace, the Festival Gardens, the Festival of Britain 1951, Holland House, Kenwood House, municipal theatres (the Old Vic and Sadlers Wells), the Museum of London, the National Theatre, the Royal Festival Hall, the South Bank Development, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Central School of Arts and Crafts, Covent Garden Opera House, London Festival Ballet and London Music Guild. Also daily summaries of press comment on preparations for the Festival of Britain, 1951.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to health services, 1921-1965, including registers of nursing homes; register of mental nursing homes; registers of guardianship cases; register of nurseries; registers of child minders; register of lying-in homes; register of approved practitioners under the Mental Health Act 1959; register of Ambulance Service property; correspondence regarding the supply of nurses badges and certificates; samples of nurses badges for West Middlesex County Hospital, Central Middlesex County Hospital, North Middlesex County Hospital, Hillingdon County Hospital and Middlesex County nursing service; papers relating to individual nursing homes (please see catalogue for full list).

Administrative files including general enquiries; constitution of the Health Committee; constitution of the Local Area Committees of the Health Committee; papers relating to the transfer of hospitals to the Ministry of Health; papers relating to the treatment of patients with cerebral palsy; papers relating to the School Health Service; papers relating to the care of the physically disabled; publicity for local health services; papers relating to geriatric services and the care of chronically sick elderly people; papers relating to domestic assistance for elderly people; papers relating to properties owned by the Health Service; complaints from the public; papers relating to marriage guidance agencies; radioactive notifications; papers of the Staff Committee; papers relating to health centres and clinics; papers relating to the care of young children and mothers; papers relating to child health services; papers relating to the dental service; papers relating to nursing including District Nurses and midwives; papers regarding the vaccination and immunisation policy; papers on the Ambulance Service; case papers from the domestic help service; mental health individual guardianship cases; papers regarding special schools, training schools and occupation centres for the physically or mentally disabled; papers regarding mental health and welfare services; papers relating to the regulation of nurseries and child minders; staff training; papers on area medical officers of health and their deputies; papers regarding health control services at airports and papers relating to the reorganisation of local government, 1965.

Papers of the Ambulance Service including separation of the Fire Service and Ambulance Service; responsibility for transport; complaints and appreciations made by members of the public; liaison with the Metropolitan Police; trade union representation; purchase and maintenance of vehicles; uniforms; communications; ambulance depots and stations; statistics; staff conditions of service and staff training.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to highways, 1902-1965, including papers relating to improvements to roads and footpaths; papers relating to light railways (tramways); index cards made as part of measures to restrict ribbon development, describing applicants with details of building, access, material and works; papers relating to rivers including the River Brent, River Thames and the Duke of Northumberland's River; rainfall statistics for the county and list of bridges and main roads maintained by the MCC. Also plans of highways, rivers, bridges and sewers.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to highways, 1882-1966, including papers relating to the establishment of an electricity supply in London, including charges, laying of mains and Battersea Power Station; papers relating to roads including proposals, legislation affecting roads, motorways and road improvements; papers relating to individual road schemes; papers relating to Thames crossings including weak bridges, railway bridges, tunnels, embankments, the Blackwall Tunnel, the Woolwich Free Ferry, the Rotherhithe Tunnel, Albert Bridge, Charing Cross Bridge, Chelsea Bridge, Hammersmith Bridge, Lambeth Bridge, Putney Bridge, Wandsworth Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Improvements Committee, and also of the Bridges Committee (1889-1906) and the Corporate Property Committee (1889-1904) whose functions largely passed to the Improvements Committee on their closure.

Committee Clerk's general papers, 1883-1931, relating to a variety of subjects including the Land Transfer Act, 1897, leasehold redemption policies, auction of surplus land, tramways, arbitration proceedings, "London Street Improvements" pamphlet by Henry Clarke, Improvements Committee Chairman, 1892, LCC (Improvements) Bill 1897: minutes of evidence, speeches, and papers; LCC (Improvements) Bill 1900: minutes of evidence, speeches, and papers. Also papers relating to individual road improvements and widening schemes, and papers relating to the construction and maintenance of individual bridges, embankments and tunnels. Please consult the detailed catalogue for a full list.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Joint Thames Bridges Committee, 1891-1919. Papers relating to King Edward VII Bridge (Kew Bridge), including copies of relevant legislation; resolutions; reports of the Surveyor and Solicitors; correspondence; plans; specifications for tender and papers relating to the opening ceremony, including photographs.

Papers relating to Kingston Bridge, including copies of relevant legislation; plans; correspondence; instructions for tendering; reports; acquisition of land and sale of land.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Land Charges section, comprising sampled volumes of searches in respect of town planning, statutory orders, highways, housing, environmental health matters and so on relating to specific properties, 1926-1965. The volumes containing the first search, the ten-thousandth search, the fifty-thousandth search and every fifty-thousandth search thereafter, has been preserved as an indication of Council practice.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Leader of the Council's Secretariat, including papers from Town Planning conferences, 1960-1965; papers relating to the Architect's Department and the Valuer's Department, 1945-1965; papers relating to the Roads Committee, including conference papers, 1960-1964; papers relating to the Housing Committee, including conference papers, 1960-1965; papers relating to civil defence, 1948-1963; Trades Union Joint Negotiating Committee, 1964-1965 and papers relating to the reorganisation of London government, 1959-1965.

Records relating to the arts including Royal Festival Hall conferences, 1948-1963; papers regarding the London Philharmonic Orchestra, 1948-1963; papers regarding Ballet Rambert, Festival Ballet and Ballet Trust, 1963-1967; papers regarding the Commonwealth Arts Festival and papers relating to the South Bank and support of the arts, 1947-1963.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, 1956-1965, including evidence submitted to the Commission by the MCC; papers relating to the implementation of the reorganisation of local government functions; papers relating to the hand-over of functions to the Greater London Council (GLC) and press cuttings relating to the reorganisation of local government.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Local Government, Records and Museums Committee, 1884-1938. Committee Clerk's general papers including "The Unification of London - Summary of the observations and recommendations of Royal Commissions and Special Committees as to the Government of the Metropolis and short Account of Bills introduced for the Reform of London, 1837-1884"; reports relating to the reform of London Local Government; transfer of powers from the London County Council to vestries and District Boards of Works (after 1900, Metropolitan Borough Councils); papers regarding the Royal Commission on London Government; papers regarding the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and the Relief of Distress; proposed abolition of Poor Law authorities and their supersession by county councils and county borough councils; papers regarding Quarter Sessions for the County of London, the Central Criminal Court, London County Court Districts and Metropolitan Police Courts; papers regarding electoral reform; proposals to adjust or extend various county boundaries; amalgamation of various parishes; amalgamation of various Poor Law Unions; statistics regarding new metropolitan borough areas following the London Government Act, 1899; LCC inquiries and Public Local Inquiries; orders of Local Government Board; papers regarding rating, valuation and local taxation; LCC expenditure; returns of licensed premises; returns of baths and wash-houses and papers regarding elections and electoral registration.

Orders in Council concerning Boundary Changes, including orders to establish metropolitan boroughs and maps showing boundary changes effected by Orders in Council establishing metropolitan boroughs.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to magistrates' courts, 1945-1964, including papers relating to petty sessions; papers relating to court staff; papers relating to courthouses in Acton, Barnet, Brentford, Ealing, Enfield, Feltham, Hendon, Highgate, Tottenham, Uxbridge and Willesden; papers relating to the administration of courthouses; plans of Ealing, Enfield, Feltham, Uxbridge and Willesden courthouses.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department comprising Middlesex County Council seals and badges, 1902-1965.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the New and Expanding Towns Committee, 1943-1965, including Committee Clerk's general papers including New Towns and Expanding Towns policy; New Towns and Expanding Towns programme; general correspondence; papers relating to industry for expanding towns; London Industrial Liaison Committee; papers relating to the large-scale expansion of urban authorities and progress reports.

Papers relating to individual towns including:
Andover, Hampshire
Ashford, Kent
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Aylesham, Kent
Banbury, Oxfordshire
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Bletchley, Buckinghamshire
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Hartley and Longfield, Kent
Haverhill, Suffolk
Hereford, Herefordshire
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Letchworth, Hertfordshire
Luton, Bedfordshire
Nantwich, Cheshire
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Ringwood, Hampshire
Sandwich, Kent
Sawston, Cambridgeshire
Swindon, Wiltshire
Tadley, Hampshire
Thetford, Norfolk
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire
Witham, Essex.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department comprising plans of works carried out on roads and highways in the Middlesex area, 1932-1939.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Parks Committee, 1888-1970. Clerk's general papers on a variety of subjects including allotments for the unemployed; agriculture and food production in parks; London Development Plan proposals affecting parks and open spaces; entertainments in parks; fairs; the Circuses and Performing Animals Defence League; Festival of Britain arrangements in parks; Green Belt including legislation, requisitioned lands and papers regarding specific Green Belt areas; temporary housing on open spaces; preservation of London Squares; memorials in parks; playgrounds and playing fields; press notices and publicity concerning activities in parks; railings; requisitioned land; sculptures and open air sculpture exhibitions; grey squirrels; Parks staff; swimming baths; town planning in relation to parks and open spaces; transfer of powers to metropolitan borough councils; victory celebrations; protection of wild birds; Parks bye-laws and regulations; gifts of memorial seats and other items, and tree preservation.

Papers relating to individual parks including Battersea Park (including the Festival Gardens); Blackheath; Crystal Palace; Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich; Hackney Marsh; Hainault Forest; Hampstead Heath; Holland Park; Kenwood House and Park; Marble Hill House, Twickenham and Richmond Hill; Parliament Hill; Streatham Common; Tooting Common; Victoria Embankment Gardens; Victoria Park; Woolwich Common; Wormwood Scrubs; Bethlem Hospital grounds (now Imperial War Museum); Burgess Park (North Camberwell Open Space) and Lee Valley.

Ordnance Survey maps of London (1867-1875 edition) annotated by Mrs Basil Holmes as part of her investigation into London burial grounds and churchyards. The sites of burial grounds are colour coded: those in use - blue; disused - green and those converted into public recreation grounds - green with a red border.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to Parliamentary legislation, 1894-1961, including papers relating to legislation proposed by the MCC including the Middlesex County Council Acts 1898, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1936, 1938 and 1944; legislation relevant to the functions of the MCC; papers relating to MCC bye laws, rules and standing orders; charters of incorporation for Middlesex boroughs and urban districts; copies of local acts which affected the MCC.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to planning, 1926-1946, comprising maps and plans showing town planning schemes in Acton, Brentford, Chiswick, Ealing, Edmonton, Enfield, Feltham, Finchley, Friern Barnet, Harrow, Hayes, Harlington, Hendon, Heston, Isleworth, Hornsey, Potters Bar, Southall, Norwood, Southgate, Staines, Tottenham, Twickenham, Uxbridge, Wembley, Willesden, Wood Green and Yiewsley.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to planning, 1922-1965, including papers relating to the County Development Plan at both draft and review stages; town and county planning legislation and its effect on the Planning Department; correspondence relating to the decentralisation and relocation of industry; papers relating to new towns and out of county development; papers on the staffing of the Planning Department; papers relating to planning committees, conferences and panels; papers of Joint Planning Committees; papers relating to town planning in specific areas of Middlesex including Acton, Brentford and Chiswick, Ealing, Edmonton, Enfield, Feltham, Finchley, Friern Barnet, Harrow, Hayes and Harlington, Hendon, Heston and Isleworth, Hornsey, Potters Bar, Ruslip, Southall, Southgate, Staines, Sunbury on Thames, Teddington, Tottenham, Twickenham, Uxbridge, Wembley, Willesden, Wood Green and Yiewsley; minutes and reports of the Greater London Regional Planning Committee; papers relating to the Standing Conference on London Regional Planning; papers relating to the Advisory Committee on London Regional Planning, and papers relating to the rights of way survey.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department Press Officer relating to tourism in London, 1954-1965, including papers of the Advisory Committee for a Sculpture Exhibition, 1954; and papers regarding aid to outside bodies including the British Travel and Holidays Association, the London Publicity Committee and the London Tourist Board.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to public assistance, social welfare and welfare committees, including papers relating to training colonies for able-bodied men including Dunton Farm and Hollesley Bay, 1929-1942; papers relating to non-residential training centres, 1903-1945; papers relating to Almoners and almoners' staff, 1930-1948; papers regarding the reorganisation of public assistance administration in local areas, 1934-1935; payment of lunacy fees to relieving officers, 1932-1934; papers relating to Mother and Baby Homes, 1951-1963; papers relating to the welfare of the blind, 1949-1964; papers relating to workshops for the blind, 1948-1965; papers relating to a car badge scheme for disabled drivers, 1961-1963; papers regarding charges for accommodation at welfare establishments, 1949-1965; papers relating to evicted, neglected or ill-treated children, 1961-1964; papers relating to homeless families, including short stay accommodation and statistics, 1953-1965; general papers on the liaison between Health and Welfare Services, 1951-1965; analysis of the effect on the Welfare Committee of the London local government reorganisation, 1957-1965; papers regarding the welfare of old people, including provision of meals, 1949-1965; papers of the Central Consultative Committee on the Welfare of Old People, 1951-1964; papers relating to refugees and others in special need, 1956-1961; papers on the registration of private welfare homes, 1949-1965; statistics relating to welfare services, 1962-1965; resettlement of tuberculous persons, 1949-1962 and papers on Reception Centres for persons without a settled way of living, 1948-1964.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to the Public Control Committee, 1879-1965, including papers relating to: legislation; Quarterly reports of Chief Gas Examiner and Reports of Appeals concerning Gas Supply; overhead wires; telephones; Sunday observance; control of clubs and coffee bars; bottle parties; entertainments licensing; theatres and music halls; occasional licences; Sunday opening of theatres and music halls; Sunday cinematograph; entertainments variations in form of permission; fees for entertainments licences; smoking in places of public entertainment and in cinemas; improprieties in performances; nudity on the stage; music and dancing licences; All-in Wrestling; the Cinematograph Act, 1909; use of non-inflammable film; eye strain in cinemas; admittance of children to cinemas; fires and panics in cinemas; registration of charities under the Charities Act, 1960; Working Party on Vehicle Registration and Licensing and Driving Licensing; health, welfare and safety in public places; licensing of employment agencies and licensing of massage establishments.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department comprising District Medical Officer's correspondence and general files, 1930-1948.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to health services, 1905-1942, including civil defence map of Middlesex showing hospitals, remand homes and approved schools; opening ceremony of Harefield County Sanatorium; and opening ceremony and rules and regulations for Napsbury County Asylum and Shenley Hospital. Also printing blocks showing Shenley Mental Health Colony.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to public relations, 1888-1964, including personal files of the Public Relations Officer relating to the history of Middlesex; newspaper cuttings relating to Middlesex; and public information films about the West Middlesex Main Drainage System, the MCC Hospital Service, Hogarth's House and gipsy caravans on county highways.

Photographs from the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department Public Relations Officer, 1849-1975, including photographs from the Architect's Department showing school and college buildings, libraries, a medical clinic and a fire station; photographs from the Clerk's Department showing the Middlesex Guildhall, the Council Chamber in session, court rooms, Council offices and art works in the Guildhall; photographs of roads and tramways including official openings, the first trams on certain lines, storage depots and construction works; photographs of rivers and bridges, including the River Brent, erosion of riverbanks, footpaths alongside rivers and river currents; photographs from the Public Control Department showing a weighbridge in operation, coal weighing van in operation and Public Control officers at work verifying weights, in the chemical laboratory and checking foodstuffs; portraits of members of the County Council and other staff; aerial surveys made in preparation for the construction of the M25 and M4 motorways and some highways; photographs of children at play and at Christmas [possibly children in care or in hospital]; photographs of archaeological finds from Middlesex and photographs of official events including Royal visits.

Records of the Middlesex County Council Clerk's Department relating to smallholdings, 1907-1965, including copies of legislation relating to smallholdings and agriculture; papers of the Smallholdings Committee; papers relating to the tenancy of smallholdings including rent review and responsibility for repairs and building works; smallholdings competitions and reports on smallholdings.

Papers relating to the management of individual estates including Burrows Hill Close Estate, Denham Place Estate, Mayfield Farm, Moorcroft Estate, West Drayton Estate and Yeoveney Manor Estate.

Records of the London County Council Clerk's Department relating to Special Committees, comprising general papers of the Advisory Committee on the Design of Consumer Goods, 1945-1951; general papers and reports of the Survey of London (Joint Publishing) Committee, 1911-1952; papers of the Special Committee on the Unemployed regarding the recruitment of workers for the construction of arterial roads in Essex and Kent; general papers of the Church of England Advisory Board on Spiritual Ministration, 1932-1961.