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Records of the London Gas Light Company, including half yearly reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Company to the Shareholders; contracts for lighting parts of Chelsea, Saint Pancras and the Tothill Fields districts; agreements with various road authorities concerning the laying down of gas mains in South London; and papers relating to premises in Lambeth and Battersea.

Records including minutes; policy registers; annual reports; financial records including papers relating to shares and shareholders; agreements; correspondence; deeds; and reports; of predecessors and subsidiaries of the Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Company, as follows:

Guardian Assurance Company Limited;
Royal Exchange Assurance;
Albion Fire Insurance Company Limited;
Atlas Assurance Company Limited;
British Equitable Assurance Company Limited;
Caledonian Insurance Company;
Car and General Insurance Corporation Limited;
Car Services Limited;
Essex and Suffolk Insurance Company Limited;
Licenses and General Insurance Company Limited;
Liverpool and London Plate Glass Insurance Company;
Local Government Guarantee Society;
London and Manchester Plate Glass Insurance Company;
Manchester Assurance Company Limited;
Motor Union Insurance Company Limited;
National Provincial Insurance Company Limited;
Pilot Insurance Corporation Limited;
Reliance Marine Insurance Company;
State Assurance Company Limited;
United British Insurance Company Limited;
Westminster and General Insurance Company Limited;
Essex and Suffolk Accident Indemnity Society.

Records of Royal Exchange Assurance, comprising fire policy registers 1753-1870 (Mss 7252-5); inventories of works of art relating to policies 1822-1913 (Ms 10461); court and committee minutes 1825-1964 (Mss 16235-243, 16245-6, 16250); financial records including life journals and ledgers 1842-1943 (Ms 16251-4); accounts of affiliated companies 1908-1944 (Ms 31634); reports 1838-1957 (Ms 16246A-249); stock ledgers 1838-1927 (Ms 16233) and some staff records 1906-19 and 1927 (Ms 16244).

Mss 16232 and Ms 16234 have been returned to the depositor.

Please note that 24 hours notice is required for access to Mss 16232-54 and 31634.

Albion Fire Insurance Association Limited records comprise minutes of the board of directors and of annual general meetings. They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Licenses and General Insurance Company Limited records comprise Board minute books and accounts. 24 hours notice is required for access to these records.

Local Government Guarantee Society board of directors minutes.

London and Manchester Plate Glass Insurance Company Limited board of directors minutes and annual balance sheets.

Board minute books of the National Provincial Insurance Company Limited.

Minutes of the Westminster and General Insurance Company Limited.

Records of the British Commonwealth Insurance Company, including memorandum and articles of association; papers relating to the acquisition by Legal and General; minutes; annual reports and accounts; financial records; register of investments and specimen policy forms.

Records of the Gresham Life Assurance Society, including registers, notices, minutes, annual reports, financial accounts, valuation summaries, samples of policy forms, and papers relating to branches in Austria, Hungary, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, South Africa, and Spain.

Also papers of the Gresham Continental Life Assurance Society, including memorandum and articles of association, minute books and letter books.

National Life Assurance Society records comprise constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, correspondence, accounts, reports, policy registers and books of tables. They include some series continued after the merger in 1896.

24 hours notice is required for access to this material.

Mutual Life Assurance Society records comprise constitutional documents, minutes, annual reports and accounts, records of policies and claims, and other administrative records. Some series were maintained by National Mutual after the merger.

24 hours notice is required for access to this material.

London Committee minutes of the Central Insurance Company, formerly the Birmingham Mutual Fire and General Insurance Association.

Crown Life Assurance Company records comprise: deed of settlement, 1853; conveyance of assets, 1867; agreement for amalgamation, 1891; rules and regulations, 1825-1873; minutes, 1825-92; and report books, 1870-1890.

Permission to publish any material must be obtained: ask a member of staff for further information.

Directors' minute book of the Farmers and Gardeners Hailstorm Insurance Company.

Records of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Fire and Life Assurance Company, comprising minutes and instructions to agents.

Records of the Phoenix Assurance Company including single assurance policy, deeds and deed of covenant and premises plans.

Planet Assurance Company Limited records comprise notices of annual general meetings, 1921-2, 1924-5; and out-letter books, 1926-51.

Reports of the Sun Insurance Office Limited, comprising reports of visits to overseas branches in the USA, Canada, Europe, the Far East, Australasia, Africa, and South America.

THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.

Papers of the Sun Insurance Office Limited relating to other organisations; including copy minute books of the Accident Offices Association, Fire Offices' Committee (Foreign), London Continental Fire Insurance Committee, and Fire Offices' Committee.

THESE RECORDS ARE SUBJECT TO A 50 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD. LIFE POLICY REGISTERS, CLAIMS REGISTERS AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY POLICY REGISTERS ARE CLOSED FOR 75 YEARS.

Records of insurance brokers Fenning and Shepard, comprising annual abstracts of balances, which were drawn from company ledgers 'A' and 'B' (whereabouts now unknown).

Minutes of meetings of the directors and of general meetings of those insurance companies known as the Java Companies.

Photograph of staff from the kitchen of the Ritz Hotel, 1925.

Records donated by the London Gas Museum, comprising some 400 Ordnance Survey sheets of various scales and editions, 1893-1989. Many have been amended to show property owned or leased by the Gas Light and Coke Company, the Brentford Gas Company or the North Thames Gas Board. These properties tend to be gas works or showrooms. The plans cover only parts of the area north of the River Thames. There are no sheets for areas south of the Thames. A later deposit consisted of staff magazines and photographs for both the North Thames Gas Board and the South Eastern Gas Board.

Papers of George Henry Ross Goobey relating to his career in pensions fund management, investments and related advice to businesses and other organisations, attendance at conferences, benevolent and charity work, sports especially golf and his personal life.

The collection is particularly rich in documenting Ross Goobey's involvement in pensions fund management and investments and related institutes and associations.

LMA/4481/A: Records of Imperial Tobacco pension fund scheme and investments; speeches delivered by Ross Goobey in his capacity as pensions fund manager and director; papers and notes on investment subjects including copy of the paper "The place of Ordinary Stocks and Shares in the portfolio of large Funds"

LMA/4481/B: Records from Ross Goobey's executive directorship at Hill Samuel, including copy of conference presentation 'The Investment Scene'; correspondence and advice based on investment philosophy; reports from Western regional office and correspondence between Hill Samuel and Church of Ireland

LMA/4481/C: National Association of Pension Funds Limited (NAPF) conference programmes including draft copies of speeches and presentations delivered by Ross Goobey as both President and delegate; conference pack for 50th Jubilee conference in 1975; itinerary and reports from visit to South Africa; invitations and personal correspondence

LMA/4481/D: Papers relating to Christ's Hospital School including valuation schedules looking at disposition of investments in equity market; Founder's Day dinner programmes for 1958-1986; drafts of speeches and toasts delivered by Ross Goobey; information booklet on the history of Christ's Hospital; minutes of Property and Investments Sub-Committee meetings and papers of the Amicable Society of Blues

LMA/4481/E: Records of actuarial, investment and pensions bodies including conferences attended by Ross Goobey as speaker/delegate; organisations with which he corresponded as guest and advisor, and papers relating to his appearances in television and print media

LMA/4481/F: Papers of other businesses and organisations with which Ross Goobey was involved, including Livery Companies (mainly Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers and Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders); trade associations and institutions; sports organisations; clubs and charities. Correspondence with organisations including copies of talks given by Ross Goobey and associated notes

LMA/4481/G: Personal papers including general correspondence and household and family documents .

This collection contains Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets from Bedfordshire County Council . 'Local Government Pension Scheme summarised report and accounts 1998/99' and 'Bedfordshire Pension Fund summarised report and accounts for April 2006 to March 2007'.

Records of Jane Newell relating to the Maxwell Pensions Unit, comprising annual reports and accounts, general reports on the work of the Maxwell Unit and Trust and training manual.

The collection consists of explanatory booklets issued by the Prudential Assurance Company Limited Pension Scheme.

Lucas Birch day book (1775-1778), Birch and Son and Birch and Birch cash books (1785-1788, 1803-1808, 1813-1818), Ring and Brymer cash books (1856-1876), annual returns (1952-1955), photographs (1954-1989) and also special and state occasion menus books which are catalogued in detail (1910-1983).
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Please note: special and state occasion menus books (1910-1964) remain uncatalogued please see staff for further information.

John Hutchieson's Mirror Group Pension Scheme papers received as employee/pensioner: MGN Pension Trustees Limited pension bulletins, annual reports and circulars with reference to Robert Maxwell scandal (1991 Dec - 1996 May, 1999).