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Papers of the North Thames Gas Board, comprising records of predecessor companies, including the Brentford Gas Light Company, the Gas Light and Coke Company, Harrow and District Gas Company, the Harrow and Stanmore Gas Company, North Middlesex Gas Company, Pinner Gas Company, Uxbridge Old Gas Company, the Hornsey Gas Company Limited, and Staines and Egham District Gas and Coke Company Limited, 1708-1947. Records include assignments of interest, leases, releases, fines, copies of wills, mortgages, papers relating to bankruptcy, conveyances, depositions, agreements, deeds, marriage settlements, testimony, bonds, quit rents, correspondence, abstracts of title, Chancery proceedings, sale particulars, licences, engineers reports, Parliamentary Bills and financial accounts for properties, businesses and persons in Acton, Brentford, Ealing, Chiswick, Greenford, Harrow, Hendon, Heston, Hornsey, Isleworth, Northwood, Pinner, Southall, Tottenham, Twickenham and Uxbridge. Also memorandum and articles of association for the Hornsey Gas Company, description of the Hornsey Gas Works, and regulations of the Staines and Egham District Gas and Coke Company Limited.

Papers of the Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Consumers Company, 1834-1924, including prospectus; certificates of registration; deed of settlement; list of shareholders; copy of Uxbridge Gas Act; correspondence; petition; handbills and posters; circular letters; notices; bonds; contracts; plan of the houses, lands and buildings situated within a radius of 330 yards from the works of the Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Consumers Company, with book of reference listing owners, lessees and occupiers; schedule of repairs; valuation of machinery and apparatus; list of meters; financial accounts; engineers reports; directors' reports; annual reports; agreement for transfer of Maidenhead Gas Company; report of the directors of Great Marlow Gas Company Limited, with account of intended amalgamation with the Uxbridge, Wycombe and District Gas Company; minute books of the Committee of Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Consumers' Company.

Papers of the North Middlesex Gas Company, 1869-1932, including printed account books and reports of the Company.

Papers of the Gas Light and Coke Company, 1896-1929, including agreement between the Warden and College of All Souls, Oxford and the Gas Light and Coke Company to lay gas main through College lands in Willesden and leases of 38 Oxford Road, Kilburn to the Gas Light and Coke Company.

Administrative records of predecessors of the North Thames Gas Board, 1695-1948, including:

• City of London Gas Light and Coke Company
• Equitable Gas Light Company
• Great Central Gas Consumers Company
• Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company
• Independent Gas Light and Coke Company
• London Gas Light Company
• North Woolwich Undertaking
• Western (Cannel) Gas Light Company
• Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company
• Ratcliff Gas Light and Coke Company

Please see the sub-fonds entry for each company for more information.

Records of predecessors of the North Thames Gas Company, 1821-1949, comprising minute books of the Harrow and Stanmore Gas Company; Hornsey Gas Company; North Middlesex Gas Company; Pinner Gas Company; Staines, Egham and District Gas Company; Sunbury Gas Company and Uxbridge and Hillingdon Gas Company. Also papers relating to the Brentford Gas Company purchase of the Sunbury Gas Consumers Company, the Staines and Egham District Gas and Coke Company, the Harrow and Stanmore Gas Company and the Richmond Gas Company.

Records of the City of London Gas Light and Coke Company comprising minutes and correspondence only; and records of the Great Central Gas Consumers' Company comprising minutes, letterbooks and constitutional documents.

Records of the North Thames Regional Health Authority and predecessors, 1944-1995. This collection includes minutes, agendas and papers of the Health Authority/Health Board and various committees including the Nurse Training Committee; Hospital Management Committee; University Liaison Committee; Dental Committee; Nursing and Midwifery Committee; Optical Committee; Manpower Committee; Appointments Advisory Committee; District Pharmaceutical Managers; Senior Registrar's Joint Advisory Committee; Chief Nursing Officers Group.

Also press cuttings, regional circulars, financial accounts; photographs and reports.

Records of the North West France Anglican Chaplaincy comprising register of services and register of baptisms and burials.

Records of the North West Kent Coroner's District, comprising case papers, 1951-1965.

Records of the North West London Jewish Day School including administrative records for the school dating from 1944, which includes minutes and reports from various school committees, staff and pupil records, correspondence, Parents Association material and records related to the building and its history.

Finance records cover end of year accounts, fundraising and school contribution fees

North West London Jewish Day School deposited a large number of photographs, both physical and digital records. These have been organised by topic and depict the school's many activities, including competitions, sports events and fundraising.

Minutes of Executive Committee, 1925-1952; minutes of Quarterly Meetings, 1952-1966; minutes of Circuit Finance and Invitation Committee, including minutes of General Purposes Committee, 1958-1967; Circuit Stewards account book, 1955-1966; financial statements, 1939-1959; circuit plans, 1949-1978.

Also records of the Horace Jones Trust including correspondence, 1934-1958; letters from London County Council Education Officer concerning the Medal Fund, 1964; prospectus, 1938; accounts, 1963-1965 and letter to Mr Chippendale, Secretary of the Horace Jones Charity, from the Reverend Bodo Schwabe concerning Free Church Chaplaincy, 1970.

Records of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, including minutes and papers of the Board; National Hospital Reserve Sub-Committee; Establishment Committee; Medical Staffing Sub-Committee; Nursing Sub-Committee; Finance Committee; Finance Committee Investments Sub-Committee; Drugs Expenditure Sub-Committee; Medical Advisory Committee; Planning Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Building, Land and Works Sub-Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Clinical Research Sub-Committee; Mental Health Committee; Planning and General Purposes Committee Mental Health Sub-committee and Steering Committee.

North West Metropolitan Regional Committees including minutes and papers of the North West Metropolitan Area Nurse Training Committee; North West Metropolitan Area Nurse Training Committee Finance Sub-Committee; Joint Consultative Committee for Inner London Hospitals in the North West Metropolitan Hospital Region minutes and papers; Joint Working Group of the Metropolitan Joint Consultative Committees; North West Metropolitan Hospital Regional Staff Advisory Committee, and the Regional Staff Committee.

North West Thames Regional Health Authority minutes and Departmental Records, including papers of the Regional Centres for Specialised Treatment; Major Accidents Procedure; Joint Consultative Committee for Inner London Hospitals; Planning: Central London Area and Planning: Regional Joint Liaison Committee for transfer to new authorities.

National Hospital Service Reserve, including papers of Mrs Grieb, Regional Coordinating Officer comprising scrapbook and photographs.

Case registers from the North Western Hospital, Hampstead, 1896-1948, providing the following information - number, date of admission, name, sex, age, address, parish or area, disease certified on admission, disease diagnosed in hospital (except for the 1st register), complications, and date of discharge, transfer or death.

Records of the North Woolwich Undertaking, comprising papers relating to a messuage called "the Gallions" and 115 acres in North Woolwich, and 10 acres in the parish of Barking, 1774-1801.

Survey of the water mains of the New River Company in the grounds of the Earl of Northampton in Clerkenwell and Islington, 1798.

The records of the Marquess of Northampton's London Estates in Holloway and Canonbury form a considerable collection of material from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries relating to the development of Islington.

Estate Records (E/NOR/E): These relate almost entirely to the Northampton Estates in London in Clerkenwell and Canonbury, Islington. There is a fine series of eighteenth century rentals and accounts which extend into the twentieth century. These can be used in conjunction with the leases and maps in E/NOR/L.

Also included in this section are records of Estate administration in the twentieth century, relating to legislation under the Housing Acts of 1925, 1930 and the Town and Country Planning Act 1947, together with more local orders by Finsbury Justices. In particular, there is a lot of material relating to the Clearance of the Northampton Road area in the 1930s and the building of new flats in Canonbury via the Compton Housing Association in the same decade. By 1954 at least part of the Canonbury Estate had been sold by the Northampton trustees to property companies Western Ground Rents and the Oriel Property Trust.

The development of the Canonbury Estate is outlined in the Victoria County History of Middlesex vol VIII pp 54,55.

Leases (E/NOR/L): There are a number of schedules of leases giving an insight into the running of the Estates in the nineteenth century; these are complemented by the Maps of Estates which vary in date from 1809 to 1947 (E/NOR/L/2), the maps in the Map and Print Section of the LMA, and Estate Records mentioned above.

The leases have been split into two groups: one covering the geographical area of Clerkenwell (E/NOR/L/3) and one covering Canonbury (E/NOR/L/4). They include documents from all forms of transfer of property and other related records: bargain and sale, demises, assignments, abstracts of title, building agreements, mortgages. Most of these have been kept in original bundles where possible.

For ease of access the leases have been listed in alphabetical order of streets and within each street by the numbered property. An attempt has been made to give alternative street names. Similarly cross references to properties mentioned in other deeds have been added. However, it has not been possible (or considered necessary) to produce a totally comprehensive appendix of street numbering changes. Individual instances of street numbering can be further clarified by reference to the LCC's published Names of Streets and Places and the accompanying list of Street Naming and Numbering records in the Catalogue Room.

Many of the nineteenth century leases have plans on them, but a number of separate plans of buildings are included separately at the end of the leases section (E/NOR/L/5).

Among the leases of Clerkenwell properties belonging to the Marquess of Northampton are the London Spa, Wilmington Square, Exmouth Market, the Sheep Skin Market at Woods Close, and Northampton Square.

Canonbury leases include Canonbury Tower, Canonbury House, Canonbury Square and Northampton House. Pevsner describes Canonbury as "especially illuminating for the development of domestic building in London."

Other Records: Apart from the Estate Records there are a number of significant small collections and individual items in this archive.

The Sheep Skin Market run by the Skinners Company in Woods Close is documented by three volumes of market books 1754-1772 (E/NOR/S/1-3).

Among items of local historical interest there are photographs of Canonbury (E/NOR/X) and a small amount of printed material on Clerkenwell including a History of Spa Fields Burial Ground (E/NOR/Y/2), and a sketch of Finsbury Health Centre (E/NOR/Y/7).

Away from Clerkenwell and Canonbury, there are some records concerning the Northampton family's involvement in the Ragged School at Hertford Place, Mile End Old Town (E/NOR/R) and the Northampton Training Ship (E/NOR/Y/8).

Records of the Northern Assurance Company Limited, comprising general minute books, directors' minute books, and Fire Offices' Committee (Foreign) minute books.

Records held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Northern Dooars Tea Company Limited records comprise: memorandum and articles of association, 1961 (Ms 27903); directors' and shareholders' meeting minutes 1899-1954 (Ms 27904-5); and accounts 1899-1970 (Ms 27906-8).

The collection contains Pension Scheme Explanatory Booklets; 'Central Electricity Authority and Area Boards (Manual Workers) Superannuation Scheme Explanatory Booklet' (1956) [facsimile copy]; 'Electricity Supply (Staff) Superannuation Scheme Explanatory Booklet' (1956) [facsimile copy] and 'Electricity Supply Pension Scheme Northern Electric Group Members Guide (2005).

The collection includes minutes (with the exception of three volumes for 1837-1843, 1866-1884 and 1896-1905 which are noted as missing in the later minute books), rules and papers from the society including reference to insuring the society silver and stories from members.

The minutes are very detailed and provide an exception insight into the pawnbroking trade; shared stories reflect concerns of the time. There are accounts of losing money on pledges, bulgaries, fraud as well as discussions on the impact of legislation on the business and the state of the trade generally. References to the type of items being pawned also show the changing value of goods over the period of time.

The minutes cover both the First World War and the Second World War and show how the pawnbroking businesses were affected during these period of time, for example during the First World War it was recorded in October 1916 that one member raised the question of whether field glasses could be taken in pledge, in February 1919 a discussion was had on the effects of demobelisation and wages and in March of 1920 they discussion the issue of being offered firearms as a pledge items and how one member had recently sold to the Ministry of Munitions two army revolvers.

The Second World War saw meetings abandoned for a short time with members raising concerns about holding what could be deemed as a 'social gathering' in war time being recorded in the February of 1940 and in May 1941 there are detailed discussions between the members concerning the effect of fire, caused by air raids on jewellery and valuables in safes which was following the next month by discussions of the position of pawnbrokers regarding war damage insurance in respect of goods that they were holding on pledge. An entry from November 1941 shows the effect of not wrapping purchased goods when a member, Mr Norris remarked that the about of pilfering by the public in the sales shops had increased since the order prohibiting the use of paper for wrapping up goods sold to customers which meant that it was not easy to detect thieving as there was noting to show at a glance whether the article had been purchased or not.

Records of the manor of Isleworth Syon, including court rolls, court books, court minutes and papers, property transaction licences and general papers.

Records of the manor of East Bedfont with Hatton Manor, including court rolls, court books, court minutes and papers, call papers and appearance papers.

Registers of marriages, 1942-1969.

Papers of the Northwick family relating to their estates in Harrow, including documents relating to property ownership and legal papers for premises in Sudbury, Alperton, Roxeth, Pinner, Wembley, and Preston.

Records of the Manor of Harrow alias Sudbury, including court books (court leet and court baron); minute book and custumal. Records of the Manor of Harrow Rectory, including court books (court leet and court baron) and minute book. Records of both manors including quit rent books; account books; steward's papers; voters lists and enclosure records. Also sales particulars for premises at Roxeth, Alperton and Northolt.

Papers of the Northwick family relating to the manors of Harrow alias Sudbury and Harrow Rectory alias Harrow-on-the-Hill, including court rolls, financial accounts, rentals, surveys, papers relating to the livings and churches of Harrow and Pinner, papers relating to Harrow School, family papers including correspondence, and papers relating to property owned by the family in Bloomsbury, Shoreditch, the City of London, and Paddington.

Records of Northwood Methodist Church, Oaklands Gate, including register of baptisms, 1905-1985; membership registers, 1975-1980; minutes of annual general meetings and secretary's annual reports for the Men's Circle, 1960-1964; financial accounts, 1905-1985; Trustees' Meeting minute book, 1896-1922; architectural plans, 1963-1975; Minister's correspondence concerning local ministry, manse facilities and local area, 1975; Overseas Missions Committee minute book, 1964-1982; Women's Work Committee minute books, 1956-1990; Men's Circle accounts and subscriptions book; 1955-1976; Prayer fellowship minute book; 1978-1984; illustrated leaflet on church activities, 1960s; historical notes, lists of ministers and related correspondence, 1977-1992; printed material, plans and related correspondence regarding church bazaar, including correspondence with Middlesex County Council regarding licensing, 1928-1955; Jubilee Souvenir booklet, 1946; Monthly newsletters, 1954-1971 and photographs of church exterior, 20th century.

Registers of marriages, 1926-1965.

Records of Notting Hill Synagogue including correspondence, members lists, building documentation, minute books and accounts.

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

Brochure advertising cart lamps which accord with bye-laws, 1897-1898.

Records of the Nuddea Mills Company, comprising memorandum and articles of association.

Records of the Oakhill Brewery Company Limited, comprising annual general meeting minute books and agendas.

Marriage registers for Oaklands Congregational Church, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, 1925-1970.

Records of Oaklands Congregational Church and Askew Road Methodist Church including minutes and financial records, membership and photographs.

Records of Oaklands Congregational Church and Askew Road Methodist Church including minutes and administrative records and finance.

Records of Oaklands Congregational Church, Uxbridge Road, Hammersmith including records of clubs and societies, orders of service and music at the church.

Business and social correspondence of Edward Oates, attorney, of Leeds and Furnival's Inn.

Collection consists of the Occupational Pensions Defence Union's newsletter 'OPDU Report' (issue 7 missing).

Records of the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation Limited, comprising Board minutes, Accident Department minutes, Guarantee Department minutes, and annual general meeting minutes.

Records of the Ocean and General Guarantee Company Limited, comprising Board minute books.

They are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of the Ocean Marine Insurance Company Limited, comprising minutes and agendas only. These records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Records of Octagon Brewery Limited, including Directors' minute book; Board agenda book; Annual and other general meeting minutes, including reports and accounts; register of seals and wages book.

Records relating to properties in Charles Street, Hampstead Road, Saint Pancras, including leases, assignments and mortgages.

Printed memorandum from Office of Works and Public Buildings about the Longford River, brought from Colne to supply Hampton Court Palace, including maps.

Census of distribution maps for Staines and Potters Bar, 1969.

The archive consists of the official working papers of the Chief Rabbinate from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Files, volumes, bundles of papers, photographs, prints, video tapes, publications and leaflets make up the bulk of the collection. The Chief Rabbis represented in this collection are Nathan Adler (1868-1901), Hermann Adler (1868-1921), Joseph Hertz (1899-1946), Israel Brodie (1917-1967), Immanuel Jakobovits (1913-1992) and Jonathan Sacks (1988-2004). Also included are some papers of the Deputy for the Chief Rabbi, Harris Lazarus (1942-1950).

The archive is primarily concerned with the activities of the Chief Rabbinate. Because of the cosmopolitan nature of the office there are files on Jewish congregations overseas which are of interest, also some papers on the Holocaust and its immediate aftermath (ACC/2805/06/05/1-11). The varying interests of individual Chief Rabbis are reflected in the collection: for instance Immanuel Jakobovits' role in Jewish medical ethics.

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

General records of the Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, including letter books; appointment books; statistics; minutes of the Chief Rabbinate Council; minutes, correspondence and proceedings of the Conference of Anglo-Jewish Preachers; papers of the Provincial Jewish Ministers Fund including correspondence, minutes, financial accounts and reports of inspections of Hebrew classes; orders of service for national and royal occasions, synagogue foundations, consecrations, jubilees and anniversaries; funerals and memorials, marriages, Holocaust memorials, and dedications of hospitals and schools; and photographs. ACC/2805/01/110 records the results of the survey into Hebrew Congregations in the British Empire commissioned by Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler soon after he took office.

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

Records of Offord Road Congregational Chapel comprising register of marriages, 1899 - 1917; accounts ledgers, 1900-1934; annual reports, 1922-1923 and plan and elevation of new entrance to school, 1905.

Collection of various legal and financial records, including papers regarding court proceedings, receipts, notes, assignment, insurance policy, bonds and papers relating to chemists and druggists, including letters requesting supplies and a trade card. The documents refer to locations in Covent Garden and the City of London.

Papers relating to Old Ford Methodist Church, including correspondence relating to the construction of the church and the appointment of trustees, 1870-1920; deeds, 1868-1910; insurance policies, 1880-1896; register of baptisms, 1871-1925 and minute books of meetings of Trustees, 1871-1976.

Papers relating to Old Mahogany Bar Methodist Church, Graces Alley, Wellclose Square, comprising publicity material including annual reports and anniversary programmes, 1929-1956, including pamphlet entitled "Sixty Eight Glorious Years for Christ. The Story of the Old Mahogany Bar (East End Mission)" by the Reverend Lesley E Day, 1956.

Records of Old Street Magistrates Court, 1905-1980, including court registers; Married Women Act orders; Guardianship of Infants Act orders; bastardy complaints and bastardy arrears complaints.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.

A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.