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BATTERSEA BRIDGE
GB 0074 O/265 · Collection · 1842-1871

Records of the Proprietors of Battersea Bridge, 1842-1871, including a copy of a statement on tolls sent to the Committee of Metropolitan Bridges, copies of questions submitted on the Thames Navigation Act 1870 and on Albert Bridge, copy of an agreement and a copy memorial sent to the Examiners of Standing Orders for Private Bills of non-compliance with standing order.

Proprietors of Battersea Bridge
BATTERSEA BRIDGE PROPRIETORS
GB 0074 B/PBB · Collection · 1771-1796

Records of the Proprietors of Battersea Bridge, 1771-1796. The two minute books record the earliest proceedings of the 15 proprietors of Battersea Bridge, and include a list of subscribers and copies of circular letters.

Proprietors of Battersea Bridge
BATTERSEA GENERAL HOSPITAL
H06/BG · Collection · 1915-1937

Records of the Battersea General Hospital, including Board of Management minutes, 1905-1955; Court of Governors minutes, 1946-1949; House Committee minutes, 1924-1971; Finance Committee minutes, 1932-1944; Appeals Committee minutes, 1938-1947; Medical Committee minutes, 1935-1971; copy of the Amended Memorandum and Articles of Association of the hospital, 1935; annual reports, 1943 - 1948; registers of managers of the Hospital, 1930-1947; bundle of legal papers relating to the case The Public Trustee v. The South London Hospital for Women and others (regarding the will of Constance Edith Guerrier on which the hospital were making a claim), 1926-1928 and papers and agreements concerning tenancies of hospital properties and services to hospital, 1915-1937.

Battersea General Hospital xx National Anti-Vivisection Hospital , 1896-1910 xx Anti-Vivisection Hospital, the Battersea General Hospital (Incorporated) , 1910-1935 xx Battersea General Hospital (Incorporated) , 1935-1948
GB 0074 O/216 · Collection · 1827

Share certificate of Charles Edmonds in the Battle Bridge and Holloway Road Company; with excellent seal impression of open carriage drawn by four horses, 1827.

Battle Bridge and Holloway Road Company
GB 0074 ACC/2539 · Collection · 1920-1942

Personal papers of Joseph Baxter, teacher, including essays on 'My Future Life' written by some of his pupils; retirement certificate; and photographs of staff and pupils at unidentified schools.

Baxter , Joseph , fl 1908-1942 , teacher
BAYSWATER SYNAGOGUE
GB 0074 ACC/2712/BWS · Collection · 1850-1984

Records of the Bayswater Synagogue, consisting of administrative files, financial records, reports, photographs, correspondence, a history of the synagogue and membership records including registers of kethubot [marriage contracts] and chalitzah undertakings.

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

Bayswater Synagogue
GB 0074 CLC/B/227-021 · Collection · 1802-1835

Personal account book of Richard Campbell Bazett, partner in Bruce de Ponthieu and Company, merchants and East India agents, listing his income from the partnership.

Bazett , Richard Campbell , fl 1802-1835 , merchant
BCT GRAY AND SONS
GB 0074 CLC/B/023 · Collection · 1846-1906

The archives consist almost entirely of business and partnership correspondence of A.G. Wentworth Gray between 1856 and 1906. They therefore include some private and family material. The firm dealt in a wide variety of goods and cargoes. The records contain references to, inter alia: beef, pork, cocoa, flour, sugar, limes, molasses, rice and timber.

Access to Mss 21409, 21411, 21412 and 21413 is subject to special conditions: for further information please ask a member of staff.

BCT Gray and Sons , merchants
GB 0074 ACC/0027 · Collection · 1576-1844

Legal documents, acquired by the solicitor's office in the course of their work, relating to the Manor of Stanwell, including: abstract of title for the Manor of Stanwell, parties: Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland and John, Earl of Dunmore, 1576-1725; abstract of title for lands in the parish of Stanwell, parties: Richard Willshaw and Lord Dunmore, 1677-1726; abstract of title for arable lands in the common fields of Stanmore, parties: Richard Blunt and the Earl of Dunmore, 1714-1737; abstract of tithe for copyhold lands in Stanwell, some belonging to the Earl of Dunmore, 1712-1780; and memorial of release for lands in the parish of Stanwell, 1736.

Also deed of company to establish a bank, to be called the 'Middlesex and Surrey Bank' at Staines, 1810; marriage settlement for lands in Staines, Highgate, Hornsey and Shenley Bury (Hertfordshire), 1844; copy of probate of will, regarding a house at Stamford Hill belonging to Thomas Gudgeon and copy of information at the Exchequer relating to a prosecution for evasion of stamp duty on bottles of soda water, 1813.

Beachcroft, Hays and Lechward , solicitors
GB 0074 ACC/0267 · Collection · 1737-1890

Papers, 1737-1890, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, including a mortgage, leases, a bond, conveyances and a deed for various properties in Ealing, Edmonton, Hampton Wick and Harrow; copies from court roll of manor of Enfield; various probates and marriage settlements, and declarations of trust and deeds for charities in Great Stanmore.

Beachcroft, Hays and Lechward , solicitors
BEAL, James (1829-1891)
GB 0074 F/BL · Collection · 1846-1889

Personal papers of James Beal, local government reformer. The collection comprises correspondence with and concerning James Beal. Except where stated to the contrary, the letters refer to governmental matters: those in F/BL/12 refer to the presentation made to James Beal for his services to Local Government. The presentation volume includes press cuttings, invitations, menus and similar printed ephemera.

Beal , James , 1829-1891 , local government reformer and activist
BEATON, Maude (fl 1881-1890)
GB 0074 F/BEA · Collection · 1881-1890

Personal papers of Maude Beaton, including bills for Maude's education, school reports, and circulars relating to Maude's further education at South West London College and the College of Preceptors.

Beaton , Maude E , fl 1881-1890 , trainee teacher
GB 0074 LMA/4245 · Collection · 1638-1866

Records of the Beauclerk family relating to property in Hanworth, Feltham, Hounslow, Hampton, Isleworth, Heston, Westminster, Chelsea, Brompton, and Buckinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Cheshire. The records include rentals and tenancy accounts; title deeds; property transactions; extracts from court rolls; bonds; legal opinions and leases.

Beauclerk , Vere , 1699-1781 , Baron Vere of Hanworth , naval officer and politician
GB 0074 A/BFY · Collection · 1851-1946

Records of the Beaufoy Trust, including minutes, financial accounts and letters. Also minute book of the Hill, Eldon and Francis Foundation.

Lambeth Ragged Schools Society The Beaufoy Trusts Eldon School , Lambeth
GB 0074 ACC/1462 · Collection · 1790-1948

Papers, 1790-1948, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Acton, Ealing, Edmonton, Sunbury, Shepperton, Islington, and East Barnet; including abstract of titles, conveyances, mortgages, agreements, sales particulars, leases and releases. Also papers of the Uwins and Hobbs families, including documents relating to property, correspondence, and papers relating to marriages and deaths.

Beaumont and Sons , solicitors
GB 0074 ACC/1404 · Collection · 1811-1893

Papers, 1811-1893, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Cowley, Hillingdon and Edgware, including leases, releases and conveyances. Also grant of grave space in Harmondsworth to Francis Pitt Wood and wife Anna Maria 4, Delamere Street, Paddington.

Beaumont and Sons , solicitors
GB 0074 ACC/3167 · Collection · 1803-1901

Account books of the Beaumont family of Pinner, wheelwrights, 1803-1901. Also article on the account books, 1992.

Beaumont , family , of Pinner
GB 0074 A/BPP · Collection · 1812-1953

Records of the Beaumont Philosophical Institution and the People's Palace, consisting largely of minutes. There are also reports, letters, accounts, programmes, press cuttings and The Palace Journal, volume I, Nos. 1-16.

Beaumont Philosophical Institution People's Palace , Mile End Road
N/C/63 · Collection · 1877-1978

Church Books containing various entries including history of chapel, minutes of Church Meetings, roll of members, marriages and baptisms, 1878-1934; membership rolls, 1902-1949; Deacon's Meeting minute books, 1878-1952; minutes of the Building Committee, 1884-1889; minutes of the Finance Committee, 1896-1916; Church Meeting minutes, 1934-1954; Missionary Committee minutes, 1911-1965; general correspondence, 1902-1912; financial accounts, 1877-1914; annual reports, 1879-1910; printed items including notices, hymn sheets, appeals, handbills, programmes, brochures and histories, 1877-1998; newspaper cuttings, 1906-1928; The Outlook monthly magazine, 1930-1954; papers regarding the Church centenary, 1978 and photographs of ministers, staff and the interior and exterior of the Church, 1877-1930.

Congregational Church of England and Wales
N/C/16 · Collection · 1888-1905

Records of Bedford Congregational Chapel, Camden, including minutes of meetings of Deacons and Finance Committee, 1888-1896; Church Meetings minutes, 1892-1905 and Deacon's Court minute book, 1896-1905.

Congregational Church of England and Wales
BEDFORD CHARITY
GB 0074 CLC/129 · Collection · 1767

Demise by the trustees of the Bedford Charity to Richard Morgan, mason, of a messuage in Harpur Street.

The Bedford Charity x The Harpur Trust
BEDFORD (DUKE OF)
GB 0074 E/BER · Collection · 1552-1922

Records of the estates of the Russell family, Dukes of Bedford, in Covent Garden, Streatham and Rotherhithe, 16th to 19th Century. These records are of properties no longer owned by the Bedford Estate and none of them relate to Bloomsbury. The papers include title deeds, leases, abstracts of title, surveys, valuations, maps, plans, rentals, financial accounts, correspondence, legal papers, printed items, papers relating to Covent Garden market and Rotherhithe docks.

Russell , family , Dukes of Bedford
BEDFORD, G
GB 0074 E/BED · Collection · 1829-1857

Records of G Bedford, including apprenticeship indentures, leases, assignments, marriage settlement, mortgage and other documents relating to property. The properties mentioned are situated across London, including Hanover Square, Soho, Golden Square, Grosvenor Square, and Hackney.

Various.
BEDFORDSHIRE PENSION FUND
GB 0074 LMA/4484 · Collection · 1998-2007

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'.

Bedfordshire County Council
GB 0074 ACC/1373 · Collection · 1821-1847

Papers, 1821-1847, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease for parcel of ground (measurements and abuttals given) at north west corner of White Conduit Fields, Islington and declaration of trust for the same premises at White Conduit Fields as well as a parcel of land and two messuages on north side of Speldhurst Street, Sandhills, Saint Pancras, both premises owned by George Dawe and Mary Margaret Dawe, of Saint Petersburg; and administration with will annexed of Samuel Serle, late of Brentford, commander in maritime service, East India Company.

Beechcroft, Hay and Ledward , solicitors
BELASYSE, Lady Anne (d 1694)
GB 0074 ACC/1183 · Collection · 1612-1695

Inventory of Lady Anne Belasyse's goods and monies taken in her houses in Whitton, Middlesex, Great Queen Street, St. Giles in the Fields, and St James's Square, Westminster, on 13 and 14 September 1694 and on 5 February 1694/5.

The remainder of the volume is an incomplete inventory, ca. 1612 to 1642, of the goods of an un-named sheep farmer. The location of his property is not disclosed but from internal evidence it is unlikely to be in Middlesex and probably is in north west Berkshire.

Belasyse , Lady , Anne , d 1694 , noblewoman
BELGRAVIA DAIRY COMPANY
GB 0074 ACC/3361 · Collection · 1925-1931

Records of the Belgravia Dairy Company, comprising financial ledgers, 1925-1931.

Belgravia Dairy Company
GB 0074 ACC/2951 · Collection · 1877

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deed to receive royalties on manufacture of bricks on land near Southall, Hayes, with plan, 1877.

Belmont and Lowe , solicitors
BELMONT SYNAGOGUE
GB 0074 LMA/4280 · Collection · 1954-2002

Records of the Belmont Synagogue, covering the whole range of activities undertaken by the Synagogue. In particular, the administration is well represented with minutes, agendas and correspondence from all the main committees; the Council of Management, Membership, Building Fund, Ladies Guild, Parents Association, Education and Social Activity Group.

Information on the religious life can be gleaned from files on Rabbi selection, Bat Chayil Ceremony, Yom Naroim and the Sefer Torah as well as from the substantial photographic collection which also presents a good picture of the social side of the community.

PLEASE NOTE that written permission from the depositors is required to access this collection.

Belmont Synagogue
GB 0074 CLC/031 · Collection · 1858-1892

Minute book of the Benevolent Slop Cutters' Burial Institution.

Benevolent Slop Cutters' Burial Institution x Clothier Cutters' Society
GB 0074 ACC/2895 · Collection · 1784-1936

Records of the Benevolent Society of St Patrick, including annual reports; newspaper cuttings; correspondence and drawings.

Benevolent Society of St Patrick
ACC/1850-20 · Collection · 1933-1940

Records of Benledi Street School Chapel, Poplar, comprising Trust Treasurer's account book 1933-1940.

Methodist Church of Great Britain x United Methodist Church x Wesleyan Methodist Church x Primitive Methodist Church
BENNETT
GB 0074 ACC/2162 · Collection · 1689-1869

Papers relating to property ownership for premises in London, Middlesex and Westminster, 1689-1875 and papers relating to court proceedings, 1776-1869, including King's Bench and Chancery.

Various.
GB 0074 CLC/B/227-023 · Collection · 1899-1947

Records of R. A. Bennett and Company, stockjobbers, comprising credit balance sheets, 1899-1924, and copies of annual revenue accounts, 1934-1947.

R. A. Bennett and Co , stockjobbers
BENYON FAMILY
GB 0074 E/BVR · Collection · 1551-1961

Papers, 1551-1950, of the Benyon family, including records of the de Beauvoir estate in Hackney, Shoreditch and elsewhere, and including references to several families including the de Beauvoir, Macdougall, Tyssen and Whitmore families.

The first deposit comprises:
Manor of Hoxton and Balmes (Hackney and Shoreditch): deeds, 1551-1723, largely 17th century, also relating to some property in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (Ref: E/BVR/1-28);
De Beauvoir Town (Hackney): rent books, 1830-1950, for properties in the area bounded by Regent's Canal in the south, Kingsland Road in the east, Ball's Pond Road in the North, and Southgate Road in the West, also notebooks concerning rents, 1829-1845, and a Trust account book of the late Rev Peter Beauvoir, 1821-1843 (Ref: E/BVR/29-193);
accounts, 1857-1859, 1867-1950, and associated records concerning the estate and its administration, including correspondence, 1821-1935 (Ref: E/BVR/194-286);
Tyssen estate: manor of Hackney Lordshold, Kingshold and Grumbolds: correspondence, accounts, etc, 1746-1820, concerning administration of the estate, also mentioning Hackney church (Ref: E/BVR/287-346);
Piccadilly estate (St Martin in the Fields): deeds (copies), 1623-1676 (Ref: E/BVR/347-358);
Haymarket properties (St Martin in the Fields): deeds: Macdougall family papers, 1632-1821 (Ref: E/BVR/359-399);
Pall Mall properties (St Martin in the Fields and St James, Westminster): deeds, 1660-1812 (Ref: E/BVR/400-411);
Redcross Street (St Giles, Cripplegate) properties: deeds, 1669-1755, including one item, a note c1700, relating to property in Acton (Middlesex) (Ref: E/BVR/412-418);
Vauxhall estate: rental, including record of rents received, 1758-1821, and list of deeds, 1694-1822, concerning this estate, copyhold to the Manor of Kennington (Ref: E/BVR/419);
Maps, plans and engravings, 1831-1879 and undated {19th century}, including printed, manuscript and lithographed items, largely of Hackney and Shoreditch, including De Beauvoir Town, some including details of settlement and other information as well as property ownership (Ref: E/BVR/420-428).

The second deposit comprises:
Manor of Hoxton and Balmes (Hackney and Shoreditch): deeds, 1627, 1773 (Ref: E/BVR/429-431);
'Essex' rental, 1839-1907, including also De Beauvoir Town, Haymarket and Vauxhall (Ref: E/BVR/432);
De Beauvoir Town: estate papers etc, 1869-1900 (Ref: E/BVR/433-437);
correspondence and papers, 1867-1906, relating to St Peter's Church parish matters and church fabric, and an original watercolour of the church, 1842 (Ref: E/BVR/438-446);
Piccadilly estate: case for opposition to rate for cleaning Piccadilly and Park Lane, 1809 (Ref: E/BVR/447);
Haymarket: rentals, 1903 (Ref: E/BVR/448).

The third deposit comprises:
Hoxton: deed, 1551 (Ref: E/BVR/449);
Manor of Balmes: deeds, 1626, 1634 (Ref: E/BVR/450-453);
Estate accounts: De Beauvoir Town vouchers for various payments, 1831-1852, including work on the new church, De Beauvoir Town; vouchers for repairs etc, 1921-1933; correspondence and statement of accounts of the estates' London solicitor and agent, 1838-1917 (Ref: E/BVR/454-496);
No 27 Grosvenor Square: lease, 1911 (Ref: E/BVR/497);
West Hackney Church: correspondence with the Bishop of London re proposed church, 1838 (Ref: E/BVR/498).

The fourth deposit comprises: Valuation and accounts for the De Beauvoir Town estate (Ref: E/BVR/499-501).

Benyon , family , of Hackney and Englefield
BERESFORD HAYWOOD ESTATE
E/BHF · 1873-1953

Collection of deeds, correspondence, and plans relating to premises in Kensington and Southwark.

Untitled
BERESFORD HAYWOOD ESTATE
GB 0074 E/BHF · Collection · 1873-1902

Collection of deeds, correspondence, and plans relating to premises in Kensington and Southwark.

Various.
BERKELEY (EARL OF)
GB 0074 ACC/0867 · Collection · 1805-1960

Papers of the Berkeley family including plans of family estates in St George Hanover Square, Cranford, Harlington, and Hillingdon; and pedigree of the Earls of Berkeley and the Barony of Fitzhardinge.

Berkeley , family , of Gloucestershire
BERKELEY FAMILY AND ESTATES
GB 0074 ACC/0530 · Collection · 1491-1838

Papers relating to the Berkeley family estates in Middlesex and London. Please note that the original records in this collection are now held at the archives in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire and only microfilm copies can be viewed at LMA.

The documents relate to the Manors of Cranford, Harlington, East Bedfont, and Heston and to property in Harlington and Saint James's Park. They include Court rolls and books, rentals, financial accounts and other papers.

Berkeley , family , of Gloucestershire
BERKELEY FAMILY AND ESTATES
GB 0074 ACC/2599 · Collection · 1688-1940

Papers relating to the Berkeley family estates in Cranford and Harlington. Please note that the original records in this collection are now held at the archives in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire and only microfilm copies can be viewed at LMA.

The records include court rolls, minutes, rentals, particulars and other papers for the Manor of Cranford and the Manor of Harlington with Shepiston.

Berkeley , family , of Gloucestershire
BBG · Collection · 1836-1934

Records of the Bermondsey Poor Law Union, 1836-1934, including minutes of meetings and reports of the Board of Guardians and various Committees including Visiting Committees; regulations relating to the staff and inmates of institutions; orders of the Board; workhouse dietary tables; orders and correspondence from the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health; contracts, tenders and specifications for building work and supplies; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; orders for the reception of lunatics; notices of death, discharge or removal of lunatics; medical reports on paupers and lunatics; case papers of persons emigrating to Canada; papers relating to medical arrangements; registers for the Rotherhithe Workhouse, Saint Olave's Workhouse on Parish Street, Bermondsey Workhouse on Tanner Street and Saint Anne's Home; registers of children in receipt of outdoor relief; registers of children at schools or homes; papers relating to aid work during the First World War including registration of refugees; financial accounts; staff records and plans of the Bermondsey Workhouse on Tanner Street, the Rotherhithe Infirmary, Shirley Schools and children's home The Hawthorns; map of the parishes in the Union.

Bermondsey Poor Law Union x Saint Olave's Poor Law Union x Bermondsey Board of Guardians Saint Mary Magdalen Board of Guardians
BERNEY FAMILY
GB 0074 LMA/4301 · Collection · 1799

Papers of the Berney family, comprising deed for the transfer of estates including land in Barbados and slave lists, 1799; and transcript, 2000.

Berney , family
BERRIDGE, Richard (d 1887)
GB 0074 ACC/1406 · Collection · 1801-1937

Papers concerning the property and estate of Richard Berridge of Bloomsbury, including papers relating to money left to various charities and institutions, and the executorship of Charles Tomkins.

Berridge , Richard , d 1887 , landowner and brewer
BERWIN LEIGHTON {SOLICITORS}
GB 0074 ACC/3183 · Collection · 1877-1970

Papers, 1877-1970, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to No.1 (formerly No. 10) The Mall, Uxbridge Road, Ealing.

Berwin Leighton , solicitors
GB 0074 O/248 · Collection · 1800?-1899?

Advertisement of John Besford, supplier of patterns and drawings for needlework and netting silk, dated to the 19th century.

Besford , John , needlework pattern supplier
BETHLEM HOSPITAL
CLA/065 · Collection · 1675-1859

Records of Bethlem Hospital, 1675-1859, including printed notice, issued by the Governors, seeking subscriptions for the erection of a new hospital in St. George's Fields and other papers relating to the removal to St. George's Fields; instructions for persons applying for the admission of patients into Bethlem Hospital, 1859; rules and orders of Bethlem Hospital, 1854; various other administrative papers.

Corporation of London
BEBG · Collection · 1836-1935

Records of the Bethnal Green Poor Law Union, 1836-1935, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; orders and correspondence from the Poor Law Board, Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers and annual returns of lunatics; registers from the Waterloo Road Workhouse, Well Street Workhouse and Infirmary; registers of children at the Leytonstone Home; case histories for pauper children; financial accounts; staff records and plans of Waterloo House and the chapel at Bethnal Green Hospital (the former Workhouse Infirmary).

Bethnal Green Poor Law Union x Bethnal Green Board of Guardians
BETHNAL GREEN CONSTITUENCY
ACC/2662 · Collection · 1964-1966

Register of electors for Bethnal Green Constituency compiled October 1964, in force February 1965 - February 1966.

Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green
GB 0074 A/PLC · Collection · 1677-1940

Records of the Bethnal Green Poor Lands Trust including deeds of title; appointments of new trustees; leases and counterpart leases; minutes of the trustees; orders of the Charity Commissioners; accounts; correspondence and case papers; records of pensioners and printed copies of the 1690 foundation deed.

Bethnal Green Poor Lands Trust