Papers, 1855-1897, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in The Park, Ealing, including conveyances, mortgage and abstract of title. Also papers of George Hill of Millwall, including leases, probates of will, assignments, conveyances and mortgage.
Sem títuloPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising abstract of title of Edmondsons Limited to freehold land in Edmonton, including plans, 1871-1906.
Sem títuloRecords of the National Light and Heat Company, comprising mounted facsimile of programme for admission to meeting at 97 Pall Mall to establish the National Light and Heat Company, to exploit F A Winsor's hydrocarbonic lights. Facsimile undated, original item 1807.
Sem títuloDiaries of Anthony Heap, 1928-1985. The intention of the diarist does not seem to have been to record all the details of his life nor of the world around him. Some major world events are noted, and it is possible to derive some idea of life in London during the Second World War though not of the progress of that war. He recorded the deaths of statesmen and of people connected with the theatre of whom he wrote brief obituaries. He also recorded strikes and similar national events. From the 1960s the increasing cost of living receives frequent comment. Local and national elections are noted.
On the personal side the events which the diarist recorded, apart from reviews of performances and books, fall into a few main categories. He recorded expenditure and savings; his physical ailments (including the near-fatal attack of peritonitis which led to him being in hospital at the outbreak of war and which, with a later rupture, rendered him unfit for military service); the scouting and outdoor activities which he pursued as a youth and young man; his friendships, both male and (far fewer) female, and his family; and the weather.
From 1937 (Acc 2243/10) the diaries are kept in bound notebooks which the diarist paginated. The diarist recorded his attempts to secure a supply of these. The first diary is a pocket diary (Acc 2243/1) issued by Henekys Ltd., wine merchants, and the Sound and third (Acc 2243/2-3) Boy Scouts pocket diaries. Those for 1931-1932 are bound notebooks (Acc 2243/4-5) and those for 1933-1936 (Acc 2243/6-9) are Letts's office desk diaries. The first and second diaries are written in pencil, the third in ink, and the fourth and fifth in ink and indelible pencil. All the others are in ink. Every diary has been covered in brown paper by the diarist. All are in very good condition. There is evidence that the diarist corrected some entries throughout (usually spelling) but it is not known when.
Sem títuloRecords of Camwal Limited, soft drinks manufacturers, including price structure policy papers; sales meetings papers; papers relating to the merger with Cantrell and Cochrane; trade returns; and papers on the proposed sale of Cantrell and Cochrane (Southern) Limited to Schweppes.
Sem títuloProperty records from the Dartford Brewery Company Limited, comprising insurance register for licensed premises; premises repair order book and tenants' dilapidations ledger.
Sem títuloFinancial records of Royal Brewery Brentford Limited, including loans and deposits accounts; general ledger; audited profit and loss accounts; invoices and bank account books.
Sem títuloPremises records of the Camden Brewery Company Limited, including correspondence regarding the brewery site; papers relating to unlicensed premises and papers relating to licenced premises.
Sem títuloRecords of Courage (Export) Limited, brewers, comprising board meeting minutes.
Sem títuloRecords of Courage (Western) Limited, brewers, comprising Board and annual general meeting minutes and minutes of the Property Committee and Area Properties Committee, with papers.
Sem títuloRecords of Hodgson's Kingston Brewery Company Limited, mostly personal papers of the Hodgson family including correspondence; office diaries; printed circulars and pamphlets; and papers relating to insurance and loans.
Sem títuloCorporate records of Courage and Barclay Limited, brewers, including minutes and papers of the Board; papers relating to mergers with other companies; resolution of an extraordinary general meeting; register of seals; Directors' reports with accounts; and register of investments.
Sem títuloFinancial records of Courage and Barclay Limited, brewers, including general ledgers; deposit ledgers; loans ledgers; draft balances; expenses ledgers; accountants papers; agreements; Finance Committee minutes and correspondence and other papers relating to group liability insurance.
Sem títuloStaff records of Courage and Barclay Limited, brewers, including payroll record; papers relating to the employee pension fund; and colour blocks and progressive proof pulls for magazine covers.
Sem títuloProperty records of Courage and Barclay Limited, brewers, including Properties Committee minutes and agendas; circular papers about deposits and decoration; plans of brewery buildings; rents payable ledgers; and report concerning beer store.
Sem títuloCorporate records of Nicholson and Sons Limited, brewers, including Board and general meetings minute books; agenda books; register of members; register of mortgages; register of seals; articles of association; annual reports; and papers relating to the acquisition by Courage.
Sem títuloRecords of Yardley's London and Provincial Stores Limited, including minute book; seal register; annual general meeting minutes; certificate of incorporation; and papers relating to the take-over and liquidation of the company.
Sem títuloRecords of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including papers of the Board; debenture trust deeds; articles of association; trust deeds; reports; valuations; registers of directors' share interests and holdings; papers relating to acquisitions and papers relating to subsidiary companies.
Sem títuloRecords of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including financial accounts of subsidiary companies incuding Barclay Perkins, Charles Beasley, Courage and Company, Courage and Barclay, the Dartford Brewery, Georges Brewery Properties, Hodgsons Kingston Brewery, Noakes, Reffells Bexley Brewery, Royal Brewery Brentford, Style and Winch, Nicholsons, Harmans Uxbridge Brewery, Clinch and Company, R Halley, and Horselydown Property Investment Company; redemption accounts; papers relating to budgets; papers and correspondence relating to travel insurance; papers and agendas of the Decimalization Sub-committee; papers and correspondence about tenants' goodwill.
Sem títuloRecords of Courage, Barclay and Simonds Limited, brewers, including minutes and papers of the Group Brewing Committee; minutes of the Production Planning Committee; brewing book; papers relating to the production of Harp Lager; and promotional leaflets for brewing and storage apparatus.
Sem títuloProperty records of Charles Beasley Limited, brewers, including rent and loan ledgers; deposit ledgers; premises' insurance books.
Sem títuloRecords of Clinch and Company Limited, brewers, including Board and general meeting minutes; annual reports with accounts; papers relating to shares; memorandum and articles of association; register of seals; and rent ledgers for public houses and other premises.
Sem títuloFinancial records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including ledgers; journals; estate accounts; cash books; bank passbooks; accounts; bank statements; credit balances; receipts; papers regarding investments; correspondence relating to financial matters including overdraft, stock and the Loan and Slate Club; income tax papers; audit papers; tax demands and brewery accounts.
Sem títuloStaff records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including wages records; staff employment files; accident papers; service agreements; papers relating to pension and life assurance schemes; papers relating to the appointment of the company secretary; and telephone directory.
Sem títuloGeneral records of Harmans Uxbridge Brewery Limited, including family tree of the Harman family; photographs of the visit of a Mayor to the Brewery; and publicity material.
Sem títuloStaff records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including wages sheets; papers relating to taxation, including income tax; papers relating to the fidelity guarantee policy; correspondence about staff, accounts, remuneration and auditors; papers regarding compensation of staff on the closure of the brewery.
Sem títuloProperty records of R Halley Limited, brewers, including leases; papers relating to development of Slough premises; papers regarding redevelopment of Slough High Street; correspondence; papers regarding insurance; rate demands.
Sem títuloRecords of London and Provincial Shop Centres (Horselydown) Limited, property development company, including papers relating to the formation of the company; correspondence; memorandum and articles of association; agreements; annual reports; Directors' reports and accounts.
Sem títuloRecords of London and Provincial Shop Centres Horselydown (Slough) Limited, property development company, including papers relating to the formation of the company; minutes; memorandum and articles of association; annual reports; balance sheets; Directors' accounts and reports.
Sem títuloRecords of subsidiary or associated companies of Horselydown Property Investment Company Limited including Town and City Properties Limited; Arndale-Horselydown Ltd; Basingstoke Town Properties Limited; Old Brewery Property Development Company Limited; Couratown Property Developments Limited and Whepstead Properties Limited.
Records include papers regarding setting up of the companies; memorandum and articles of association; correspondence and papers; financial accounts and annual reports.
Sem títuloRecords of Wolton and Attwood Limited, wholesalers in beer and spirits, including papers relating to the acquisition of the Company; memorandum and articles of association; balance sheet; copy board and extraordinary general meeting minutes; draft service agreements; stock transfer forms and financial accounts.
Sem títuloRecords of Mumford Hotels Limited, comprising deeds and legal documents for 1-2 West Street, Faversham, Queens Head Hotel, Faversham, (formerly The Falcon, Faversham), and the Ship Hotel, Market Street, Faversham.
Sem títuloRecords of the South Coast Bottling Company Limited, comprising board and general meeting minutes, agenda and papers and papers and correspondence concerning liquidation.
Sem títuloRecords of unidentified subsidiary companies of Courage and Company Limited and Barclay Perkins and Company Limited, brewers, including brewing books; monthly beer duty book; photographs of beer tanks and brewery premises; deeds and papers for the Arundel Arms, Westbourne Road, Islington, land in Bury Green Road and Lordship Road, Cheshunt, Herts, the White Hart Hotel, Margate, Kent.
Also roll of plans and artist's views of proposed new brewery in Tanganyika, for Ind Coope and Allsopp Ltd, Burton-on-Trent probably from H and G Simonds and drawings, mainly of fermenters, for New Zealand Breweries Ltd, Wellington.
Sem títuloStaff records of H and G Simonds Limited, brewers, including Staff Salaries committee minutes; Staff Salaries and Appointments committee minutes; private salaries; list of staff with bank and branch; First aid centre daily attendance registers; retail managers register; Pensions fund ledger; staff pension scheme register, being diary of contribution rises, receipts, etc., with extracts from Board minutes.
Sem títuloRecords of Phillips and Sons Limited, brewers, including Directors' minutes annual general meeting minutes; Directors' minute book (later called 'Board'); register of directors and secretaries; register of directors' holdings and interests; register of managers or directors; register of mortgages and register of seals.
Sem títuloRecords of the South Berkshire Brewery Company Limited, including Board and annual general meeting minutes; debenture stock certificates; Directors' report and profit and loss account; register of private houses, shops, cottages and other properties; inventories and valuations of freehold, leasehold and copyhold estates and stock.
Sem títuloRecords of Bristol United Breweries Limited, including minute books of board, committee and annual general meetings; indexes to minute books.
Sem títuloRecords of Torquay Brewing and Trading Company Limited, including minutes of Board and annual general meetings; instructions to counsel and proposal for tenancy of London Hotel, Torquay.
Sem títuloRecords of McGeorge and Heppenstalls Limited, brewers, including register of probates and transfers; shareholder's dividends and share and stockholders legder.
Sem títuloCircular from the "Society for Erecting and Maintaining A Building in the Metropolis For the Meeting of Religious, Charitable, and Scientific Institutions", including plans of the proposed building between Exeter Street and the Strand [later called Exeter Hall, 272 Strand], 1829 and copy of the Ninth Annual Report of the Society For Erecting and Maintaining A Building Called Exeter Hall For the Meeting of Religious, Charitable and Scientific Institutions, 1834.
Copy of the report of the London and Greenwich Railway, read at the first General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street, on 9 February 1841.
Sem títuloRecords of architects Cubitt Nichols, Sons and Chuter, comprising plans and drawings of shops and offices, mainly on Glasshouse Street, Brewer Street and Air Street, 1902-1918.
Sem títuloThe records in this collection, 1734-1997, cover the activities of five individual clubs which over 200 years or so were created and merged. Brooks's Club makes up the bulk of this archive. Its records contains those of its inner club, the Fox Club. In 1975 St. James' Club joined Brooks's bringing with it the furniture, art and members of the Society of Dilettanti and the Bachelors' Club which it had taken in years before. In addition to these there is of course mention of many other British and foreign clubs which had links with these five. 'Clubland' is a place of many interconnections between members and the establishments themselves. They often share a common historical heritage as well as members and the collection hints at these links.
The focus of any club is its members and this is reflected in this collection. The members are very well represented, even through records which are not created by them. Chairmen, committees, secretary's and staff are all concerned with providing a good service. They exist to serve the needs of the members and respond to their questions. The large amount of correspondence, minutes, suggestion books and notices illustrates the sort of concerns the membership presented to the management structure. The property has to be maintained, the food, wine and entertainment needs to be provided and of good quality and subscription accounts need to be managed.
The members had to get elected in the first place and the ballot and candidate books detail this process. The main purpose of these clubs was to provide a meeting place in London for like-minded gentlemen who could chat about politics and current affairs but also enjoy themselves. Many of the records are concerned with the pursuits of drinking, eating and gambling. Dinners, routs, card and backgammon games were an integral part of club life. Amongst the archive material are the "betting books". These are infamous amongst members and record wagers (sporting, political and personal) set as far back as 1770s. They represent the ethos of early club life.
This collection is a fascinating and detailed look at several institutions which in the early nineteeth century had within their membership the major social, economic and politcal players of the time and which continue to hold their attraction for those people today.
(It is evident from the records that throughout the history of Brooks's it's name has been spelt in a variety of ways by historians, reporters and members alike. 'Brooks', 'Brookes' and 'Brooks's' have all been used. For the purpose of this list the latter spelling has been used as it is the most commonly found one and is also how the Club is known today. Similarly, St. James' Club is known by this title rather than by its fully expanded title of 'Saint James' Club'. These are the spellings applied in the list unless it has been used specifically in a different format contemporary to the documents).
Sem títuloCollection of topographical material, comprising:
Letter of George Gaskin [1751-1829, rector of Stoke Newington] to Theodore Price at Woodstock, Oxfordshire concerning the division of parishes, 1798;
Letter of John Aiken [1747-1822, author] at Stoke Newington to Robert Southey at Keswick concerning biographical memoirs by Southey, 1807;
Letter of James Towill Rutt [1760-1841, politician] at Newington Green to T R Horwood promising to attend a service, 1832;
Letter of Mary Hart at 2 Clarence Cottages, Albion Road, Stoke Newington to Sir Francis Burdett, baronet reporting her efforts to obtain The Diversions of Purley, 1836;
Letter of C Hart at No 6 Terrace, Albion Road, Stoke Newington to Sir Francis Burdett, baronet at St James Place Piccadilly, sending him his copy of The Diversions of Purley, 1836;
Letter of J S Sayers at Stoke Newington to Miss Coutts sending a token gift in memory of his late mother, 1860;
Letter of William B Carpenter [1813-1885, naturalist] at 1 Clarence Terrace, Stoke Newington to Markham Thorpe sending corrections to a bill announcing some lectures, n.d;
Postal cover addressed to Mrs Mary Abney, n.d.
Sem títuloPapers, 1889-1938, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to West View House, Haliburton Road, St Margarets, Isleworth, including conveyances, mortgages and assent to vesting of freehold property.
Sem títuloRecords from the Lee Conservancy Board Engineer's Office at Enfield Lock. The engineer appears also to have been responsible to the Lee Conservancy Catchment Board (for example, see Acc 2423/062).
The collection consists of nineteenth and twentieth century plans, papers and volumes concerning the Lee Conservancy Board, the Lee Conservancy Catchment Board, and the British Waterways Board, covering many aspects of maintenance work on waterways and administration. The papers comprise:
- Plans 1760-1954 (ACC 2423/P/0001-3786) A large proportion of the collection consists of plans, many reused with annotations. Items relate to repair work on sewers and buildings, improvements to rivers and pumping stations, and the purchase of land for new projects.
- Parliamentary Plans 1840-1965 (ACC 2423/PP/001-041) Plans produced for or submitted for Parliamentary Sessions to illustrate forthcoming work on waterways, for example, sewerage work, or waterways affected by the construction of railways.
- Specific Plans 1867-1964 (ACC 2423/R/001-076) A set of plans illustrating large projects, which seems to have been kept as a set distinct and separate from the main ACC 2423/P plan series by the placing of the letter `R' before each original plan number.
- General Plans 1828-1974 (ACC 2423/X/001-300) A collection of more general plans relating to projects focusing on improvements to the Lea River and Navigation, the Stort River and Navigation, the Bow Back Rivers and the Grand Union Canal.
- Ordnance Survey Maps 1838-1955 (ACC 2423/05/001-139) Maps used to plan forthcoming work, with frequent annotations, particularly for the drafting of courses for sewers.
- Engineers' Reports and Letter Books 1858-1961 (ACC 2423/001-136) Sets of volumes and files recording reports, contracts and specifications, and other maintenance records.
- Administrative and Legal Documents 1829-1977 (ACC 2423/AL/001-119) Administrative files relating to accidents and damage, together with inventories of assets, minutes of meetings, and engineers' reports. Legal documents include material on agreements for sale and tenancy, the conveyance of property, and contracts.
- Engineering and Maintenance Records 1892-1978 (ACC 2423/EM/001-097) Records relating to the maintenance and improvement of waterways, including development plans, moratorium surveys, pumping records, and related graphs and operation sheets.
Copy of the enrolment of a decree of the Court of Chancery in a dispute between copyhold tenants of the Manor of Isleworth Syon and the Earl of Northumberland and others, concerning heriots and customs of the manor, 1656.
Petition from certain ratepayers of Ealing against the formation of a police force, 1830.
Sem títuloExtract of the court roll of the manor of Hayes, regarding a cottage and land on Hillingdon Heath.
Sem títuloRecords relating to the manor of Honeylands and Pentriches and the manor of Worcesters, Enfield; including court books and rolls for the Court Baron, Court Leet and Court of Survey; rentals and surveys; plans; and quit rents.
Sem títuloCollection of title deeds relating to property in Ealing, Brentford, Enfield, Greenford, Hampton, Harmondsworth, Harrow, Hendon, Heston, South Mimms, Shepperton, Teddington, Tottenham, Edmonton, Twickenham, Uxbridge, Hayes and Stratford-le-Bow.
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