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Records of Friary Meux Limited comprising deeds and other legal documents relating to public houses owned by the company, 1837-1934, including premises in Sunbury and Twickenham.

Papers, 1810-1907, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Islington, Saint Pancras, Bethnal Green and Fleet Street, including leases, agreements, mortgages and assignments of leases. Also official parochial register of statistics of Church organisation and finance for New Brentford, with statistical return form, 1902-1907.

Papers, 1881-1914, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties owned by the Knightley family, particularly Thomas Edward Knightley, in Poplar, Norton Folgate (a street in the City of London), Finsbury, Tulse Hill and Tottenham.

Abstract of title of Perrys (Ealing) Ltd to number 65 Village Way, Ashford, part of Ashford Farm Estate, with plan, 1933.

Records of the Hart and Strange families, including wills, papers relating to funeral arrangements, letters of administration and papers relating to premises in Lewisham.

Papers, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising settlements, probates and other documents of the Mends family of Notting Hill, St. Marylebone, Paddington and Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1846-1905, including marriage settlement of George Butler Clarke Mends of Dover, Kent and Georgina Nisbet of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire with related documents chiefly concerning mortgage of funds under the will of Josiah Nisbet. Also leases for property in Isleworth and Teddington, 30 Jun 1848 and 6 Nov 1895.

Records of the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund, including minutes; annual reports; rules; subcription books; cash books; retirement fund accounts; and distress fund accounts.

Records of several generations of the Whitehouse family of Islington. The bulk of the collection comprises a range of family correspondence, including letters from family living or travelling abroad in Pennsylvania and New York, USA; Calcutta, India; Wellington, New Zealand; and France. There are also letters from members of the family serving during the Boer War and the First World War; and letters detailing everyday civilian life in London during the Second World War. Other papers include school reports of Henry Whitehouse junior; papers relating to prizes for artwork; Dramatic Society papers; papers relating to Henry Whitehouse junior acting as Special Constable in Islington; papers relating to property in Hornsey and Islington; financial records and family trees.

Papers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease and plan for land and messuages, being first house west from Chalk Farm Tavern on north side of the Regent's Park Road [87 Regent's Park Road], 1866; and assignment of remainder of lease for 87 Regent's Park Road to another party, 1903.

Records of Jonathan Crane comprising declaration of trust, 1849, and will, 1860. The will bequeathed property in Bethnal Green. Also in the collection are papers relating to properties including houses on Idmiston Road, West Norwood; Sussex House on Clifford Road, South Norwood; and premises in Edmonton.

Records of the London Grosvenor Building Society, 1878-1984, comprising minutes; financial records; Secretary's Board papers; income tax papers; office files and advertisement.

Records of building societies taken over by the London Grosvenor Building Society, including:

Duchess of Kent Building Society (of Marcol House, 289 - 293 Regent Street): annual reports and various files Metropole Building Society: share ledgers, mortgage ledgers, minutes, cash books and other financial records and share certificates Middlesex Building Society: minutes and typed financial accounts Official and General Building Society: minutes, deeds and deeds register, financial accounts, office files and intention notices St Marylebone Central Building Society: financial records, correspondence and office files United Friendly Building Society: minutes, deeds registers, mortgage registers, financial records and office papers
*West Hampstead Building Society: minutes, financial records, share transactions and ledgers and deeds register.

Records of the Borough Market Trustees, including a complete sets of minutes and financial records dating from the Market's reconstitution by Act of Parliament in 1755. There are many items concerning the market's property, including deeds and plans, and a good series of twentieth century correspondence illustrating many aspects of the administration of the Market. Much of the material comes from the office of the Clerk to the Trustees of the Market.

The records include: Acts relating to the Borough Market; Histories; Byelaws, instructions to officials and standing orders; register of seals; agendas, minutes and reports; correspondence; newspaper cuttings; agreements, bonds, contracts; Acts of Parliament, legal cases; evidences and reports of Commissions; war-time regulations, insurance, air raid damage.

Financial records including balance sheets, statements of account and statements of receipts and expenditure; ledgers; cash books; day books; banking records; income; expenditure; correspondence and share prospectus.

Property records including the Market site, maintenance of the premises, plans and maps, proposals for new building and extensions, the Market offices, correspondence, other sites and buildings owned by the Trustees, tenants records, and insurance.

Staff records including wages books; Health and Safety at work, including accidents, medical insurance and sick certificates; Income Tax, National Insurance and Superannuation and uniform and clothing.

Records of other bodies relating to the Market including Metropolitan Borough of Southwark; London County Council; other markets. Also printed notices and advertisements; statistics; Benevolent Fund Records and Borough Market Sports Records.

Deeds of the "Australian Arms" Public House, Champmon Street, Stepney, 1890-1894, and photographs of the "Hope and Anchor" Public House, Hanworth, after rebuilding in the 1930's.

Title deeds and legal documents for properties in Hounslow, Chelsea, Chiswick, Twickenham and Southall.

This collection of Gimbert family papers dates from 1838 to 1992, covering four generations, and consists mainly of personal records of family members. It includes an apprenticeship deed from 1838 (see ACC/3094/002), some army records, some nineteenth and early twentieth century family photographs and the genealogical notes kept by various family members through the years.

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.

Papers, 1847-1948, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising mortgage of Silver Hall Estate, Isleworth; deeds relating to No. 11 Teignmouth Gardens, Perivale; deeds relating to No. 10 Old Park Road, Palmers Green; mortgages and assignments of property in Putney, Hampstead, Dalston; deeds relating to No. 46 Osterley Park View Road, Hanwell; leases and other documents relating to premises of Grout and Company, coachbuilders, Church Wharf, Chiswick; deeds relating to No. 12 Cambridge Park Gardens, Twickenham; deeds relating to The Boot Public House, Grub Street.

Papers, 1931-1978, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds relating to No. 211 Harrow View, Pinner.

Records of Pinner (Relief) Telephone Exchange comprising deeds of land in Cannon Lane (formerly Sewer Lane), Pinner, acquired for the Exchange.

Records of Prior Burners Ltd, comprising directors' report, balance sheet, and statements by chairman, 1941 - 1942.

Records of Watney Combe Reid and Company Ltd, comprising chairman's speech, directors' report, and balance sheet, 1941.

Records of Associated Coal and Wharf Companies Ltd, comprising directors' report and statement of accounts, 1943.

London related material from the Bryson Collection of Business Archives and Ephemera, 1760-1951:

• Records of Morgan Crucible Co Ltd comprising working instructions for Morgan's Coke Fired Tilting Furnace type "CCA" 400 lbs capacity, with drawings of furnace, 1942.
  • Lease for 18 years from William Scott to Walker Norwood, mealman, of Twelve Acre Close (now 2 closes) in Hampton Wick, endorsed with agreement to let barn and rickyard, 1782 Mar - 1784 Apr.
  • Duckham's Digest "Links", Vol X, No 2, published by Alexander Duckham and Co Ltd, with Festival of Britain guide, 1951.
  • Probate copy of will of Samuel Myers of Golden Lane, colourman, proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1777 Aug.
  • Marriage settlement between Sir Matthew Blakiston and Annabella Bayly relating to mansion at East Hill and other houses and lands in Wandsworth and Battersea, 1760 Mar.
  • Deed poll by Charles Robert Edward Bell, match manufacturer of Albert House, Wandsworth, changing his surname from Grubb to Bell, with extract from The Times attached, 1880 Dec.

Records of South Hackney School, 1910-1982, including logbook for Lauriston Road Central School; logbook for South Hackney Central School; waiting list and admission register for South Hackney Central School; admission register South Hackney Central School (from 1951 Cassland County Secondary School); register of school leavers (entered in Register of Children over Compulsory School Age); weekly attendance record with names of school leavers; H.M. Inspector's reports on Cassland County Secondary School and Lauriston County Secondary School; roll of service of South Hackney Central School, 1914-1918; "The Diary" School Magazine, containing The Story of Cassland Secondary School 1910-1955; photographs of various subjects including school visit to Switzerland, school sports team, orchestra and drama production.

Also logbook kept by headmistress, Miss M Beswick, from formation of school in 1958 with details of teaching staff (closed until 2028); admin papers and correspondence including prize-giving, appointments of teachers and report of Inspection by London Board of Jewish Religious Education; newspaper cuttings and photographs; punishment books (closed until 2032); photographs of sports teams, plays, classrooms, workshops; programmes for school concerts, plays, short stories, poetry; school magazines, large photograph of Miss Beswick - headmistress 1944-1962 and large photograph of Mr Chew - headmaster 1911-1943.

The records consist of the three surviving minute books of the Hampstead Provident Dispensary together with a minute book of the United Provident Institution which is only partly used, entries becoming increasingly brief in the late 1860s before ceasing altogether.

Records of R S Murray and Company Limited, sweet manufacturers, including recipe books, reports and related correspondence. The recipe books include details of product development, specifying appropriate ingredients and methods. Other papers concern H.J. Norton, who was Managing Director of R.S. Murray and Co. Ltd from 1914-1940s.

Deeds and ownership documents relating to 73 High Street, Teddington.

Records of Joshua Ashby and Sons, millers and corn merchants, comprising cash book of "H. Neave, Thornton Heath Round" for Ashby's, providing details of daily deliveries of flour, yeast, wheat, barley, oats, bran, pease etc., to customers in S. Norwood and Croydon districts, and money received, Mar 1905 - Jan 1906.

Records of A R Chamberlayne, solicitor, 1882-1924. The records include financial ledgers and account books; cash books; bills books; property management ledgers, cash books and letter books; bank books; and deeds and other legal papers relating to individual properties.

Records of the Crystal Palace District Gas Company, later called the South Suburban Gas Company, 1853-1949. The records include deeds of settlement, proprietors' and directors' meeting minutes and committee meeting minutes and a volume relating to a Parliamentary Bill, 1903.

Records of Harrisons Nursery Garden in Kensington, 1755-1839. The most interesting are the records of the nursery and seed business begun by Henry Hewitt in 1775 or earlier and carried on by his nephews John and Samuel Harrison. These include account books and stock books which list a wide variety of seeds of vegetables and flowers, bulbs bought from Holland, and seedlings of various ornamental trees, shrubs and fruit trees. Some were grown at the nursery but the majority were grown by country farmers on contract. The business was run with some success and had regular clients in all parts of England including many titled families. It was the practice for one of the partners to travel round the country to collect payment for outstanding accounts and probably orders (for the expenses for these trips include many gratuities to gardeners). In spite of this and an apparent high turnover, however, clients were bad at paying bills and the business was sometimes in difficulties. New partners brought fresh capital from time to time. The last partner was William Bristowe who joined in 1819 with, a fourth share, the firm then being described as Harrison and Bristowe. In 1833, however, Samuel Harrison was described as a bankrupt.

Also included are the records of Lane and Prideaux, solicitors, 1775-1839, concerning the settlement of the estate of Samuel Harrison, a bankrupt, and the estate of his uncle Henry Hewitt, d.1790 and other relatives and friends for whom the Harrison family acted as executors, and the payment of annuities under Henry Hewitt's will.

Records of Justice and Pattenden, solicitors, 1849-1935. Records of the firm include day books, letter books, bill books and one account book. Clients' papers include deeds relating to property, mainly in London and family and estate papers.

Records of J J Lane Limited, engineers, 1873-1957, including letter books, printed catalogues and brochures illustrating the company's products, Sales particulars for disposal of plant, machinery, stores and equipment on winding-up of company and article from journal "Laundry Record and Journal" giving brief history of company.

Records of the London Gas Light and Coke Company, 1833-1883, comprising Directors' meetings signed minutes; Shareholders' meetings signed minutes; Committee of Works, Estimates, Contracts and Buildings signed minutes; Committee of Finance signed minutes; and Committees of Works, Finance and Inspection, and General Board signed minutes.

Records of May May and Merriman, solicitors, 1711-1948, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to the following estates or families: Allpress; Bacon; Chapple; Trustees of late Henry Clark; Captain Earl; Harvey; Morgan/Gooch; Newman; Pearson Trustees; Popham; Harper; General Popham; and Richards. Documents relate to property, financial dealings, marriages, bequests, bills and share dealing.

Records of Merry and Company, saddlemakers, 1883-1951, including letter books, ledgers, account books, wages books, order books containing clients' names, notes of their requirements (whips, racing equipment, sporting gear, etc.) and many specimens of coloured silks, order book for jockeys' race caps, and correspondence.

Records of the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company, including half yearly report and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Commercial Gas Company to the Proprietors; reports of proceedings of ordinary half yearly meetings; register of stockholders attending ordinary annual meetings of the Commercial Gas Company; original prospectus of the company; bye laws of the company; letters about Robert Jones and copies of articles by and about him; petition presented on behalf of stokers and gas workers; statement of average rates of wages paid during the year to various grades; photograph of the centenary dinner of the company, and two letters from the Rt. Hon. Hugh Gaitskell, M.P., Ministry of Fuel and Power; deed of trust and settlement of the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company; alphabetical list of shareholders recording their receipt of the first dividend; agreement with other companies as to sphere of influence of the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company, and indemnity and map; minutes of evidence before committee of inquiry into the company's proposed bill; Act for incorporating the Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company; Act to convert stock of the Commercial Gas Company and insurance policy on the company's works at Jonsons Fields, Stepney.

General records relating to the supply of gas, 1825-1948, collected by the North Thames Gas Board and predecessor companies. Includes draft Parliamentary reports leading up to the Act for better regulating the supply of gas to the metropolis, 1860; minutes of weekly meetings of a Committee of Chairmen of the Metropolitan Gas Companies in connection with the Parliamentary Committee inquiring into the Metropolis Gas Act, 1860; Bill and relevant papers concerning the proposed amalgamation of all or some of the metropolitan gas companies; drafts, petitions and briefs concerning the London Corporation Gas Bill; report from the Board of Trade on the current Railway, Tramway, Gas and Water Bills, 1870; Gas and Water Facilities Bill, 1870; press cuttings; statistical information about gas companies, 1865.

Also papers relating to individual gas companies including Bill to establish a company for illuminating London and Westminster with oil gas (the London and Westminster Oil Gas Company), 1825; minutes of evidence before the House of Lords' select committee on the Phoenix Gas Bill, 1864; half yearly reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Phoenix Gas Light and Coke Co. to the Proprietors; Bills and Acts affecting the powers of the South Metropolitan Gas Light and Coke Company; Bill amending powers of the Surrey Consumers' Gas Light and Coke Association; annual reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Surrey Consumers' Gas Company to the Shareholders.

Records of the Great Central Gas Consumers Company, 1846-1870, including certificate of formal registration of the company; reports of the Company's Directors; bills of costs in various legal transactions and suits; correspondence agreements; contracts for lighting various parishes; deeds and plans for various premises.

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 of the Western (Cannel) Gas Light Company, including half yearly reports and accounts submitted by the Directors of the Western Gas Light Company Limited to the shareholders; certificates of registration of the company; return of schedule to the deed of settlement, showing name, address and profession of shareholders; list of proprietors of the company, showing name, address and number of shares held by each; assignment of debts and shares as security for repayment; contract for lighting part of Notting Hill lighting district; agreements and licences for laying mains in various districts; schedule of deeds, drafts and correspondence for company premises in various locations including Kensington, Westminster, Marylebone and Kensal Green.

Record of the Peckham Building Investment Company comprising deed of settlement, 4 May 1846, for John Tricker Conquest of Finsbury Square and Henry England of New Cross, to form joint stock company 'The Peckham Building Investment Company'. The deed records the name and business of company, names of subscribers, and of directors and officers, duration of company and mode of dissolution; with signatures and addresses of shareholders, and note of number of shares held by each.

Records of Seager Evans and Company Limited, and subsidiary or merged companies, 1719-1926. This collection contains records of Holland and Co. Ltd. relating to the business, to property, and to mortgage dealings; and records of Seager Evans and Co. Ltd relating to the business, to property, and to mortgage dealings. Also records relating to members of the Seager family in their private capacity and to the estate which William Evans acquired in Chertsey, Surrey.

Records of Stephen Green Limited, patent medicine manufacturer, 1780-1930. The records relate to proprietorship of the recipe for "Doctor Johnson's Golden Ointment" including legal documents and legal case papers; and records relating to the manufacture and sale of the ointment including financial accounts, order books, correspondence, sales summaries, testimonials, advertising, legislation involving patent medicines and history of the ointment. Also various family and estate records.

Signed minutes of the Committee of Management of the South London Gas Light and Coke Company, 1823-1824.

Records of the Hospital of the Savoy, comprising grant of lands, bargain and sales, grant of annuity, and lease.

Records of Annie Horatia Jones, daughter of Sir Horace Jones. The collection contains ten dolls' house dolls dressed by Tamazine Billings (nee Jones) in 1886 for her niece, Annie Horatia Jones, to represent members of Sir Horace Jones' family and household. The dolls' original labels have been sewn onto their clothing to identify the family member they are intended to represent. There is also a photograph album depicting family including Sir Horace Jones, portrait of Annie Horatia Jones in outfit for City of London Mansion House Juvenile Dress Ball, and family at home in Devonshire Place; her correspondence with aunts, housekeeper and friends concerning holidays, her pursuits and interests (1883-1890), a scrapbook of coloured pictures and also a pencil drawing of Tamazine Billings as a girl (circa 1831). The collection presents an insight into Sir Horace Jones' family life. The different heights of the dolls of Sir Horace Jones and Lady Ann Elizabeth Jones and the size of dolls is thought to represent other family members demonstrates Victorian attitudes towards personal status within the family. The clothing on the dolls is also useful for looking at costume and dress during the late nineteenth century.

Index of the register, 1669-1849, of the Hamburg Lutheran Church on the site of Holy Trinity the Less. The index was compiled by Mrs Pam Freeman and Len Metzner of the Anglo-German Family History Society.

Records of the Association for Promoting the Equalization of the Poor Rates, comprising: minutes, 1857-67 (Ms 1088); report of the inaugural meeting, 1857 (Ms 1089); and rough cash book, 1857-60 (Ms 1090).

Transcription of the register of the British Factory chapel at Leghorn [Livorno], covering the years 1707 to 1783.

Roll of persons issued with the regimental uniform of the Royal Exchange Division of the Loyal London Volunteers, 1803.

Records of the Corps of River Fencibles of the City of London comprise: a book of subscriptions, 1808 (Ms 6386A); copy muster roll, 1803-7 (Ms 6434); and account of subscriptions to a fund,1809-10 (Ms 6434A). They were catalogued by Guildhall Library staff in 1951. It is not known whether any other records of this Corps have survived.