Records of Wallace Evans and Company including accounts and correspondence (CLC/B/207/MS40898 - MS40899).
Wallace Evans and Company Limited xx Wallace Brothers Commodities LimitedRecords of Wallace and Company Bombay including records relating to Bombay and Rangoon branches. Includes letter books, power of attorney and correspondence relating to accounts, shares, staff and petroleum (CLC/B/207/MS40875 - MS40926). Also includes papers relating to the formation of the Sumatra Petroleum Company.
Sumatra Petroleum Company x Wallace and Company BombayRecords of Wallace and Adam Limited including memorandum and articles of association, copy minutes of directors and AGM's and reports. Also includes records of subsidiaries: Adam Trading (Kenya) Limited: (CLC/B/207/MS40861), Kiu Estate Limied (1952): CLC/B/207/MS40862 - MS40865B), Ol Pejeta Ranching Company Limited: (CLC/B/207/MS40866 - MS40870), Pyrita Limited (CLC/B/207/MS40871 - MS40874).
Wallace and Adam LimitedRecords of Leslie and Anderson Limited including records of Leslie and Anderson Limited, Leslie and Anderson (Holdings) Limited and The Leslie and Anderson Group. Also contains records of subsidiaries: Leslie and Anderson (Coffee) Limited, Leslie and Anderson (East Africa) Limited, Warehousing and Forwarding Company of East Africa Limited and Indian Carpets Limited (CLC/B/207/MS40815 - MS40824, MS40831 - MS40854, MS40921, MS40924).
Leslie and Anderson LimitedRecords of Kerosene Oil Company Limited including agreements and correspondence relating to shipments of oil and share transfers (CLC/B/207/MS40810 - MS40814B).
Kerosene Oil Company LimitedRecords of Hermes Securities Limited including minutes of the board, directors reports and accounts and register of members and share register. Also includes minutes and directors reports and accounts for Hermes Credit Corporation Limited (CLC/B/207/MS40937 - MS40941).
Hermes Securities LimitedRecords of Glazebrook, Steel and Company Limited including memorandum and articles of association, agreements, general correspondence and annual accounts (CLC/B/207/MS40806 - MS40809).
Glazebrook, Steel and Company Limited xx Wallace and Company , Manchester , EnglandRecords of F F Chrestien and Company including agreements, correspondence and accounts (CLC/B/207/MS40801 - MS40803A). Also includes memorandum and articles of association of Indeuram Limited.
F F Chrestien and Company Limited , Domchanch , India xx Associated Insulation Products LimitedRecords of Bombay Company Limited including corporate records and records relating to shares, administration, accounting, legal matters, staff, history and subsidiares (CLC/B/207/MS40743 - MS40785). The records contain correspondence on the production of cotton and cotton mills, accounts and records relating to the following subsidiaries: BCL Limited, BMD Agency Limited, Dymes and Company Limited, Karachi Company Limited, Lakhshmi Cotton Manufacturing Company Limited, Miller and McGregor Limited and Vishnu Cotton Mill Limited.
Bombay Company LimitedRecords of Wallace Brothers concerning Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited, including memorandum and articles of association; board minutes; annual reports and accounts; agreements; papers relating to shareholders; correspondence; financial records; and papers relating to branches in Rangoon, Moulmein, Bangkok and Borneo.
Bombay Burma Trading Corporation Limited xx Burmah Trading Company LimitedPapers of Wallace Brothers and Company Limited, East India Merchants, bankers and London agents, later known as Wallace Brothers and Company (Holdings) Limited. Most of the records emanate from the core business of the Wallace Brothers partnership and its successors; but some emanate from the business of associated or subsidiary companies which were based in London. The latter include the records of Wyer and Hawke, London agents of Bombay Company Limited, who operated from the London office of Wallace Brothers between 1912 and 1968.
The archive does not hold the papers of Wallace Brothers' associated or subsidiary companies based overseas. No lists of the papers of these companies are held, and their whereabouts and accessibility are unknown. However the archives transferred to Guildhall from Wallace Brothers' London office include a considerable amount of information about the activities of many of these companies, including numerous copy and original documents sent to London by the companies concerned.
Besides papers created or received in the course of business, the Wallace Brothers archives include some memoirs of partners, directors or members of staff, and notes of research into the history of Wallace Brothers and its associates and subsidiaries.
The business papers date from 1862 to 1989, and relate to all aspects of Wallace Brothers' operations, although few banking records are held, and only formal business records survive from the period ca. 1966-1989.
Access is subject to a 45-year closure period (70 years in the case of personnel records). Annual reports and other published documents are not subject to closure.
The associated and subsidiary companies whose activities are known to be reflected in the Wallace Brothers archives are (provisionally) listed below, in the order in which the records will be arranged in the catalogue:
Papers, 1766-1898, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising letters of administration, probate copies of wills, a lease, a fire insurance policy and a covenant to produce deeds; relating to properties in Islington and Hackney.
Walker, Templer and Thomson , solicitorsRecords of Walham Green and Fulham Methodist Circuit including circuit records and chapel records for various chapels within the circuit.
Bayswater Methodist Circuit Walham Green and Fulham Methodist Circuit xx Fulham United Methodist Circuit Walham Green Methodist Church , Fulham Ebenezer Chapel , Fulham Walham Grove Methodist Church , Fulham Fulham Broadway Methodist Church xx Fulham Central Methodist Church Bethel Chapel xx West Kensington New Connexion ChapelCircuit records and chapel records for various chapels within the circuit.
Walham Green and Fulham Methodist Circuit xx Fulham United Methodist Circuit West Kensington Methodist New Connexion Home Mission Station , Fulham Bethel Chapel , Fulham xx West Kensington New Connexion Chapel , Fulham Ebenezer Chapel , Fulham Munster Road Methodist Church , Fulham Walham Green Methodist Church , Fulham Walham Grove Methodist Church , Fulham Fulham Central Methodist Church , FulhamCollection of documents removed from a partly Grangerized copy of Old and New London compiled by Edward Walford, comprising: narrative of the Walcheren expedition to the Netherlands, 1809; receipt for purchase of Consolidated £3% Annuities by Isaac Noquet; letter to Edward Walford from C. H. Bowden, Chaplain's House, Guy's Hospital, S.E., noting Guy's capacity in beds, its income, numbers of inpatients and outpatients; letter to Edward Walford from Eliza [Carver] of Dulwich College, asking him to tea before a concert; newspaper cutting concerning the opening of the first block of buildings of the Victoria Dwellings Association at Battersea Park.
NB - To 'grangerize' a volume is to add or interleave clippings or cuttings from other sources to the pages.
Walford , Edward , 1823-1897 , writer and compiler of reference worksRecords of the Waldorf Theatre Syndicate Limited, comprising trust deeds and other legal documents, 1905-1910.
Waldorf Theatre Syndicate LimitedRecords of the Walbrook Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise Wardmote minutes and accounts, rate assessments and inhabitants lists, precepts and other administrative papers. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.
Walbrook Ward , Corporation of LondonCollection comprises photographs of both the ambulance train and the servicemen's hospital in Berkshire showing servicemen and nurses [including Eliza Wakelin]; and two letters regarding Miss Wakelin's health.
Wakelin , Eliza , fl 1914-1918 , nurseRecords of Nicholas Wakelam including Plessey Pension Trust Limited: reports and accounts (1980); Unigate Group Pension Scheme: reports and leaflets (1983-1987); Thorn EMI Pension Fund: trustees reports (1988-1994) and explanatory booklets (1988-1989).
Wakelam , Nicholas , fl 1980-1994 , pensions administratorRecords of Keith Waithe, musician, comprising published recordings from Essequibo Music and The Macusi Players with business card and promotional card.
Essequibo Music , musical organisation The Macusi Players , musical groupLetter book of BW Bagenal, agent in Australia of WW Pownall and Company, wine merchants, containing copies of his correspondence with Australian wine producers sent out from his offices in Melbourne. It ends in February 1898, when he was recalled to London.
W.W. Pownall and Company , wine merchantsRecords of W Symington and Company Limited, food product manufacturers, comprising minutes of meetings of directors and annual general meetings.
W Symington and Co Ltd , food product manufacturersCopy deeds of the sale, in 1903, of the wine and spirit merchant businesses of WH Tomsett and Company and Sinclair, Birch and Company, which were both owned by William Henry Tomsett (died 1903).
W.H. Tomsett and Co , wine and spirit merchants Sinclair, Birch and Co , wine and spirit merchantsThe records of WH Tindall and Company, tea and coffee growers and exporters, comprise records relating to the Imboolpittia and other estates including managers' and crop accounts, statements of expenditure and receipts, notes of coffee shipments and yields of tea and rubber, and papers relating to the administration of and materials for the estate 1841-1933; report and prospectus regarding land development 1917 and 1920; papers relating to the activities of various company managers and superintendents 1841-56; letters and papers regarding general trading, acquisition of estates and their cultivation 1842-88; papers regarding the Tindall family investments and trusts c 1872-1929; papers regarding the sale of land to W.H. Tindall 1843-55; papers regarding administration of W.H. Tindall's estate 1900-2; map showing coffee estates ca.1860 and notes on the history of the firm 1932-1966.
The records of Cotesworth and Powell Limited, import, export, and general merchants, comprise accounts relating to sugar plantations of Umhlanga Valley (Natal) Sugar and Coffee Company Limited 1866-87; notes in relation to credit arrangements, with other papers c 1870-90.
W. H. Tindall and Co , tea and coffee company Cotesworth and Powell Ltd , import, export, and general merchantsRecords of W Barnett and Company, including letter from Messrs Dale and Stretton, Gray's Inn Square, inviting applications for debenture stock of the London Bridge Land Company, Ltd. secured on the freehold estate of the Company at London Bridge, 1865; sales particulars of 9 Fleet Street with rear premises abutting on Hare Court, Temple, 1878; poster and handbill issued by W. Barnett and Company, advertising passages to Australia and other destinations, c 1850-1860.
W Barnett and Co , merchants, shipping and general agentsPapers, 1759-1904, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising legal documents relating to properties mainly in Ponders End, but also in Enfield and Tottenham. Also declaration relating to debentures, by Frederick William Frier of 16, Eldon Street, City of London, Secretary to the Paternoster Printing Company Limited; notices by Frederick William Frier and William Edwin Frier, that as debenture holders of Paternoster Printing Company Limited they intend to mortgage the works and property at Ponders End; and consent to mortgage the works and property.
Vyvyan Wells and Sons , solicitorsPapers collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising lease of 56 Cambridge Street, Pimlico, 23 Feb. 1850 and demise by way of mortgage, of the same house, 6 May 1853.
Vowles and Jessops , solicitorsPapers, 1903-1929, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to 2 and 4 Cedar Avenue, Whitton, Twickenham; including conveyances, mortgages and abstract of title.
Vizards , solicitorsPapers, 1856-1893, collected by the solicitors in the course of their work, comprising deeds and legal documents relating to properties in Acton, Stanwell and Saint Marylebone, including release, assignment of leasehold premises, marriage settlement, probate of will, covenant for production of deeds and conveyance.
Vizards , solicitorsPapers of Vizard and Sons, estate agents, comprising sales particulars for Oak House, Feltham Hill, Sunbury (undated, probably late nineteenth century).
Vizard and Sons , estate agentsRegister of services for the Vitznau Anglican Chaplaincy.
Vitznau Anglican ChaplaincyRecords of Vintry Ward Club comprising: minutes, 1877-1980 (Ms 31354); accounts, 1877-1933, 1968-90 (Ms 31355, 31357); and annual luncheon menu cards, 1951-95 (Ms 31356). Catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1997.
Vintry Ward ClubRecords of Vintry Ward, Corporation of London. The records comprise wardmote minutes and accounts. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff at various dates.
Vintry Ward , Corporation of LondonIncome and expenditure accounts for the Vintry and Dowgate Wards Club.
Vintry and Dowgate Wards ClubRecords of the Worshipful Company of Vintners, compiled between 1353 and 2005, but they include deeds dating from 1286. They also include registers of freedom admissions and apprentice bindings from 1428; Court minutes; copies of charters and ordinances; committee minutes and agendas; registers of members; quarterage books; financial accounts; Clerk's papers including letter books; photographs; and papers relating to swan upping.
Also deposited with the archive of the Vintners' Company are records of Williams and Day, wine merchants of 3 Water Lane and 6 Fowkes buildings (Ms 15553-65).
Records of the Company Almshouses comprise: accounts, 1830 (15358); lists of benefactions to widows, 1899 (Ms 15370); plans, 1901 (Ms 18471); and miscellaneous papers including correspondence and details of next of kin, [1800?], 1902-60 (36817-19). Further references may be found in other Vintners' Company records such as minutes and accounts.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ACCESS: These records are stored at the Guildhall Library site rather than the LMA Clerkenwell site. Researchers wishing to access these records should do so at the Guildhall Library Rare Books table. The Library is open Monday to Saturday, 9:30 to 16:45. Researchers will need to have an Archives History Card or a Library Readers Card. An archivist will be available at Guildhall Library on Thursday mornings to answer any queries.
Worshipful Company of VintnersPapers 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.
Vinters , solicitorsRecords of the Vine Congregational Church comprising annual reports, 1898-1930 and registers of baptisms, 1906-1940.
Congregational Church of England and WalesPapers of the Vincent family, including business and personal financial accounts of Zelophead Vincent; verses, hymns, lectures, essays and other writings by Zelophead Vincent on a variety of religious, medical and philosophical subjects; genealogy of the Vincent family; and letters of the Vincent family.
Vincent , Zelophead Wyeth , 1755-1840 , hotpresser of woollen stuffsMarriage registers for Villiers Road Congregational Church, Southall, Norwood Green, 1932-1970.
Congregational Church of England and WalesRecords of the Victory Insurance Company, comprising annual reports and accounts, a prospectus, and a register of members.
Victory Insurance CoRecords of the Victorian Society. The collection principally contains case files compiled by the Society's Buildings Sub-Committee and relating to individual buildings for which listed building consent or statutory listing was sought. Remaining items comprise lists of members and a small selection of early printed items about the Society and its activities.
The case-files provide contextual information regarding the discussions and decisions of the Victorian Society over individual buildings. They contain useful information for researching conservation and planning issues surrounding these buildings. Their primary value however is in recording the workings of the Society itself and the personalities and opinions of its members. With the records of English Heritage (also held at London Metropolitan Archives), local planning authorities, and other voluntary bodies (such as the Georgian Group, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and the Twentieth Century Society), this collection could help compile a comprehensive study into building conservation in England and Wales in the second half of the 20th century generally.
The case-file series is incomplete (some files have been destroyed while others have been retained by the Society) and other principal records of the Society, such as minutes of the Council and of the Buildings Sub-Committee and issues of The Victorian magazine have not been deposited. The membership lists contain personal information about members and access to these files is restricted.
Although based in London, the Society acted in the interest of buildings throughout Great Britain. There are a few instances where buildings overseas where also drawn to the Society's attention. The Society was not solely concerned with the exterior of buildings. It attributed importance to interior decoration and furnishings, and to commemorative monuments and street furniture erected broadly within the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
The collection is rich in information about the Society. As well as recording the Society's cause celbres it also includes a large number of smaller Buildings and structures. It covers the Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge at one end of the scale and street lamps in Cambridge and fonts in churches at the other.
Victorian SocietyRecords of Victoria Wine Company Limited, including directors' meetings minute books; agenda books; minutes of Divisonal Management meetings; minutes of Ordinary General Meetings, shareholders meetings and Extraordinary General Meetings; registers of members, directors, secretaries, transfers and annual returns; seal books; registers of shareholders; memorandum and article of association for Victoria Wine Company Limited; annual returns; financial accounts.
Records relating to associated companies including memorandum and articles of association for GEVSO Limited; report of directors for Valentine Charles Limited; financial accounts of Aylward and Sons Limited and financial accounts of Silk and Son Limited.
Also papers relating to the transfer of property between associated companies, including Ind Coope to Victoria Wine-Tyler.
Victoria Wine Co Ltd Victoria Wine-Tylers LtdRegister of baptisms, 1905-1950.
Congregational Church of England and WalesRecords of Victoria Park Cemetery, later known as Meath Gardens, Bethnal Green, comprising lists of names and dates of death, 1847-1879, transcribed from tombstones in April 1893 and plan showing position of graves, numbered, with key to names of persons buried, 1891.
Victoria Park Cemetery Company LtdVictoria Embankment Properties Limited records comprise minutes of board meetings and of annual general meetings, papers submitted to board meetings, directors' annual reports and accounts, balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, and directors' annual reports, journals, ledgers, cash books, revenue ledgers, tenants accounts and papers concerning the construction of Electra House, Temple Place, Victoria.
Victoria Embankment Properties Ltd , property management companyRecords of Victoria Docks Presbyterian Church comprising Treasurer's account book, 1911-1912.
Presbyterian Church of EnglandRecords of the Victoria Club, Jewish community centre and youth club, 1901-1991. Records include daily log book; membership books; papers of the Council and Executive; papers relating to building development including transfer of the Club from Stepney to Hackney; financial records; papers relating to youth club activities; papers of the Victoria (Hackney) Kosher Meals on Wheels service; papers of the Senior Citizens Club, the Victoria Centre for Adults, and Hampstead Victoria; fundraising papers and memorabilia.
Victoria Club , Jewish community centre and youth clubTrustees papers relating to the will of William James Bonser with deeds and abstracts of title for land and premises in Harrow, (1781)-1930.
Also trustees papers relating to property held by William G Venn and his executors, including deeds and papers relating to premises in Clive Road, West Dulwich, 1899-1934; deeds relating to 34 Locket Road, Wealdstone, 1901-1951; and deeds relating to 2 Chandos Parade, Ealing and 170 Ealing Road, South Ealing, 1904-1922.
Various.Financial accounts ledger of Venables, Tyler and Company, wholesale stationers and papermakers.
Venables, Tyler and Co , wholesale stationers and papermakersRecords of Vehicle and General Insurance Co Ltd, including financial material, correspondence, minutes, papers relating to stock, and journals. Records of subsidiary companies including Automobile and General Insurance Co Ltd; General and Commercial Motor Insurance Co Ltd; Metropolitan General Insurance Co Ltd; Transport Indemnity Insurance Co Ltd; General and Commercial Insurance Co Ltd; Vehicle and General Investment Services Ltd; Ecole Europe (England) Ltd; Arthur Edwards (Insurance) Ltd; J.M. Horsley Ltd; Talkwax Ltd and Wray and Co.
Records of Coopers and Lybrand, the liquidator, including Committee of Inspection minutes; general minutes; statement of affairs for Vehicle and General Insurance Co Ltd; statement of affairs for Automobile and General Insurance Co Ltd; statement of affairs for General and Commercial Motor Insurance Co Ltd; statement of affairs for Metropolitan General Insurance Co Ltd and statement of affairs for Transport Indemnity Insurance Co Ltd; correspondence files; finance records; stock records; and papers relating to creditors.
Vehicle and General Insurance Co Ltd