Records of the parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, City of London. The records include parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials, banns), rate assessments, Churchwardens' accounts, Vestry and Parochial Church Council minutes, legal papers, deeds, plans and photographs, papers relating to the maintenance of the building, charity and school papers, and administrative records.
Parish of St Bartholomew the Great, City of London , Church of EnglandC 1558-1840 M 1559-1840 B 1558-1838
Records of the parish of Saint Bartholomew by the Exchange, Bartholomew Street, City of London, including parish registers (marriages, burials, baptisms and banns) from 1557; vestry minutes and churchwardens accounts from the late 16th century; poor rate, church rate and tithe rate assessments; and financial accounts of the Overseers.
Parish of St Bartholomew by the Exchange, City of London , Church of EnglandMinute book of the Bartholomew Calvinist Chapel.
Bartholomew Calvinist ChapelTwo rolls of lottery tickets dated 1753-1754, raise money for the building of a new hospital in Great Britain St, Dublin, Ireland, for poor lying-in women. With an extract from The Book of the Rotunda Hospital by T P C Kirkpatrick MD and H Jellett MD (Bartholomew Press, 1913), which summarises the history of these and other hospital lotteries.
UnknownSet of large, card-backed photographs, taken between 1875 and 1886, and published by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London (April 1886), including:
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- Entrance of the 'Oxford Arms' Inn; 2. 'Oxford Arms' Inn; 3. Entrance of the 'Oxford Arms' Inn; 4. Upper Gallery of the 'Oxford Arms' Inn; 5. One of the staircases at the 'Oxford Arms' Inn; 6. General view of the galleries at the 'Oxford Arms' Inn (originally issued 1875)
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- Old houses in Wych Street; 8. Old houses in Wych Street; 9. Old houses in Drury Lane; 10. Old houses in Drury Lane; 11. Lincoln's Inn Gate House; 12. Lincoln's Inn: Old Square (originally issued 1876)
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- Churchyard of St Bartholomew, Smithfield; 14. Churchyard of St Bartholomew, Smithfield; 15. Green Churchyard, St Bartholomew, Smithfield; 16. Window at the east end of St Bartholomew, Smithfield; 17. North side and 'Poors Churchyard' at St Bartholomew, Smithfield; 18. North side and 'Poors Churchyard' at St Bartholomew, Smithfield (originally issued 1877)
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- Temple Bar; 20. 102 Leadenhall Street; 21. Old houses in Gray's Inn Lane; 22. Shop in Brewer Street, Soho; 23. The Sir Paul Pindar, Bishopsgate Street; 24. Old house in Holborn / Staple Inn, Holborn front (originally issued 1878)
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- Canonbury Tower; 26. Canonbury Tower; 27. Barnard's Inn; 28. Barnard's Inn; 29. Barnard's Inn; 30. Old houses in Aldergate Street; 31. Old houses in Aldergate Street; 32. Shaftesbury House, Aldersgate Street; 33. Christ's Hospital; 34. Christ's Hospital; 35. Churchyard of St.Lawrence Pountney; 36. Old houses in Great Queen Street (originally issued 1879)
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- General view from Charterhouse Square; 38. Charterhouse: Washhouse Court; 39. Charterhouse: Washhouse Court; 40. Charterhouse: The Cloisters; 41. Charterhouse: The Great Hall; 42. Charterhouse: The Great Hall; 43. Charterhouse: The Great Hall; 44. Charterhouse: The Great Hall; 45. Charterhouse: The Grand Staircase; 46. Charterhouse: The Governor's Room; 47. Charterhouse: Entrance to the Chapel; 48. Charterhouse: Founder's Tomb (originally issued 1880)
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- King's Head Inn yard; 50. King's Head Inn yard; 51. White Hart Inn yard; 52. White Hart Inn yard; 53. George Inn yard; 54. Queen's Head Inn yard; 55. Queen's Head Inn yard; 56. Old houses in Borough High Street, Southwark; 57. St Mary Overy's Dock; 58. Old houses in Bermondsey Street; 59. Sion College, London Wall; 60. Oxford Market (originally issued 1881)
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- Little Dean's Yard; 62. Ashburnham House: Exterior; 63. Ashburnham House: The Staircase; 64. Ashburnham House: The Staircase; 65. Ashburnham House: The Ante-room; 66. Ashburnham House: The Dining Room; 67. Ashburnham House: The Garden; 68. The Banquesting House, Whitehall; 69. The Water Gate of York House; 70. Lincoln's Inn Fields; 71. Lincoln's Inn Fields; 72. Lincoln's Inn Fields (originally issued 1882)
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- Lambeth Palace: The Gate House; 74. Lambeth Palace: The Great Hall; 75. Lambeth Palace: The Lollards' Tower; 76. Old House, Palace Yard, Lambeth; 77. Old houses, Aldgate; 78. Old houses, Aldgate; 79. 'The Golden Axe', St Mary Axe; 80. No.37 Cheapside; 81. No.73 Cheapside; 82. Old house, Great Ormond Street; 83. Old house, Queen Square, Bloomsbury; 84. Shop, Macclesfield Street, Soho (originally issued 1883)
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- Old houses, Fleet Street; 86. The 'Old Bell', Holborn; 87. The 'Old Bell', Holborn; 88. St Giles, Cripplegate; 89. Old house, Fore Street; 90. Old house, Great Winchester Street; 91. Austin-Friars; 92. Staircase of Austin-Friars; 93. Doorways, Laurence Pountney Hill; 94. College Street; 95. Innholders Hall; 96. Doorway, College Hill (issued 1884)
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- Inner Temple; 98. Inner Temple; 99. Inner Temple; 100. Middle Temple; 101. Middle Temple; 102. Middle Temple; 103. Gray's Inn; 104. Gray's Inn; 105. Clement's Inn: Garden House; 106. Clifford's Inn; 107. Staple Inn Hall; 108. Six small subjects (originally issued 1885)
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- St John's Gate, Clerkenwell; 110. Old houses in The Strand; 111. Great St Helen's, Bishopsgate Street; 112. Tennis Court, James Street, Haymarket; 113. Emanuel Hospital, Westminster; 114. Queen Anne's Gate; 115. Chimney-piece, Sessions House, Clerkenwell; 116. Chimney-piece, Court House, St Andrew's, Holborn; 117. Chimney-piece, Tallow Chandler's Hall; 118. Court room, New River Company; 119. Three doorways; 120. Five small subjects (missing) (issued 1886).
Comprises: Almoners/Social Work Department; Catering Department; Cardiology Department; Curator of Instruments; Patient Services and Medical Records Department; Clerk of the Works; Dietetic Department; Dispensary (Pharmacy); Estate Office; Ophthalmic Department; Administrative; Finance; Estates; Laundry; Medical Committees and Medical Staffing; Matron's Office and Nursing; Medical Records; Pathology Museum; Cancer Department (Oncology); Pathology; Physiotherapy; (Radiation) Physics Department; X-Ray and Radiotherapy Department; Abernethian Society; Cambridge Graduates Club; Decennial (Contemporary) Clubs; Fountain Club; Nurses Games Club; League of Nurses; Student Nurses Association; Steward's Office; Paget Club; Students' Union and Amalgamated Clubs; Territorial Army Nursing Service, 1st London General Hospital (St Bartholomew's); Operating Theatre registers; Trained Nurses Institution; Speech Therapy Department; Works Department/Superintendent of Works; Copies and extracts of archival material held elsewhere.
St Bartholomew's Hospital , LondonPapers relating to St Bartholomew's Hospital comprising receipts for half-yearly payments made to the Hospital by Bethie Abbot for the rent of tenements in Smithfield, signed by Peter Moulson, Renter of the Hospital, 1659-1665 and letter to the Governors of the Hospital from William Wood, Mayor of London, sending Mary Larner for examination and possible admission, the endorsement 'Hope' on the verso suggests that she was admitted to Hope ward, 23 April 1817.
St Bartholomew's Hospital , LondonProtestant Dissenters' Charity School records comprising minutes, accounts and a list of pupils. They were catalogued by a member of the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library.
Protestant Dissenters' Charity School , City of LondonRecords of William Herbert, comprising: topographical description of London, early 19th century; collections for a history of London monasteries, early 19th century; collections for histories of livery companies, c 1830; memoir of his life, c 1772-early 19th century; history of the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap, early or mid 19th century; letters addressed to him, 1828-45; collection of antiquarian notes concerning the Priory and Church of St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, c 1838-1845; and memorandum relating to parish boundaries, 1830. They were catalogued at various dates by members of Guildhall Library staff.
Herbert , William , 1772-1851 , antiquary and librarian x William Herbert WilderspinPapers of Theophilus Charles Noble, 1703-1946, relating to the history of Saint Thomas' Hospital, including manuscript entitled 'Memoirs of St Thomas's Hospital including Biographical Notices of its Chief Supporters; Some account of St Thomas's Church, and Historical Notices of Bartholomew, Christ, Bethlem, Bridewell, Guy's and the Savoy Hospitals', and papers of the Saint Thomas' Hospital treasurer collected by Noble in the course of his research, including insurance policies, legal case notes, reports, financial accounts, certificates and orders.
Noble , Theophilus Charles , 1840-1890 , antiquarian and authorPapers relating to the administration and management of various London churches, 1394-1985, including general reports, correspondence, and printed acts; papers relating to individual parish churches, including Saint Andrew Undershaft, Saint Bartholomews, Saint Bartholomew the Great, Saint Benet Link, Saint Botolph (without) Aldgate, Saint Dunstans, Saint George Southwark, Saint Giles, Cripplegate, Saint John the Evangelist, Brownswood Park, Saint Katharine by the Tower, Saint Lawrence Jewry, Saint Maquis, Saint Margaret Pattens, Saint Peter Cornhill, Saint Martin's le Grand, Saint Olave Old Jury, Saint Mary Aldermanbury, Saint Mary, Colechurch, Saint Mary-le-Bow, Saint Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street, Saint Olave, Hart Street, Saint Olaves, Silver Street, Saint Pancras, Saint Peter's, Cornhill, Saint Saviour, Southwark, Saint Stephens Walbrook and Saint Brides; papers relating to burial grounds and reports, correspondence, minutes, orders of service and programmes, staff lists, account books, orders, inventories and agreements from Saint Paul's Cathedral.
Corporation of LondonPlans, maps and diagrams of streets and properties in the City of London and Greater London, [1500]-1983. Please note that this series is extensive and this list has been chosen to demonstrate the wide range of available material rather than being an exhaustive list. Please consult the detailed listings for further information.
General plans and maps of the City of London including survey of encroachments upon London Wall with encroachments upon the wall surrounding Moorfields, by William Leybourn, 1676; plan of the City, Westminster and Southwark, 1752; coloured map of Greater London, showing the boundaries of the City of London, 1825; diagram showing relative levels and contour lines, 1847; general plan of the City of London by Frank Summer, City Engineer, 1914; plan showing City boundary, 1914; map of London and surrounding districts showing administrative counties; county, municipal and metropolitan boroughs; urban and rural district and civil parish boundaries; and parliamentary constituencies scheduled in Representation of the People Act, 1948. Map showing the parishes of the City prior to the Union of Parishes Acts, 1878-1880; coloured directory map of London, showing ward boundaries and parish boundaries, 1909; plan of the City of London showing the wards of Langbourn, Candlewick, Walbrook, Dowgate, Billingsgate, Bridge Within, Cheap and Farringdon without, accompanied by drawings of churches and the arms of the two aldermen of the wards, 1755; plan showing the division of the City of London into Wards, with the number of common councilmen representing each ward, 1822; map of the Wards of Cheap, Cordwainer, Vintry and Walbrook to accompany the Act of Common Council to alter the boundaries of those wards, 1957; map of the wards of Aldersgate, Cripplegate and Farringdon Within to accompany the Act of Common Council to alter the boundaries of those wards, 1969; map of the Wards of Cheap, Cordwainer, Vintry and Walbrook to accompany Act of Common Council, 1971; outline plan of Greater London, showing the approximate boundaries of London Borough Administrative Areas, 1970.
Maps showing public sewers within the City of London, showing Inspector's Districts, 1841-1853; map of London and its environs showing the boundary of the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the boundaries of the City of London, and the boundaries of the water companies' districts, 1884; plans and sections of the proposed works by the London Sewage Chemical Manure Company in Westminster, Barmondsey and Lambeth, 1846; plan and sections of the proposed works of the London Drainage Company to drain the Metropolis and preserve the Thames from impurities, 1847-1853; sewers and electricity mains, 1902-1909; London Electric Supply Company high pressure mains, 1909; London County Council unfiltered water mains, 1944; boundaries and area of the Coal Duty with locations of coal posts, [1846] and [1959]; plan showing police divisions of the City of London and also areas of jurisdiction of the Guildhall and Mansion House Justice Rooms, 1914; carriageway traffic in the City of London for one day of 12 hours, 1903; plan showing existing and proposed pedestrian crossings, 1914; plan marked to show the location of accidents involving pedestrians, 1966; maps relating to Stopping up of Public Paths Orders, 1970-1981. Maps showing land in the City owned by different companies including City Livery Companies, Central London Electricity Ltd, with service positions, Cable and Wireless Ltd, the General Post Office and the Port of London Authority, 1947; preliminary survey, preservation of trees, 1950; plan of City showing the location of public conveniences, 1968 and plan of the City of London showing the positions of five hydrants as fixed by the Corporation, and also police and fire brigade stations and five alarm posts, 1880.
Plans relating to general urban development including plan showing numbering of street properties, 1842; plan of the City of London showing slum property presented in the Medical Officer's Report as being in need of rebuilding, 1880, plan of the City of London, showing 21 sites proposed to be dealt with by the Medical Officer of Health under the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act 1875; diagrams showing restrictions on height of buildings and the percentage of a site which may be occupied under the Town Planning Scheme, 1938-1939; survey of the North Lambeth and Southwark redevelopment area, showing borough and wood boundaries; age and condition of buildings; church property; education; licensed premises; industry, commerce and railways; health and social services; and open spaces, 1945; maps relating to Compulsory Purchase Orders, 1950-1982; maps attached to the London County Council Development Plan, 1962.
General plans of the Thames and other waterways including plan of the Maze Ponds, being a portion of the survey of the water courses, streams and ponds belonging to Battle Mills, 1680; surveys of the Thames, 1770-1839; 32 sheets of plans and sections of the River Thames at various points showing tidal observations, navigational and geological points and other observations, 1833 - 1882; plan of sections of the River Thames appointed by the Corporation of London as places for colliers to anchor on their entrance into the port, 1838; 37 sheets of plans and sections showing proposed works for the improvement of the navigation of the River Lee, 1849 - 1850; plan of the River Lea, Middlesex, 1881; diagrams of tidal observations taken from Deptford, Erith Pier, Gravesend Pier, Teddington Lock and Southend Pier every day from 13 September to 30 November 1882; and hydrographic survey of the Thames from Blackfriars Bridge to London Bridge, 1958.
Plans of Corporation of London properties including plan of Guildhall Yard, showing the vicarage and the Comptroller's house, 1681; plan and sections of a design for a muniment room at the Guildhall, 1835; plan of the Town Clerk's House, Guildhall, 1859-1860; 22 black and white photographs and drawings of the Guildhall, collected during restoration work in 1910 for use by Sydney Perks, late City Architect and Surveyor, in his 'Essays on Old London'; plans for the extension for new offices and committee rooms, 1926 - 1927; plan of the Guildhall Crypt as it appeared in the early part of the fifteenth century, 1927; plans for the reconstruction of the Guildhall by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 1935-1968. Also proposals for the site of the Mansion House, including at Stocks Market by George Dance the Elder, 1730s and by John James, 1735-1737, and on Leadenhall Street, by John James, 1735-1737 and by James Gibbs, 1735; plans of Mansion House, 1930 and 1953; Bridgehouse offices and yard, 1790-1793; alterations at the Sessions House, 1806; Commissioners of Sewers offices, 1860-1896; Barbican South Block, 1962-1971 and the Museum of London, 1964-1971.
Plans of hospitals, workhouses, schools and prisons including plan of Christ's Hospital premises adjoining London Wall, showing distiller's house and workhouse, Aldersgate Churchyard and parish workhouse, town ditch, hospital churchyard, a brewhouse and the passage to Little Britain, [1750]; plan of part of old Bethlem Burying Ground, 1773; design for a new entrance to Christ's Hospital, 1832; plan of Bethlehem Hospital and King Edward's School, 1894; plan of land on lease to the City of London Mental Hospital, Kent, Dartford, 1909 and plan of land behind the Hospital, 1917; Christ's Hospital offices, Tower Street, 1913; plan of the new Bethlem Hospital, 1926; plan of the Bethlem Royal Hospital estate at Monks Orchard, Beckenham, 1928 and 1937; St Bartholomew's Hospital plans, 1928-1929; plans of the Golden Lane Mortuary, 1911-1950; plan for letting ground for building on the site occupied by the London Workhouse and for erecting a dwelling house and school rooms for children, 1823; plan for letting on building leases the site of the late London Workhouse, Bishopsgate Street, 1830-1831; proposed workhouse for the West London Union, Cornwallis Road, Upper Holloway, [1863]; proposals for site of the City of London School in Islington, 1833, and in Honey Lane Market, 1835; plan and elevations of the City of London Freemen's School, 1854-1926; plan of the Cordwainer and Bread Street Schools, 1852; plans of the City of London School, Grove Park, Kent, 1924; plans of the Freemen's School at Ashtead Park, showing the allocation of rooms on each floor in the school and mansion, 1929-1939; plan of new building at City of London School for Boys, 1936; plans of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1970-1973; plans of the former site of the City of London School for Girls and Guildhall School of Music at John Carpenter Street, 1977; plan of Gresham College with its grounds and almshouses, [1700]; plan of property belonging to the London, Gresham and Rogers almhous es on the Ferndale Road, 1901; broadsheets describing the state of the Newgate gaol [ such as number of prisoners, offences, numbers executed], 1785-1792; plans of Newgate gaol, 1757-1848; plans of Giltspur Street Compter, 1800 and 1848, Southwark Compter, 1848 and Whitecross Street Compter, 1848.
Plans, maps and diagrams of London markets, including survey and plans of Leadenhall Market, 1677-1981, plans for improvements at Leadenhall and Smithfield markets, by Horace Jones, 1868-1881; plans of Smithfield, 1837-1868, and plans of London Central Market [Smithfield] including plan of the Southern Railway route below the market, showing proposed works to the substructure, 1923, the Meat Inspection Offices at London Central Market, 1930 and 1980 and plans of the market, 1937 and 1958-1969; plan and section of Billingsgate Market showing the supply of water, ventilation and drainage to the market, 1850, and other plans 1856-1980, plans of stalls at Newgate Market, 1692-1860; plans of Spitalfields Market 1900-1974 including photographs 1912-1934; map of East London showing the situation of 11 proposed sites for a foreign cattle market, 1870; plans of the Foreign Cattle Market, Deptford, showing the quantity of cattle pens and the layout of the slaughter houses, 1871-1902, including photographs, 1872; plans of Fleet Market, 1737 and 1799; plans of Farringdon Market, 1824-1828; map of East London, showing the proposed site of a metropolitan fish market at Shadwell and including a proposed subway for foot and carriage traffic under the Thames, 1881; plan of Stocks Market, off The Poultry, 1692; and plans of Honey Lane Market, showing the dimensions of the roads and adjoining areas and of the stalls, including the member of each, 1692, 1781 and 1833. Plans showing proposed sites for the new Metropolitan Cattle market including sites at Acton; Crouch End Road, off Seven Sisters Road; Bow Common; Wanstead Flats; Blackwall; Duckets Farm Tottenham; Church End, Finchley, off the Great North Road and Brentford, 1832-1852; plan of the proposed layout for the estate of Samuel Pocock, Esquire at Islington, including the new cattle market and Caledonian Road, 1855; coloured lithograph of the Inauguration of the New Metropolitan Cattle Market, 1855; plan o f the Metropolitan Cattle Market, showing approach roads, public houses, and the layout of the market place, 1855; plan of the decoration for the first stone to be laid in the new clock tower, including all the names of the members of the Metropolitan Cattle Market Committee, 1854; plans of the Metropolitan Cattle Market, 1916-1963, including plan of war time use; graph showing fluctuation in the number of cattle, sheep, calves and pigs slaughtered at the Metropolitan Cattle Market between 1912 and 1955 and photographs of visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to the abattoir in connection with the inauguration by the Ministry of Agriculture of their Scheme for the grading of cattle carcases, 23 Oct 1929.
Site plans, elevations and sections of individual properties including plan of the Rose Tavern near Poultry Compter, [1500]; plan of 8 tenements belonging to the Bridge House Estates on the north-side of Newgate Market Street, showing the names of each tenant and the extent of their plots, 1616; two plans of houses in Old Bethlem belonging to City Lands Estates, [1676]; plan of properties belonging to the Bridge House Estates showing tenements in Black Raven Court, off Golden Lane, 1714; plan of Conduit Mead property off Bond Street and Grafton Street, giving detailed measurements and plot boundaries, 1733; plans of the Conduit Mead estate, 1736 and 1807; plans of properties and streets in Deptford, including canals and docks, 1760-1932; properties along Blackfriars Road, [1760] and 1815-1892; plan and elevation of property belonging to the Bridge House Estates in and around Angel Court, Bishopsgate Street, 1764; properties and streets in St George's Fields, 1768-1859; properties on the Minories, 1774-1798; properties on Butcher Row, 1775; properties on Fenchurch Street, 1776-1908; plan of ground in Blackman Street and part of King's Bench Prison, 1777; properties in Lewisham, especially High Street, 1795-1921; City Lands property, 1799; plan of Limehouse fronting the river, showing the various premises and their owners, and also the position of the footpath to Poplar, 1799; ground plan of East India House, Leadenhall Street, 1800; plan of Blackwall fronting the river, showing the various premises and their owners, 1800; the Stock Exchange and vicinity, 1802; properties on Mill Lane, including Borough Compter and Hayes's Wharf, 1803-1859; properties on Paternoster Row, 1803-1913; plan of premises belonging to Messrs Jukes, Coulson and Company at Limehouse, 1808; the London Coffee House, Ludgate Hill, 1812; properties in Tooley Street, 1813-1912; the General Post Office, St Martin's le Grand, 1819-1828; Coleman Street Ward Watch House, 1824; properties on London Wall, 1824-1969; properties in Wood Street, 1829-1938; estate at Mile End Road, Bromley by Bow, belonging to Emanuel Goodhant, 1833; the Royal Exchange, 1838-1844 and 1938; Bishopsgate Street properties, [1830]-1940 and 1966; properties on Newgate Street, 1840-1908; properties in White Street, Bermondsey, 1842-1928; properties on Old Kent Road, 1843-1907; various public conveniences [toilets] and urinals, 1845-1914; properties on Leadenhall Street, 1846-1917; properties along Borough Road, 1854-1936; The Coal Exchange, including Roman ruins in basement, 1859 and 1950-1968; properties on Queen Victoria Street, 1862-1936; premises at No. 10 Bury Court, St Mary Axe, 1868; plan of alterations and repairs proposed for 'The Lamb Tavern', Islington, 1875; artisan's dwellings at the Petticoat Square housing development, 1879-1902; various artisan's dwellings developments, 1879-1881, including plans and sections of the artesian well proposed by the Hydraulic Rapid Boring Company to supply the development at Petticoat Square, 1887-1892; properties in Westminster Bridge Road, 1892-1922; properties on Eldon Street near Finsbury Circus, 1898-1901; plan of property on the corner of Blomfield Street and Eldon Street, late the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, 1900; underground convenience [toilet] near Blackfriars Bridge, 1912; Ilford Housing project, 1913-1923; Hutchison Street Area Housing, 1919-1930; plans of The Circus No. 7, Queen's Court Nos. 1-4 and Vine Street No. 3 and 5, 1925; general plans of the artisan's dwellings at Middlesex Street Estate, 1926-1928, also plans of properties on the estate including proposed reconstruction of Kings Flats, 1957-1958, Dutton House improvements, 1961-1962, and scheme to demolish flats on the estate, 1967-1973; proposals for Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, 1928; Meat Inspection Offices, Charterhouse Street, 1930; plan of the property of the City Parochial Foundation's Southwark Es tate on Southwark Bridge Road, 1936; Holloway Housing Estate, including property purchased from HMP Holloway, 1938-1951; fire escapes at Merchant Taylor's Hall, Threadneedle Street, 1939; proposals for the Bankers' Clearing House, King William Street, 1939; rebuilding of Heal and Son Ltd, Tottenham Court Road, 1939; the Lloyd's Bank Buildings, Moorgate, 1942-1950; proposals for the Golden Lane Housing Scheme, 1951; elevation of Bucklersbury House, Queen Victoria Street, 1956; car park, Upper Thames Street, 1960-1962; development at Houndsditch, 1963 and Cavendish Telephone Exchange, Houndsditch, 1966; Telephone Exchange, Wood Street, 1964; rebuilding of head office, National Provincial Bank, Bishopsgate, 1965; Norfolk Suffolk House, Laurence Pountney Hill, 1967-1969; and No 51-53, Charterhouse Street, 1971.
Plans and maps of street layouts, particularly improvement works, including Oxford Street, 1708-1779; plans of the Finsbury Estate, including Bunhill Fields, the Artillery Ground, Old Street and City Road, 1774, 1781 and 1802; plan for making an opening from Bride Street to the Broadway in Blackfriars, showing premises affected and the course of the Fleet Sewer, 1779; Newgate street, 1787-1963; Moorfields area, 1815-1925; plan of streets stopped up for His Majesty King William IV's visit to the City, 1830; Holborn Valley improvements, including Holborn Viaduct, 1832-1869; plan of the projected viaduct from Fetter Lane to the Old Bailey showing also the proposed extension to Chancery Lane and improvement to Farringdon Market, 1834; 'Mr Belchers plan for improvements of Holborn Hill, by a proposed viaduct from Holborn to Skinner St', [1842]; plan and sections of the proposed embankment road from Whitehall Place to Chatham Place, Blackfriars, and of the proposed embankment from Westminster Bridge to the northern pier of Hungerford Bridge, 1843; Cheapside area, 1846-1967; proposed improvements to streets, Billingsgate Ward, 1852; plan and section of the proposed embankment and public roadway on the Middlesex side of the Thames between Vauxhall Bridge and Battersea Bridge, 1852; plan of Reynolds Estate, Stratford, Essex, 1862; subways, Aldersgate Street, 1880; Middlesex Street, 1927 and 1964-1967; plans for development of St Paul's Cathedral precinct including maps superimposed with different proposals for development, including the piazza of St Peter's Rome, the Royal Academy, the Royal Fine Art Commission, Holden-Holford and William Holford [planning consultants to the City of London] proposals, 1934-1969; and diagrams of St Paul's Height Zoning to protect views of the Cathedral, 1935-1939; Houndsditch Pipe Subway extension, 1935-1937; improvements, Cannon Street - Queen Victoria Street intersection, 1947; redevelopment, Bucklersbury / Pancras Lane ar ea and Thavies Inn area, Holborn Circus, 1950; street improvements at Holborn Circus, [1959]; Moorfields development works, 1960-1966, Aldgate High Street improvements, 1963 - 1969 and Holborn Viaduct and Snow Hill redevelopment, 1965-1967.
Plans of churches and churchyards, including ground plans of Christ Church, Newgate Street; Bridewell Chapel; Hallows Staining, Mark Lane; All Hallows, London Wall; All Hallows, Lombard Street; All Hallows, Bread Street; All Hallows Barking, Great Tower Street; Holy Trinity Church, Fetter Lane; Holy Trinity the Less; St Michael Queenhithe; St Vedast-alias-Foster; St Stephen, Coleman Street; St Stephen, Walbrook; St Swithin, London Stone; St Mary Bothaw; St Sepulchre, Holborn; St Peter, Paul's Wharf; St Peter le Poor; St Peter West Cheap; St. Paul's Cathedral and the Cathedral Churchyard; St. Gregory by St. Paul's; St. Augine, Old Change; St Pancras, Soper Lane; St Nicolas Olave; St Olave Hart Street; St Olave Silver Street; St Nicholas Cole Abbey; St Mildred, Bread Street; St Mildred the Virgin, Poultry; St Nicholas Acon; St Michael Paternoster Royal; St Michael Queenhithe; St Michael Bassishaw; St Matthew, Friday Street; St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Bloomfield Street; St Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street; St Mary Bothaw; St Mary le Bow, Cheapside; St Mary Abchurch; St Mary the Virgin Aldermanbury; St Martin Ludgate; St Martin Orgar; St Martin Outwich; St Martin Vintry; St Margaret, Fish Street Hill; St Magnus the Martyr; St Margaret Eastcheap; St Leonard Eastcheap; St Lawrence Pountney; St Lawrence Jewry; St John Zachary; St Katherine Cree, Leadenhall Street; St John the Baptist, Walbrook; St Giles Cripplegate; St Gregory by St Paul's; St Helen, Bishopsgate Street; St Giles Without, Cripplegate; St James, Duke's Place; St James, Garlickhithe; St Andrew Undershaft; St Andrew, Holborn; St Alphage, London Wall; St Alban Wood Street; St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield; St Augustine, Watling Street; St Antholin, Watling Street; St Anne and St Agnes, St Ann's Lane; St Anne Blackfriars; St Andrew by the Wardrobe, St Andrew's Hill; St Benet Fink; St Bartholomew the Less, Goswell Street; St Bartholomew the Less, Smithfield; St Botolph, Aldergate; St Bennet, Paul's Wharf; St Benet Sherehog, Pancras Lane; St Benet, Gracechurch Street; St Dunstan in the East; St Clement's, Eastcheap; St Dionis Backchurch, Lime Street; St Botolph, Bishopsgate; St Bride, Fleet Street; St Botolph, Billingsgate; St Gabriel Fenchurch, Fenchurch Street; St George, Botolph Lane; St Ethelburga, Bishopsgate Street; St Edmund the King and St Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street, all dating to 1853; plan showing alterations to St Sepulchre's Churchyard in connection with Holborn Valley improvements, 1868; plan of churchyard of St Matthew' Church, Brinton Hill, showing site of William Ward's tomb, with plan, elevation and detail of inscription, 1881? and plan of All Hallows, Lombard Street, 1938.
Plans, diagrams and maps relating to railway lines and stations, including plans and sections of the Great Northern and City Railway, to run from Finsbury Park to Finsbury Pavement, City, 1831; extension, Commercial Railway, 1838; 19 sheets of plans and sections showing the London and Enniskellen Railway with a branch to Lough Swilly, 1844; proposed extension of the Eastern Counties Railway, from Tottenham to Farringdon Street, 1845; plan and section of the proposed extension of the London and Birmingham Railway to Farringdon Street, 1845; Central City Railway, 1851; proposed Hammersmith, Fulham and Westminster Railways, 1854; plan of London showing the Holborn and City Extension Railway from Copenhagen Tunnel to Tokenhouse Yard, 1859; plan of Wandsworth Common detailing a proposed new railway goods station and road, and highlighting the limits within which the powers of the conservators of the common extended, 1871; plans from the Metropolitan District Railway and Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion and Eastern Extension Railway, showing various stations and lines, 1875-1950; plan of Thames Haven Station (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway) showing the boundaries of the landing place for foreign animals, 1885; proposals for the Waterloo and City Railway, 1891; plans of lines and stations from various companies including the London and North Eastern Railway; Hammersmith, City and North East London Railway; Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway; Great Northern and City Railway; City and Crystal Palace Railways; Great Northern Railway; City and North East Suburban Railway; Great Northern and City Railway; City and North, Central London and Metropolitan District Railway; Central London Railway, Waterloo and City Railway, all dating between 1896-1931; plan and section of City Station tunnels showing ways to or from platforms, and terminal station of the Waterloo and City Railway at Queen Victoria Street, 1897; Cannon Street Station, 1913 and 1958-1964; plan of Moor Lane Bridge, Moorgate Station, showing the proposed widening of the bridge by the Metropolitan Railway, 1913; City Station (now Bank), 1929-1939; London Passenger Transport Board plans, 1933-1947; map of the North Eastern Railway's route through Tottenham, Hackney, Old Street and Shoreditch and Section of the North Eastern Railway's route through Hackney Parish and Tottenham parish, showing the levels of the land, 1936; Liverpool Street Station, 1937 and 1981-1982; proposed interchange of Old Tower Hill Station (District Line) with Fenchurch Street station, 1953; Holborn Viaduct Station, 1959; widening and realignment work on the railways at Tower Hill, Aldersgate and Moorgate, 1960; plans from London Transport for work on various stations, 1962-1982 and plans prepared for the London Docklands Railway Bill, 1982-1983.
Plan and section of proposed tramways to run between Holborn, Clerkenwell and Islington, 1884; proposed tramways between Pimlico, Peckham and Greenwich, 1871 and proposed extension of the Metropolitan Street Tramway in the City of London and in Surrey, 1871; proposed Kensington, Westminster and City tramways, 1871; tramways and improvements, London County Council, 1913-1924. Also map of Greater London showing existing airports and the site of the proposed City of London Airport at Fairlop, Essex, 1936.
Plans, maps and diagrams relating to bridges, including map of London and environs showing the River Thames and the River Lee, and indicating whether their bridges are free bridges, toll bridges or toll bridges to be made free, 1869; general plans of London Bridge, 1799-1800; maps and plans of the approaches to London Bridge, including plans and elevations of premises along streets redesigned by John Rennie, 1806-1836, 1842, 1875, and 1959; plan of the levels of Holborn Hill, Skinner Street, Fleet Street, Ludgate Hill and Regent Street, taken from London Bridge, 1830; plan of alteration of parapet, London Bridge footway, 1877; improvements to pedestrian access from London Bridge to London Bridge Station via Duke Street Hill, 1960?; plans showing London Bridge improvement works, 1961-1962 and plans from the London Bridge reconstruction, 1965-1968; plans and elevations of Tower Bridge, its approaches and its machinery, with some drawings and preliminary sketches by George D Stevenson (City Architect's Office), Sir Horace Jones and Sir John Wolfe-Barry, 1886-1899; elevations and sections of the bascules, Tower Bridge, 1903; arrangement of steam pumping engine counters, with details of fittings for both engine rooms, Tower Bridge, 1906; arrangement of Motlerup's Lubricators to steam pumping engines, with detail of fittings for same, Tower Bridge, 1913; approximate positions of lamps lighted by the Corporation on Tower Bridge, 1921 and 'A' and 'B' Pumping Engines, Tower Bridge, 1935. Map of Blackfriars Bridge approach roads, 1768; general plans of Blackfriars Bridge, 1820-1870, 1906 and 1959 and plans of improvements to Blackfriars Bridge, including changes to street layout, 1961-1969. Plan and elevation of the proposed Prince's Bridge at Vauxhall across the River Thames, 1805; plans of proposed additions to the width of Peg's Hole Bridge, Stratford and St Michael's Bridge, Stratford with their south elevations, 1847; plan of Southwark Bridge, 1904 and plans for the reconstruction of Southwark Bridge, 1912-1920; plan for the never built St Paul's Bridge, 1911 and diagram of the Southwark Bridge intersection with Queen Street Place, Queen Street and Upper Thames Street, 1968.
Plans of wharves and docks including plan of Stone Wharf, Hannott Wharf, and Ramseys Wharf, showing the properties there including Justice Hartley, George Ale House, Captain Metcalfe and the Comptroller's House, 1710; plan of Billingsgate Dock showing adjoining premises and encroachments on the dock, 1700s; the Hay's Wharf area, 1803-1859; plan of alterations to Billingsgate Market and Dock showing the layout of the sheds, tables and flaps, and naming the premises or occupiers of houses behind the Piazza, 1828-1829; wharfs and quays between London Bridge and Billingsgate, 1838; general plans of Letts Wharf, 1876-1897 and diagrams showing sections of Fryer's Destructor Apparatus [a rubbish incinerator], Letts Wharf, 1887; plans and photographs of Hornchurch Wharf, Essex, 1897-1953; proposals for a dam, locks and sluices at Gravesend, Thames Harbour, 1905; Fresh Wharf, Lower Thames Street, Adelaide Place and the riverside east of London Bridge, 1909 and 1913; Letts Wharf, 1937 and map of the River Thames from Teddington to the Nove, showing the limits of the Port of London Authority and including a detailed map of the docks and communications, 1950.;Maps and plans of parks, gardens and cemeteries, including maps of Epping Forest, 1865-1882 and 1921-1968, including maps of areas where horse riding is not permitted and plan of pavilion, dais and refreshment tents for Queen Victoria's visit, 1882; plans of Burnham Beeches and East Burnham, 1808-1899, also War Department Requisition diagrammatic plans of Prisoner of War camp, huts occupied by squatters, built-up areas, huts awaiting removal and huts not being dealt with, 1946-1950 and the Macros Cottage and tearooms, Burnham Beeches, 1958; maps of West Ham Park, 1873 and 1895, also cottage and lodge, West Ham Park, prior to destruction by enemy action in World War Two; boundary survey with details of adjacent properties, West Wickham Common, [1900]; proposals for a new bandstand, Finsbury Circus Gardens, 1955; plans showing proposed open space at St Mary Aldermanbury, 1968; plan of Kenley Common showing tracks and areas suitable to be ridden over, 1934 and plans showing proposals for the post war reinstatement of Kenley Common, including removal of temporary installations and repair of bomb damage, 194-; plan of Coulsdon Common, Surrey, 1869 and plan of Coulsdon Common showing tracks suitable to be ridden over, 1934; plan of Farthing Downs and Fairdean Downs, Surrey, 1871 and plan of Farthing Downs showing tracks suitable to be ridden over, 1934; plan of Riddles Down, Surrey, 1912 and plan of Riddles Down showing tracks suitable to be ridden over, 1934; plan of North Woolwich Gardens, Woolwich, 1889; plan of Merton and Morden Urban District Council area showing Morden Park, 1936; plan of land at Kilburn commissioned under the Highgate and Kilburn open spaces Act 1886, showing 30 acres of land between Kensal Green Railway Station and Queen's Park Railway Station, 1886 and plan of a public park for Kilburn [Queen's Park], 1887; plan commissioned under the Highgate and Kilburn Open Spaces Act 1886 showing 30 acres of land at Highgate between Highgate Railway Station, the Alexandra Park Branch and the Edgware Highgate and London (Tunnel) Line of the Great Northern Railway, 1886; plan of the proposed layout for Gravel Pit Wood, Highgate, 1886; plan for new vaults, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, 1833; proposals to turn Bunhill Fields into a public garden, 1950-1959; plan of Alders Brook Farm in the parishes of Wanstead and Little Ilford in the County of Essex, surveyed in 1853 for suitability to become the City of London Cemetery; maps and plans of the City of London Cemetery and buildings on site, 1854-1855 and 1903-1928, including plans of the catacombs, dissenting or non-conformist chapels, Episcopal chapels, entrance gates, superintendent's house, old crematorium and public conveniences.
Plans of monuments, including proposals for improvements at Temple Bar, 1795 and 1834; elevation of Temple Bar facing the Strand, 1877; plan, sections and elevation of the Monument, drawn while undergoing repair, 1888; plans relating to re-erection of a statue of King William IV at St Mary's Church, Greenwich, 1936; proposal to re-erect statue of Sir Robert Peel in Aldersgate, 1951 and tracing of measurements of the Waithman Memorial [to Robert Waithman, Lord Mayor 1823-1824] with plan of proposed location for re-erection in St Bartholomew Close, 195-; proposals for re-erection of Temple Bar on the Embankment, 1950-1952 and proposals for re-erection in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1979 [Temple Bar was dismantled and sold, and re-erected in Theobalds Park, Hertfordshire until 2004 when it returned to the City].
Maps and plans of the Corporation owned Brandesburton Estate in Yorkshire, part of the bequest by Lady Anne Dacre, including a survey by John Brown, 1732 and plans of various estate properties, 1700-1917.
Maps and plans relating to the Second World War, including plan of the First Aid and Gas Cleansing Station at Great St Helens, 1938-1939; maps of the City showing the provision of public and private air raid shelters, and identifying areas where more shelters are needed, 1938-1940; plans and sections of air raid shelters, 1938-1949; map of the City showing divisional police stations, fire alarm posts, ambulance call boxes, and so on, 1939; maps of the City of London marked into areas of civil defence, showing positions of warden's posts and police and warden's divisions, 1940; plans showing air raid damage in the City, marking total destruction, demolition necessary, serious damage and slight damage, 1940-1944; map of area covered by Fire Watchers Squad No. 4, in the Vicinity of the Coal Exchange, 1941; map of the City showing buildings demolished or in course of demolition, buildings destroyed and partially demolished, churches destroyed, static water tanks and so on, 1942; plan showing the districts of No. 36 Fire Force, covering the eastern half of the City of London, parts of Middlesex, and parts of Essex, 1944; general plan of the City showing site of fly bomb incidents in 1944; plan of London showing licensed premises, including those damaged, [1940]; plans of the Camomile Street area post-war redevelopment, including plan showing bomb damage, 1948; maps prepared under theWar Damaged Sites Act 1949, 1950 and redevelopment, Barbican area, 1954 - 1959, including plan of war damage.
Copy of a map of Deptford with remarks by John Evelyn, 1600s; plan of the Society of Apothecaries Physic Garden, Chelsea, 1725; poster showing "Rules, Orders and Regulations for the preservation of brood and fry of fish in the River of Thames and Waters of Medway within the jurisdiction of the City of London", 1754-1755; plans of the Pneumatic Despatch Co. Ltd. accompanying notices of intention to open and break up portions of the Holborn Viaduct for the purposes of laying their pneumatic dispatch tube, 1869; Post Office plan of pneumatic tube between Farringdon Street and St. Martin's le Grand, 1869?; sketch and photograph of the Aldgate pump, 1887; plans drawn by W H Poole of the City Police showing the crime scenes, Houndsditch Murders, 1911; plan of the Daily Sketch and Sunday Herald Pneumatic Pipe, 1925; plan and section of Leathern Doublet Sewer under City of London Brewery, Upper Thames Street, 1935; plans showing the proposed location of the Festival of Britain, 1951 and proposals for a refuse tip at Mucking, Stanford le Hope, Essex, 1954-1959.
Corporation of LondonRecords of the Manor of Little Stanmore, comprising court books and minute book; and records of the Manor of Great Stanmore comprising court books, minute book, conveyance, and compensation agreements.
Manor of Little Stanmore Manor of Great StanmoreRecords of Saint Margaret Lothbury, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns, burials and preachers; Vestry minute books; Churchwardens' accounts and vouchers; administrative papers; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; papers relating to parish poor relief; poor rate assessment books and church rate assessment books; and deeds and other documents relating to parish properties.
Parish of St Margaret Lothbury, City of London , Church of EnglandRecords of the parish of Saint Botolph, Aldersgate. The main archive dates from the 17th century, but it also includes churchwardens' accounts from 1466, vestry minutes from 1601 and muniments of title from 1365. Parish registers include baptisms, burials, banns, marriages and church services. The archive includes poor rate assessments; tithe rate assessments; records of the extra-parochial liberty of Glasshouse Yard, which was in the northern part of the parish; and records relating to a number of parish charities, including Dame Anne Packington's School.
Parish of St Botolph Aldersgate, City of London , Church of EnglandRecords of the parish of Saint Christopher le Stocks, Threadneedle Street, City of London, including parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials and banns) from 1557; poor rate assessment books; vestry minutes and church wardens' accounts; and a churchwardens' remembrancer, 1483-1725.
Parish of St Christopher le Stocks, City of London , Church of EnglandRecords of the parish of Saint Olave, Jewry, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns; Vestry minute books; Churchwardens' accounts; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; poor rate books; and papers relating to parish charities and estates.
Parish of St Olave, Jewry, City of London , Church of EnglandRecords of the parish of Saint Mildred, Poultry, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; Vestry minutes; settlement examinations and poor rate books.
Parish of St Mildred, Poultry, City of London , Church of EnglandRecords of the parish of Saint Stephen, Coleman Street, City of London. The collection includes the so-called 'Vellum Book', a record book chiefly of church property dating from 1466 (Ms 4456). The main archive dates from the 15th century and includes churchwardens' accounts from 1486, parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials, banns) from 1538, poor rate and tithe rate assessments from 1592 and vestry minutes from 1622.
Parish of St Stephen, Coleman Street, City of London , Church of EnglandPlans of land and property owned by Bridge House estates, 1592-1889, including site or street plans of Avondale Square; Maidenhead Court; Wrestler's Court; White Street, Bermondsey; Webber Street, Southwark; the widening of Upper Thames Street, Tooley Street, Pottery Fields, The Maze, Little Eastcheap, Fish Hill Street; improvements at Temple Bar; a new street at Tottenham Court Road; a burial ground at St Michael, Crooked Lane; Bankside, Southwark, including the Globe Theatre; Wild Marsh, Stratford; Rock Hill and West Hill, Sydenham; St George's Fields, Southwark; Kent Street Road; Finsbury Circus; Great Suffolk Street and Belvidere Row, Bridewell, Surrey. Also drawings, elevations and plans of buildings including premises in Swan Street, Thames Street, Sun Alley, Rood Lane, Fenchurch Street, Paternoster Row, Philpot Lane, Old Change, King William Street, Lewisham High Street, Crucifix Lane, Dirty Lane, Friday Street, Five Foot Lane, Cheapside, Bermondsey Street, Arthur Street and Blackman Street; the Castle Alehouse and other properties, Watling Street; vaults and premises on Water Lane; the Watch House and other premises on Tooley Street; premises near St Paul's Churchyard; the Freemason's School and other premises, St George's Fields, Southwark; premises near King's Bench Prison and Marshalsea Prison; Borough Compter and surrounding premises; a stable on Old Kent Road; Sherwood's Dye House and other premises, Battle Mill Lane; demolished properties on Montague Close, Southwark; The Crown Public House, shops and other premises, Newgate Street; wharves and warehouses, Malt's Wharf; shipyards, wharves and docks, Deptford; designs for Legal Quays, St Catherine's Docks, the Southwark river frontage, West India docks and Cotton's Wharf, Southwark; Bridge House Court, Gracechurch Street; designs for warehouses and almshouses; plans and designs for Bridge House, the administrative headquarters of the old London Bridge; Mr Toulmin's Soap Manufactory, Bridewell, Surrey; stairs at Pepper Alley. Also signed contract drawings for Tower Bridge; designs for St Michael's Bridge, Stratford; survey of watercourses and designs for bridge at Battle Mill Stream; plan of the river Lea from Hertford to the Thames; designs for the reconstruction of Southwark Bridge; designs and plans of the bridge, approach roads, chapel, gate and houses, London Bridge; plans for the Chatham and Dover Railway Bridge over the Thames; designs for footpaths, tramways, railways, approaches and the Fleet Sewer, Blackfriars Bridge, and designs for the Croydon and Rotherhithe Canal and the Grand Surrey Canal.
Plans of land and property owned by the City Lands estates, 1641-1928, including site or street plans of All Hallows church, London Wall; Pickaye Street, Barbican; Bevis Marks near St Mary Axe; Chatham Place; Coleman Street; the Conduit Mead and Finsbury Estates; Earl Street, Blackfriars; Fenchurch Street; Holborn Valley improvements; Leadenhall Street; the Minories; Old Change; St Paul's Churchyard; Shoemaker Row; Temple Bar; Thames Street; Tottenham Court Road; Whitecross Street; plans for the widening of Billiter Lane, Wormwood Street, Bow Lane, Bread Street, Brick Hill Lane, Camomile Street, Cheapside; Snow Lane, Dowgate Hill, Eastcheap, Jewin Street, Mark Lane; Old Jewry; Poultry, Seething Lane; Snow Hill; Tower Street; Walbrook; Watling Street, Wormwood Street. Also drawings, elevations and plans of buildings including premises in Mitre Court and Adams Court, Duke's Place; Aldermanbury; Aldgate High Street; Bangor Court, Shoe Lane; Lothbury; Bell Court, Old Bethlem; Cheapside; Bishopsgate Street; New Broad Street; Budge Row, Castle Street; Cateaton Street; Chancery Lane; Crown Court, Moorfields; Crutched Friars; Dolphin Court, Blackfriars; Duke's Place; Grub Street; City Road, Old Street; Rotten Row; Windmill Hill; Fish Street Hill; Fleet Street; Giltspur Street; Gracechurch Street; Holborn Bridge; Houndsditch; Isle of Dogs; Jewry Street; Lambeth Hill; Ludgate Hill; Moorfields; Moorgate; New Bridge Street; New Broad Street; New Court, St Swithun's Lane; Ratcliffe; St Dunstan's Hill; St Mary Axe; St Swithun's Lane; Shoe Lane; Stonecutters Street; Watling Street; plans of houses to be demolished in Bartholomew Lane; Bethlem Hospital in Moorgate, with adjoining premises and burial ground; plans of Blackwell Hall; plan of the Boar's Head Tavern, Smithfield Barrs; plan of the house of the Keeper, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground; designs for extension, East India House; plan of Hudson's Bay Company premises; plan of the Gresham Almshouses; plan of Guildhall and offices; Watch House and other premises, Old London Wall; designs and plans for Mansion House; plans, designs and elevations for Leadenhall Market, Stocks Market, Honey Lane Market, Fleet Market, Farringdon Market, Smithfield Market, Queenhithe Market, Newgate Market and Street Lane Market; 'a method to fix the ground in Moorfields at a mean depth', Old Bethlem; designs for timber stairs at Old Swan Stairs, near London Bridge; designs for renovations, Paul's Stairs, Vauxhall Stairs, Three Crane Stairs and Stew Lane Stairs; designs and plans, Giltspur Street Compter, Poultry Compter, Newgate Prison, Ludgate Prison, Wood Street Compter; new burial ground at St Andrew's Holborn; plan of Blackwall Wharf; design for Blackfriars Wharf; plan of Broken Wharf; design for rebuilding Custom House Quay; design for Corn Office, Black Swan Court, Tower Street; plans of Artillery Ground, Finsbury; plan of Puddle Dock, Sabbs Dock and Queenhithe Docks; designs for embankments and towpaths along the River Thames; plans for Whitefriars Dock; plan of wharf and approaches, Blackfriars Bridge; plan for repairing London Bridge; plans of Westminster Bridge and section of the Isle of Dogs Canal.
Many of the plans include the names of tenants or owners of the buildings or lands.
Corporation of LondonRecords relating to the wards of the City of London, 1617-1979. Papers relating to individual wards, including petition of inquest jury and inhabitants of Aldersgate Without regarding the boundaries of the Liberty of St Bartholomew on Cloth Fair, 1766-1789; complaint of inhabitants of Bridge Ward that their ancient rights of free wharfage through the gate in Churchyard Alley were being hindered, 1660s; report regarding the rights and privileges of the ward of Bridge Without [Southwark], 1892; extract from a lease of the Jamaica Coffee House reserving a room for the use of the Ward Inquest and the parish officers, Cornhill Ward, 1884 and correspondence with the Secretary of the Board of Ordnance about the complaint of the inquest of Tower Ward about the entrance from Tower Hill into Thames Street being stopped by a Box and Toll, 1739.
Papers relating to Wardmotes, including returns of elections of Officers for Farringdon Within, 1683; Bishopsgate, 1683; Tower, 1689; Cordwainer, 1689; Vintry, 1690; Langbourn, 1690; Cordwainer, 1707; Cornhill, 1711; Bridge, 1711; Cripplegate, 1711 and Dowgate, 1711; set of Acts relating to the holding of Wardmotes and elections, 1663-1928; various Wardmote Precepts (orders, rules and regulations), 1679-1714? and 1802, 1823, 1957 and 1970-1973; Wardmote Books (printed copies of regulations, Acts and Orders for the holding of Wardmotes), 1853 1979; lists of candidates, 1965-1975; Act of Common Council for regulating elections in Wardmotes and Common Halls, 1712; case notes regarding whether a Deputy can hold a Wardmote and declare himself elected a Common-Councilman, 1723; opinion regarding the right of attendance at Wardmotes, 1905; Articles of Charge of the Wardmote Inquest (orders for actions to take place at the Wardmote, such as the reading of new regulations), [1625-1910]; 'Act of Common Council that the Inquestmen, after taking their oaths, shall choose from among themselves a Foreman, should the voting be equal the Alderman of the Ward shall nominate one as Foreman', 1617; Order of the Court of Common Council against the 'Extravagant Expenses at the Meeting of their Wardmote-Inquests, in Eating and Drinking, and also sending abroad Wine and Ale to the Inhabitants of the several Wards' and allowing that Inquests may be adjourned in order that the Inquestmen may refresh themselves at their own houses, 1694 and reprints 1702-1839; Precepts, rules and regulations regarding the conduct of Inquestmen, 1625-1796 and 1801-1852; returns to a precept to return an account of all dancing and fencing schools, lotteries and other gaming houses, 1673- 1674 and notes on the nature and jurisdiction of the Great Courts of Wardmote, 1857-1907.
Large scale ward plans by Samuel Agnall and Michael Meredith, 1858, of individual wards including Aldersgate Within, Aldersgate Without, Aldgate, Bassishaw, Billingsgate, Bishopsgate Within, Bishopsgate Without, Bread Street, Bridge, Broad Street, Candlewick, Castle Baynard, Cheap, Coleman Street, Cordwainer, Cornhill, Cripplegate Within, Cripplegate Without, Dowgate, Farringdon Within, Farringdon Without, Langbourn, Lime Street, Portsoken, Queenhithe, Tower, Vintry and Walbrook. Also ward map, 1950.
Financial and administrative papers including returns of the numbers of freemen, non-freemen, householders, houses and so on in each ward, 1772 and 1833; report regarding the employment of Ward Beadles, 1928; legal notes, correspondence and agreements relating to the ownership of various Ward Maces, 1923-1974; orders relating to exemptions from holding offices, 1637-1741; ward rate accounts, 1892-1902; ward rate cash books, 1842-1882 and ward rate ledgers, 1842-1876.
Corporation of LondonPapers of Sir James Paget, [1832-1896], comprising his memoirs; paper relating to 'case of blows inflicted a short time after death'; paper on the collegiate establishment of St Bartholomew's Hospital, c1840-1879; case notes, including notes on post mortem examinations, mainly of medical cases, made whilst demonstrator of morbid anatomy, 1839-1843; note book containing index to cases of tumours, notes on abscess in the abdominal walls, 1856, trichinosis, case of iliac aneurism, lecture notes, 1845, and letters to and from correspondents; paper on the 'advantages on medical societes', read before the Abernethian Society; notes on a branchial fistula with correspondence; notes on shock and reaction; index to letters relating to pathology, with note; translation of Bichat's General Anatomy, 1832;
case notes, 1834-1839 [cases examined by Paget, Vincent, Stanley and others at St Bartholomew's Hospital]; entry book of students in the College of St Bartholomew's Hospital, with biographical annotations by Paget, 1839-1859; report on the results obtained by the microscope in the study of human anatomy and physiology, with Paget's annotations, 1842; report on the progress of human anatomy and physiology in the years 1842-1845, with notes by Paget; notes on his lectures, 1843-1856; lectures on nutrition, hypertrophy and atrophy and processes of repair and reproduction after injuries, from the London Medical Gazette, with notes by Paget, 1847; notes by Richard Owen on Paget's lectures on nutrition, 1847; notes recording experiments and observations, 1847-1850; pocket books entitled 'reference books', for lectures on physiology etc, 1848-1857; pocket books (41) containing entries of engagements, names of patients etc, 1856-1896; notes possibly for clinical lectures, 1862; notes on decay of leaves, 1892; notes and drawings, 1877-1892; notes and papers on osteitis deformans and spondylistis deformans, 1880, 1896; notes and letters on elemental pathology, 1894; notes for a paper on vivisection, 1881; notes relating to clinical lectures and essays, 1882; notes for a paper on coincidences, 1883; notes by Paget on his lectures on the blood delivered at the College of Surgeons in 1848, copied by Horace Chesterton; letters from and to Paget, including from Sir Astley Cooper and Sir Benjamin Brodie, [1867-1881].
Paget , Sir , James , 1814-1899 , 1st Baronet , surgeonRecords of William Mawhood, woollen draper, comprising: diaries, 1764-90; cash account and note book, 1771-2; estate, legal and family papers, 1606, 1709-96; and letters and other papers relating to the diaries, 1875-1910.
Mawhood , William , 1764-1790 , woollen draperContains records of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls (formally the Royal Cumberland School for the Daughters of Indigent Free Masons and the Royal Freemasons School for Female Children). This includes minutes, agendas, signature books, membership records, reports, business statements, interview books, correspondence and administration files of the Institution’s Courts and Committees; Festival records, including minutes, agendas, a signature book, cash books, ledgers, administration files and printed memorabilia; records concerning petitioners and beneficiaries, including petitions and certificates, précis of petitions, petition registers, admission registers, a register of Junior School staff and pupils, summer holiday administration files and general beneficiary administration files; financial records, including ledgers, cash books, purchase journals, annual reports and accounts, sealing registers, investment accounts and dividend received books, lists of grants awarded from the Institution’s funds, collector books, donation and subscription registers, lists of governors and subscribers and general financial administration and correspondence files; staff records, including personal, pay and pension administration files; property records, including architectural plans and maps, building, receipts and payments books, visitor books, schedules of deeds and other documents deposited with banks, deeds and leases, tenant and property management files for the Institution’s property in Great Queen Street, London, Parker Street, London and Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire and administration files concerning the closure and redevelopment of the Royal Masonic Junior School for Girls, Weybridge, Surrey and publicity records, including VHS tapes, photographs and general promotional material.
Royal Masonic Institution for GirlsPapers of the Plumer family relating to property in Edgware and the Canons estate in Little Stanmore.
Plumer , family , of Edgware and Little StanmoreThe 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).
Compton , family , marquesses of NorthamptonRecords of the Worshipful Company of Butchers. Apart from deeds, charters and wardens' accounts (the latter starting in 1543/4), the company's records date from the later 17th century; court minutes begin in 1682, freedom admission registers in 1658 and apprentice binding registers in 1654. Other records include Beadles' summoning books; livery books; correspondence; legal case papers; papers relating to charities and charitable bequests; and papers relating to property including inventories.
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 ButchersRecords of the City of London Poor Law Union, 1763-1930; including minutes of meetings of the Boards of Guardians for the East London Union, West London Union and City of London Union; minutes of various Committees; Union year books; correspondence with Government departments; plans of Union buildings including the Homerton workhouse; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers of lunatic admissions; registers for the Bow Road Workhouse and Infirmary, Bow Institution and Infirmary, Homerton Workhouse, Lower Clapton Workhouse and Thavies Inn Infirmary; apprenticeship indentures and registers; registers of children at the Central London District School; financial accounts; staff records and papers of the West London Union, including minutes, correspondence, financial accounts and inventories of Thavies Inn Workhouse and Holloway Workhouse.
City of London Poor Law Union x City of London Board of Guardians East London Poor Law Union x East London Board of Guardians West London Poor Law Union x West London Board of GuardiansThe collection, 1835-1850, contains letters and printed papers, notices and unpublished printed material, which Airy received during his time as a member of the Senate of the University of London. The Airy correspondence has a special importance because much of the early archival material of the University of London was destroyed and so often the only record of its activities is in the Senate and Committee Minutes. Airy was particularly interested in the constitution of the University, the developments of the mathematics syllabus, the syllabuses for certificates in hydrography and civil engineering and the introduction of the religious examination.
Airy , Sir , George Biddell , 1801-1892 , Knight , astronomer and mathematicianPapers relating to Sir Everard Home and John Abernethy, 1811-1812, comprising a volume of manuscript notes by an unknown hand, titled Notes taken at Mr Home's Lectures on the principle operations in surgery, October 1811 and Notes taken at Mr Abernethy's Lectures on Surgery, 1812.
Home , Sir , Everard , 1756-1832 , 1st Baronet , surgeon Abernethy , John , 1764-1831 , surgeonRecords of the City of London Maternity Hospital, including Governors and Management Committee minutes, 1750-1948; Court of Governors minutes, 1883-1948; Finance Committee minutes, 1905-1948; lists of governors and annual reports, 1764-1948; reports concerning Brockett Hall Emergency Maternity Hospital, 1939-1940; new hospital charter and related papers, 1918-1935; Acts of Parliament concerning the hospital, 1773-1869; architects plans for alterations and modernisation, 1937; admissions registers, 1750-1948; registers of baptisms, 1813-1978; Matrons' case books, 1921-1949; out-patients admission registers, 1872-1953; district case books, 1913-1942; prospectus for the midwifery training school, 196-; salaries and wages books, 1912-1940; register of wills and legacies, 1754-1965; playbill for Sir Richard Steele's The Conscious Lovers to be performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, for the benefit of the Hospital, 17 Dec 1776; programme of concert at Mansion House arranged by the Ladies' Association in aid of the City of London Lying-in Hospital on 23 June 1914; includes photographs of exterior of hospital, interior of ward and chapel; issues of Onward, journal of the City of London Maternity Hospital, 1924-1944; history of the hospital, 1922 and guide for expectant mothers, [1950s].
City of London Maternity Hospital City of London Lying-In Hospital for Married Women and Sick and Lame Outpatients , 1750 - 1751 City of London Lying-In Hospital for Married Women , 1751 - 1918