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Records of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. The collection has large gaps in the records. However, most of the material contains valuable details on engineers who were members of the union, and on those receiving benefits, for reasons including illness, accidents and deaths.

Revised rules book owned by A. Curtis.

First annual balance sheet of the Magnet Permanent Benefit Building Society, 1868.

Records of the Bassishaw Friendly Association, later known as Bassishaw Ward Club, comprising rules, minutes, correspondence and accounts. They were catalogued by members of Guildhall Library staff in 1989 and 1991.

Memorandum book including copy letters to the Court of the East India Company; bye-laws and resolutions of the Society; and printed East India Company notices.

Minute books of the General Friendly Collecting Society; with an analysis of disbursements.

Records of the Huguenot Friendly Benefit Society comprising minutes, lists of members, and financial records.

Records of the Child and Jersey families, including property transactions relating to properties in Norwood, Southall, Hanwell, Heston, Isleworth, and Saint George Hanover Square; sales particulars; tithe records; public utility undertakings; legal papers; estate papers; plans and rentals.

Records of the Issuing Houses Association including executive committee minutes (Ms 29328), reports and accounts (Mss 29329-331), membership files (Mss 29332-3), copies of the Association's rules (Ms 29336) and a useful booklet about Issuing Houses and the Issuing Houses Association (Ms 29337).

Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from the London Investment Banking Association (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff). The Association retains its more recent records. No other records are known to exist.

Records of the Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society, including minute books; annual accounts; annual reports; correspondence; reports; press cuttings; legal case papers and papers relating to court proceedings; financial records; advertising leaflets; and papers relating to staff pensions and employment matters.

Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from Liverpool Victoria (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of Morgan Grenfell and Company Limited, merchant bankers, their predecessors, and companies they took over; comprising ledgers, journals, letter books, correspondence and other papers.

Access to all the records is restricted to persons with written permission from the depositor (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff).

Records of Cull and Company, private bankers, comprising minute books, financial accounts and register.

Please note that access to these records requires written permission from Morgan Grenfell and Company: details are available from a member of staff.

Records of the Ottoman Bank London office, including: records relating to the formation of the bank and its concession, 1875-1987; minutes, 1856-1969; annual general meetings and annual reports, 1863-1986; financial records, c 1856-1959; share records, 1856-63; internal management records, c 1860-1969; contracts and related papers, 1856-94; correspondence, agreements and related papers, 1889-1966; printed reports, 1948-71; magazines, 1918 and 1940; plans, 1890; photographs, 1892-1958; and miscellaneous items, c 1914-1968.

Records of discount bankers Smith St Aubyn and Company Limited, comprising ledgers and general ledgers 1891-1954, ledgers of partners' and trustees' accounts 1930-1939, trade acceptors ledgers 1927-1955, cash books 1891-1960, daybooks and rough daybooks 1891-1958, journals 1946-50, loans books and ledgers 1932-1952, private accounts loans and interest books 1931-1952, bills books 1891-1892 and 1933-1956, business and appointments diaries 1891-1959.

Records 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).

London and South African Bank records comprise: charters of incorporation, 1860, 1864-5; general ledgers, 1869-77; deed of settlement, 1861; correspondence, 1867-8; and contract of service, 1864.

Records of E D Sassoon Banking Company Limited including a property register and deeds relating to 46 Dorset Mews, Westminster and 46 Grosvenor Place, Westminster including leases, covenants, assignments, counterpart leases and abstracts. Some deeds date back to 1856 as they relate to the change in ownership of the properties before they were acquired by the Sassoon family, E D Sassoon and Company Limited or E D Sassoon Banking Company Limited.

Records of E D Sassoon and Company Limited including combined register of shares.

Records of E D Sassoon and Company Limited including correspondence files relating to business links and investment in South Africa; and copy judgement.

Records of the National Bank of India including one indexed ledger of government securities, detailing name of account holder, date of loan, amount loaned and loan number and certificates for Henry Chalmers of Shanghai and Frank Elliot of Bush Lane House, Cannon Street, London authorising the Manager, Sub-Manager and Accountant of the Calcutta Branch of the National Bank of India to act on their behalf if necessary. Both signed by the appointees and Clerks of the bank.

Records of the P & O Banking Corporation including records created at the foundation of the company, records and reports of the annual meetings of the company, and records dealing with the liquidation of the Corporation.

Records of P & O Banking Corporation including the legal files of the bank (under the responsibility of the General Manager) and files on the liquidation of the Corporation.

Records of P & O Banking Corporation including legal documents of corporate clients, and signature registers of individual account holders. Does not include detailed customer financial information.

Records of P & O Banking Corporation including regulations and legal agreements. These contain no information on individual staff except signatures (apart from R Douglas Butterfield's file).

Records of Standard Chartered Bank Limited including Corporate Development Department correspondence, memos, draft agreements, Wallace Brothers balance sheets and company structures concerning acquisition of Wallace Brothers and Company (Holdings) Limited.

Records of Business Archives Council survey of historical records of the bank and predecessors including lists correspondence and records on premises and historical records held.

Records of Standard Bank Ghana Limited including inward and outward letter books.

Records of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including the first Memorandum and Articles of Association and Reports and Accounts for 1969

Records of Standard Bank of South Africa Limited including Code of Employment Practice.

Records of Standard Bank of West Africa Limited including the Annual Report for 1973.

Papers of banker David Francis Park including correspondence, newspaper cuttings, notes and other material relating to banks and banking.

Papers and correspondence of George Rae, banker, relating to various banking topics including the Companies Act of 1879, and the Institute of Bankers.

The Accepting Houses Committee did not keep minutes of its meetings until 1920 "owing to the secrecy of many of the matters dealt with" (Ms 29295/1). Business was mainly carried out by the executive committee (Ms 29295), although annual general meetings were held for a short time, from 1939 to 1944 (Ms 29294). A number of standing and sub-committees were set up subsequently. The earliest was the Technical or Experts sub-committee in 1940 (Ms 29298); other committees, concerning such matters as export finance and computers, were established in the 1970s (Mss 29298-305).

Apart from minutes and associated papers, the main series of records of the Committee comprise reports and accounts (Mss 29306-7), circulars (Mss 29308-9) and membership files (Ms 29310). Among the remaining records (Mss 29311-327) there are a number of files relating to the role and future of the Committee at various points in its existence, and discussions about the criteria for membership.

Access to records less than 30 years old should be sought from the London Investment Banking Association (contact details may be obtained from staff).

Records of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, as follows:-

Ms 17363 - Articles of association;
Mss 17364-7 - Affiliated chambers, United Kingdom and overseas;
Mss 14476-7 - Executive council;
Mss 14478-9, 14485, 17394-5 - Standing, advisory and special committees;
Mss 17368-72 - General purposes committee;
Mss 17373-83 - Internal organisation, personnel and visitors;
Mss 17384-6 - Circulars and out-letter files;
Mss 17387 - Meeting with Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Finance and taxation division:-
Mss 14480 -1 - committee minutes;
Ms 17388 - circulars;
Mss 17389-93 - press releases and newsletters;
Mss 17394-475 - subject files, listed alphabetically;
Ms 17476 - printed booklets.

Home affairs division:-
Mss 14482-4 - committee minutes;
Ms 17477 - circulars;
Mss 14485 and Ms 17478-94 - education committee papers and education subject files;
Mss 14488 and Ms 17495-9 - post office services committee papers and postal subject files;
Mss 17500-1 - power committee papers and power and fuel subject file;
Mss 14485-6 and Ms 17502-37 - transport committee papers and transport subject files;
Mss 17538-50 - other subject files, listed alphabetically;
Ms 17551 - printed booklets.

Overseas division:-
Mss 14487 and 17552 - committee minutes and papers;
Ms 17553 - circulars;
Mss 17554-63 - subject files, listed alphabetically;
Mss 17564-83 - correspondence and papers relating to outside bodies and other trade organisations;
Ms 17584 - files labelled miscellaneous;
Mss 17585-8 - printed booklets;
Mss 17589-93 - Association of Secretaries of British Chambers of Commerce.
Mss 17593/A-C Statistics and report.

In addition to the committee minutes, the five series of circulars (Mss 17384, 17388, 17477, 17553 and 17592) will be found to supplement the subject files which form the bulk of the Association's archives.

Also papers of the National Chamber of Trade, including minutes, register of members, circulars, press cuttings and handbooks.

The records of the Industrial Life Offices Association consist of minute books, annual accounts and files. The minute books appear to form an almost complete set, except for those of the Executive, which end in 1977; and those of the Quarterly Meeting, which end in 1956. From 1920, the minute books are annotated with reference numbers, apparently referring to supporting papers, the whereabouts of which are unknown.

Records of the Association of Investment Trusts, later the Association of Investment Trust Companies and then the Association of Investment Companies. The records comprise some constitutional documents, minutes of the various committees, annual reports and accounts and supporting papers, financial material, along with many files of correspondence on particular topics, as well as a large serie of files relating to members of the Association. These records are all held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

Papers of the London Joint Stock Banks Committee comprising signed minute books.

Restricted access to later records.

Records of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, comprising constitutional documents, minutes, correspondence (notably about International Banking summer schools), and photographs. Access to post 1980 material is restricted. The records are held off-site and require 24 hours notice for access.

The papers of Abbott, Clayton and Morris consist of the business and family records of two generations and form one of the earliest and largest extant collections of Stuart-era financial records. There are also related records of Sir George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (1648-1689), a close personal friend of Robert Clayton. (Clayton was appointed by Jeffreys as a trustee of his family settlement drawn up in 1689.) Jeffreys was Common Serjeant (1671-1678) and Recorder of London (1678-1680).

Records of Guinness, Mahon and Company, mainly comprising correspondence between partners, but there are also memorandum and articles of association, 1956-1966 (Ms 38588); agreements and related papers, 1856-1893 (Ms 38589); board minutes and interim accounts, 1966-8 (Ms 38590); and papers relating to the Guinness family, 1924-69 (Ms 38612).

Henry Samuel Howard Guinness (1888-1975), usually referred to in the papers as "S.G.", was a director of Guinness and Mahon Limited, Dublin, and a senior partner in Guinness, Mahon and Company, London. It appears that he wrote many of the notes on the history of the firm and the Guinness family which can be found in this collection. Some of the bundles and files of papers may also have been compiled by him.

Records of the Western Synagogue, Marylebone, consisting of registers of kethubot [marriage contracts].

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

Records of the Grand Order of Israel and Shield of David Friendly Society. The records relate to the administration of the Society, property investments and the social aspects of the Society, for example, there are files relating to the Annual Dinner and Ball, quizzes and newsletters.

Records of the Royal Standard Benefit Society, including Committee and Trustees meeting minutes; notices of forthcoming meetings; registers of members; example of a certificate of the freedom of the Society; and financial accounts.

Records of the Longton and Fenton Permanent Benefit Building Society including ledger; journal; summaries of investors; summaries of borrowers; and financial accounts.

Records of Mocatta and Goldsmid Limited, bullion brokers, comprising: partnership records, 1874-1930, financial records, 1762-1947; agreements, contracts and related papers, 1912-36; records relating to B E Mocatta, 1913-22; correspondence, 1798-1817; and miscellaneous items, 1883-1945.

National Provident Institution records comprise: records relating to registration and regulation, 1829-1964; annual reports, 1838-1931; minutes, 1835-1936; financial records, 1836-1948; correspondence, 1844; policy and claims registers, 1837-38; reports, 1835-1948; records relating to staff, 1836-1902; and miscellaneous papers, 1838-c 1960.

Records of the Bankers Guarantee and Trust Fund, comprising Trustees minute books.

Records of the Bank of British West Africa including administrative, staff, financial and publicity records and photographs.

Records of the African Banking Corporation comprising financial accounts, agreements, correspondence and scrapbooks.

Access to records less than 45 years old should be sought from the depositor (contact details may be obtained from a member of staff). 24 hours notice is required for access to these records.

Records of the Bank of Nigeria, comprising specimen signatures book and agenda book.

Records of Eastern Bank Limited. The archives are those of the London Head Office, and most of the correspondence is in the name of the General Manager. The collection includes corporate records; minutes; General Manager's papers; accounts; correspondence with branches; inspection of branches; lending (except the Mundhra loan); staff records; and premises records.

Access to the archives is subject to a 45 year rule, with a 70 year rule for records containing personally sensitive information. In addition, all records are held off-site, and require at least 24 hours notice for access.