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GB 0074 CLC/L/EB · Collection · 1982-2008

Records of the Worshipful Company of Engineers, 1982-2008, comprising an official printed copy of the charter of incorporation with an associated letter, court minutes, 1982-2008, and annual reports and accounts, 1984-2007.

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 Engineers
GB 0074 CLC/162 · Collection · 1771-1813

Records of the Westminster Paving Commissioners, comprising assignments and agreements relating to contracts and loans.

Westminster Paving Commissioners
O/080 · Collection · 1709

Copy of Court Orders of Westminster Commission of Sewers, 7 and 28 June 1709, allowing Mrs Katherine Akrode to make a drain from her house in Butcher Row, Saint Clement Danes, into the sewer there, 28 June 1709.

Westminster Commission of Sewers
GB 0074 ACC/2558/WM/D · Collection · 1811-1906

Records of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company relating to water supply and distribution, including Engineer's reports; Engineer's diaries for technical matters and workmen's time; Inspectors' technical diaries; revenue survey volumes; water supply and distribution volumes and files.

West Middlesex Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/WM/C · Collection · 1861 Nov-1891 Nov

Staff records of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company, comprising correspondence relating to the appointment of JA Christie.

West Middlesex Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/WM/F · Collection · 1835-1954

Property records of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company including trade rental books and rental volumes.

West Middlesex Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/WM/A · Collection · 1770-1976

Corporate records of the West Middlesex Waterworks Company, including Board of Directors minutes; General Assembly minutes; Committee minutes; letter books and correspondence; legal papers; records relating to stocks and shares; files on Royal Commissions on water supply; and general files of the Secretary.

West Middlesex Waterworks Company
TURNPIKE TRUSTS
TP · Collection · 1728-1871

Records of Bedfont and Bagshot Turnpike Trust, 1763-1850, including minutes; financial accounts; grants of land; correspondence; reports and Acts of Parliament.

Records of Colnbrook Turnpike Trust, 1728-1871, including minutes; financial accounts; assignments; leases of tolls; conveyanves and other deeds; plans; correspondence; bonds and Acts of Parliament.

Minutes of the Hampton and Staines Turnpike Trust, 1826-1859.

Bedfont and Bagshot Turnpike Trust Colnbrook Turnpike Trust Hampton and Staines Turnpike Trust
TURNPIKE ROADS
GB 0074 ACC/0990 · Collection · 1757-1794

Papers relating to turnpike roads, comprising copies of the 1766 Act to repair the highways between Tyburn and Uxbridge... and for amending the road from Brent Bridge over Hanwell Heath, through... Hanwell, New Brentford, and Ealing to the Great Western Road; and for lighting, watching, and watering the highway between Tyburn and Kensington Gravel Pits; a plan of the Great Road from Tybourn to Uxbridge and from Brent Bridge to Brentford; and the 1794 Act to continue the term and enlarge the powers of the 1766 Act.

Unknown.
THAMES WATER PREDECESSORS
GB 0074 ACC/2558 · Collection · 1582-1976

Records of Thames Water predecessor companies (water supply) and local authorities (waste water management including sewer network), comprising the following:

ACC/2558/CH: Chelsea Waterworks Company

ACC/2558/DV: Darenth Valley Main Sewerage Board

ACC/2558/EL: East London Waterworks Company

ACC/2558/GJ: Grand Junction Waterworks Company

ACC/2558/KE: Kent Waterworks Company

ACC/2558/LA: Lambeth Waterworks Company

ACC/2558/LC: Lee Conservancy Catchment Board

ACC/2558/LL: London Local Authorities, Metropolitan Board of Works, London County Council and Greater London Council

ACC/2558/MW: Metropolitan Water Board

ACC/2558/NR: New River Company

ACC/2558/S: Shadwell Waterworks Company

ACC/2558/SR: Staines Reservoir Joint Committee

ACC/2558/SV: Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company

ACC/2558/TW: Thames Water Authority

ACC/2558/WK: West Kent Main Sewerage Board

ACC/2558/WM: West Middlesex Waterworks Company

The records include corporate records and minutes, staff records, clerk's papers, records relating to water supply and distribution, technical reports, purchase records, property records, legal papers, plans, substantial series of photographs, glass plate negatives and lanterns slides (especially clean water: under ACC/2558/MW/PH, ACC/2558/MW/GP and ACC/2558/MW/L and sewer and waste water: under ACC/2558/LL/PH) and financial accounts and ledgers.

Cataloguing of this collection has been funded by Thames Water. For more information about the cataloguing project which was completed September 2019, please see 'The Thames Water Treasure Trove' in 'Source' magazine, July 2016 (library reference: 24.217 THA). London Metropolitan Archives would like to thank Thames Water for funding the cataloguing of this collection.

Chelsea Waterworks Company Darenth Valley Main Sewerage Board East London Waterworks Company Grand Junction Waterworks Company Kent Waterworks Company Lambeth Waterworks Company Lee Conservancy Catchment Board Metropolitan Water Board New River Company Shadwell Waterworks Company Staines Reservoir Joint Committee Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company Thames Water Authority West Kent Main Sewerage Board West Middlesex Waterworks Company
THAMES
CLA/037 · Collection · 1505-1994

Records of the Port of London, Thames Conservancy and Thames Navigation, 1505-1994.

Port of London records include administrative papers, committee reports, accounts, annual reports, bye-laws, papers of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the best mode of increasing the accommodation of the Port of London, 1796-1799, city tonnage dues cash books and canal boat registration.

Thames Conservancy records include papers relating to the City's claim to the Thames soil, shores and bed; correspondence; reports; maps; acts and bills for the Conservancy of the River Thames; papers regarding the boundary stones marking the limits of the jurisdiction of the City of London; minutes of the Navigation Committee and Parliamentary papers.

Thames Navigation records include accounts, bye-laws, petitions and reports.

Also papers relating to fishing including conservation of fish stock and issue of licences; Parliamentary papers relating to the Thames and the Embankment; papers relating to maintenance of embankments and wharves; publications regarding various aspects of the history of the Thames.

Corporation of London
ACC/2155 · Collection · 1895-1971

Records of Sunbury Urban District Council, 1895-1971, including presented reports; correspondence, memoranda and copies of bye-laws, relating to the adoption of certain provisions of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907; deeds, agreements and other documents relating to The Cedars Estate, Sunbury; papers relating to a dispute between the owners of Sunbury Park Estate and the Council; agreements and contracts for various works to be carried out, particularly road maintenance works, sewer and drainage works, housing construction, civil defence structures and war damage repairs.

Sunbury Urban District Council
GB 0074 O/394 · Collection · 1873

Grant of letters patent (including a great seal) issued to Edwin William Thomas and Edward Nightscales for an improved self acting steam water lift and injector.

Unknown
ACC/1524 · Collection · 1781-1953

Records of Staines Local Board of Health, 1883-1929, comprising minute books, notice of bye-laws relating to Staines Commons and petition to Parliament for exclusion from Coal and Wine Duties Bill.

Records of Staines Urban District Council, 1894-1946, including minute books of various Committees including the Highways Committee and the Cemetery Committee; copies of agreements; reports and inquiries; financial accounts and town planning schemes including plans.

Records of Staines Rural District Council, 1894-1934, including Council minute books; Committee minute books; Parochial Committee minute books; reports; correspondence; housing scheme plans and town planning meetings.

Records of parishes in Staines, 1803-1953, including poor rate books; papers relating to tithes; papers relating to maintenance of roads, including plans; minute books of various Committees; and bills for maintenance work done.

Records of other bodies, 1828-1930, including the Commissioners of Staines Bridge; Staines Poor Law Union; Staines Joint Hospital District; Sunbury Hall Company Limited and Staines School Board.

Staines Local Board of Health Staines Urban District Council Staines Rural District Council
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SR/A · Collection · 1889-1904

Corporate records of the Staines Reservoir Joint Committee, including Committee meeting attendance books, proceedings books and minutes; legal papers relating to property, rating, water supply, stocks and shares, Parliamentary issues and contracts; correspondence and debenture stock volumes.

Staines Reservoir Joint Committee
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SR/B · Collection · 1897-1904

Financial records of the Staines Reservoir Joint Committee, including half-yearly accounts; journal; cash book; ledgers; register of wills and papers relating to payments to solicitors.

Staines Reservoir Joint Committee
ACC/1747 · Collection · 1876-1961

Records of the Staines Local Board of Health, Urban District Council and Rural District Council relating to road and bridge maintenance, provision of utilities and sewer and drainage works, 1876-1961, including correspondence; agreements; memoranda; contracts; deeds; copies of legislation; petitions; orders of the Local Government Board and licences.

Staines Local Board of Health Staines Urban District Council Staines Rural District Council
SPENCER-PHILIP FAMILY
GB 0074 E/PHI · Collection · 1587-1895

Records of the Spencer-Philip family; primarily papers relating to property transactions, including extracts from court rolls, abstracts of title, leases, plans and rents, for premises in the Manor of Stepney (Whitechapel, Stepney and Mile End) and in Essex. Also building leases and agreements relating to the King David's Fort Estate, St George's in the East, and papers and plans concerning construction of London and Blackwall railway through that estate; an Act of Parliament relating to roads in St Leonard Shoreditch; and family certificates (baptisms, marriages, burials). The collection includes a manorial custumal for the Manor of Stepney, 1587.

Various.
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/03 · Collection · 1877-1904

Staff records of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, including wages books; expenses books; time books and applications, testimonials and correspondence.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/04 · Collection · 1855-1906

Records of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company relating to water supply and distribution, including Engineers' report books; Supervisors' report books; service pipe agreements; meter agreements; trade supplies report books; constant supply orders; building supplies registers; meter supplies records; fire report books; engine and coal accounts; calculations and statistics; works diaries; mains supply map books and registers of complaints.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/05 · Collection · 1872-1915

Purchase records of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, including works stock book; volumes recording good returned to stores; and volumes recording coal use.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/07 · Collection · 1852-1904

General records of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, including newscuttings books; papers relating to a legal case; papers relating to stocks and papers relating to works.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/01 · Collection · 1797-1906

Corporate records of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, including Board meeting minute books; Committee meeting minute books; Secretary's reports; correspondence and letter books; solicitor's accounts; legal papers; records relating to stocks and shares; registers of probates; mortgage records and contracts records.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/08 · Collection · 1805-1950

Records of the South London Waterworks Company (later the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company) including papers relating to shares; minutes of Director's meetings; stock certificates; papers relating to works and papers relating to a lawsuit.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company South London Waterworks Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/SV/02 · Collection · 1824-1906

Financial records of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, including accounts; ledgers; journals; cash books; revenue ledgers; Collector's accounts; bankers books; disbursement books; and building supply accounts.

Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company
GB 0074 O/415 · Collection · 1825

Articles of partnership in the company of Simpson and Thompson, engine makers, 1825.

Simpson and Thompson , engine makers
GB 0074 ACC/2558/S/A · Collection · 1688-1812

Records of the Shadwell Waterworks Company, comprising financial material including rent books; cash books; receipt books; wage books; account books and some papers relating to works carried out.

Shadwell Waterworks Company
ROTAX LIMITED
GB 0074 LMA/4677 · Collection · 1956-1972

Records of Rotax Limited including nominal and private ledgers covering holding company and subsidiaries, bound in one volume only. No other records are currently known to survive.

Rotax Limited xx Lucas Aerospace Limited
PUDNEY FAMILY, SUNBURY
GB 0074 ACC/1235 · Collection · 1835-1894

Records of the Pudney family of Sunbury including notes on notes on crops, yields, dates of work done on Manor Farm, Sunbury; valuations; leases of farmland at Ashford and Hersham; receipts; poor rate assessment book for the parish of Sunbury, 1857 and copy of accounts of surveyors of highways, 1875-1876, for the parish of Sunbury, 1876.

Pudney , family , of Sunbury
POPLAR COMMISSION OF SEWERS
PCS · Collection · 1629-1847

Records of the Poplar Commission of Sewers, including Letters Patent appointing Commissioners, 1702-1837; writs and warrants, 1662-1847, including writs authorizing the Commissioners to execute their office faithfully, writs discharging certain Commissioners from their duties, writs to summon juries and warrants for collection of rates; registers of orders and decrees, 1629-1847; out letter book, 1828-1843; financial accounts and rate books, 1780-1847; New Testament belonging to the Commissioners, 1797; reference book listing owners and occupiers, 1817; and maps and plans of Poplar showing sewers and levels of land.

Poplar Commission of Sewers
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/10 · Collection · 1803-1903

Staff records of the New River Company, including wages books; returns of employees and papers relating to staff appointments.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/11 · Collection · 1778-1908

Records of the New River Company relating to water supply and distribution, including pipe order books; papers relating to works carried out; Engineer's papers; materials and fittings; papers relating to water supply; standpipe books; papers relating to Collectors; water rent account books and water rent rates; river and water gauges; pipe order books; river and water gauges; statistical returns and reports.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/07 · Collection · 1754-1905

Records of the New River Company relating to stocks and shares, including registers; dividends receipt books; pamphlets; ledgers; indemnities; share transfers; certificates and reports.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/12 · Collection · 1613-1912

Property records of the New River Company, including rent and arrears books; rents payable registers; rent and acknowledgements books; ground rents registers; building estate insurances; fire insurances and leases.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/06 · Collection · 1849-1904

Records of the New River Company relating to Parliamentary proceedings, including papers regarding relevant Select Committees and Bills; memoranda of proceedings; reports; and correspondence, statistics and reports relating to the Royal Commission on the Metropolitan Water Supply.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/05 · Collection · 1632-1905

Legal papers of the New River Company, including case papers; deed registers; correspondence; contracts; valuations; agreements; leases; papers relating to compensation and arbitration; petitions; and papers relating to land purchase.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/03 · Collection · 1770-1913

Correspondence files of the New River Company, including Secretary's letter books; letter books of staff members including engineers, supervisors and surveyors; general letter books and estate letter books.

New River Company
NEW RIVER COMPANY: CONTRACTS
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/08 · Collection · 1737-1904

Contracts of the New River Company including specifications; quotations; contracts; tenders; accepted contracts; accepted stores contracts and contracts for building offices.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/01 · Collection · 1769-1904

Minutes of the New River Company, including minutes, papers and reports of Weekly Meetings, of the General Courts of Governors, of the Surveys of the River Committee, of the Parliamentary Committee, of the Building Committee and of the River Lee Conservancy Board. Also copies of the charters of 1606 and 1737.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/13 · Collection · 1609-1969

Records of the New River Company which were separated from the main collection and used for exhibitions, including minutes; papers of the Surveyor; papers of the Engineer; negotiations for the supply of water; property papers; correspondence; reports; royal charters; agreements; legal papers; newspaper cuttings; papers relating to shares; contracts and specifications of works; and papers relating to staff.

New River Company
GB 0074 ACC/2558/NR/09 · Collection · 1709-1907

Financial records of the New River Company, including abstracts of accounts; balance sheets; ledgers; collectors ledgers; journals; disbursement books; cash books; revenue account books; audit books; bill book; bill cheque books; taxes and rates ledgers and accounts; landed estate accounts and meter rent books.

New River Company
GB 0074 CLC/147 · Collection · 1910-1916

Minute book of the Mining and Metallurgical Club, 1910-1916, with a note dated 2010.

Mining and Metallurgical Club
ACC/0622 · Collection · 1824-1825

Plan and profile of the road from Tybourne Turnpike to Bayswater Bridge, 1824.

Plan of part of the Uxbridge Turnpike Road at Notting Hill, 1825.

Plan for improving the line of the road at Notting Hill, 1825.

Plan and profile of the road from Notting Hill Turnpike to Holsdon Green, 1825.

Plan of road from Turnham Green to Shepherd's Bush, 182-.

King's Scholars Pond Sewer (also known as the river Tyburn) from the River Thames to Mr White's Bridge, showing intended improvements, 182-.

MCC , Middlesex County Council x Middlesex County Council
ACC/0754 · Collection · 1728

Appointment of William Dilks, of Stratford, then in Essex, as Trustee of the Middlesex and Essex Turnpike Trust, 1728.

Middlesex and Essex Turnpike Trust
GB 0074 ACC/2558/MW/SU · Collection · 1637-1972

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board Survey Department, including terrier volumes; registered dockets; files on land acquired; deeds registers; and files regarding rates assessments.

Metropolitan Water Board
GB 0074 ACC/2558/MW/01 · Collection · 1903-1974

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board, including minutes and related papers for the Board; the Appeal and Assessment Committee; the Works and Stores Committee; the Stores Account Sub-committee; the Special Co-ordinating Committee and the Special Arbitration Committee.

Metropolitan Water Board
GB 0074 ACC/2558/MW/CC · Collection · 1851-1909

Records of the Metropolitan Water Board relating to the Croydon Corporation Waterworks, comprising plans from the Engineering Department including Croydon Corporation Waterworks; Waddon Pumping Station; Stroud Green Waterworks; Surrey Street Pumping Station and water mains, ponds, wells and rivers.

Metropolitan Water Board
MRC · Collection · 1774-1872

Minute books of the Commissioners and Committee minute books, including:

Committee for Repair of Water Carts and Pumps,
Committee to examine Loss of Tolls on Kensington District,
Finance and Account Committee,
Committee to inspect encroachments on New Road and City Road,
Committee on Improvements at Kilburn,
Committee at Stamford Bridge,
Committee to confer with Hammersmith Bridge Company,
Committee to make arrangements for lighting part of Fulham Road with Gas,
Committee to regulate Watch and Patrol on Stamford Hill District,
Committee to receive deputation from County Magistrate on subject of County Bridges,
Committee to consider Tenders for Watering Roads,
Committee on proposed road from Shepherds Bush to Hammersmith,
Committee on proposed road from Seven Sisters to Camden Town,
Committee for opening Tenders for Road Materials and Seven Sisters Road,
Committee to view portion of New Road to Camden Town,
Committee to consider tenders for bricklayers and carpenters works,
Committee to view new road from Earls Court to Hammersmith Bridge,
Committee to watch progress of Bill for making railway from London to Birmingham,
Committee to protect interests of public as regards proceedings of Great Western Railway with Metropolis Roads.

Also registers of letters received and actions taken; letter books; cash books; bank account books; annual reports of the Commissioners; reports by the Surveyors; copies of Acts of Parliament regarding roads; correspondence and financial accounts.

Metropolitan Roads Commission