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Description archivistique
GUINNESS TRUST
GB 0074 LMA/4656 · Collection · 1889-[2000]

Records of the Guinness Trust (London Fund) including: Deed of Trust (1890) and other foundation papers, signed minutes (1889-1975, with notes to 1979), agendas (1893-1959), annual reports and accounts (1890-2007), statistical and other reports; annual statements (1892-1968); Secretary's general and estate development letter books arranged by estate (1889-1935); Ledgers (1889-1937), Cash books (1889-1977); site ledgers; Depreciation of Buildings Fund account book insurance policy register; leases and agreements (1897-1975); rent books (1891-1939) rent assessment books.

Other records include schedules of property (1890-1954), bills of quantities, specifications and plans for estate buildings; a staff register listing details of service (1891-1968) (LMA/4656/E/01/001); printed notices, press cuttings (1889-2000), published articles and histories. Histories concerning the development of the Trust's work, personalities and life on the estates can be found in series LMA/4656/B/01/05, LMA/4656/F/01 and LMA/4656/F/03.

Records relating to the Dublin Fund are contained in this collection within minutes and reports to circa 1903 only.

Records relating to tenants can mainly be found in the registers of tenants (series LMA/4656/D/08) held for the following estates only: Brandon Street, Walworth; Draycott Avenue, Chelsea; Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith; Lever Street, Finsbury and Pages Walk, Bermondsey. In the same series there is also an estate book for Snowsfields, Bermondsey which provides tenant details. Also held is Secretary's correspondence concerning compensation cases relating to named tenants (1913-1936) (LMA/4656/B/01/03/001). Names can also be found in rate assessment books (LMA/4656/D/05/002-003) and in some reports to trustees (LMA/4656/A/04).

Photographs of estates and events can be found under series LMA/4656/D/04 and photographs of management and staff under series LMA/4656/E/02. These photograph series have been digitised by LMA: please contact staff for further details.

The records were catalogued in 2014-2015 as part of a project funded by The Guinness Partnership Limited for 125th anniversary since the founding of the Guinness Trust.

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MIDDLESEX PROBATION COMMITTEE
MXPC · Collection · 1932-1984

Records of the Area Probation Service, 1946-1984, including minutes and files of the Probation and After Care Committee relating to probation officers, staff appointments and personnel management, Home Office circulars, Court building programme, after-care hostels, approved probation hostels, bail hostels and community service. Also papers of the Petty Sessional Division, 1932-1982.

Records of the County Probation Committee, 1939-1969, including minute books, Staff Sub-Committee minute books, and Committee papers.

Please note that access to these files may be restricted.

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PRESBYTERIAN SETTLEMENT, POPLAR
LMA/4337 · Collection · 1899-1969

Records of the Presbyterian Housing Scheme, Poplar, including Ladies Committee minute book (The Committee of the Presbyterian Settlement, East London), 1901-1910; Ladies Settlement Committee minute book, 1910-1912; Committee of the Women's Presbyterian Settlement minute book, 1912-1939; Settlement Committee minute book, 1939-1946; General Committee minute book, 1946-1964; Executive Committee minute book, 1938-1960; Finance Committee minute book, 1954-1958; annual reports of the Presbyterian Settlement (missing years 1938, 1939 and 1966), 1899-1969; annual reports written by the congregation (missing 1961/1962), 1960-1965; architectural plans, 1938-1953; printed material relating to the Presbyterian Settlement, 1924-1968 and correspondence, 1911-1967.

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HORNSEY HOUSING TRUST
GB 0074 ACC/1523 · Collection · 1933-1978

Records of the Hornsey Housing Trust, including minutes of the Committee of Management; shares prospectuses; rules of the Trust; annual reports; and financial accounts.

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GB 0074 ACC/2863 · Collection · 1922-1990

Records of the Great Western (London) Housing Association, covering the association's creation in 1923 to its dissolution in 1990. They include a complete run of forty two volumes of minute books and annual reports.

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PEABODY TRUST AND RELATED ORGANISATIONS
GB 0074 ACC/3445 · Collection · 1795-1990s

Records of the Peabody Trust, including corporate records, financial accounts, personnel records, property records, estate management, plans, photographs, publications, artefacts, seal books, clasp books and legal papers.

Records of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, including corporate records; financial records; correspondence; property records; tenants' records; plans; photographs; publications and artefacts.

Records of the Westminster Housing Trust including corporate records; financial accounts; administrative records; legal records; personnel papers; estate management papers; tenants' records; plans; photographs and publications.

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Howard de Walden Estates
GB 2942 · 1724-2003

Records of Howard de Walden Estates Limited (and its predecessors) comprising:

minutes of General Real Estates Investment and Trust Limited (GREIT), 1919-1953; minutes of the Advisory Board, 1913-1919; Directors' attendance books, 1919-1953; minutes of Howard de Walden Estates Limited (HDWEL) 1953-1965; minutes of the Advisory Board, 1960-1966; attendance books, 1952-1955;

financial records of GREIT including ledgers, 1920-1949; financial journals, 1919-1952; cash books, 1919-1943; petty cash books, 1920-1951; fees book 1913-1950; Register of members and share ledger, with details of mortgages and debentures, 1916-1953; share certificates, 1919-1955; correspondence relating to shares; Register of directors' holding interests, 1948;
financial records of HDWEL including balance sheets and accounts 1953-1963; ledger, 1953-1963; financial journal 1953-1963; cash books, 1953-1963;

records relating to leases including lease book, 1799; registers of leases, 1921-1961; register of settled property, 1922-1951; particulars of assignment of lease 1912-1990; lease receipt book, 1941;

lease plan books and reference plans, c.1800-1960; block plans, c.1920-1940;

Terms of Contract series, 1812-1962; Ground Plan series, 1812-1967; indexes to terms of contract and ground plans, c 1900;

Particulars of licences granted, 1864-1967; Contract books, 1907-1947; GREIT Settled Estate contract books, 1912-1963; Contract register, 1909-1962; Register of seals, 1933-1946; Plans approved, 1924-1958;

maps and plans of the Estate including Survey of Marybone and Barrow Hills in the County of Middlesex, 1708; plan of estate in the parish of St Marylebone belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland, also of an estate held by lease under the Crown of England situate in the parishes of St Marylebone and St Pancras, 1789; sheets from first editions of Richard Horwood's Survey of London and its environs, 1793-1794; copies of 36 block plans (now deposited at Westminster City archive), c.1805-1870 covering the current estate; manuscript plan of two plots of land in Wigmore St, c.1840; manuscript plan of Estate in Portland Town, the 'Primrose Hill Estate', 1843; plan and elevation of 2-24 Mansfield St, c1850; elevation of 12-19 Devonshire St, 1870; section and elevation of the Oxford Market by Charles Fowler, 106 Gower St, c.1880; Ordnance Survey maps of the Estate, 1894-1896; plan showing extent of the Estate south of Marylebone Rd, c.1910; plan of extent of Estate in Portland Town, c.1910; plans entitled 'Howard de Walden Estate Land Duties' showing different categories of leases, 'Howard de Walden Estate Land Duties' showing 999 year leases, 'Howard de Walden Estate' showing mortgaged properties, 'Howard de Walden Settlement' showing central portion of Estate, c1915; plan of estate in Portland Town, c.1912; plan of Estate, c.1920;
and collection of 13,000 drawings relating to the estate c1890-present;

Title deeds including deeds relating to: Four pieces of ground north of Cavendish Square, 1724, 1749; Devonshire Place and adjoining area, 1791, [1810], 1866; 23 Aybrook Street and adjoining area, 1939, 1916; 7 Devonshire Place, 1789-1870; Great Portland Street and adjoining area, 1919; 11 (formerly 8) Mansfield Street, 1860-1900; 278-288 Oxford Street, 16-28 Holles Street and 6 Cavendish Buildings, 1921; 17 Upper Harley Street, 1865; 14 Westmoreland Street and 49 Little Woodstock Mews, 1905-1929; [7] George Street, York Buildings, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1764-1788;

other Estate records including Survey of the Marylebone Estate, 1737; Local Acts of Parliament 1770-1831; Certificates for redemption of Land Tax on the Estate, 1851; Marriage settlement, 1912; Index to deeds and other Estate documents, c.1920;
news cuttings relating to the Estate, 1922-1925; news cuttings mainly on leasehold enfranchisement, c1929-1939;
memos, accounts and reports relating to the reorganisation of the Estate, c 1920-1964; correspondence and reports on the reorganisation of the Howard de Walden Estates Ltd, 1963-1964; papers relating to the Cavendish Square car park, c.1960-1966; Scottish Life Assurance Co: Group Policies for Pension Fund, 1969, 1975; weekly rent collection books, 1984-1988, 1990-1995;

photographs including images of 23 Queen Anne Street, c.1880, 1935, 1937, 1965 (31 photographs); Bedford Lemere photographs of the Estate and properties no longer on the estate, 1908-1917, and related correspondence, 2002; miscellaneous photographs, including the Oxford Market, 1875, 16-17 Holles Street, c.1903, Cavendish Square car park, 1968-1973, and Survey of the Howard de Walden Estate, c1981-1986 (3000 negatives and contact prints).

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LMA/4057 · Collection · 1927-1987

Records of the London Mission (West) Circuit, 1927-1987, including administrative files consisting of material relating to Grove House Hostel for ex-borstal boys, Gilbert Goodliffe House for retired men and women, Saint Luke's and Saint Mary's House for men and women, Emerson Bainbridge House and Hopedene House for Mother and Babies; legal papers concerning legacies; material relating to Kingsway Hall Church including press cuttings and 10 volumes of Orders of Service; slides and photographs; and 106 exhibition boards of photographs and a brief history of the West London Mission created for the centenary exhibition in 1987 along with location maps from 1832 and 1987 showing activities of West London Mission.

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PECKHAM BUILDING INVESTMENT COMPANY
GB 0074 B/PBI · Collection · 1846

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

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GB 0097 ADA LEIGH HOMES · 1880-1952

Papers relating to the activities of the British and American Ada Leigh Homes and Hostels in Paris, 1880-1952, including Directors' minute books, 1880-1953, which also contain some correspondence, receipts, lists of Directors and Council members, photographs of properties in Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine, and a portrait of Ada Leigh; minute books of the Council in Paris, 1899-1931; notice and agenda of the 77th Annual General Meeting, 5 Dec 1950; legal documents, 1924-1958, notably copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, with revisions and annotations up to 1933, a copy of a special resolution to change the name of the Association, 1924, agreements between the Land Law Company Ltd and Ada Leigh Homes concerning the tenancy of a room in 32 Mowbray House, London, 1936 and 1945, typescript lawyers' notes relating to the will of Ada Leigh, 1951, and a document concerning advice from the Charity Commissioners relating to Ada Leigh Homes, 1958; correspondence, 1940-1946, with the Rev W H F Couldridge, Chaplain of Christchurch, Neuilly-sur-Seine, concerning his expenses and pay following his evacuation from France following the German invasion of Paris; correspondence, 1945, concerning insurance policies and taxes on properties in Paris; correspondence relating to the sale of Christchurch, 1949, including copy legal documents in French, a statement on the history and purpose of the Ada Leigh Homes, and press cuttings; bound account books, 1923-1957, including a journal of daily expenses, 1923-1953, a ledger showing income and expenditure, 1933-1939, a cash book, 1939-1945, and a petty cash book, 1940-1957; insurance papers, 1931-1950, relating to the London Office and the Paris hostels, with details of damage to buildings during the German occupation of Paris; endowment papers, 1937-1947, namely deed of covenant forms for donations to the Ada Leigh Homes, and lists of contributors and contributions to the Endowment Fund, 1939; receipt books and bank books, 1927-1957, notably 7 books of receipt book stubs showing donations, 1948-1956, and several volumes containing returned cheques, 1947-1957; a note from the Charity Commissioners concerning the purchase of shares by Ada Leigh Homes, 1929; financial vouchers and receipts, 1945-1956; financial material relating to the Paris hostels, 1949-1950, including statements of accounts for the household at Wagram Hostel, and correspondence with banks and solicitors; general financial file relating to property held by Ada Leigh Homes, 1947-1950, notably typescript notes relating to the Christchurch Endowment Fund (taken from the 1932 Directors minute book), bank statements, bills and receipts from solicitors, and correspondence and estimates concerning the refurbishment of Christchurch Presbytery in 1947.

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GB 0074 P72/TRI · Collection · 1867-1939

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Bethnal Green, including register of marriages, register of baptisms, and minutes of the Committee for the Holy Trinity Hostel for Austrian Refugees.

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GB 0074 LMA/4025 · Collection · 1841-1873

Records of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes. The minutes (LMA/4025/01) describe in detail the foundation of the Association, its aims and objectives. They document its development from a well-intentioned philanthropic organisation to a major provider of housing (12 substantial blocks by 1873). The activities recorded range from fund-raising to land acquisition and from collections of mortality statistics to estate management.

The visitors book (LMA/4025/03) records the important visitors to Old Pancras Road including Prince Albert, Lord Shaftesbury, Mr Gladstone, Charles Kingsley and Dr Southwood Smith.

These manuscripts have not been accessible to researchers before and are an exciting discovery. They were purchased with assistance from the Purchase Grant Fund administered by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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GB 1556 WL MF 27 · 1933-1965

Papers of the Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief, 1933-1965, detail the work of the CBF in shelters, hostels, internment camps, schools and foster homes, and also contain information on the finances of the fund. The collection notably include CBF minutes of its committees, finance, reports from individuals, and also a complete run of country files detailing the fund's work abroad; records of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and other relief organisations, 1941-1953; records of the Children's Refugee Movement and the Jewish Refugees Committee; files on various other organisations which were involved with the work of the CBF to a greater or lesser extent, including the Agudas Israel World Organisation.

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CHESWORTH, Donald Piers (1923-1991)
GB 0370 DC · [1906]-1991

Papers of Donald Piers Chesworth, [1906]-1991, comprising family papers, including photograph album of scout camp attended by his father, Frederick Chesworth, [1929-1936]; diaries of his mother, Daisy Chesworth, 1942-1981, giving brief entries; family holiday photograph album, [1936], stamp albums; files relating to Daisy Chesworth's death and estate, 1987;

volume of notes and lectures relating to the National Fire Service, [1939-1945];
papers relating to Chesworth's standing as a Parliamentary candidate, 1945, 1950, including posters, press cuttings, photographs with Clement Attlee campaigning in Rangoon; notes on rallies of Oswald Mosley (standing for Parliament in North Kensington), 1959;
correspondence, reports and papers relating to Notting Hill housing and social conditions, [1957-1963], including interviews with tenants and local people, housing waiting lists, minutes of Notting Hill Social Council, 1963; population survey of Kensington, [1961]; rent tribunals; papers, probably preparatory notes for a book by Chesworth, "Anatomy of Notting Hill"; paper entitled "Community Struggles in North Kensington 1966-1974";
correspondence and papers of the Association of Neighbourhood Councils, 1971, (a local government pressure group), particularly with MPs;
correspondence, reports, photographs and papers relating to Chesworth's work with War on Want, 1963-1986, including the Mahiwa project, Tanzania, 1970-1973; Bangladesh War of Independence, 1971;
minutes and papers relating to the World Political Action Trust, 1970-1973;
reports and papers relating to wage fixing in Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika), [1961-1967]; reports and correspondence, 1962-1989, relating to the Sugar Wages Council and education in Mauritius; correspondence and papers relating to the assassination of the vice-president of Zanzibar, 1973 (Zanzibar Treason Trial);
papers relating to the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Labour group, including correspondence relating to secondary schools, 1973; papers relating to his work in Tower Hamlets, including Tower Hamlets Training Forum, [1962], 1986-1989; Tower Hamlets ILEA Tertiary Education Council, [1987-1990]; Spitalfields Heritage Centre, 1983-1991; papers relating to the opening of the Thames Children's Beach (Tower Hill), [1980s];
correspondence, reports and papers relating to Chesworth's work as Warden of Toynbee Hall, [1906-1987], including papers of the Management Committee, articles on the history of the Hall, annual reports, [1970-1988];
papers and correspondence relating to his work as Consultant to Kumagai Gumi UK, 1987-1991.

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Imperial College Expansion Scheme
GB 0098 I · Created 1860-1992 (ongoing)

Records of South Kensington Development Schemes, 1936-1948, and Imperial College Expansion Scheme, including proposed schemes for South Kensington, 1936-1945; minutes of the Sites Committee, 1945-1950; plans and correspondence relating to the South Kensington site, 1944-1947; notes and plan of the Chemical Technology extension, 1949; new biochemistry building, 1950; purchase of various properties on Queen's Gate, 1937-1969, including war damage compensation; papers relating to the development of Silwood Park Field Station, Sunninghill, Berkshire, 1954-1957; minutes of the Dean's Committee, later Development Committee, 1953-1970, with correspondence (IA);
papers relating to academic posts, 1953-1962, including new chairs, 1953; postgraduate bursaries, 1955-1957 (IB);

papers relating to Imperial College Expansion Scheme, including press cuttings, 1946-1970; early history, 1950-1955; reports and plans for the expansion scheme, 1958; correspondence concerning the proposed demolition of the City and Guilds College building, 1955-1956; notes concerning future Student Union facilities, 1955;
papers of Sir Patrick Linstead, Rector, including correspondence concerning the expansion scheme, 1944-1966, notably the retention of the Imperial Institute building, 1955; the Collcutt (now Queen's) Tower, 1956-1957; 170, Queen's Gate, 1957-1963; accommodation for departments, 1959-1965; new hall of residence (Linstead Hall), 1963-1969;
papers relating to the demolition programme and architects, including correspondence with the architects, 1951-1963; plans and finance, 1953-1967; demolition programme, 1954-1957; Imperial Institute, 1955-1956; building programme, 1957-1958; use, restoration and occupation of Queen's Gate and Prince's Gardens, 1957-1962; Royal College of Science adaptations, 1957-1962; correspondence relating to the Roderic Hill Building, 1949-1962; Biochemistry building, 1964-1967; adaptations to the Royal School of Mines, 1958-1970; papers relating to the Falmouth Gates, including the Memorial fund, 1962-1965; design of the gates, 1964-1969; report and correspondence relating to landscaping, 1958-1967; souvenirs from the demolished Royal College of Science building, 1956-1977;
papers relating to halls of residence, including Prince's Gardens, development scheme, 1957-1962; acquisition, 1954-1960; architects, 1956-1976; occupiers of the site, 1860-1959; correspondence relating to Linstead Hall benefactions, 1963-1975, extension, 1976-1980 and building specification, 1964; correspondence concerning Southside Halls opening and maintenance, 1963-1966; papers concerning Weeks Hall, 1956-1975, including the opening, 1958-1959, structural failures, 1973-1975;
papers relating to the Mechanical Engineering Building, 1956-1960, including contract documents, 1956-1957; papers relating to the Physics Building, 1953-1975, including planning, 1953-1964, opening of the Blackett Laboratory, 1975; correspondence and opening programme relating to the Huxley building 1966-1976; correspondence relating to the College Block, 1958-1969; papers relating to the Science Museum Library, 1953-1962; college estates development plan, 1992 (IC).

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SUTTON HOUSING TRUST
GB 0074 ACC/2983 · Collection · 1894-2000

Records of the Sutton Housing Trust, consisting of a fine series of minutes and accounts. In particular there are detailed registers of tenants (including information on income and employment), hundreds of photographs of estates and developments and correspondence giving advice from people such as Octavia Hill and Charles Booth.

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