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Records of the Bethnal Green Poor Law Union, 1836-1935, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; orders and correspondence from the Poor Law Board, Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers and annual returns of lunatics; registers from the Waterloo Road Workhouse, Well Street Workhouse and Infirmary; registers of children at the Leytonstone Home; case histories for pauper children; financial accounts; staff records and plans of Waterloo House and the chapel at Bethnal Green Hospital (the former Workhouse Infirmary).

Records of the Edmonton Poor Law Union, 1837-1940, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; superannuation registers; registers of persons maintained in institutions and homes; registers of children boarded out; correspondence with the Ministry of Health; financial accounts; reports regarding the establishment of the North Middlesex County Hospital Radium Department; Vaccination Officer's registers; Edmonton Board of Guardians year books; Edmonton Urban District Council Year Books; registers of Edmonton House Workhouse and Enfield House; and matrices of seals of the Edmonton Board of Guardians.

Volume presented to a Mr Cuthbertson by the Country Homes Committee of the Sunday School Union, in recognition of his support. The volume contains exterior and interior photographs of one of the country homes (unidentified) and dates from 1906.

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.

Records of the Pilgrim Trust, including minutes of Trustees meetings; financial records; papers of the Secretary; correspondence; annual reports; publications; annual accounts; ledgers; cash books; grant payment books; and grant files relating to art and learning, countryside preservation, ecclesiastical preservations, secular preservation and social welfare.

Records of the parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; preachers' books; Churchwardens' records; land tax surveys; papers relating to church charities; Vestry minute books; Trustee minute books; correspondence; poor rate books; churchyard rate books; police rate books; highways rate books; settlement examinations; bastardy examinations; orders of removal from and to the parish; registers of apprentices; and papers relating to the workhouse including admissions.

Records of the church of Saint George the Martyr, Borough High Street, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; burial report books; burials fee books; church services registers; orders of service; maps showing parish boundaries; faculties, plans and other papers relating to the restoration and maintenance of the church building, particularly after war damage; Churchwardens' financial records and other accounts; Parochial Church Council minute books and correspondence.

Papers relating to civil functions including vouchers of the Surveyors of Highways; papers relating to poor relief; settlement examinations and removal orders; Overseers of the Poor vouchers; papers relating to the workhouse.

Records relating to the parish of Saint Saviour, Borough High Street, Southwark; also known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Saviour and Saint Mary Overy. This is a large and extensive collection and it is recommended that researchers consult the detailed catalogue. Summary of some of the major holdings:

• papers relating to the maintenance of the church building including bills for work and repairs done in the church, contracts, and faculties;
• token books;
• marriage licences and registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials;
• financial records;
• records of the Vestry including minute books and papers of the clerks;
• minutes of other committees;
• legal documents relating to parish properties including leases, agreements, conveyances and deeds;
• papers relating to legal cases;
• papers relating to poor relief including petitions to the wardens from the poor and sick asking for assistance;
• plans and drawings of parish properties;
• records of constables and other parish officers;
• records relating to local taxation including poor rates and church rates;
• papers of parochial charities;
• papers relating to Saint Saviour's Free Grammar School;
• registers of apprenticeship indentures;
• papers relating to Parliamentary elections for the Borough of Southwark, including lists of persons entitled to vote;
• papers relating to Borough Market;
• records of the parish of Saint Margaret, Southwark, including financial accounts and depositions.

Records of the parish of Holy Trinity, Clapham Common North Side, Clapham, including registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; church services registers; Trustees minutes; Vestry minutes; annual parochial reports; papers relating to the construction of the church; financial and administrative papers; papers relating to tithes; records of the parish schools; parish magazines; curates' licences; papers relating to parish boundaries; papers of the Parochial Church Council.

Papers relating to the workhouse; settlement examinations; poor rate assessments; financial accounts of the Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor and Highways Surveyors; and other papers relating to poor relief.

Records of Bow Street Magistrates Court, 1724-2004, including court registers; domestic proceedings registers; gaoler's records; applications for warrants; club licensing; matrimonial case registers; extradition registers; registers of applications for adoption abroad, adoption abroad procedural and case files; papers relating to magistrates' salaries; files of the Chief Clerk; Poor Box financial accounts, bequests and correspondence; papers relating to trust funds and bequests; Committee files and office administration.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.
Matrimonal cases: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him.

Records of Clerkenwell Magistrates' Court, 1893-1987, including court registers; registers of adoption applications; probation order applications; means enquiries; court minutes recording charges and summons; court note books; probation orders; domestic proceedings including matrimonial cases and bastardy orders; registers of endorsements of driving licences; cash books; gaoler's index of defendants and clerk's papers.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Domestic proceedings: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

Records of Hampstead Petty Sessional Division, 1867-1991, including court minute books; court registers; registers of summonses and orders; registers of offenders placed on probation; juvenile court registers; adoption registers; licensing registers and justices signing-in books.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Records of Feltham Magistrates Court (part of Spelthorne Petty Sessions Division), 1873-1962. Records include court registers; registers of matrimonial cases; juvenile court registers; adoption files (closed); court notes; Justice's Meeting minute books; licensing registers; Probation Committee minute books and plans.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate. Court minute books or notebooks are rough notes of the proceedings recording the gist of the evidence given.

Matrimonial cases: A married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

Records of the South Western Magistrates Court, 1891-1981, including court registers; probation orders; Married Women Act orders; Guardianship of Infants Act orders; bastardy complaints; matrimonial case registers and indexes; separation and maintenance orders; warrants for desertion; and motoring offences records.

Court registers record the date of the hearing, the name of the informant or complainant (often the police), the name of the defendant, a brief note of the offence and the decision of the magistrate.

Matrimonial cases: a married woman under the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act 1895 and subsequent Acts could go to a magistrates' court and apply for orders which in certain circumstances would enable her to separate from her husband, have custody of any children and receive maintenance from him. Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1844 a mother expecting a bastard child or who had given birth to one could obtain a maintenance order against the putative father.

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.

Apprenticeship indenture for John Campbell, resident in the Asylum, apprenticed to George Campbell, shoemaker, 1817.

Records of Poplar Poor Law Union, 1813-1940, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; annual reports and statements of account; statutes and bye-laws; reports on Guardian's visits to institutions; papers relating to the enquiry by the Local Government Board into the administration of Poplar Union; orders and correspondence from Government departments; contracts; deeds; settlement examinations; orders for removal to and from the Union; applications for relief; registers of lunatics; lunatic reception orders; registers for Poplar High Street Workhouse; registers for Dunton Farm Colony; registers for Forest Gate Branch Workhouse; registers of children, including those at Poplar Training School, Forest Gate and Langley House Children's Home; plans of Poplar Workhouse; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of Saint George the Martyr Poor Law Parish, 1835-1873; including minutes of the Board of Guardians; orders of removal; admission and discharge registers; and registers of children admitted.

Records of Saint Mary Newington Poor Law Parish, 1867-1874, comprising Board of Guardians minute books and Newington Sick Asylum District manager's minute books.

Records of the Southwark Poor Law Union (formerly the Saint Saviour's Poor Law Union), 1798-1933, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; byelaws and regulations; property documents including deeds; correspondence; settlement examinations; removal orders; report books; admission and discharge registers and creed registers; registers of children admitted and boarded out; register of boys sent to the Training Ship Exmouth; registers of children sent to the Hanwell Schools, Central London Schools District; financial accounts; staff records; plans made as part of survey for rating valuation of property in Saint Saviour's Union; and notices of marriage.

Records of the City of Westminster Poor Law Union, 1889-1936, including minutes of meetings of the Board of Guardians; minutes and papers of Committees including the Buckingham Palace Road Workhouse Committee, Edmonton Workhouse Committee, Hospital Committee, Visiting Committee and Settlement and Revision Committee; correspondence and standing orders; registers for the Belmont Workhouse, Chelsea Workhouse, Edmonton Workhouse and Fulham Road Workhouse; registers of children sent into service; financial accounts and personnel files.

Records of the Saint Margaret and Saint John Poor Law Union, 1864-1870, including minutes of the Board of Guardians; minutes of Committees including the Kensington Workhouse Visiting Committee; correspondence; orders of removal to other Unions and financial accounts.

Records of Saint George's Hanover Square Poor Law Union, 1836-1924, including minutes of the Board of Guardians; minutes of Committees including the Buckingham Palace Road Workhouse Committee, the Fulham Road Workhouse Committee, the Kensington Workhouse Visiting Committee, the Mount Street Workhouse Committee, the Petty France Workhouse Committee, and the Milman Street Receiving Home for Children Committee; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers of lunatics; registers from the Buckingham Palace Road Workhouse, Fulham Road Workhouse and Mount Street Workhouse; registers of children in care including indentures of apprenticeship, registers of children on the Exmouth Training Ship and registers of children at the Milman Street Receiving Home for Children; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of the Saint Martin in the Fields Poor Law Union, 1824-1870, including minutes of the Board of Guardians; correspondence; relief order books; settlement examinations; registers for the Castle Street Workhouse; registers for the Norwood Schools and financial accounts.

Records of the Strand Poor Law Union, 1802-1928, including minutes of the Board of Guardians; minutes of Committees including the Edmonton Workhouse Committee and the Sheffield Street Workhouse Committee; correspondence; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers of the Cleveland Street Workhouse, the Edmonton Workhouse, the Saint Giles Workhouse and the Sheffield Street Workhouse; registers of Edmonton Schools; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of the Westminster Poor Law Union, 1833-1914, including minutes of the Board of Guardians; Committee minutes; correspondence with government departments; settlement examinations; Relieving Officer's reports; orders of removal to and from other Unions; registers of the Westminster Union Workhouse; indentures of apprenticeships; registers of Westminster Union Schools, Tooting; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of the West London School District, 1865-1936, including minutes and agendas of the Board of Management; minutes and reports of various Committees; annual reports; financial accounts; correspondence with and orders of the Poor Law Board, Local Government Board and Ministry of Health; correspondence and other documents regarding property; admission and discharge registers for Ashford School; registers of apprenticeships; returns and statistics of children in care; papers relating to education and teaching including correspondence, reports, timetables and syllabus; dietary tables; reports by the Medical Officer; issues of the Ashford Residential School Magazine; staff records; building plans of Ashford School and Park School; photographs of Ashford School and papers relating to the transfer of institutions to the London County Council in 1930.

Applications for relief to an unknown charitable society.

Records of the parish of Saint Dionis, Backchurch, Lime Street, City of London, including parish registers (baptisms, marriages, banns, burials) dating from 1538; registers of coffins; Vestry minutes, correspondence and notices; financial accounts; papers of the Churchwardens; papers relating to parish poor relief; poor, church and tithe rate assessment books; and papers relating to parish charities and properties.

Records of the parish of Saint Faith under Saint Paul's, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials; Churchwardens' accounts; plans; poor rate, church rate and tithe rate assessments; and papers relating to parish poor relief.

Records of the parish of Saint Lawrence Pountney, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Vestry minutes; Churchwarden's accounts and papers relating to poor relief; tithe rate and poor rate assessments; papers relating to parish charities.

The records of Saint Michael Bassishaw include parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials, banns) from 1538, vestry minutes from 1669 and churchwardens' accounts from 1617. Also papers relating to parish poor relief; poor rate assessments, and deeds and other documents relating to parish property.

The main archive of St Michael Cornhill dates from the 16th century, but it includes churchwardens' accounts from 1455. Records include registers of baptisms, marriages, banns and burials; preachers' books; church services registers; Vestry minute books; papers of the Churchwardens; papers relating to parish poor relief; tithe rate assessments; poor rate assessments; papers of parish charities and deed and other documents for parish properties.

Records of the parish of Saint Michael, Crooked Lane, City of London including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns; vestry minutes; Churchwardens' accounts; papers relating to parish poor relief; rate books; deeds and other documents relating to parish property.

Records of the parish of Saint Michael le Querne, City of London, including registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Churchwardens' accounts; papers relating to parish poor relief including Overseers' payments; poor rate books; deeds and other documents relating to parish properties.

Records of the parish of Saint Sepulchre, Holborn Viaduct, City of London, including registers of baptisms, burials, marriages and banns; Vestry minutes; papers of the Vestry Clerks; papers of the Churchwardens; papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; papers relating to parish poor relief including papers of the Overseers and the workhouse; tithe rate assessment books and poor rate assessment books.

The main archive dates from the 17th century (with parish registers from 1662), but the records also include deeds from 1537. The records of the area of the parish which lay within the City of London are distinct from those of the area which lay within the county of Middlesex. The records of the City of London area of the parish appear first in the catalogue.

Records of the parish of Saint Luke, Old Street, Finsbury, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, burials and banns of marriages; register of headstones and monumental inscriptions; register of church services and preachers; register of poor children; Parish or Chapter books; minutes of General Committee of the (Young) Women's Help Society, Saint Luke's Branch; scrapbook of printed notices and press cuttings relating to services, charities, entertainments, and so on; parish reports and orders of removal.

Records of the parish of Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market, Clerkenwell, including registers of baptisms, marriages, confirmations and church services; Parochial Church Council minutes and minutes of the Executive Committee for Preventive and Rescue Work of the Finsbury and Shoreditch Deaneries Association.

Records of the parish of Saint John, Hampstead, including registers of baptisms, marriages, burials, banns of marriage and confirmations; registers of church services; preachers' books; orders of service; parish administrative files; Parochial Church Council minutes; Ruri-Decanal Chapter and Conference minutes; papers relating to parish boundaries including maps; legal documents relating to ownership of parish lands; papers relating to the church building, parsonage and churchyard, including correspondence, petitions, drawings and plans, agreements, surveys and minutes; papers of the Churchwardens including financial accounts; fee books; pew rents; papers relating to parish charities; papers relating to the parish schools including minutes, log books and plans; parish magazines and newspaper cuttings.

Also papers relating to the civil functions of the parish including papers of the Overseers of the Poor; settlement examinations; apprenticeship indentures; and papers of the Surveyors of the Highways.

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.

Records of the West London Mission, 1888-1988, including minute books from Staff meetings, Finance Committee meetings, Foreign Missionary Committee meetings, Local Preacher's meetings, Women's Work Committee meetings and Sunday School Committee meetings; financial accounts; general correspondence; annual reports of the West London Mission; annual reports of the Social and Redemptive Work amongst Women and Girls; annual reports of the West London Rehabilitation Centre for Alcoholics; publication Portraits and Pictures of the West London Mission (1893); newsletters and magazines; advertisements and appeals; photographs.

Also Kingsway Hall Trust lettings ledger; Kingsway Hall collection journal and Kingsway Hall Creche Committee papers and promotional brochures.

Papers of the Alexandra Rose Charities, including minutes, correspondence, membership details, advertising and publicity material, photographs of patrons, staff and flag day events, artefacts such as collecting tins and an early 1912 artificial rose. Related charity records include a minute book of 'Their Day' charity and a set of printed reports for 'Our Day' charity.

Records of Central Middlesex Hospital, 1907-1951, including record cards and a programme of a royal visit to the hospital.

Records of the Hammersmith Poor Law Union, 1839-1932, including minutes of the Board of Guardians and various Committees; orders from and correspondence with Government departments; orders of removal to and from the Union; registers of lunatics; registers of the Du Cane Road Workhouse, Fulham Workhouse and Infirmary and Kensington Workhouse and Infirmary; apprenticeship indentures; registers of children boarded out, children at institutions and children in West London School District schools; financial accounts and staff records.

Records of Kensington and Chelsea School District, 1876-1934, including minutes and agendas of the Board; Superintendent's reports; Education Committee, Finance Committee, Garden Committee and Visiting Committee minutes; papers concerning schools at Banstead and Hammersmith; financial accounts; inspection reports; annual reports; regulations, standing orders and instructions; general correspondence; correspondence with and orders of the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health; inventories of furniture at Marlesford Lodge; admission and discharge registers and creed registers for Marlesford Lodge and Banstead Schools; Superintendent's weekly returns and journals; registers of staff; buildings plans of Banstead School and Marlesford Lodge.

Records of the Harrow Local Board of Health, 1853-1894, comprising rate books and financial accounts.

Records of Harrow Parish, 1684-1927, including rate books; financial accounts of the Overseers of the Poor; valuation lists; minutes of Parish Officer's meetings; rules and orders for the Harrow Parish Workhouse; correspondence and minutes of the Vestry and sub-committees; papers relating to charities and papers relating to highways including rate books and financial accounts.

Records of Harrow Urban District Council, 1895-1934, including financial accounts; poor rate books and general rate books.

Records of Hendon Rural Sanitary Authority for Harrow Parish rural area, 1873-1894, comprising rate books.

Records of Hendon Rural Sanitary Authority for Harrow Parish, 1891-1894, comprising rate books.

Records of Lambeth Poor Law Union, 1834-1930, including minutes of the Board of Guardians; minutes of the Finance Committee and the Ladies Committee; correspondence with Government departments; orders and rule of the Poor Law Commissioners; Board of Guardians handbook; settlement examinations; orders of removal to and from other Unions; detention orders; registers of lunatics; registers from the Princes Road Workhouse, the Renfrew Road Workhouse, the Brook Drive Infirmary and the Home for the Aged Poor, West Norwood; registers of wives of interned aliens, First World War; registers of emigrated children; apprenticeship indentures; registers of apprentices and servants; registers of children at the Norwood Schools; financial accounts; staff records and building plans for Norwood Schools and Lambeth Infirmary.

Records of the Saint Luke's Chelsea Poor Law Parish, 1834-1931; including minutes of meetings of the Boards of Guardians; minutes of various Committees; Union year books; notices of motions; index to standing orders; correspondence with and orders from Government departments including the Ministry of Health; estimates, agreements and contracts for construction and maintenance work; orders of removal to and from other Unions; orders of removal of Scots and Irish persons; settlement examinations; bastardy orders; outdoor relief books; registers of lunatics; registers for the old and new workhouses on Britten Street; registers of deserted women and children; registers of patients at hospitals; registers of apprentices; registers of children at Kensington and Chelsea District Schools; financial accounts and staff records.

Records relating to the Court of Orphans, City of London, including Common Serjeant's Books, 1586-1773 (series CLA/002/01), Orphans' Inventories, [1600]-1773 (series CLA/002/02), Inventories: Indexes and Transcripts, 1666-[1926] (series CLA/002/03), Orphanage Bonds and Deeds, 1599-1704 (series CLA/002/04), Recognizances, 1590-1747 (series CLA/002/05), Satisfactions, 1548-1702 (series CLA/002/06), and Miscellaneous items including receipts and other papers regarding orphans, 1619-1697; legal customs including precedents in orphanage matters and divisions of estates; accounts, 1671-1728; committee papers and statements of the Orphan Fund, 1690-1750, custody of goods by orphans, 1401-1448 and journal articles based on the Court of Orphans records, 1934 and 1970 (series CLA/002/07).

Records of the Festival of the Sons of the Clergy, including minutes and agendas; correspondence; memoranda; financial accounts; sermons; reports; advertising material; scrapbooks; and ephemera relating to the festival (handbills, orders of service, tickets, invitations and so on).

Records of the London Dispensary, including minutes, correspondence, deeds and leases, annual reports and financial accounts.

Records of the Lady Margaret Hall Settlement, including minutes, agendas and financial records.

Records of the Surrey Dispensary, Southwark, including rules and regulations; minutes of the Governing Committee; minutes of the Court and Committees; House Visitor's books; subscription books; registers of patients admitted; registers of patients visited at home; annual reports; leases; correspondence files; financial accounts and insurance policies.

Records of the parish of St Paul, Hammersmith, including parish registers, registers of church services, PCC and vestry minutes, financial records, and records relating to staff, parish boundaries and benefice, church fabric, church hall, parochial charities and church schools.

NB: The collection includes records previously catalogued as DD/0071 and DD/0746.

Records of the Parish of Saint Giles, South Mimms, including registers of baptisms, banns, marriages, confirmations and burials; registers of services; papers relating to the benefice and tithes; Churchwarden's accounts, inventories and papers relating to the maintenance of the church building; Vestry meeting minutes; papers of the Overseers of the Poor including accounts, grants to the poor, settlement certificates and papers regarding the workhouse; minutes, accounts and correspondence of the Surveyors of Highways; papers of parish charities; papers of the South Mimms Church of England School; enclosure award for South Mimms; photographs of the church; minutes of the Parochial Church Council; papers relating to the maintenance of the church, church hall, vicarage and churchyard; and maps of parish boundaries.

Records of the parish of Saint Margaret, Edgware, including registers of baptisms, confirmations, marriages and burials; register of services; Vestry meetings minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes and churchwardens' financial accounts.

Records of the Parish of St John the Evangelist, Stanmore, including registers of baptisms, confirmations, banns of marriage, marriages, and burials; papers relating to the consecration of the new church; papers relating to tithes; Churchwardens' records including accounts, endowments and papers relating to the maintenance of the church, church fabric and churchyard; Vestry meeting orders and minutes; Parochial Church Council minutes, reports and accounts; minutes and papers of various church committees; papers of the Overseers of the Poor including accounts, settlement orders, and apprenticeship orders; accounts of the Surveyors of the Highways; papers of church societies including the choir, Cricket Clubs, Church Lad's Brigade, Knitting Guild, Mother's Union, Friends of the Parish Church of St John and Saint John's Fellowship, Women's Fellowship and Junior Church; papers of various parish charities; papers relating to the National School; Great Stanmore Enclosure award and map; drawings, prints and photographs; parish magazines; and printed items including history and orders of service.

Covering dates of parish registers: Christenings 1559-1911; Marriages 1599-1989; Burials 1599-1934.